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rT MM* MILFOR w' HRONICLE !* ' t* :* '—2 susse« ?• y MILFORD, DELAWARE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1956 PRICE: Six Cents By Mail—In Delaware. *2.50 a Tear Outside of Delaware. $3.00 a Tear 'SW Entered as second-class mat«*r March 3, 1879 at the postofflce at Milford, Del., under Act. of March 3, 1879 VOL. 79—NO. 6 gpSÖOOH JO îtBR «fôiUTpxY aiBig PRESIDENT RE-ELECTED B Y J. Caleb Boggs Re-elected Governor By GOP Democrats Retain Control Of Legislature SDSLIDE JLJJ. ii. Democrats Hold House 19 To 16; Control State Senate 13 To 4 , In Final Count Any Attempt At Ripper Legislation By Democrats Is Definitely Out For Next Session Of The General Assembly. One Democratic Victory May Be Contested ware voters Tuesday set the stage for another clash between 's executive and legislative branches by sustaining Democratic De tin* slat etmlrol of the General Assembly while they were electing a Republican governor. majorities of 13-4 in the Senate and 19-16 in the House of Repre sentatives. In the 1955-56 session, they con trolled the Senate 12-5 and the 27-8. Thus Tuesday's balloting widen ed the margin in the Senate, but made a substantial reduction in the Democrats' House majority. With la votes in the lower cham her. the Democrats will have only one more than a simple majority. They will not have the three-fifths needed to override any vetoes by Gov. J. Caleb Boggs. The Democratic House majority is narrow, and may get narrower! still. One of the winners squeaked in by only seven votes and the loser has indicated he will ask for \ tabulating error was respon sible for an earlier report that the House division would be 18-17. a recount. The Democrats scored a net gain of one Senate seat and a net loss of eight House seats. Seven of the Senate's 17 seats were at stake. Democrats took two from Republicans, lost one, and hung on to four others. All 35 House seats were up for election. Democrats held even in Wilmington, dropped two in rural New Castle County, three in Kent County and three in Sussex County. The Democrats elected one sena tor in New Castle County and had a clean sweep of the four seats up for election in Kent and Sussex Counties. The Republicans cap (continued on page seven) Milk Hearing To Reconvene inler-State Will Defend Handler Pool System The Inter-State Milk Producers' Cooperative will again vigorously contest a proposal to change the Philadelphia milkshed's traditional Handler poo! system to a market wide pool when the joint Federal State hearing to revise Order 61 re opens here Tuesday, November 13, 1956. Sessions will he conducted in the Sylvania Hotel jointly by United Slates Department of Agriculture Hearing Master Will Rogers and Ihe members of the Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission. The market pool proposal has been made by I. Elkin Nathans, a New York milk broker, and is supported by a large New York federation of producers and by two large Philadelphia dealers. Inter-State \ contends that the adoption of a market pool system would lower the blend price to producers as well as, in. all prob ability, increase the price to con (ennfinut-d on page eleven) Mrs. John S. Farrow Heads Stockley Hospital Group Mrs. John S. Farrow, Magnolia, was elected president of the Auxiliary of the Hospital for the Mentally Retarded at Stockley F |-« Examinations r or Servira Aj'æjIjmuIji.a iJCivlCC ACaucIulcS - surer. ^ ^ | United States Senator J. Allen Mrs. H. Russell Fry, Seaford. ! Frear, Jr., has announced that the who was chairman of the previous qualifying examination for the auxiliary organization for Stock- four service Academies (Army, ley, known as the Volunteer Ser- Navy, Air Force and Merchant Ma vice for Delaware Colony, was , rine) will bh held on Tuesday, No made honorary president i vember twentieth in Wilmington, Mrs. Mumford and Mrs. Milton Dover and Georgetown. The Sena Graham, Rehoboth, reported on tor explained that this test is de th** meeting of the Womens yos- ; signed to svlect his candidates for pital Auxiliary of the Maryland, the classes 'ommencing during the District of Columbia and Delaware summer of 1957. Hospital Association at the Shore- Mr. Frear pointed out that this ham Hotel in Washington. D. C. is the first time that the Merchant Tlu-v attended as representatives Marine Academy has participated of the Stockley organization. I In this competitive process and it The nominating committee for will follow the pattern established the first election of the new oreani-j by the Air Force Academy. For tion included