Milford chronicle., 1951-02-16

AIQ Will meet at the Greenwood /
Fire Hall on Friday, February 16.
at p. m. There will be an cleo
ton of officers. All members are
urged to attend.
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DANCE-The Kent County Stu
dent Council Association is spon-
soring a Queen of Hearts dance to
be held at the Dover Social Hall
on Saturday, February II. A Queen
of Hearts chosen from each school /
will be present. The dance is to .
be informal and will be from 8-11. /
The admission is $100 a couple and I
75c stag. Music will be furnished /
by the Dover and Smyrna dance
bands. All students are invited.
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FLIERS - Flight A, Squadron
9498, will hold it's semi-monthly
meeting, February IS, at 1880 p.
m, in the American Legion Home,
Dover, Sergeant Casanova Seitz
of the Delaware State Police Force
will give a talk on Civilian Defense.
His remarks will be prefaced by
a motion picture entitled "Tale of
Two Cities" which shows the A
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nag
asaki. All Air Reservists interested
in attending are cordially invited
RESIDENCE DAMAGED - Th e
( residence of Mrs. Laura FOskey on
the Blades Causeway was badly
damaged by fire last Saturday. The
blaze which started around the
chimney, practically destroyed the
! rear of the one and One-half story
dwelling, and damaged a large por-
/ ton of the remainder of the home.
A quantity of the FOskey furniture
and personal effects was also bad
ly damaged by the blaze.
/ Blades fremen kept the fire con-
fined to the one building.
SPRING DIGGINGS - DR.. David
Marine, 18 Baltimore avenue. Re
hobOth Beach, was host to the Feb
ruary meeting of the Sussex Arch
geological Association last night,
when plans for spring diggings on
the new Indian Village site on the
Russell Farm near LeWes, were dis
cussed DR.. Marine is the newly
elected projects committee chair
man for 1851.
Henry Hutchinson of Bethel, the
new president, presided. Also at
/ tending were the Sussex "diggers,"
4 new cOnsultant geOlogist, DR.. Ches-
/ leigh Bonine, a former geolOgist
and dean of Penn State College,
now making his home at RehobOth
Beach.
FIRE HONORS - The Robbins
Hose Company of Dover has for
the third consecutive year received
the first place award among vOlun-
teeF fire companies of Delaware for
the effectiveness of its observance
of the annual Fire Prevention
Week last fall.
A certificate designating the Do
yer fremen as the Number One Fire
/ Prevention Week group in the state
has been received from the Nation
al Fire Protective Association,
Chief Ralph H. Boyer announces.
The committee of the Robbins
Hose Company which formulated
the program for the observance
comprised Chief Boyer, chairman;
First Assistant Chief F. Samuel
Heite, Second Assistant Chief Will
liam A. Hayes, former Chief Thos.
E. Baker, Jack T. Roe, Norris B.
4 Garrison, Jr., and former Chief
Benjamin F. Simmons, III.
! RENT GOUGING - Dover City
Council Monday evening of this
week adopted a resolution calling
upon landlords of Dover and sur
rounding areas not to take advan-
tage of OVercrOwded housing con-
ditiOns which might arise from the
reactivatiOn of the Dover Air Force
Base. The resolution strongly
urged landlords to maintain house,
apartment, and room rentals at the
lowest possible level consistent
with present day prices"
1t was pointed out large numbers
of men and their families will be
stationed in Dover during the pres
ent emergency.
Citing that the expected housing
demand may lead to a general rise
in rentals, the resolution said ''it is
essential to keep rentals at fair
levels, not only in fairness to the
men themselves but to avoid an
early re-impOsition of rent control
in Kent County"
STORK RACE LOST-Mrs. Helen
! Massey of Seaford lost race with
the stork last Sunday and as a
result her baby was born in her
husbands car in front of doc
tors house in Georgetown instead
of in the Beebe Hospital, at LewAs.
The husband, Charles Massey, was
driving his wife to the hospital but
the long-legged bird caught up
with them at 1880 p. m. as they
were passing through Georgetown.
Mr.. Massey hurriedly drove to
the residence of DR.. Daniel f. Paul,
who fortunately was at home. How
ever, it was too late to move Mrs.
Massey and the physician deliver
ed a girl in the automobile. The
infant was wrapped in blankets
and the Masseys continued their
tourney to the hospital where mo-
ther and daughter are reported do
ing fine"
Dr. Paul opened his Office in
Georgetown only the past week.
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MILK - Dairy farmers in the
Nassau area received $685., ,457 in
1850 for milk shipped to SuppIee-
/ Wills-Jones Milk Company. Phila-
delphia.
Total payments to S5 farmers for
! 1850 were disclosed BY the com