Milford chronicle., 1949-07-08
Plans Complete For
Chicken Festival
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corporation will furnish the chick
ems all weighing three pounds.
Housewives will furnish their own
pots, pans, and spices. Shortening,
in variety, win also be furnished
by the committee.
Prizes viii be awarded on the
basis of who can take a typical
'.Delmarvalous" chicken and, using
their own recipes and methods, can
deliver the most pleasing dish to
the judges who will be selected
from a plane load of leading food
editors and experts who will be
flown to the contest from New
York.
First prize will include $3.50 cash,
choice Of either a Westinghouse,
General Electric, Hot Point or
Frigidaire electric stove, a $110
value breakfast set presented by R.
E. Powell and Company. Second
prize will be $125 cash and a choice
Of the remaining stoves, while third
and fourth places will be rewarded
with SIS and $50 in cash, plus an
| electric range Attractive prizes
viii also be awarded those finishing
fifth to tenth.
/ The contest will be open to the
public and a limited number of
seats viii be in place on the avail
able space at the Armory.
Present prospects indicate there
will be at least three relays and
they will start at approximately
100 p. M, 800 p, m, and 500 p. m.
Miss DeInarYa Contest
Those who go to Salisbury to
view this cooking contest will also
be afforded entertainment on Tues
day night in the form of the pre-
liminaries in the Queen contest to
select Miss Delmarva, the Festival
Queen.
Entries may be made in the
Queen Contest until midnight ot
Friday, July Sth. Entrants must be
sixteen years of age and residents
of the Delmarva peninsula. In en-.
tering they should give their name
date of birth, residence address
name of school or occupation anC
the names of parents or guardians
In addition to being named Mis-
Delmarva, the winner will receiv'
$500 in cash or a $3.50 scholarship
I fund State winners from Maryland
Delaware and Virginia will be Sc
lected and one of these will b,
named the Queen and receive tn,
top prize. Each of the others will
receive 5000 in cash.
Finals in this competition will
be held on Wednesday afternoon a
four o'clock and the Queens Bal
will be feature of the Wednes
day night program. This dance i
also to be held at the Armory.
II Poultry And Egg Show
/ Exhibitors in Poultry and Eg
Show will receive cash prizes, rib
bons and trophies. The Marylan
State Fair Board is providing 81
| 900 to cover the awards in display
of brown eggs, white eggs, bah
chicks, live broilers, dressed chick
ems and prizes for the best All @
FLA judging teams. Donald I
MacDowell, Salisbury, is chairma
of the Show Committee. Earl Hawl
BridgeVille, is Delaware chairman
Ii The pfizels ist provides for som
cash award to all those placin
among the first ten in most in
stances. ~ !,
II State Teachers College gymnas
ium is to be the site of the Sho'
which will also include attractiV
displays by commercial houses de
ing business with broiler prOdut
ers.
Parade Thursday
Climaxing the Festival will
the mammoth parade on Thursda
at 500, P. M. In addition to I'll
many musical organizations fro
Delmarva who will be in line, te
Drum and Bugle Corps from Bait
more will help enliven the parad
Approximately 575 members
these Corps will be brought
Salisbury in special buses and, 70
lowing the parade, they will pr
sent an exhibition drill in the st
dium of Wieomico High SchOC
This special attraction is being a
ranged by the Drum and Bug
Corps of Meuse Post No. 1874, We
Grams of Foreign Wars.
The parade will form on si
streets in the vicinity of Sta
Teachers College and will mo-
over Camden Avenue, Mark
Street and Main Street to the Ci
Park area along East Main Sire,