Milford chronicle., 1949-10-21
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

-. MI oSOutS OF MilIOrQ Will
attend services at the Calvarv
Methodist Church Sunday, October
.. On Saturday, October %. al ia
o'clock a. m. they will meet at the,
Milford High School for movie.
pay and group singing. These ac-
.lylties are in commemoration of
Girl Scout Week.
Milford's local Sorority. the Del
aware Nu Chapter, of Internatiou-
aI Beta Sigma Phi, held their an
nual Fall Tea on Sunday AZ the
nome OF the president, Florence
Pearce. Plans were made for the
installation of five Pledges on Oct
1Der 18th to receive their Ritual of
Jewels Degree. The girls are lonlr-
ing forward to the weekend fhev
VIII spend at the Pocono Manor
dotel attending the Fall Eastern
Area Council Convention.
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The Laurel Chamber Of Commerce
IS getting an early start on pre-
pairing for its Christmas celebra-
-ion with a tag day which was held
last Saturday.
These red tags were on sale nm
til p. m.
The committee in charge OF tho
affair included Harold H. Smith as
chairman. Howard r. Elliott. Ar
thur V. Register, William d. King
and Theodore M. Hastings.
Six teams of women handled the
sales.
The possibility of a second doc
tor in Selbyville to assist DR.. w. q.
Hume, loomed when DR.. Hume an
nounced that young doctor who
is contemplating country practice
will look the situation over in Sell
oyville.
The new Doctors name is A
Alotz. His home is in Allentown.
Pa, and he is a veteran of World
War II. He received his collegiate
medical training at the University
Of Louisville. and finished his med
cal training at the Norfolk (Va.)
General Hospital and the Delaware
Hospital, Wilmington.
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A horse-and-wagon parking area
has been designated in Dover bv
ordinance of City Council. Hitching
POSTS will be installed by the CITY
If Dover.
1t is on the east side of New
street between North street and
Bank lane. The ordinance restricts
parking of horse-drawn vehicles to
nat particular space, which will
accommodate 12 to is.
The move has been taken to elm
nate impeding of motor traffic
movement and the blocking of al
eys by horse-and-wagon parking.
Many Amish farmers come into no.
yer with horses and wagons.
Voters of the Caesar Rodney Spe-
2ial School District recently over
approved $3.50 900
pond issue to help finance school
improvements. The vote was 37l
or and 7S against. The district, by
approving the bond issue, will be
'llglble for a. state grant of $685.
20. Included in the Improvement
'rogram are the following items:
Three new high school class
ooms, addition for auto mechanics
hop and music instrument storage
DOM, new gymnasium, S-room ele-
nentary school wing, and modern
zed heating system in present ele-
1entary building.
The Board of Education has esti-
mated the bond issue will increase
ne tax rate from Is to 20 cents on
100 OF property valuation and boost
ne capitation tax from SO to S4.
William L. Fisher was inspector
I the election; j. Evans Cook and
1omer c. Nickerson, the judges.
nd Mrs. Helen M. Pyott and Mrs.
Ida B. Slaughter served as clerks.
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The membership drive recently
,egun by the Georgetown Parent
'eacher Association is reported
results with 22O new
hembers added during the past two
weeks. James B. Owen, principal
Il the high school, headed the com
nittee in the school.
Letters have been sent to all par
'nts announcing the first big fan
Meeting of the local PTA which will
'e held in the auditorium of the
Ugh school on Thursday evening.
october 20, at 8 o'clock.
Richard McFadden, director of
Usual education in the Caesar Rod
ley High School, will be the main
peaker. The theme for the meet
ng will be "The Use Of Visual Aids
n Schools" Supplementing Mr..
deFadden's discussion will be a
moving of films pertaining to the
Use of visual aids in modern schools.
The executive committee of the
oeal PTA, in addition to planning
he October 20 meeting, has arrang-
ID a schedule Of meetings to be
leld each month during the school
erm, with programs which will aid
10Th teachers and parents.
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A Dover woman recently sue
umbed to the lure of gypsy
charm" and now is ruing the loss
+ $40. Disclosing the victimizing Of
he woman, Dover police have urg-
q that the soundest procedure to
olloW when gypsy stops at a
iouse is to get her automobile Ii
ense number and call police with
ut delay.
The story told police by the lat
st victim of gypsy wiles was that
he gypsy visited her at her home
nd advised that she would have
ood fortune If she would place salt