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The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 12

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WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS, WILMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1951 NEWS OF INTEREST FROM SOUTH JERSEY Special Correspondents Wire Service TWELVE visiting the Newkirki Quinton is this week. South Jersey Deaths 12 CAMDEN WIVES N. J. GIRLS' STATE the Rev. Rex Burdick will lead in the study of Psalm 51.

William P. Blew was one of the entries in the outboard hydroplane stock boat races at Fort Mott on Sunday. Others from this vicinity who attended the regatta were Mrs. William P. Blew and son, Steven Blew; Mr.

and Mrs. George Brooks, and children, Carol and Shirley; Mr. and Mrs. George Bosshart and children, Evelyn, Christine and Sharon. Mr.

and Mrs. John B. Moon and daughter, Donna Jo, of Columbus, and Mrs. Nellie Tice of Deer-field were recent dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.

John P. Newkirk, Jr. and family. Dottie Lou Simms of 'Big Sea Day Scheduled At Point Pleasant Aug. 11 POINT PLEASANT, N.

June 26 (Special). It was once the custom of the local Algonquin, and Lenni Lenape Indian tribes to travel to this coast even from as far as 200 miles inland along about the second week each August lor their yearly salt water bath and to exchange friendly greetings with teach other. Early white settlers in the shore area carried on this tradition which PICKET CITY DUMP ELECTS OFFICIALS 7 DIE IN RAIL TRAGEDY CAIRO, Egypt, June 26 Seven passengers were killed and 14 injured today when a freight train ran through a danger signal and rammed into a stalled passenger train near Mansoura. Mass Demonstration Halted became known as "Big Sea Day" As Police Arrest Women 200 High School Delegates Attend Rutgers Sessions; Name Governor Thursday and their childran and children's of Detroit, visited over the week-end their daughter and son-in- Protesting Filth in Area children carried on the tradition until comparatively recent years. gain extra hours every.

month with Equitable And so once again this year on law, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mc-Coubrie, Van Meter Terrace. Mrs.

Howard B. Newkirk, Chestnut Street, with her sister, Mrs, CAMDEN, N. June 26 (JP). Aug. ll "Big Sea will be ob For two hours today a dozen women William Jones, of Germantown, are visiting Los Angeles, Calif- with waving flags, wheeling baby buggies, holding infants or carrying "no dumping" picket signs prevented trucks hauling garbage and rubbish a brother, Leonard Murphy.

Popular Checks served here with a parade and gala celebration which include virtually the entire population of this progressive Ocean County community, young and old alike. A new event, among the many planned for this year's celebration, will be a twirling contest sponsored by the National Baton Twirling Association and featuring the New Jersey state championships to be NEW BRUNSWICK, N. June 26 (JFj. Officials of mythical cities were elected today at New Jersey Girls State. Some 200 high school girls from throughout the sttte are participating in the sixth annual gathering at Rutgers University campus to learn about government and politics.

The sessions, sponsored by the New Jersey American Legion, continue through Thursday, when a new girl governor will be elected. from entering a new city dump. N. J. WOMAN HELD my bill in a few minute Then police stepped in, pulled shoved the shouting, protesting pay IN THEFT OF held at Point Pleasant Beach's Clayton Field, Friday night, Aug.

10, as part of the Big sea Day pageant. now instead of hoar I Jutt fill in the cheek, right at home, and tend them out in the mail. My checkbook how all my expenditure aimplifie my housekeeping record. And the Drive-In Window at 3rd fi Union i another great time.aver." Eight mayors, 24 councilmen and The contest will be the official New Jersey championhip with the other less officials were elected today. Mrs.

Edith B. Richards PENNS GROVE. N. June 26 (Special). Mrs.

Edith B. Richards, 78, of 25 Naylor Avenue, who died last night in the Bridgeton Hospital, following a short illness, will be buried tomorrow from the home of a daughter, Mrs. Walter Jones, 25 Naylor Avenue. Services at 2 p. m.

will be in charge of the Rev. Carl Reamer, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church. Interment will be in Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Elmer. A native of Elmer, Mrs.

Richards spent most of her lifetime there. She resided here about 12 years. A member of the Elmer Methodist Church and the Elmer Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Mrs. Richards is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Jantson, this place; Mrs.

Minnie Bessey, Camden; and one son, Russell Richards of Bridgeton. Mrs. Richards was- the wife of the late William Foster Richards of Elmer. Mrs. Elizabeth Sayers PENNS GROVE.