Mrs. Milton Yerk- each of these two schools the Sena Latin 1 Mrs Money and Mrs. tor is authorized tn nominate ten men s at the organization meeting and luncheon held at the hospital, Friday, Vice presidents were chosen from each of the three counties as follows: Mrs. W. Harmon Money, Middletown, New Castle County: Mrs. Fred S. Bailey. Harrington, Kent County; Mrs. R. Carlton Moore, Rehoboth, Sussex County. •- - — Other officers wiil be Mrs. Nellie Morris. Laurel, recording secre- 1 tary; Mrs. John Walls, Harrington,; .corresponding secretary: Mrs. Wil bur M. Mumford, Georgetown, trea Zfl es. (continued on page six) Farrow. i j j Change Mav Occur In House If GOP Contest Succeeds New Line-Up Of The Legislature I ! . StXATE »w Castle Comity | 4. t'Vilmer F. Williams (R) I 7. *Clifford Pryor (Dj Kent County I 1. •William B. Beben (D) 2 Di»t. 1. *Eugene Lammot (D) I 2. tJohn E. Reilly, Sr. (D) I 3. *Elwood F. Meison, Jr. (R) 5. *Calvin R. McCuliough (D) 6 . Jacob A. Correll (Rj Allen J. Cook (D) 3. *S. W. Harrison (D) 4. JPeter Nechay (D> 5. * William C. Paradee (D) Sussex Connly 1. * Walter J. Hoey (D) 2. Earle M. Tull (D) 4. *Curtis W. Steen (D) 5. »Thomas L. Johnson (R) j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Wilmington ! 1. JPaul F. Livingston (D) 2. jjames H. Snowden (R) 4. JHarry G. Lawson (R) 4. JPaul E. Shockley (D) i 5. Edward J. Hussey, Jr. Rural New Castle County 6 . T. Lees Bartleson (R) 7. Harry H. Lambert (R) 8 . Margaret R. Manning (R) 9. tHenry H. Wolf (R) 10. tJames R. Quigley (D) 11. William H. Carpenter (R) » 12. Henry E. Snedeker (R) i 14. tEdgar Alexander (D) i 15. Charles R. Pryor (D) (continued on page six) -4 V . The membership of the Carlisle Fire Company. Milford's highly 1 Carlisle Fire Co. Sta/ts Fund Drive j | Culminating Feature Will Be House Canvass Nov. 18 efficient firefighting organization, has started their annual solicitation for funds to augment those that are received from the City of Mil-1 ford and the County. The Company, through its duly elected officers and its Board of Directors, has laid out plans for the annual house to house canvass which is the culminating feature of the drive. The canvass according to Company President Garrett L. Grier, will be held Sunday, Novem ber 18. Complete details as to this portion of the drive will hi carried in the November 16th issue of the (continued on page six) A Swept Into Office In Tuesday's National Election \K\ m ■ :■ M. ii m mm :■ M 'M: £ ,;>V iS cm M ' £ : : % nil ; ; ;ï m £:£;-*x Î5; M is ill i :Sji M m Sg ■ I si i; WM m y y : £ TM - II : ■ li « - Ü & ii i: : : WÊÊ ivii pli i: III >:• m a M m % m *■ >*: ■ >;■ ■s J :*:■ & m - » M £; m > s M U -, Æ K $ I s m Ü RICHARD M. NIXON DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER State GOP Candidates Have Wide Margins In Victory Governor Boggs Had Majority Of 6,366; While Mrs. Vera G. Davis Led State Ticket With 9,245 Majority. I President Eisenhower blazed a trail to victory Tuesdav for state wide Republican candidates. The President mhrked the course by chalking up a plurality of 14, 603 votes in the heaviest balloting in Delaware history. Margins of the state GOP candidates were only about half as big as the President's, but they were big enough to reelet Gov. J. Caleb | Boggs, keeping a R< publican in the | lieutenant governor's chair, and capture from the Democrats the state's lone congressional seat and ! the offices of state auditor and state treasurer. ' % Governor Boggs, winning his fifth major election tn as many tries, trailed the statewide ticket but managed nevertheless to de ( feat J. H. Tyler McConnell, Demo crat, by 6,366. Republican Harry G. Haskell, I Jr., defeated U. S. Rep. Harris B. McDowell, Jr., for Congress by 6 , I 775 | Republican David P. Buckson j defeated Vernon B. Derrickson for | lieutenant governor by 8,785. Mrs. Vera G. Davis, Republican candidate for state treasurer, won ) dent Eisenhower's in the state I 9,245 voèes —over Mj-s. Edna Bra sure. Republican Dale E. Wheatley de- feated the Democratic incumbent, Clifford E. Hall by 7,076 for state auditor. - More than 180,000 Delawareans voted Tuesday—a nearly incredible total which approaches 97 per cent | of the state's 187,000 registered voters. This topped the state's pre vious record vote of 173,000 in 1952, and topped the forecasts of the most optimistic political prog nosticators. President Eisenhower's plurali ty for Delaware's three electoral j votes likewise topped even the ros ; iest Republican predictions. Four (continued on page eight) by a margin second only to Presi j oi iVlilrOrdl Will i lay At