The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 19

This Bears Mention By Tom Malone Double-Barreled Message Take whatever significance you will out of this, but a local liquor store is sending lovely Christmas cards to its customers, complete with greetings and also a tiny A.A. 258 stamped on them. Know How Someone at the Wilmington Post Office has revived a story which has probably happened at one time or another, with this fellow insisting it happened this year. It concerns a woman who called up frantically to say she had just put stamps on the bottoms of 200 envelopes containing Christmas cards, and what could she do? The clerk didn't hesitate. "Just mail them upside down," he told her at which, according to the story, she thanked him profusely and hung up.

Well Treed There was a conversation with Roland H. Fleetwood, who has been handling Christmas trees in these parts for about as long as anyone, and who handles about as many of them, too, both as a retailer and wholesaler. Fleetwood brought in about 10 railroad carloads of trees just after Thanksgiving, with each car holding an average of 1,700 trees. The Fleetwood trees come from Nova Scotia, with Fleetwood and several of his employes going up in late October or early November to hire crews and select trees for cutting. All his trees are balsam fir, which he says is the favorite through the years.

His biggest trees are up to 18 feet tall, with 50 to 75 of these sold each year to homes and institutions. With proper treatment, he says a tree can be kept up for a month after Christmas. Something about the care and treatment of a tree comes from the Bartlett Tree Expert Co. An average size tree can absorb a quart of water daily, according to the Bartlett people. No more than 80 lights should be strung on any indoor tree, with wrapping paper and fluffy cotton to be kept at a safe distance from the tree and the lights.

The lights should not be left burning too long. As i a final note, the Bartlett people also say the Christmas tree was first used in Germany, with legend saying Martin Luther was the first to put up a Christmas tree: in his home. Christmas trees come mostly from Canada (except for the do it-yourselfers who chop their own if they can get away with it) but the center of the holly industry for the eastern half of the country is the Delmarva Peninsula. Holly auctions are held annually at Fruitland, usually on three successive Wednesdays and Saturdays. before Christmas.

The land is low, flat, water is close to the surface and both the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay provide the right atmosphere for the moisture loving plants. Phonetics Whether it's widespread or not, a son of one of the Morning News staffers brought home some samples of a new language, complete with translations, the other day. Here are some samples, along with translations: Saville, der dago. Say Willie, there they go. Tousin bussis inaro.

Thousand buses in a row. Nochoe, demis troux. No Joe, them is trucks. Fractured French, anyone? Advice John LaRoche, University of Georgia journalism student home for the holidays, brought back with him a story he said a member of an Oxford University debating team related at a visit to the university last month. President Kennedy, said this student, had three alternatives to the Cuba blockade.

First, he could have gone down himself and bought Cuba; second, he could have let a confidence man go down and steal it, or third, he could have sent Harry Truman to tell Castro what to do with it. MONDAY, DEC. 17, 1962 Page 19 Wilmington Morning Netos 2d Insurer Spurns State's Fee Retiree's Securities Stolen Value is Theft Comes While Man's in Hospital Securities valued at $99,338 were stolen from the home of a retired Du Pont Co. official wast was hospitalized discovered for an operation, Saturday. Findlay McClellan, 63, returned to his home at Ring and Ridge Roads, Chadds Ford, shortly after 2:30 p.m.

Saturday and found that the window in the front door had been smashed and a 50-pound strong box was missing from a bedroom closet. Pennsylvania State Police listed contents of the strongbox as Du Pont Co. stock, 172 shares, General Motors Corp. stock, 88 shares U.S. Savings Bonds, 54 with a face value of $1,000 each at maturity, and 55 Series Bonds, maturing at $50 each, $2,414.

The federal government bonds are not negotiable. Police said last night there were no suspects in the case. They said no fingerprints were found at the scene. McClellan told police he had entered the hospital Nov. 20 for operation and his wife, Agnes, 61, moved to Woodbury, N.J., to stay with their son, Donald.

The house was left vacant. He said nothing else in the four two-story frame home was taken. The house is about 75 yards from the road with large spruce trees obscuring the front portion. McClellan said the house had been locked and arrangements were made to have mail delivery stopped. WHY Award Delayed Longer Educational Television Station WHYY does not expect to be awarded Delaware's darkened Channel 12 before Dec.

