Milford chronicle., 1949-03-04
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

The Milford Lions Club VIII hold
a card party on Friday, March M
starting at 8 p. m. An Kinds az
caro- games viii be PLAYED with
prizes for the winners and refresh
ments for all. Admission Soc
Leon /. Thompson, so. Of Rebo-
both Beach, one of DelaWare's hest
known pioneer aviatOrs, who now
serves as freight agent in Rehobofh
for the Pennsylvania Railroad h
a patient at the Beebe Hospital In
Lewes with painful spinal ininrv
caused by a recent tan from a
freight car door.
Wednesday night In RehObOth
City Hall, a mass meeting was
held to discuss fishing conditions
on the beaches, coastal points. and
bays of Delaware. AS surf ana
coastal fishing is one Of the major
recreatiOns of that area. better
conditions for the anglers were
sought, particularly by the remov-
al OF the menace created by YES
sells dragging within the 3-mila or
shore limit. President G. A. Wed
Ter of the RehObOth Sportsman
Club was the principal speaker.
! The Pennsylvania and Atlantic
SeabOard Hardware Association
held tour-day convention in Bal
timore, Md, beginning Monday
morning, with Vice President Az
ben w. Barkley scheduled to give
the main address. The vice presi-
dent spoke at the groups annual
banquet Wednesday evening. Some
200 hardware men from MARYLAND
pennsylvania, New Jersey. Dela-
ware and the District of Columbia
were expected to attend. H. Has
well Pierce of Milford. is president
OF the regional association.
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The role of student journalists
in Americas free press was stress
ed at the annual conference of the
/ Delaware Scholastic Press AssO-
citation Saturday at the University
Of Delaware. Principal speakers
at a general meeting in Mitchell
Hail were Fredric G. Pitts. cOlum-
mist, and David B. Dreiman. edu-
cation and science editor for the
Minneapolis Times. Mr.. Pitts smoke
on Popular Misconceptions Of
Newspapers" and Mr.. Dreiman's
subject was Growing Up With
Journalism
/ Herbert D. Cluely was reelected
president of the Camden Town
Council at the annual election last
Saturday. He received "a votes for
another three-year term in a rec
ord ballot which drew 12S voters
to the polls. One hundred and
ten voted last year, the previous
high Also elected to council were
Thomas X. HairgrOve to a three
| year term with "A votes, and Jesse
S. Cooper, former state treasurer,
/ to a One-year term with So votes.
the high for the election, and Henry
+ c. Ward, &c votes, who was unOp-
posed. Elmer c. Dunn, Jr., who
opposed Cluely. received 13 votes,
while Edwin c. Cameron, who Op-
posed Cooper. drew AZ votes. and
J. Riley Townsend. who opposed
HairgrOve. received 90 votes.
a seafarer. who had sought $50. -
900 damages for injuries received
aboard a tug in 1947. was awarded
less than One-fiftieth of what he
asked by jury in the L. S. District
Court in Wilmington last Friday.
The jury. first to hear a civil case
in the court since 1898. awarded
Gordon E. Yates of Norfolk. Va.
a 1910 judgment, the amount Of
his hospital expenses for l3 weeks.
Yates was the mate on the tug
Neptune, when he suffered a frac-
tured ankle after being caught in
a cable. The accident occurred on
the Cape Fear River about 10 miles
from Wilmington, n. c. Defend
ants in the case were Rodney H.
and Ruby NJ. Damn. both of New
ark. trading as the r. H. Damn
Lighterage and Towing Company.
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Dr. Harold Feeny, associate pro-
fessOr of physics at the Univer-
sity of Delaware, who is chief re-
searcher there on a project believed
to have pOtentialities for aid in
cancer control, represented the un-
iversity over the weekend at the
first annual National Cancer Con-
ference. Held at Memphis. Tenn.
the conference brought together
about 400 scientific workers repre-
senting 13 general fields of re-
search. 1t was sponsored jointly by
the American Cancer Society and
the U. S. Public Health Service. DR..
Feeny was invited to participate in
the deliberation of the panel on
administration of grants-in-aid.
The panel met Friday and Satur-
day and reported its conclusions at
a general assembly of the confer
ence.