The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 63

DELMARVA CROSSROADS April 12, 1989 3 Turf Two sought to lead pilots organization DELMARVA REVISITED by Elbert Chance Fifty years ago, throughout April, balloting was taking place in the Philadelphia offices of the Pilots Association of the Bay and River Delaware. Capt. Eugene C. Kelly of Lewes and Swarthmore, president of the organization since 1932, was not seeking re-election. Vying for the post were Capt.

Thomas J. Virden of Lewes, who had served as president in the past, and Capt. G. Clifford Maull a former Delaware senator residing in Philadelphia. Virden's father, the late Capt.

John Penrose Virden, had been a founder of the association. About 150 delegates attended the 28th annual convention of the Delaware PTA in the Delmar Public School. Mrs. Manly P. Northam truck.

It takes 25 to 30 minutes to get a truckload or 10,000 square feet. A forklift goes with the truck to unload. We get paid and that's it." For large commercial jobs, Alloway says, Jade Run can deliver continuous tractor-trailer loads of 10,000 square' feet each. For smaller orders, the sod farm offers field pick-up and will load landscapes' trucks. At the Delaware farm, Alloway hopes to cut or lift grass 10 months of the year.

"With 750 tillable acres, we should be taking 50 percent off each year by 1990 and, of course, replanting." While a crop of grass matures in 12 to 15 months in New Jersey, Alloway says growing time decreases to nine to 12 months in Bethel. "Grass will grow any time it's 45 to 50 degrees or warmer 50 to 75 degrees is ideal and if the temperature is in the 90s, it will go backward." And, Alloway says, there's no difference between turf and sod. "More lay people recognize the word although in England sod means cow manure." Whatever the nomenclature, the entire Alloway family has found splendor in the grass with Jade Runs north and south. Alloway is president; his son, Samuel P. Alloway III, is vice and Elmira Alloway is wife, mother and manager of the computerized Delaware office.

"We spend three or four days a week in Bethel in the summer," says the elder Alloway. "It's a nice little town the more we work down here, the better we like it." Continued from Page 1 Alloway took one look at the Wheatley spread and signed the contract. "Only two things don't make it perfect: It's a little farther away then we wanted and the soil is a hair lighter than New Jersey's but there's hardly a ditch on it." Jade Run of Delaware will primarily produce a weed-, disease-and insect-free blended bluegrass designed to stand up to cold winters. It also will grow a blended fescue, a shade-tolerant and drought-resistant grass that Alloway says appeals to newly cultivated markets south of Bethel. Another headliner is Stadium Sports Turf, Jade Run's exclusive registered blend for use on athletic fields.

"We'll also be experimenting with a grass that produces a 2- to 3-inch lawn and stops growing that means no mowing," Alloway says. The initial 335-acre harvest in Bethel enough turf to cover 250 football fields will be made by a pair of Canadian machines that cut just under bluegrass's lateral root system, leaving most of the topsoil intact. "It's like peeling a potato the skin comes off in strips," Alloway says of the 9-square-foot rolls that then travel by conveyor belt to men on the machine who stack them on pallets. "When we get 500 square feet 56 rolls on a pallet, it drops on the field. A forklift lines up the pallets and lifts them on a odist Church in Southern Asia.

A three-day writers' conference on the theme, "Black Writers' Vision of America," opened at the Science Center of Delaware State College. Guest participants included J. Saunders Redding, a member of the executive council of the first World Festival of Negro Art, and Dr. John Wideman, an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Redding, author of several books, also had served for 10 years on the editorial board of the American Scholar.

Wideman was author of the critically acclaimed book, "A Glance Away." The spring issue of "Archaelog," a publication of the Sussex Society of Archaeology and History, contained an essay on the history of Bethel by Henry H. Hutchinson, a longtime resident of the community. The old town on Broad Creek dated to 1795 and had been known as Lewisville until 1880 in honor of its founder, Kendall M. Lewis, a ship captain who carried on a thriving trade with the West Indies. During the War of 1812, he frequently evaded British ships blockading the Chesapeake Bay, although he also lost one of his finest ships during the war years.

A street in Bethel still bears his name. A program marking the entry of the Seaford Chapter into the national Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America was held in the Seaford High School auditorium. Guest performers were The Peninsulaires of Salisbury and the Union Jacks of Baltimore. Seaford's new group was called the Chorus of the Nanti-coke. This weekly feature about Kent and Sussex counties 50 and 20 years ago is prepared by free-lance writer Elbert Chance of Newark.

Firefighters saved historic Bethel Church. ware's Works Projects Administration administrator, informed Sea-ford City Council that its application for assistance in extending sewer and water lines had been approved in Washington. A detailed report on the exact nature of the federal assistance was expected soon. Thirty years later, in mid-April 1969, the Harris-Hanby Co. opened a branch real estate office in the Terry Building, 48 The Green, Dover.