27. A decision by the Federal Communications Commission had been originally expected today, but some questions about a deadline for filing of exceptions to a FCC hearing examiner's recommendation has moved the award date to 27 at the earliest. According to a Washington, D.C., attorney for WHYY, the formal award may not come until the first of next month. The battle over the television channel narrowed down from half a dozen competitors to two: WHYY and the Rollins Broadcasting Corp. In August an FCC examiner recommended using Channel 12 for educational television and last month Rollins announced it was bowing out of the race.

Plumbers, Pipefitters Give Party Money to Aid Needy With only seven reporting days remaining before Christmas, Delaware's Needy Family Fund total climbed to 211.81 yesterday with $570 more in contributions. Weekend receipts, usually quite substantial, had not yet been recorded as this morning's News went to press. They will be tabulated and reported in tomorrow's total. The largest single contribution in the latest report was $75, donated by the plumbers of Local 26 and the pipefitters of Local 80, working for Hirsch, Arkin Pinehurst at the John A. Robbins Shopping Center, Price's Corner.

In a note sent by R. Moglioni, superintendent for the firm, it was explained that the money was saved from salvage scrap pipe on the job. Usually the money is given by the contractor to the men on the site for a Christmas party. This year, however, the men voted not to have a party but to give the proceeds from the sale of the salvaged pipe to It's Called 'Curious' By Agent AN A JAUNT On Its Long Voyage South On its way to a nuclear power station under con- shipping skid, is shown here being struction at Oak Ridge, is the largest section of a seven-track Pennsylvania-Washington 305-ton nuclear reactor pressure vessel built by Baldwin- sylvania Railroad. It will be loaded Lima-Hamilton's Industrial Equipment Division at Eddy- barge in the Delaware River and tone, Pa.

This section, which weighs 255 tons with its Ridge via the inland waterway. Showdown Today In GOP Hiring Feud By CHRISTOPHER PERRY Max Aerenson plans to go to work this morning as a New and the Wilmington Republican Castle County sign, inspector chairman still says he'll quit if Aerenson takes the job. There was no evidence of a weekend truce in the intraparty squabble, although it now appears that nine city GOP ward chairmen will not follow Clayton S. Harrison city chairman, if he resigns. The ward chairmen had declared their support for Harrison's position that the Levy Court should rescind the a year appointment, saying they also would quit if goes to work.

HARRISON SAID he is standing by his statement to quit but that he had received indications the ward chairmen would stay. He said there had been no meeting on the subject over the weekend. He had urged the ward chairmen not to resign because he said five of them hold county jobs that could be taken away by Levy Court. So does Harrison. Norman N.

Aerenson, a Levy Court attorney and the son of Max Aerenson, said yesterday his father would go to work today. He said it probably would be at 9 a.m. at the County Engineering building on the Kirkwood Highway. The attorney said his father would probably use the day "to get acquainted with the job." IN ANOTHER development in the controversy generated by the appointment, Levy Court President Harry H. Lambert fired back at Herbert Barnes.

Barnes is a former Delaware State Police superintendent who was a member of the Levy Court in 1952-53 and who attacked Lambert Saturday in a statement. Lambert, saying he would stay on as a member of the Levy Court, called his position "a matter of principle." He said the issue had been "blown all out of proportion" and that he saw "no reason to back out." Levy Court Commissioner Harry B. Roberts Jr. yesterday repeated his intention to stick by the appointment. The third member of the court, Joseph F.

Dayton, could not be reached yesterday. Dayton has said he might withdraw his approval of the appointment. 25.00 10.00 THE COMPLAINT of city Re- 5.00 publicans is that the old Aerenson is not a regis2.00 tered voter, having recently re570.00 turned to Delaware from Flor10.641.81 ida where he had lived eight $11,211.81 years. They say an active and Unearned Payment Of $200 Returned By P. L.

Wardenburg A second insurance agent has returned an unearned commission which he received under outgoing State Insurance Commissioner Harry S. Smith's patronage policy. He is Paul L. Wardenburg, vice president of Johnson and Higgins of Pennsylvania Insurance Wilmington, who returned a $200 check to J. A.

Montgomery, one of Smith's five "brokers of record." THE BROKERS of record write most of the state's insurance policies, but share commissions with other agents designated by Smith who write no insurance for the state. In a his check Willard White, returning, president of J. A. Montgomery, Wardenburg said: hauled across the line of the Penntomorrow aboard a transported to Oak Sailors Held After Crash Ends Chase Two sailors were held Saturday by state who said their car, allegedly stolen, slammed into two automobiles in Smyrna after a chase that hit 110 miles an hour. Held for Virginia authorities were William J.