N. June 26 (Special). Funeral services will be held on Thursday in the Ashcraft Funeral Home here for Mrs. Elizabeth Sayers. 73, wife of Bert Sayers.

183 North Broad Street, who died yesterday afternoon in Salem County Memorial Hospital from injuries suffered on Saturday when she was struck by a car. Mrs. Sayers sustained fractures of both legs, fractured ribs, a broken nose and possible fracture of the shoulder. Anthony J. Candelore.

35, of 108 West Pitman Street, here, was the driver of the car. At a hearing last night before Municipal Court Judge Fred Foreman, Carneys Point, Candelore was placed in $1,000 tail for grand jury action, charged with reckless killing by automobile. Services at 2 p. m. will be followed by interment in Riverview Cemetery.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Sayers is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Florence Holloway. Bell-mar Park, and Mrs. Emma Fryer of Gloucester.

winners slated to represent the state at the national twirling convention to be held at St. Paul, Win The new mayors are Margaret Miller of Florence, Viola Stenger of Mata-wan, Anne Robinson of Mendham, Audrey Dubow of Hillside, Yvonne Puerto Rican Farm Worker Prefers Charges in Perms Grove Municipal Court ter Carnival. The thr.ee top twirling Baker of Mt. Ephraim, Adele Meyer of East Orange, Shirley Andrews of winners will be held over for the Big Sea Day parade the following Special to the Morning News day. PENNS GROVE, N.

June 26. women and finally arrested the women to halt the mass demonstration that almost ended in a riot. A detective was hurt. He was bitten on both wrists and required medical attention. He named as his assailant, Mrs.

Mary Mazzelli, 21, who was given a 30-day suspended sentence for resisting arrest and assault and battery. The women, together with their infants, baby carriages, picket signs and American flags, were hauled off to municipal court in patrol wagons. A crowd of curious packed the corridors. The shouts of the women and the wails of the children echoed through the halls. Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzik, unable to quell the noise or end the confusion, adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday.

He said that would give everybody a chance to calm down. Besides the women, three men were arrested. They were charged with disorderly conduct. In continuing the hearing, the judge warned the women they would Once again this year's observance in the greater Point Pleasant area Suspected of the theft of a wallet containing more than $500 from a Puerto Rican farm laborer, Mary will include a gay parade, two fire works displays, a beauty contest and a baby parade. The beauty contest Js sponsored by the New Jersey Sttate Depart' ment of Conservation and Economic Development in cooperation with Equitable trust appreciates thousands of Wilmington women use Austin, 35, of Wocdstown was ordered held in $1,000 bail for grand jury action in Municipal Court.

Police who learned of the loss from Tirado after he and two companions had been entertained by the Austin woman and Helen Mor-rissey, 40 West Broadway, Salem, at a Walnut Street home said the occupant of the house, John Gaundy, had been charged with operating a disorderly place. Gaundy was fined $200 under a the New Jersey seafood industry. The winner will gain title of "Miss New Jersey Sea Prin Popular Checks to gain extra leisure hours cess of 1961." In additibn she will month. Any amount every opens your No minimum balance. Twelve account.

receive jau sentences IT arrested Highlands and Joan Toth of west-ville. Tomorrow morning Is the deadline for filing of gubernatorial petitions and primary elections to pick the two opposing candidates will be run off in the afternoon. Final county and state elections will be held at the same time. Today the mythical national and federal parties held caucuses to form slates for' and county candidates. The girls also attended governmental classes and heard a talk on county government by Mrs.

Eliza Wright. Essex County freeholder. Girls state Is run along lines similar to the legion-sponsored boys state which was held at Rutgers last week. On the nearby New Jersey College for Women campus, the Citizenship Institute heard a state health department official explain the workings of the department. He was Ralph P.