Charles W. Moore was named office manager and W. Smithers Snow was sales consultant. The Dover office was prepared to handle residential, commercial and investment real estate and management services. The Community Singers of Dover chose Ann B.

Stapleton of Milford and Paul Armstrong of Seaford to play the leading roles in a May production of "The Music Man." Stapleton, wife of a Methodist minister, was a graduate of Wesley College, Peabody College for Teachers and Scarritt College in Nashville, Tenn. Armstrong, a computer systems analyst with the Du Pont had performed and directed for the Seaford Players and Salisbury (Md.) Community Players. Eunice Sluyter, Peninsula Conference missionary to India, was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Dover District of the Women's Society of Christian Service at Epworth United Methodist Church, Rehoboth Beach. She had served the church in India since 1943 as a teacher at Isabelle Thob-urn College, Lucknow, and as secretary of the commission on Christian Literature for the Meth both Beach property owners met with the town commissioners to discuss the possibility of erecting a municipal power plant in conjunction with the town's waterworks. The committee members agreed to conduct a feasibility study to assess costs and learn whether federal money was available for financing help.

If the survey results proved favorable, it was expected that the matter would be submitted to local residents for a vote. Rehoboth Beach appeared assured of having a summer resident theater company. Two groups, one affiliated with Carnegie Institute and the other based in Boston, had expressed interest in renting the Rehoboth Fire Hall during the summer months. The Carnegie group appeared to have reached an agreement, but the Boston company had a local tie. Its director, Dorothy Davis, was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Howard Davis of Mil-ford. A Boston drama teacher, she planned to bring three or four professional actors with her and aug- ment her company with drama students and talented local performers. The annual state convention of the Future Farmers of America opened in Milton with 52 delegates and officials representing 16 high schools in attendance. Ray Passwa-ters of Bridgeville was elected president and Alvin Adams of Bridgeville, secretary.

A.J. Bolin, principal of Milton High School, gave a welcoming address. The two-day conference featured public speaking and wood chopping contests, horseshoe pitching and baseball and basketball games. Benjamin F. Ableman, Dela presided and speakers included Dr.

Paul R. Mort, a member of the congressional committee that several years ago had studied methods of financing public education in the United States, and Sophia L. Fahs, director of elementary education at New York's Riverside Church, whose topic was trends in religious education. Dr. Herman V.

Hollo-way, state superintendent of public instruction, discussed local issues. Quick work by Seaford firefighters saved the historic Bethel Church from possible destruction when a grass fire spread to two large trees near the church, endangering the building. Although the trees were badly damaged, the fire was extinguished with chemical sprays. A committee composed of Reho- small birds, we have donkeys, horses, pheasant and quail," Roseanne Harkins said. "At least once a day people will come up the drive and ask if we sell this or that, word gets around and that's where the tongue-in-cheek name The Company Farm comes from.

Sometimes we get company all the time, and to run this farm we own a company." To hear them tell the story, an Indian tepee just seems to fit in on their farm. "We just do a little bit of everything out here," Harkins said. "The best thing is that there's no phone out here next to the tepee. I do look forward to being at that tepee. There's nothing more relaxing to me than just sitting there, or fishing, that's all I'll do." WWW m'mmm OlQSMOBIlt MILFORD i Drastic Discci'ints! Tepee Continued from Page 1 Somewhat deceiving from the outside in regard to interior room, the tepee measures 18 feet in diameter plenty of room for Har-kins, a few sleeping bags and a nice-size fire.

Standing inside and looking up and out of the small hole left in the top for smoke to escape, the couple say they don't have to worry about the rain coming in. "It's amazing," Roseanne Har-kins said, standing inside on dry ground the day after heavy rains left many low parts of their fields lying in water. "Those poles are just about 8 inches in the ground and it's held up to the wind and rain so far," Nick Harkins said. "That hole will let the smoke out and no rain in. The couple share their 106-acre farm, called "The Company Farm," with more than just an dian tepee these days.

They have owned the farm for seven years and lived on it the past six. Their house is not visible from the highway, just 10 fenced acres of pasture snared mutually by five horses, 10 to 15 registered Angus cattle, four miniature donkeys I and assorted barrels and poles used for some horse jumping. I Behind the barns are airy cages filled with Chinese geese, silver and garden pheasant, wood 1 ducks, Canada geese, Delaware Blue Hens, wild turkeys and col-' orful orange, yellow and red I birds. "Some people have goldfish or ft-" VlIlMl Iffii I ::1 ill II 1 ir ff I mm Volunteers sought MILFORD The Kent and Sussex Counties Convention and Visitor Bureau is seeking volunteers ages 16 and older to become "Delaware Diplomats." All volunteers, who will work in the Visitors Bureau, Delaware Agriculture Museum and the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, will be trained in greeting, assisting and directing tourists and visitors and promoting southern Delaware. Interested people should call 422-3301 or toll-free in Delaware only, (800) 3454200.

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