Schulz, 17, of Camden, N.J., and Giovanni R. SanFilippo 18, of New Milford, N.J. Police said the car they were driving was stolen from Julian T. Onley of Norfolk, Schultz and SanFilippo were said to be stationed at Portsmouth, Va. According to Delaware troopers, the chase started at 6:55 p.m.

near Dover when a police car signaled to the sailors to pull over. The police car conU tinued up the Du Pont Highway with two other police cars joining in. The chase ended in Smyrna at the intersection with State Route 6, when the pursued car smashed into the rear of autos stopped for a traffic light, police said. The two other cars were operated by Paul L. Bishop, 42, of Seaford and Willard A.

Ingersoll, 19, of Dover Air Force Base. Minnie K. Ingersoll, 21, complained of neck and back injuries after the accident. She was a passenger in Ingersoll's car. She was released from Kent General Hospital, Dover, after treatment.

I am quite curious as to why a check should be dispatched to me at this particular time following the charges and counter -charges that were made in the recent election as to the operation of the insurance commissioner's office and, in particular, when no such check has ever been forwarded to me individualy or to our firm previously." ed help those less fortunate. The Selbys M. Boyer Many employe groups have Propagation Committee of the given to the Needy Family Improved Order of Red Men Fund this year in lieu of and Degree of Pocohontas Margie, Betty and Jean Christmas parties for them- Globe Liquor Inc. selves or instead of exchanging Martha McK. Tatnall Christmas cards.

Anonymous Mrs. Elsie Bengston Now in its 39th year, the Ann R. Creadick fund is sponsored by the News- Loren and Nona Uthoff Executive Committee, New Journal Co. as part of its com- Century Club munity program and J. Jay and Clifford Laney Dillman is co administered by the Wel- Mrs.

F. Helen Street fare Delaware. The Wetzel Children Louise W. Checks should be made pay- Delaware Society, of Medical Laboratory Technicians able to the Needy Family Fund Louise P. Schutt and mailed to the News F.

F. Exporters, Du Pont Co. Howard nal P.O. Box 1576, Wil- Anonymous mington 99, Del. In Hanby memory of Kenneth H.

The latest list of contribu- Lucy M. Dill From Ray and Mabel tors follows: Naaman's Tribe Indian Guides Dr. and Mrs. Leo F. Sherman 10.00 Mildred J.

Wilson Plumbers of Local 26 and pipe- A Friend fitters of Local 80, working In memory of Philip H. McRae for Hirsch, Arkin and Pine- Lucy and Louis Hoffman hurst at the John A. Rob- Chris and Scott bins Shopping Center, Anonymous Price's Corner 75.00 V. G. K.

Edith P. Seaman 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. William S. Nagle N.

E. and D. A. Scott 5.00 Mr. and Mrs.

John B. Toman Project Review Section, Treas- Howard and Harriet Jones urers Department, Du Pont Samuel J. Glick in lieu of Christmas A Friend cards 12.00 Charles and Jean Atnip and Tomasine Hannan 2.00 Edith H. Coolidge 25.00 Total's Total Delaware Tribe. Tomahawk Previous Reported Nation, Brandywine YMCA Indian Guides 5.00 Total to date the running of the Republican organization and "everybody knew where I stood." "It should be remembered too that in those days I never heard Harry Lambert," Barnes said.

"He is a Johnnycome-lately who wants to run the whole show." HE SAID HE had voted for Lambert but had not supported him for the presidency of the go to member, in this court that job should because, case Dayton. "He (Lambert) wants to be president again and if he doesn't get it, he'll quit playing and take his marbles Barnes said. Lambert yesterday charged Barnes' "statement about me reads like his own true confession." He said he would not quit and that rumors to that effect were no more than "wishful thinking." He said it was Barnes who "picked up his marbles and went home." IN ANSWER to Barnes' ment that he hadn't heard of Lambert in 1952, Lambert replied: "If I hadn't heard so much of him (Barnes), I might not be in politics. It's just people like him in politics that made me and others go into it." WARDENBURG also said the Republican should get the job. The appointment was approved by all three Levy Court commissioners.

