Milford chronicle., 1950-07-28
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

GRANGE PICNIC - The Della
ware State Grange picnic will be
held at Rehoboth Beach on We'd
nesday, August 2, in Pineoak Trail
er Camp. Picnic lunch at noon.
Games, music, entertainment and
bathing until picnicv supper from
until 6 o'clock,
V. F. W. POST ROBBED - State
and Milford police are investigat-
ing the breaking and entering of
the new Veterans of Foreign Wars
post home near Milford, from which
5000 has been reported stolen from
the cash registers and lockers.
/ The robbery was discovered
shortly after 5 o'clock last Friday
afternoon by the caretaker, Glenn
the Nevins, who reported it to the
Milford police. The post is usn-
ally closed during the daytime and
open in the evenings.
Entrance was gained by forcing
a door, police said. 1t is also be-
lieved that the thief managed to
obtain keys to the lockers.
The break-in follows one on
Thursday night at service station
on North Walnut Stree and the Re-
hoboth Cutoff, when $S5 was stO-
len from the cash register. The
burglar dipped his hands in oil in
order to obscure fingerprints.
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BOND SALES-Purchases of Ser
les e bonds tOtaling $1,67O,OOO gave
Delaware an excess of its quota in
|, the Independence Savings Bond
drive, May 15-July 4, of ~ per
: cent, it was learned this week from
Alex D. Cobb, state director of the
bonds savings division, U. s. Treas
> ury Department The state exceed
/ it's quota of S1,56O,OOO by S12O,461
AS state director, Mr.. Cobb ex-
pressed his thanks to those who
r bold and sold bonds. He also ex-
3 pressed his appreciation to bankers
4 and pOstmasters for their prompt
reporting of bond sales.
The county figures for the sales
| of the bonds in Delaware in the
. period of the independence Drive
= were: Kent, quota, $13OOOO; sales,
$14S,767, or HOS per cent.
Sussex, quota, $19O,OOO; sales,
3 $175,219, or 1922 per cent.
New Castle, quota. $1,2SO.OOO;
sales, $1,351,47 or 1898 per cent.
S BLADES SCHOOL - Construction
= of the fiVe-roOm Blades School will
Z be started in time to allow the
Il school to be operated for the Sept
y ember, 1851, term, according to the
y Blades School Building COmmiss-
- ion. The contract has been award
~ ed to Frank Dolby and Son, Dover
r contractors, at approximately $40
l. 900.
Final papers are now in the
hands of the architects, Pope anC
NJ Kruse, of Wilmington.
cd One of the chief highhghts a
i'll Camp Barnes, sponsored by tn
,th Delaware Association, Chiefs c
,ba Police, will be observed this com
ed ing Sunday when the third annuS
as Governors Day will be held. Go
ish Elbert N. CarVel will be the guel
me of honor and will address the groU
3ed of $50 boys who are now enjoyin
ub two weeks of camp life.
ny The program being arranged wi
ire start at o'clock and state and lO
OIL cal officials have been invited to al
RS. tend. Officials of the association
no also extend an invitation to tn
public to the affair.
'er AYERTS FLAMING DEATHS
.eu mes F. Joynes, %, of Delmar, wa
M M trapped inside his truck Will
lIn flames were squirting from the en-
-. gine when Trooper Burkhardt 0
ny the Maryland State Police jumps
a. an from his patrol car to aid the drive
"a "a as flames began to enVelop him.
alS m The accident occurred just ives
VA of Delmar on the PitsVille Road
'h- The officer arrived about a minut
eTS after the accident happened an
his call for more help was answer
De ed almost Immediately by two othe
IH state officers.
'he One of the officers threw dirt o.
YER the burning motor while the othe
helped to extricate Joynes, rOut
salesman for a baking company
uIl- m His leg, broken in two places, wa
vel wrapped around the steering whee
= !" Flames were getting closer, and b
roc was in great pain.
-, Ia The officers pried the steerin
'Ilir Az wheel loose from the dashbOar
Co with a jack handle, lifted Joyne
asic into the patrol car and rushed hil
to the Peninsula General HOspita
,var Joynes said the truck ran off th
ince pavement and onto soft shOulde
Ed and when he turned the wheel b
ager could not get it back on the paw,
J in ment. He was returning fro
Ocean City and the unsOld brea
the was scattered all over the highwa
the -
HOLDUP TRIO-A hitch-hlkiI
man and girl and a "benefactOT
= A who gave them a lift, and then q
hich legedly sought to induce the mi
Unity to hold up truck drivers for none
mes are prisoners in the Kent Coun
an Jail in Dover.
s G. The hitch-hikers, who said tn
the were making their way to FlOrid
Sub are Ulela Esther Salvo, 20, and A
SER thOny Guerrero, 26, both of Sci
/ Of nectady, N. Y. The driver is Sc
mour Shapiro, 20, Newark, N. ].
num- The SalvO girl and Guerre
sub were each sentenced by Magistr'
cul- George r. Stevenson, Smyrna,
nsion 10 days Imprisonment each
.pany charges if vagrancy. Shapiro '
Of = sentenced by the magistrate
state 25 days imprisonment in default
a fine of $25 and costs on a chal