Milford chronicle., 1949-05-27
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

econd class u. S. Navy, son of Mr..
nd Mrs. F. E. Cole of Clayton, is
cheduled to visit ports in England
nd France aboard the destroyer
J. s.. S. News, one of the ten-ship
Practice Cruise Squad
on which will sail during July and
August.
This annual cruise is designed to
,royide practical shipboard train
ng to midshipmen from The Naval
Academy, Md, and from Naval Re
serve units throughout the country.
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Captain Clarence K. Lynch of the
Delaware State Police addressed
Joint meeting Of the Rehoboth and
Cape May Kiwanis Clubs Thursday
night on Highway Safety at a
dinner in the Avenue Banquet Hall.
The police officer illustrated his
talk with charts and pictures show
ing a comparison of safe driving
with recklessness and made a plea
for all automobile owners to adhere \
to the highway rules, particularly
during the crowded summer sea-
son. Twenty Cape May Kiwanians
went to Rehoboth for the session,
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The members of the Smyrna
Clayton Chamber of Commerce and
their guests heard a comprehensive
talk on zoning at their recent din
ner meeting in the Paddock, given
by Morris Whiteside II, of Will
mington, 1850.
Warner w, Price, Jr, presided
and the response was made by G.
l.. Harmonson. The group had as
special guests Mayor Albert A.
Neweomb, gSr., Clifford Jones, town
manager, John w, Jacobs, Jr., chief
of police; Councilman Ralph G.
FAIRIES, James Everhart, Glenn S.
King, James Everhart. The next
meeting will be held June 81.
Funeral services for William B.
Usilton, 70, senior editor of the
Kent County News, of Chestertown,
Md, were held Monday morning.
Mr. Usilton, a we'll known mem
ber of the Delmarva Press Associ-
alton, died Friday night. He had
been connected with the Kent Coun-
ty paper since 1894, following his
father, the late w. B. Usilton, Sr.,
in the business.
Mr., Usilton was chairman of the
board of the Chestertown Bank of
Maryland and had served as post
master in Chestertown for 19 years.
He was active in Democratic poll
tics in Kent County and throughout
/ the Eastern Shore.
Judge James B. Carey in Kent
County Superior Court last Friday
granted. DEGREES nisi in four di-
yorce suits and also granted a de-
cree of annulment of marriage in
another action.
The divorce actions in which de-
! crees. were granted and the grounds
alleged were;
Gertrude O., Carlson VS.. Louis
Carlson, habitual drunkenness; ;
/ Mary Agnes Emily Warren VS.. Wal
ter r. Warren, desertion; Aubrey
! Garner VS.. Cornelia Daniel Gar
ner, desertion and Margaret Wiley
VS.. John G. Wiley, desertion.
T.! The annulment decree was grant
ed in the case of Ruth C. Singleton
VS.. Leroy Singleton.
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Il Bids will be received and opened
for the construction of a Susse1
County Negro Comprehensive Higl
School at 2 o'clock Tuesday after
noon, June 21, in the office of DR.
, George r. Miller, Jr., state super
, intendent of public instruction, il
accordance with action of the Stat
Board of Education Friday after
noon.
The school building will be o
the modern one-story construction
!, plentifully ventilated and lighted
, 1t will be built on a tract of Ian
i near Georgetown acquired som
, time ago by the state board and viii
accommodate from $50 to 800 stu
, dents.
In the initial construction wOrl
auditorium and gymnasium will nc
. be included because of lack of sui
: |. cient funds.
d Some 200 members and guests Z
t five Lions clubs of Eastern SUISSE
e County were entertained Friday ?
b the Rehoboth Beach Country Clul
e Guests included Governor Elbel
N. Carvel, District Governor Charlie
Stab, Deputy Governor Howar
: Furniss of Milford The days ever
& got under way at 2 p. M with go
/ and tennis matches, chiefly for til
f men, while the women entertaine
y at card party in the club hous
After the banquet, a dance wa
# held, with music provided by tn
I Lewes Lions Club Orchestra. Toas
= master at the dinner was Robel
Tunnel of Georgetown.
Colonel Carleton B. Shaffer, frs
president of the Rehoboth Lion
S Club, served as zone chairman fo
a the affair. Stephen Vaughn heade
/ the. Lewes Lions Club delegatio
= and others on the arrangement
y committee were Paul Richardso
s for Georgetown. Joseph Kemp fC
5. Milford, Warren Good for Milton
= Robert Thompson, for Rehoboth.
" Despite heavy showers in II
forenoon, Odessa played host
more than 750 visitors from wide
Z scattered points last Sunday whe
u it opened its historic old HON,
e and buildings to the public for Il
y first time.
.e Although the outlool, soan.