Milford chronicle., 1951-03-09
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

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NUMBERS Granville Cooper, 31.l
of 300 block South New Street, and
Mrs. Alma A. Jones, 80, West Dover
Heights, Dover, listed as state
buildings janitOrs in Dover, face
charges of numbers writing in /
Court Of Common Pleas.
State police detectives arrested
the two in an automobile on Sauls-
bury Road, about two miles from
Dover, last week, and according to
the police report, numbers slips
were found on them.
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CONSTABLES-The Sussex Levy
Court, in session Tuesday, named
CcEstables for several districts in
the county as follows: John Orkin,
I Bridgeville; Raymond c. Tice,
/ Blades; Anthony RacaniellO, of
Georgetown; Thomas w. DOnoway,
MillsborO; Mason J. Gilliland, Re-
hOboth; Albert c. Warren, Selby-
Vile; William F. Belts, Milton and
Carl Upton, Delmar. Constables
for the remaining districts will be
named in the near future.
Norman H. Jester, recently ap-
/ pointed to the Board of Assessment
for Sussex was sworn in by Oscar
H. Campbell, president of the Levy
Court The Levy Court also con-
firmed the appointment of Mrs.
Margaret DickersOn as clerk in the
office of Orphans Court and Regis
ter in Chancery.
GUEST MEALS "A sophomore
home economies class Of Caesar
Rodney High School has completed
project of preparing individual
dinners, each girl planning her
menu and working schedule, doing
her own marketing, and preparing
dinner for three guests. The din
ners were served guests in the
! early evening and advance prepara-
ton was done only during their
scheduled home economics class
and after school.
The girls who took part in the
project were: Shirley knight, Ma
/ bel Kemp, Mabel DOnze, Doris
Wise, Doris Walton, Ellen Webb,
June Lindale, ROxie Brown, Marie
Donovan, Anna RObb, and Angilee
Donophan.
Misc Wipuivio IN H,.,rr0r
iOr in the School of Home Eco
Monies, University of Delaware, is
doing her six-weeks student teach
ing at Caesar Rodney and partici-
pating in all school activities. Mrs.
Nellie M. Barkley is her faculty
sponsor.
FUN AT NANTICOKE-An even
/ ing of fun at Nanticoke Community
House, near COkesbury Church, on
Friday, March 8, at 8 o'clock for
benefit of the w. S. c. S. of Cokes-
bury Methodist Church.
The Moon Bean ColOred Minis
trel' will be given by the men and
women of COkesbury vicinity. In
the cast is interlocutOr, Arthur
Tyndall; Bill Truitt, Granville
Lambden, Henry Short, Alfred Mes
sick, Frank Fowler, Roland Remen-
ter, Sam Wilson, Norris Givens,
Fred Rawlins, Mabel Lambden,
Clara Hastings and Alton Isaacs.
Also following the minstrel will be
Southern COlored Play" by the
ladies of the community who in
clude Mrs. Ida Carmean, Nora Isa-
acs, Doris and Betty Carmean, Ber-
tina Elliott, Gertrude Swain, Lulu
Blake, Hattie Fleetwood, Mary Will
son, Alice Rawlins, Carilee Short
and Mrs. Ira CTum. Refreshments
| free and admission is waist meas
I urements. There will also be on
sale home made cakes. Everyone
invited out to attend an evening of
fun.
DEFENSE LAGS - Dover's civil
defense program is tagging badly
at present due largely to the fact
that only a few persons have vol
unteered for service in the many
activities connected with the work,
it was announced by former Mayor
J. Wallace WOodford, civil defense
coOrdinator for that city, recently.
Mr. WOodford has issued a number
of calls for volunteers during the
past several weeks.
Fire Chief Ralph H. Boyer has
/ reported to Mr. WOodford that the
list of auxiliary flremen is ex-
tremely small and that it is inn
perative that more persons vOlun-
teer for this service if the proper
work in an emergency is to be ac-
cOmplished.
Mr.. WOodfOrd announced that
Charles W. Hardesty and BENJAMIN
F. COurtright have been appointed
to organize the corps of air raid
wardens for the Dover area. These
men served in the same capacity
here during World War II.
Registration of volunteers for
the air raid warden corps is under
way at the office Of Mr.. Hardesty
in the Bayard building and it is
expected that number Of persons
who served in a similar capacity
during the recent war, will again
volunteer for this work.
SPEECH MEETING-The March
meeting of the Delaware Speech
and Hearing Association will con
vene in room 20S of the Wilmington
Y. M. c. A. Building, 11th and
Washington streets, Wilmington,
on Saturday afternoon, March 10,
at 300 o'clock. The speaker Yill
be Doctor Miriam ID. Panls. assist