Milford chronicle., 1949-05-06
Happenings of Interest
Throughout Delaware

ford Memorial Hospital viii meet
at the Nurses Home on Tuesday,
May 10, at 8 p. m.
President Truman has sent to
I the Senate the nominations Of two
L Delaware postnlasters. They are:
4 Grover G. Gregg, Jr, recommend
ed to succeed Postmistress Eva M.
Smith at Y0rklyn, a third class Of
flee; and Postmistress Anna May
j Upright to succeed herself at VIM
terthur, which became a third
class office in 1948.
Miss Shirley Sipple, teacher at
The FELTON, School, who wrote the
history book, Delaware Through
Department of Delaware. Veterans
OF Foreign Wars, Monday, when
she was presented with a certif-
! cate Of merit for her AaHericanism
j work by National C'Cmmander-in-
Chief Lyall T. Beggs, acting for the
: department.
r -e--
+ H p Cannon and Son, Inc. Brid-
!, geyille canning firm, has inaugura-
ted service to help contract farm
ers to obtain maximum yields Of
e good quality The services of agr-
d icultural laboratories located in
! Bridgeton, N. j., have been engag-
ed to test soil and to recommend
s a program to provide a complete
. and balanced diet for the crop in
I question.
Tt is reported that 100 per cent
of all the string bean, lima bean,
and pepper growers who contract
= company have taken advantage Of
2 the service. This group represents
n $500 acres.
The long-rumored discontinue
Y ance of the Pennsylvania Rail-
= roads branch line passenger ser
T vice from Seaford to Cambridge
finally came to head last Satur-
day when the line was abandoned
re after more than a half-century of
Id use. Company officials said lack
IS Of business forced the closing.
b. Mail service will not be affected, as
TO star routes have been awarded.
E. HeneefOrth, the mail for the various
r. towns along the line vii o. shift
~ ed from the regular Delaware Di-
Of vision trains at Bridgeville onto
Is trucks for fredericksburg, Williams
3burg, hurlock, East New Market,
Linkwood and Cambridge.
of -a-
be Glenn Ewin Schweitzer, Is will
al enter the United States Military
ne Academy at West Point, N. Y, on
at July l. Appointed to the academy
g by u. S. Senator John J. Williams
ar Of AIillsboro, he was notified of his
lit acceptance last Friday He Is the
sr. son of w. K. Schweitzer of Wilm-
or ington and Mrs. Helen A. Schwie-
g. itzer of Cleveland, Ohio.
A resident of Wilmington for the
W. past ten years, the youth is a grad.
ia uate of Claymont High School, ;
,or member of Atonement Methods
Church in Claymont, and an Eagl
Ev- Scout He is well known as a plan
~ ist. At present he is studying at th
tea Wharton School of Finance. He re
~ eieved a scholarship following hi
high school course
ais The 32nd degree of Masonry wa!
conferred upon class of approx
mately 800 last Thursday night al
,r- the annual dinner of the nelaWar,
m Consistory of the Masonic Order
So held at the Masonic Temple and a
- 80 the New Century Club in Wilm
u. S. Senators ]. Allen Freaf, Jr.
m and John J. Williams, together
" with representative J. Caleb BOggs
10 attended the affair and were intro
duced to the consistory. 1t is be
1g- lieved to be the first time in thl
ern history of the Delaware Consistor.
au- that all the states senatorial an
nd congressional representatives wer
MIA presented to the membership.
The function was a dual affair
420 of the membership meeting a
vo- the Temple, while an additiona
blic 500 attended the sessions at th
on New Century Club.
at
zes, City Manager Charles G. Brow
Gus Of Dover, planning a budget 70
ced adoption by City Council at ii
lost July meeting, expressed hope
will that the municipality will have
ing working balance of about $4,000
are with which to start the next fisc;
If year on July j.
,are He anticipated that the propert
IN tax rate increase from 81 to ST.;
fair on the 500 of assessed value r.
wre Gently ordered by council for Il
next year will bring in an addition
al revenue of from $17, 600 to$1S ,0l
and that with this the city will
,oup enabled to accomplish a part of
tion projected improvement program.
the Among improvements plann,
Irch, are: Painting of City Hall, mosq
Rt. ito control, new street surfacin
stry, and Of greatest Importance, the i
2. stalIatiOn of ten-inch water mai
the from point at Minor and Bra
the ford streets to L0ockerman,
the State, and thence to The Green.
,gg.
e in A total Of 765 cancer cases we
lstry reported in Delaware during 19l
aul's DR.. John w. Spies, director of {
Two State Board of Health's Divisi
N in of Cancer Control, has announce
Ilogg Reporting on the work of the
vision, which has been attempti
to learn the extent Of the cane
resi- problem in Delaware. DR.. Sp'
s Of pointed out that the figure is il
an one more than last years report
ecide 764 cases.
ainst Assuming that the populati
pres of the state is about 300 900 p'
sons, that means that one out
said nvarv 900 oorco,,e oe n1I ooo9 !,