Laurel Tonight —— I Milford invades Laurel this eve ning - Fr * da >'. November 9th, with the hopes of tacking an another I victory. The "Bucs" have been im j proving steadily since their first | j two games of the season. Laurel has been experiencing | one of their poorer seasons, but | will prove to be a tough opponent Laurel always seems "up" for their i games with Milford. It is hoped ; that a large following of fans will ; journey to Laurel to boost for the j "Buc's". j | The Milford High Baccaneers ! roared to a 21-0 win over the ; "Raiders" of Cambridge High j School oq Friday. The victory, ; which was' the second of the cam | paign for the "Bucs" was very I important as it makes it possible ; | to balance the season record at 4-4 if victories can be scored over j I Caesar Rodney and Laurel, the (continued on page six) j | ; The Buc's Hope To Upset Tradl tional Foe For 3rd Win % I i, Sussex Picks Up Levy Court Seat in Spirited Victory Despite the almost solid Re publican victory in Sussex . County, the county will re main under the control of the Democrats for the next two to four year. The only office to change hands politically was one Levy Court seat in which John C. Mitchell of Ocean View dis placed the Democratic incum bent, Victor R. Adams of Bridgeville, by a markin of 379 votes. The three-man court, how ever, will remain under Demo cratic control for the next four years, since Clarence Lingo and Levi Warrington. Demo crats, were elected for six years in 1954. The Democrats retained the offices of sheriff and coroner. These candidates, paradoxically, (continued on page five) 28 State-wide Winners Of National 4-H Club Awards A total of 28 statewide winners in the 1956 National 4-H Club Awards contest for Delaware have just been selected, reports Wayne Bath, acting state 4-H Club Agent at the University of Delaware. They include IS club members w'ho have won an all-expense-paid trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, December 1-6. State winners will also compete with winners from other states for 162 college scholarships offer-#-——— ed as national prizes. Awards of j these scholarships are announced j at the 4-H Club Congress. State winners in project con- tests which did not carry a Chica- ! go trip as the top prize will be : Bazaar and Turkey awarded watches, savings bonds, Wednesday, November 14. begin-1 cash prizes and certificates. . ning at 4:30 at the Calvary Meth Winners of a Chicago trip and | odist Church. Milford. Tickets are their particular prizewinning proj- now on sale—price, $1.25 adults, ects are: Dolores Lloyd, Newark, ! 76c children. The proceeds go to-) achievement; Calvin Hollis, Hous- j ward the building fund. The sup ton, boys agriculture: Esther j per menu will be turkey, dressing, George. Newark, canning; Katie- ! potatoes, turnips, peas, cranberry, Co II In a, Middletown, clothing; j pickle, applesauce, celery, rolls. Richard Simpson. Houston, dairy ; coffee, ice cream and ritz. Plan to Janet Pierson. Hockessin, dress re- come and bring your family or a vue; Mary Ann Patterson, Newark, friend. entomology ;. W. Thomas Carter,« The bazaar will have lovely Newark, field crops; Joyce Elliott, j aprons, fancy pillow cases, fancy Bridgeville. food preparation; work, flowers, homemade cakes Richard Ulmer, Hockessin, frozen : and candies, and home made can foods; Barbara Messick. Bridge-j ned and frozen foods. Mrs. Ruth ville, garden: Betty Haves, Hous- | Mariner will be general chairman, ton. home economics : Marcia Har- Mrs. Octavia French, Mrs. Pearl (continued on page nine) i (continued on page two) Bazaar At Calvarv BB KM K -j a '-nuren november 1^* Supper, Unofficial Vote For Delaware Ticket Is Given '■ i. The unofficial Delaware tally gives : ji President Eisenhower, 97,484; Adlai Stevenson, 82,881. ji For Governor: Boggs, 91,279; McConnell, 84.918. j For Congress: Haskell, 91,150; McDowell, 84,384. For lieut. governor; Buck son, 91,862; Derickson, 83.077. For State Treasurer: Mrs . 1 I Davis, 92,371; Mrs. Brasure. 83,126. |M|| For auditor: Wheatley. 91,225; Hall, 84,149. j _ . . were killed and seven others mjur ed in a chash involving seven ve hicles at the northern edge of Smyrna about 2 a. m„ Wednesday. State police said a tractor trailer approaching Smyrna on the south bound lane of the dual highway, ran into a fog bank and slowed down. Four Killed Several Hurt In Smash-Up Seven Cars Involved In Tragedy Xear Smyrna In the worst traffic accident in Delaware this year, four persons Another vehicle crashed into the rear of the truck, setting off the chain of crashes that did not stop until seven vehicles three passen ger cars and four trucks, became involved. Th« four persons killed wdre pro nounc'd dead upon arrival at the Kent General Hospital. They are Harmon Welton. 