Smyrna times., 1940-08-15
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charge of the swimming meet. The
winners were: 2O-yard novice for
boys, Vernon Buskhorn, Richard
Horn; girls, Shirley Ridges, Gill
Donovan; 30-yard novice, boys,
Jack Bradford, Jack Walker; girls,
Sarah Jane billings, aJne Porter;
Junior 50-yard free style, Bob Low
er, Leon Collins; girls, Elaine
Senger, Anna Marie Davidson.
Senior 5O-yard free style, boys, H.
G. Neese, Pete Spencer; girls,
Booty" Burrous, Doris Dronski;
beginners float, Richard oHrn, Ir-
win Berg; girls, Gill Donovan; un-
derwater swim, boys, Leroy Wade,
Jay Land; girls, Marjorie Lengler,
Jane Porter; junior underwater
swim, Robert Scorah, James De-
Ford; girls, Caroline Morrison,
Elaine Senger. Senior back stroke,
boys, H. G. Neese, Ralph Salter;
senior breast stroke, Buddy Hitch
ems, Leon Tucker; junior breast
stroke, Peter Collins, Buddy Dea-
kyne; senior 100-yard, H. o. Neese,
Ralph Salter; senior diving, Ralph
Salter, 6S points, Harry Custer, So
points; Naomi Corrie, SO points,
Booty Berg, 81 points; junior
diving, Jerry Land, Ned Horn,
Jane Porter, Sarah Jane billings;
beginners diving, boys, Bun"
Slaughter, Richard Horn; girls, Gill
Donovan; juniors, Bob Lower and
Ned Horn. In the bathing beauty
contest sponsored by the Smyrna
Business Association, Miss Estella
D. Edmondson, daughter of Mr.and
Mrs. Guy M. Edmondson of Smyr-
ma, took first prize in the senior
division; Miss Eleanor B. Morris
was first in the Junior division, and
Miss Ann Willis of Clayton, as
Miss Unity, representing the ideal
of unity between Clayton and
Smyrna, took first in the intermed-
late division. Competitio in the
intermediate division was so keen
that the judges, Frank Zebley,
Benjamin Ableman, and Frank Ell
ton of Milford, requested the addi-
ton of a third prize; Janet Keith
took second, and Wilma Blendt,
took the added third prize. Second
place in the senior division was
won by Catherine Ely; second
place in the junior division was
won by Peggy Clark. Miss Ed
mondson, winner of the senior di-
vision, who is a University of Del
aware student, has been invited to
participate in the state finals as
Miss Smyrna" to select Miss
Delaware" for the Atlantic City
Beauty Pageant. The comic divi-
sion prize went to 48-year-old
male bathing beauty" Francis AL
len. The evening part of the cele-
bration was given over to parade
of water floats representing var
ious merchants and citizens of
Smyrna; to the pageant and spec
ialty numbers presented by the
Little Theatre; to music by the
"Old Timers" and by the Middle
town Band; and to a demonstra-
tion of firefighting and pumping
techniques by the Citizen Hose
Company. Those taking part in
the water carnival parade of floats
were: Ennis & Deakyne, Red
Cross, American Legion and Auxil-
iary, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Smyrna Little Theatre, D. A. R.,
Lions Club of Clayton, Clayton
Gun Club, Medford Sparks, Clay
ton; Clayton Century Club, Right
Lumber Yard, Smyrna Times, Pure
Food Store, w. E. Poore, Harold
Senger and Roxy Theatre. First
prize went to John Talbot and
Mrs. Mary Kenworthey who repre-
sented Indians in a canoe; second to
Clayton Lions Club for their Wash
ington Crossing the Delaware;
third prize to the Clayton Century
Club, as Pioneer Woman in Cover
ed Wagon. Mr.. "Tosser" Turner
loaned his rowboats for the par
ade. Mrs. Richard Comegys was
chairman of the floats. Focal
points of the Smyrna Little The
atre offerings was a scene depict
ing activities at the f1ourishing
Woodland Beach of so years ago,
and Floradora sextette. Both
Smyrna and Clayton stores closed
for the afternoon.
Miss Unity is representative of
the Smyrna-Clayton area, an area
that is one community geographic
ally, and, therefore, an area that
should be one community in all of
its civic aims and ideals. For sew
eral years unification of these two
areas has been the goal toward
which civic leaders have been
shall continue to
work until the two towns are
drawn together by cords of sim
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