Milford chronicle., 1949-08-05
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

An automobile reportedly driven
y Arthur ]. Taylor, 20, of Sud-
Nd, crashed into the rear
t a buggy drawn by two horses on
he highway four miles west, of
lover last Friday afternoon.
Out of the wreckage of the de-
lolished buggy, Jacob C. Ginger
ch, 56, Of near Dover, climbed un-
.ided. Police said he escaped in
ury by a miracle. Gingerich's two
lorses, freed from their traces and
frightened by the collision. ran
lway but were rounded up later.
Collections by the Delaware Liu-
lor Commission last month were
more than $500 over receipts for
July of last year, according to a
report released by Colonel Edgar
5. Slayer, state liquor commission
er.
The report compiled by Smiley
King, executive secretary of the
shows collections to-
taling $S1,926.03 last month COM
pared with $73,7S2.24 for July of
194S.
Spirits tax, collections for the
past month were $54,767. 80: beer
stamp sales, $21 ,9O1.52, and wine
taxes, $5,25721 For July of last
year the spirits taxes were S4S,-
762.67;. beer stamp sales, S2O,-
4s2.O2 and wine taxes, $4.117.55.
James B. Wallace, AZ, was SEN
fenced by Judge Ernest v. Keith
in Court of Common Pleas on
Tuesday to one years imprison-
ment when he pleaded guilty to a
morals charge involving a seven
year-old girl. Wallace, arrested
by Dover police, is employed as
a night watchman at a Dover
equipment storage yard.
Lindsay Bessick was fined S25
and costs and sentenced to 80 days
in jail, with the Jail term suspend
ed contingent upon his future good
| behavior, and Russell Wisher was
fined $25 and costs, which was
suspended, on charges of larceny
of six bags of wheat. They were
/ arrested by state police. Bessick,
it was brought out, had previous
record. Wisher, father of three
children, had no previous police
record.
DR.. Roy c. Helfenstein, pastor
of the First Congregational Church
of Mason City, Ia, and former pas
tor of Peoples Congregational
Christian Church, Dover, will oc-
cupy the pulpit of his former pas
torate at services at IL O'Clock next
Sunday morning.
For Is years he served as pas
tor of Peoples Church and was in
strumental in the remodeling of
the building and effecting the high
standards of the church plant.
Leaving Dover about IL years ago,
he returns each summer to occupy
his cottage at Fenwick Island.
DR.. Helfenstein's subject on Sun
day will be Putting Social Values
; First" with his scores of friends in
the Dover area looking forward to
hearing him. The Rev. William F.
Edge, pastor of Peoples Church
will return to the pulpit from va
cation on Sunday, August IA.
The University of Delaware Is
! planning several building CONVEX
sions and at least one major ad.
J dition to ease overcrowded condi.
tions on the campus, it was an.
nounced by DR.. William S. Carl
son, president
, The projected agriculture build
ing, authorized by the recent Gen
2 eral Assembly, will help out wher
it is completed some time in tn,
I future, but meanwhile several fur
= ther steps are under way. These in
t clude:
Expansion of the chemistry lab
f oratory and possible addition of
chemical engineering wing; addi
: tion to the Carpenter Fieldhouse
: conversion of part of the women
e gymnasium into dormitories; us
of the upper floor of the HON
n Management House for rooms 70
girls and conversion of anothe
S campus structure into women
e dOrmitories.
c
In a claim presented to the Stat
Board of Game and Fish Commis
sion for $12, L. M. Reichert,
l. farmer of Townsend, declared
II red fox had killed his chickens.
n ]. Henry Hazel, member of tn
: state commission said that a re
l. fox is not classified as a predato
r, also, it is protected as a game an
NAL, and it is doubtful if the stat
r has any provision for payment
n such a claim.
IL Under the laws the farmer ms
/ kill a fox which is destroying h
l. poultry, but in other cases it ca
L not be killed. 1t may be pursu,
Df by dogs in fox-hunting.
II There has been long-standiI
lie difference of opinion between fl
hunters, other outdoor sportsme
le and farmers as to the position
10 the red fox in the wildlife pla
4 Fox hunters seek protection +
az their quarry. others contend
protection results in a toll by t
fox of other small game.
v The Board of Education of t
e, Caesar Rodney Special School Di
er trict has organized for the scho
year with the reelection of
ed Reilly Brown as president and
IN Edgar Townsend as vice nresidel