28. Keller, Va„ (continued on page six) • Those Affected Bv Rate ~ T? Increase On Room I 1 a Rate Boosts Made By Four Hospitals : ! | Milford Memorial Among cilities. I Four hospitals in Delaware hive informer Group Hospital Service of recent rate increases, it was ; reported yesterday by Robert C. j Denzler, assistant managing di rector. The hospitals which have made j rate boosts are Milford Memorial j Hospital, Wilmington General Hos pital, The Memorial Hospital and Delaware Hospital. t iir^ or 1, Hospita1 ' a n »- 0c ' toher 1, 1956, all accommodations i were increased $1 a day, making ward rates 50 per day; two and I three bed serai-private rooms %12 per person; two bed semi-private rooms with toilet facilities, $13 per person. The new rate for the; maternity ward will be $11 per day. including care of the child. In maternity two-bed semi-private rooms, the rate will be $14 a day, while in two-bed semi-private ma ternity rooms with toilet facilities the rate will be $15 per day. The hospital also increased delivery room rates from $12.50 to $15. Mr. Denzler reported that the new rates in the three Wilmington hospitals, effective November 1, 1956, are: ward rooms, $14 per day; semi-private, $16 and $18 per day; and private rooms from $18 to $25 per day. The Wilmington hospitals also announced increases in the charges for the nurseries and for I operat ing and delivery rooms. The Blue Cross-Blue Shield offi |cial said that in spite of these in-j ! creases affecting all three conn (continued on page three) Havr Will v " ier «n » TT 111 Da Observed Sunday J Governor J. Caleb Boggs Calls For Suitable Observance the heroes'of all wars and by re dedicating ourselves to the cause of peace." Dr. Park W. Hunting ton is Slate Chairman of the Com mittee appointed to arrange for the proper celebration of this eVent. Callaway - Kemp - Raughley - Tee Post No. 7, American Legion, of Harrington, and its Auxiliary will attend church service at the .Pilgrim Holiness Church, Harring ! ton, at 11 a. m.. Sunday, November 11th. The Legion Post will hold Open House on this date from 12:30 to 2 p. nu, at their Post Home locate' on Route 13 and the public is cc .»ally invited to attend. There will oe no nrogram and refresh BBBBBBBBBW called for appropriate observance of Veterans' Day on Sunday, No vember 11 th, stating that it should be marked "by paying tribute to Caleb Boggs has Governor J. (continue«! on page three) Majority Continues Ike 's To Mount Is Late Returns Arrive From Many Points Vote Is Seen By Many Experts As Smashing Personal Triumph For The President , And As Rebuke To Those Who Criticized His Policies During The Heat Of The Campaign By ASSOCIATED PRESS Tag-end returns are hiagnifying the mighty personal triumph of President Eisenhower's reelection victory. But the American people refused him Republican control of Congress. The great outpouring of votes hoisted Eisenhower to a pinnacle of popularity towering far above that of his party. I ! j j Ward Hurley Goes To Levy I I Kent County followed the nation in going resoundingly fdr Presi dent Eisenhower and even elected one Republican to a county office for the first lime in eight years, Otherwise, the county maintained its Democratic tradition. Republicans Fill One Office In Kent Court; Other "Dent's Squeeze In M I A total of 19.613 voters cast their' votes in the Presidential election, j a whopping 93 per cent of the ! 1 county's total registration of 21,037.1 The vote was approximately the; same as that recorded in 1952. ITThe first Republican to win I county office since 1948 was J. Ward Hurley, of Dover, who beat 3. Clement Bowdle, also of Dover, for ; |Levy Court commissioner from the j First District. Mr. Hurley piled up 4,489 votes to Mr. Bowdle's 4,056 for : a 433 majority. ; Control of the county will re- j I main in Democratic hands, how-S lever. as the other two Levy Court ; commissioners—Kent county elects ■ all its commissioners every two years came from the Democratic side. They barely squeaked in, how-1 ever. Fred Williams, of Hartly. beat) out Frank F. Reh in the Second District by 62 votes—2.14,i to 2.081 —while in the Third District, Em- ; ory N. Lynch, of near Milford, heat) John M. Willson, of Milford, 3,018! to 2,942, a majority of 76. Tuesday, the only candidate to go over the thousand majority Longbotham Honored s> - mark in the county was Roland (contimied on page seven) I . . . j