From The Smyrna Times,
Aug. 15, 1935
Large packing industry needed in Smyrna
Since the J.H. Hoffecker Company gave up packing tomatoes, the wonder is that such a well-equipped plant is not taken over by somebody and made an industry not only for packing tomatoes but expanded so as to manufacture chili sauce, catsup and other products that would keep the plant running a longer period and employing labor that would mean so much to the community.
We note that down in Seaford the Greenabaum Brothers are making a live industry for that section of Sussex County, the influence of which is making business not only for Delaware but for the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia as well.
The extensive growing of tomatoes, cantaloupes and other produce is causing great demand on the basket and crate factories in that part of the state to take care of both crops. In a number of instances, the manufacturers are running their plants night and day, using millions of feet of lumber in the manufacture of the fruit and vegetable packages.
Smyrna is advantageously situated for rail, water and truck service and has soil especially adapted to growing of tomatoes and cantaloupes. Such an industry in our midst that might be developed from the Hoffecker Cannery would be a boon to the community if the right people with capital could take hold and run the plant. Smyrna needs just such an industry in its midst to benefit our town people and the farming section.
Leipsic CCC Camp vacant
Civilian Conservation Corps jobs at Leipsic, Taylor’s Bridge and other places are going begging in Delaware compared to the rush last summer for the various camps in the state when scores of applications were rejected for lack of accommodations. Slightly over half of the state’s CCC quota of 800 has been filled so far with little prospects of the deficit being made up. About 350 youths could be used at Delaware’s four mosquito control camps.
The reason for lack of recruits, according to W.S. Corkran, executive officer of the Mosquito Control Commission, is President Roosevelt’s requirement that all placements for these camps must come from families on relief….
Head of Anti-Saloon League to preach in Smyrna
At Asbury Church on Sunday morning, the services will begin with the session of the church school at 10 o’clock.
At the morning worship hour, the guest preacher will be the Rev. Ivanhoe Willis, of Wilmington, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of the Wilmington Annual Conference.