Fisher, consultant on community health problems. Some 162 girls are attending the Citizenship Institute, an educational project similar to Girls State. Miss Bertha Lawrence, dean of Trenton State Teachers College, also spoke to the girls on the responsibilities of citizenship. checks for $1 your name imprinted receive a $500 defense lXmd and a wardrobe certificate worth $100. The Big Sea Day parade is scheduled to start at 2 p.

m. with the beauty contest judging to be held at 5 p. m. at Jenkinson's pool on the boardwalk. 1 More than 40,000 attended last municipal ordinance and his wife, Lillian, placed on probation for six free! Cancelled checks are legal receipts A few minutes at any of our offices' and you, too, can enjoy the advantages pf Popular Checks.

again on charges pf obstructing entrances to the dump. The protesting women all live In the vicinity of the dump, recently authorized by city council. The women were protesting the location of the new dump. One of the placards which they carried months for aiding and abetting the operation of a disorderly house. Tirado, police said, ana nis two year's first observance which com companions, justino Meienaez ana Isidoro Mulero, were employed on memorated the 100th anniversary of the creation of Ocean Returning briefly to this story of Big Sea Day's beginning, old timers is majoring In art and psychology.

the Carman Sassi farm on Auburn said: "We are paying taxes to live; Pvt. Carl J. Brandt has been dis not to be plagued by rats, vermin and stench." Road. They became chance acquant-ances with the two women in a nearby taproom. charged from a hospital in Japan where he recuperated from wounds received on the battlefront and has been returned to Korea.

The Morrissey woman was fined EQUITABLE TRUST COMPANY THREE CONVENIENT OFFICES 901 Market St. 909 Shipley St. 3rd Union Sts. Shiloh $50 and placed on probation for six months, after pleading guilty to The closing exercises of the Daily in the area recall how on the morning of the actual day, streams of carts and wagons clogged every gravel and dirt-rutted byway leading to the shore. It is said) that it was really a sight to see wffih comparatively few knowing how ito swim and the remainder just "dunking or floundering" about in the surf in SHILOH, N.

June 26 (Special). a disorderly charge. Vacation Bible School will be held Thursday at 7:45 p. m. under the Gaundy and his wife also entered supervision of the Rev.

Rex Burdick. pleas of guilt but the Austin woman pleaded innocent to the theft Owen Probasco, who recently completed his sophomore year at Salem College, West has been named to the dean's scholarship list for the third consecutive semester. Probasco Members of the local church will join those of the Marlboro Church charge after entering a guilty plea overalls or underwear, wtille the to a charge of prostitution. at their Friday evening service when Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ladies wore cotton house dresses And so it is that on Aug-, 12 an air of gay expectancy will hover over the twin Dorougns oi roini Pleasant Beach and Point Pleasant SOCIAL SECURITY PAY TO REACH 4y2 MILLION Benefits being paid to residents of Delaware through the old age and survivors' insurance program of the Social Security Administration will reach the annual rate of by the end of 1951, Roger Rr Minker, state director, estimated yesterday. The present rate is $4,000,000.

Under the amendments by Con Borough as well as Bay Head, toloking and- Brick Tdwnshap, as residents, vacationists and sojourn ers who will journey here from near and far await the opening oC the festivities which will mark one of the colorful links in the chronology of Ocean County and the entire gress to the social security act, wage shore. CAMDEN MAN TO HEAD LIONS INTERNATIONAL earners 75 or more may work in covered employment and may also draw benefit payments, according to Mr. Minker. This increases the number of residents covered by the get Of the total of $326,412 benefits paid in February, 6,163 persons in New Castle County received 884 persons' in Kent County received "'and 1.546 persons in Sussex received $49,116. ATLANTIC CITY, June 26 (USR).

ITS A FIREBALL NGIN a i.jiu, iti Harold P. Nutter, Camden, N. unopposed candidate, will be elected president of Lions International on Thursday, officials said today. Nutter formerly was international first vice president. He is a native of Milford.

and a former stu dent at the University of Delaware. The Lions are holding their 34th annual convention here. Other candidates who are unopposed include: First vice president, Edgar M. El bert," Maywood, second vice president, S. A.

Dodge, Detroit, third vice president, Monroe L. Nute, Kenntt Pa. GIFT BOAT GIVEN CITY FOR EMERGENCY WORK The Department of Public Safety has received an all-steel boat which will be used in water rescue work, grappling operations and other emergencies. The boat was given the department by a donor who requested that his identity not be revealed. The boat is equipped with four air tanks, two on each side of the craft.

Two sets of oars are also included. Department officials said an outboard motor can also be used. In past years the police bureau has generally been compelled to borrow boats to grapple for drowning victims and the dopor realizing this handicap, made the generous offer to the officials which was accepted. The name "City of Wilmington" will be painted on the boat. It will be berthed at A and Poplar Streets throughout the year.