By Dept. Of Labor _ ! j Former s ollJ ,tor C ited For His Aid ■ Servicemen _ M farmer State Senator Longbotham, of .Iiltord, RD, P es ently serving as Department Com mander of the American Legion Department of Delaware, has re ceived a certificate and letter from James P. Mitchell, United States Secretary of Labor, in recognition of his patriotic desire to aid in the employment of those who have served in the Armed Forces of the j United States and pursuant to Sec- ) tion 9 (H) of the Universal Mill tary Training and Service Act. -& I (continued on page six) j Indian River Homemakers Win Sussex County Crown The Indian River Home Demonstration Club was given the out standing club award for the year at the annual luncheon and meeting of the count >' HD Clubs in Grace Church Hall, Georgetown, last Wed nesday noon. i A special committee evaluates the work of the 19 clubs in the county and picks the winner on a point basis but the club receiving Krewatch, chairman of the com- week by Dr. mittee, assisted by Mrs. E. A. Yut- President of the Delaware Anti zi, Georgetown, and Mrs. John Le- Tuberculosis Society, that the Compt, Lincoln. birthday of the 50th Christmas Due to the absence of the presi- Seal, which was launched in Del dent of the winning club, Mrs. j aware by Emily P. Bissell in 1907, jjohn Wiikins, the cup was receiv- will be observed at a luncheon to ed by Mrs. Jack Birl, vice presi- be held in the Gold Ballroom of dent of the Indian River group and the Hotel duPont on Tuesday, No incoming president of the county I vember 20th. at noon. organization. | It is expected that several hun More than 250 women from all tired representatives of health, parts of Sussex County gathered welfare and educational organiza for fellowship, business and out- tions, as well as many interested side speeches. It was the first of individuals will attend the lunch the annual luncheons in charge of eon. the new home demonstration agent, Mr. I. B. Finkelstein is chairman Miss Frances Shoffner. ! of the general committee planning Mrs. C. E. Ocheltree. Greenwood, the observance. The members of the honor is not announced until* the annual program day, so that To Observe Birth Of Christmas Seal HB The Hollymount Club received honorable mention. of a loving cup by Mrs. Edward interest runs high. The award was made in the form Announcement was made this Gerald A. Beatty, (continued on page eleven) (continued on page eleven) I same went on a historic vote-splitting spree that let Democrats cling to thin margins of control in both Senate and House. Thus, for the first time in more than a century since 1948—the presidential win ner failed to sweep at least one branch of Congress with him. The Democrats were sure, too, iof a majority of the nation's gov ernorships. Thev lost a few and gained a few. But their presidential candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson, was caught and crushed under an Eisenhower land slide even more enormous than that of four years ago. With returns in from 142,222 of th® country's 154,844 polling place.», the Eisenhower win was measured in these figures: Popular vote; Eisenhower, 38, 446,699; Stevenson, 24,406,202. Electoral vote: Eisenhower, 457 ^ r °t , ' 41 states ; Stevenson, 74 from ! «tales; required to wm. 266 of a ^ Eisenhower piled up 33. 92? 441 vote or 55 4 of the WUxl an( j a Stevenson. w jth 442 electoral votes, to 9 states with 89 votes for Stevenson. From the devastation of his de feat, Stevenson saved only six southern states that also were with him in 1952—plus Missouri, which went for Eisenhower margin of 6.612,449 over Ke carried 39 states four years ago but drifted away this time. The (continued on page five) -<!>■ Ticket Committee Named For Meeting Group For Annual Crops Awards Dinner. November *J0fh, Is Set Up Eugene Parker, Lincoln. Presi den t 0 f the Delaware Crop Im provement Association, has named a Sussex County Committee to dis tribute tickets for the annual Crop Awards Dinner meeting to be held in the Capital Grange Hall, Dover, on Tuesday evening, November 20th at 7:00 P- m - The m emhers of the commit tee and the community they rep resent are: Allison Davis, Greenwood; R. V. gtallard Seaford; John R. Hast Bridgeville; Joseph N. EUi Laurel-Delmar; Thomas T. Jones. Milford-Lincoln-Rllendale; Charles Stuchlik, Jr., Milton-Har heson ; Stephen Vaughn, Lewes Rehoboth; O. G. Pettyjohn, George towK; »Marshall Wootten. Mills boro; F. M. Gum, III, Dagsboro Frankford; C. Grise McCabe, Sel byville-Ocean View. Cooperators in the Greener Pas tures. Corn Yield and Soybean (continued on page three)