From The Smyrna Times, Feb. 21, 1935
One CCC camp goes to Leipsic
The two additional conservation corps camps for Delaware will be located at Leipsic and Magnolia, to be engaged in mosquito control work, if Congress passes favorably on the $4 billion work relief appropriations, it was announced Saturday by W.S. Corkran, executive officer and engineer of the Delaware Mosquito Control Commission before leaving for Washington for a conference with Robert Fechner, emergency relief director….
The expansion program in CCC work wil put to work at least 400 moe young men from Delaware, it was learned, in addition to the 400 boys already at work on mosquito control in the two present camps at Lewes and Slaughter Beach….
Weather nearly halts muskrat trapping
The seriousness of the muskrat trapping business for owners and trappers of embanked meadow marshland in this area is evidenced by the fact that since the season first opened on December 1 some of the trappers have only been able to work their traps nine days….
The season is believed almost a total loss. In spite of the present milder weather and rain, the inland marshes are still covered with thick ice, and in many places a thick covering of frozen ice and snow on top of the ice below.
The situation has given rise to extending the season 10 days longer or until March 31.
Others are opposed to this and think a better plan would be to have a closed season for a year to give muskrats time to propagate. “Rats” are reported scarce. Damaging storms have killed off thousands of small rats, and unless strict measures are taken they may almost be exterminated….
License fee approved for hunting, fishing
Governor Buck has signed Senator Simonton’s bill for residents of the state to pay a $1.25 license fee before hunting and trapping, and before fishing in the state. The measure makes a number of other changes in the fish and game laws.
One contest in town election
Smyrna Town Council met in special session Friday night to receive nominations for the town ticket to be placed for the annual town election next Monday, February 25, and for the first time in recent years there was not an opposing ticket filed against the administration ticket.
As a nomination in this case is equivalent to an election, it means that G.R. Stevenson, S. Creadick Ennis, and George W. Turner, whose terms as Councilmen expire this year, will go back for another term of two years.
