Milford chronicle., 1950-01-20
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

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Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Wright.
armers Of near Laurel, have been
deserving their 6Oth wedding an
Iiversary.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Wright are SO
ears old and in health. Mr.. Wright
lctively operates large farm on
which he has lived most of his life.
they have five children, Mrs. Larry
Jones of Seaford, Mrs H. A. Miller
IF Dover, Glenn and Oliver Wright
Dt Laurel, and Paul Z. Wright of
turkey, N. G. They also have IL
grandchildren and five great grand
children.
An illustrated talk on his trim
last summer to the Youth Confer
ence IN Switzerland, France, Ger
many, and Italy in relation to youth
activities in those countries was
given by the Rev. Howell o. Wiki
ms, Camden, at last weeks meet
ing Of the Dover Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club Of the Y.
w. C. A.
Miss Mary ScOtton, president.
presided at a business meeting at
which a review of the clubs COM
munity service Christmas activities
was given and $25 was donated to
the Y. M. G. A. campaign.
The Misses Mildred and Helen
Jones were hostesses at the social
hour.
The annual meeting Of Delaware
Chapter, National Association of
+ POstmasters, will be held i'm the
Hotel Richardson in Dover next
/ Thursday, according to announce
ments sent to members by Post
master Harry K. Heite, Dover, sec
retary-treasurer of the association.
The business meeting will begin
at 2:30 p. m. Reports will be sub
mitted. new officers elected, and
other business transacted. Plans for
the next year will also be made.
! Speakers at the dinner, which
will begin at $3.50 p. m. will be
Burris c. Jackson, the national
president; Charles E. Puskar, ma
tiOnal executive committeeman, and
Third Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al Joseph J. Lawler. Senators John
j. Williams and ]. Allen Frear, Jr.,
and Representatives J. Caleb
BOggs have also been invited.
The Kent County board of cleo
tions has notified 597 voting regis
. trants listed in the first four rep
resentative districts of the county
that their names are being stricken
from the registration books for
failure to vote in the last five years.
Registered letters sent to them by
: Dawson G. Minner, secretary of the
: department, in accordance with ac-
( ton taken by the department, ex-
planned that all may re-register al
. any registration day if qualified to
! vote.
A large percentage of those whose
names are being removed are be-
lieved to have moved from their old
: districts and to be already register.
= ed anew in their new districts, OF
7 AA0ND LCAA tic 0ldlGs
: The board will act later on per.
sons of the other representative
: districts who, according to the rec
: Ords, have not voted in the pas
- tive years in those districts.
The MillsbOrO Fire Company
u meeting in the fire halA last week
81 elected officers for the ensuing
=. year, as follows:
u Roy. e. Jones, president: Edward
y S. Cordrey, first vice president: ]
, Emory Ellis, second vice president
St E. E. Carey, Jry secretary; Ralpl
l. Birmingham, assistant secretary
William T. Moore, treasurer; viii
liam F. Bachelor, fire chief; Jos
is eph c. Lingo, first assistant chief
/ Ralph McCabe, second assistan
" chief; Winifred Birmingham, chic
X engineer, with Walter E. Short, Al
bert G. Thoroughbred, John Cord,
Id Ralph McCabe and Russell Lyncl
a as assistants; Charles Davis, fir
lg investigator; Daniel Smithwicl
IL assistant fire investigator; Presto
Outten, fire recorder; Preston Go,
frey, assistant fire recorder: Ha
ley Mitchell Godfrey, house con
ST mittee; Thomas ShOckley, first a
Is, man.
he The company reported 81 fire
~ during 1949
re Almost $4,000 Delaware veteran
or of World War II have receiv,
bv bonus payments totaling about 81
iii 100000, it was disclosed this we,
en- by Paul POdOlsky, chairman Of Il
.er Delaware Veterans Military Pa
Commission.
Since Christmas, the. commission
staff in the former War Assets A
81 ministratiOn building at ORA
We Shipyard, Wilmington, has pr
IN cessed about 5000 applications. II
on staff is currently engaged in Il
rt- necessarily slower handling
as some 5000 irregular application
50, which came in along with the re
'lu ulars and are still coming
a9' though in greatly reduced volun
lI- The irregular applications a
ZIP those in which some necessary i
ey formation is lacking or in whi
Is Qualification is required. These
ficiencies occasion correspondent
between the commission and [
IN applicants and sometimes spec
lilo visits by applicants to the comm
F. sion Office, Mr.. Podolsky explai
Ial ed.
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