1 CARNEYS POINT BOY, 11, FRACTURES LEG AT PLAY CARNEYS POINT, N. June 26 (Special). Thrown from an express wagon while playing with two o)nnn urn companions near his home, 124 Broadway, Thomas R. Nichols, ll, is recovering following treatment for a fractured left leg. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. T. W. Nichols, the child was treated at the Salem County Memorial Hospital, Salem, and then returned to his home. his ad Is addressed to the fellow known as -1 4-1 A.

uiG mail un liic Mrcei. WHI7E.QLOW iN'JTBuLL F'AU thfGtNy It's about time you climbed in the driver's seat. It's about time that you sensed for yourself the thrill that comes from feeling your shoulders sink back in the cushions, when your toe gives the gas treadle a gentle nudge. It's about time for you to be on the receiving end of those admiring glances which are the due of folks smart enough to pick the smart buy of the year. What's holding you back? It can't be prices for as you can see for yourself, you can own a Special for less than the price of some sixes and Supers or Roadmasters are just as smart a buy in their fields.

So why not end the suspense? The welcome mat is out at our show 2-Door, 6at, enger From that vantage point, you must have noticed that a lot of folks are driving 1951 Buicks You must have noted that you can spot one of these beauties by its sparkling forefront its gleaming fender ports (three for the Special and Super, four for the Roadmaster) and by its fluent grace of lines and contours. buVe probably noticed, also, that these Buicks give a good account of themselves in traffic-ease to a gentle stop get away to a nimble start when the light says, "Go." You may even have noticed that these cars have a level-gaited stride that traces, as we've said before, to the fact that each wheel rides beneath its own coil spring. But what we'd like to know is when are you going to try one? h(DD; vorv BLOCK PARTY WILL AID WATER SAFETY LEAGUE PENNS GROVE, N. June 26 (Special). Funds from the Allied Youth Council's annual block party on July 26, 27 and 28 will go to the Water Safety League, it was announced by officers of the council today.

Previously it had been planned to add. the party receipts to the council fund for a recreation building but the need for additional funds to carry on the program 'at Friendship Beach prompted the committee to alter original plans. It was announced that the 1951 season at the artificial lake opened officially on Sunday when three full-time life guards went on duty. STOLEN TV SET HUNTED BY PENNS GROVE POLICE PENNS GROVE. N.

June 26 fSpecial) Penns Grove police have been asked to search for a television stolen from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Price. North Virginia Avenue, sometime during past week-end. The Price's returned home from a week-end trip to discover the set missing late Sunday night.

A window had been opened and the set removed through a rear door. Mrs. Price told Police Chief John Fonto nothing else in the house had been taken. CAPE MAY COUNTY'S OLDEST MAN IS 101 CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE. June 26 (Special).

Edward Thompson, oldest man in Cape May County, was 101 years old today. An Eldora resident born at nearby Heislerville, he has been sick only twice, both times with pneumonia. Mr. Thompson was a fanner when active. Salem SALEM, N.

June 26 (Special). Miss Irwina Warner, Salem-Sharptown Road, Mannington Township, with her aunt, Miss Norman Baker, of Harrisburg, is on a trip to Baldwin, where theyill visit Miss Warner's sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Rudisell, and daughter, Norma Jean. Mr.

and Mrs. Earl M. Wadding-ton of 9 Chestnut Street, visited their summer home in Sea Isle City, N. J. Salem County Superintendent of Schools Albert C.

Shuck and Mrs. Shuck have as a guest, Mrs. Shuck's sister, Mrs. J. Royer Laughlin, of Hagerstown, Md.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Jones of Union Street have been entertaining during the past week as their guest. Miss Julia Ann Jones, of Camden, N.

J. Mrs. Mabel Powers and her sister, Miss Elsie S. Crispen, and Mrs. Ethel Robinson, all of Oak Street, are enjoying this week at Stone Harbor, N.

J. Mr. and Mrs. C. R.

Seymour of Mannington have had as their guests a sister-in-law, Mrs. Edgar D. Seymour, and son, David, of Rochester, N. Y. Miss Nancy Martin of Lancaster, was a guest the past week at the "home of Mr.

and Mrs. E. Henderson Foster, Craven Avenue. Mrs. Neil Campbell, Old Kings Highway, Mannington Township, has been entertaining a sister and husband, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Ely, of Cleveland, O. Sgt. Mary Dolores Bittle of Andrews Air Base, Washington, D. has been visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. L. E. Bittle, Chestnut Street. Mr.

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