Lambert said Friday that it might be a good thing if Harrison and the ward chairmen quit, that it might bring needed new blood into the Republican Party. said the resignations of "immature people" who are influenced by "troublemakers" would continue a promising trend within the party that began when Barnes and former GOP State Sen. James H. Snowden became "quitters." BARNES RESIGNED from the Levy Court and as county chairman in 1953. Snowden announced his retirement from politics after losing the party's nomination for U.S.

representative last August 1 to Wilmer F. (Rudy) Williams. He later said he had reconsidered. Barnes Saturday lashed out at what he called "the loudmouth Levy Court president," and defended himself and Snowden, denying either could be called quitters. Barnes said it should be remembered that he resigned from the Levy Court only after winning the spot in an open election.

He said he stepped out because of dissatisfaction with check was "made payable to me as an individual and I do not operate as an individual but as a member of a firm, and accordingly this check is not acceptable Last month a Selbyville insurance agent, Carroll Farlow, returned a $200 check to William T. Parsons, of the Marshall Pusey Agency in Laurel, because "I don't believe I'm entitled to it." Insurance Commissioner Smith's refusal to disclose the list of those receiving insurance commissions figured in campaign charge by Republican Robert A. Short, who defeated him. ASKED WHY the group of checks which included Wardenburg's was sent out after the election, Smith said the commissions on insurance for state educational properties normally go out at about this time of year and that the new list is "routine." The letter from White accompanying the $200 check to Wardenburg said it was for "your participation in the annual distribution of commissions from the State Board of Education's insurance account as per the insurance commissioner's list." Was Frank Milano Voice of TV Noises Dead By TOM MALONE Frank C. A.

Milano, a Wilmington native whose voice was one of the most used and least national radio and television, died Saturday near his home in Hillsdale, N.Y. Mr. Milano was voice behind hundreds of the best known radio and TV commercials he was Snap Crackle and Pop of Kellogg's Rice Krispies, the parrot for Gillette razor blades, the rundown auto battery for Pres0-Lite Batteries, a jet-propelled teaspoon for "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet." Of his performance as Snap, Crackle and Pop, the New Yorker magazine once said of the 44-year-old entertainer: "MR. MILANO'S snap is short, quick and thin. His crackle has the quality of cellophane being unhurriedly crushed.

His pop, rendered in a low, oily, settled down tone, suggests completion, is soothing rather than star- ting, and may be compared with the sound of small corks being drawn from undersized jugs." His income from his work was estimated at $50,000 a year in a New York Herald Tribune interview with him 10 years ago. "Frank was always imitating something, always keeping us laughing," said his mother, Mrs. Nellie E. Culley of Wilmington Manor Gardens. "He did it as a boy, and just kept it up." Mr.

Milano's own recollection was that his first imitation was the chirp of a cricket. His father, the late Frank M. C. Milano, was an accomplished bird caller and taught the sounds to his son. Mr.

Milano went to work for the Du Pont Co. after graduating from Archmere Academy and immediately began to take an active part in the Wilmington Drama League. He later was assigned to Du Pont's. "Cavalcade of America" series. AFTER A USO tour with "Our Town" which starred Raymond Massey, Mr.

Milano decided to take his chances in New York, leaving Wilmington in in in 1946. He immediately began to haunt the Bronx Zoo, learning that lions and tigers roar, leopards and panthers scream. He seldom used props just his voice and hands but the lion's roar forced him into finding the right one. After discarding a megaphone, a glass pitcher and a ukelele sounding board, he found an old buttermilk container that made him sound authentically lion-like. At one time he worked on a weekly radio show where the producers were constantly challenging him, once crossing a Brahma bull with a buffalo to make him come up with a new sound.

Mr. Milano obliged. HIS MOST recent appearances were as a barking dog on the Jackie Gleason Shok and as a siren on "Car 54, Where Are You?" Mr. Milano lived on a 330- acre farm in Hillsdale, where he said he learned to imitate chipmunks so effectively they followed him around. Saturday he stopped for gas at a service station in nearby Hudson, N.Y., and suddenly slumped over the wheel.

He was dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Death was attributed to a heart attack. IN ADDITION to his mother, he is survived by his widow, Hazel; two children by a former marriage, Diana and Sandra Milano of Baltimore; three adopted children, Markie, Frank Jr. and Rosa at Hillsdale. He was a nephew of Bart C.

Milano, former examiner for the U.S. Civil Service Commission here. He was a member of Hudson Lodge No. 1, AF and AM, and a number of theatrical organizations. Funeral arrangements have not been completed..