Milford chronicle., 1951-11-09
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

- --~~@AC AOAs AscENldL ARMY
Units, was announced at Fort
Miles, Lewes, this week by Lieuten-
ant Colonel Walter L. Abrams.
post commander.
There will be firing on the Anti
aircraft Range at Bethany Beach
known as Range No. 2 and 2-A
during the months of November
and December. There will not he
any firing on Anti-aircraft Range
at Dewey Beach, known as Ranea
NO. l. during November and De-
cember.
The time for firing is between
a. m. and $3.50 D. m.
There will be no firing on Satur-
cay, Sunday or holidays of each
week.
OlL FlkE = Damage of about
5000 was done to a tank truck of
the Harman Oil Company bv a
blaze which occurred last week
while the truck was being filed at
the company's storage plant at Di-
vision and West streets in Dover
Dover Fire Chief Ralph n. Bower
said the blaze apparently was start
eu 0y leaking carburetor on a
portable pump used to load the
truck.
The fire was the second at the
plant this year. After the first one.
residents of the area petitioned
City Council to require the conn
pany to eliminate asserted fire
hazards and council demanded
that all bulk storage plants in the
city comply with Dover safety reg
ulatiOns.
$4,000 FIRE - A blaze that
broke out in the roof Of the Robert
Lee Restaurant at Rehoboth around
5 a. m. last Thursday caused an es-
timated damage Of $4,000 to the
roof, stock, and equipment OF the
establishment operated by a for
mer RehObOth chief Of police. ia
cob Moore. Fire Chief Donald PAL
mer thought the fire started from
a defective transformer on the
neOn-lighted storefront.
The RehobOth Fire Comnanv
fought the blaze in the all-night
restaurant for nearly two hours,
and succeeded in protecting two
Ranking establishments, the Royce
Restaurant and Rogers Barber
Shop. The Robert Lee is located
at 20 RehObOth avenue, in the first
ocean block, most congested busi-
ness area of the resort town.
SCRAP DRIVE - Ernest s. Mat
tiford, state chairman of the farm
scrap drive, said Monday that far
mers are being asked to round up
iron and steel scrap during the
first half of this month.
The campaign is pointed toward
such heavy items as broken and
worn-out machinery, plOws, har-
rows, old hOrse-drawn equipment,
broken tools, anvils, and sweeps.
Plans include the sending of let
ters to farmers, emphasizing the
urgent need of scrap for defense
production. The letters will include
names of dealers, and, where pos
slDIe, current prices. Delivery
points also are to be made known.
In localities where there are no
dealers, collection points are to
be designated later.
Chairmen of county committees
include:
New Castle, Jay Price, Towns
end. Kent, r. Harry Wilson. near
Dover, and Sussex, Frank L. Vfb-
bert, near Milford.
4.H ACHIEVEMENTS-The 1871
achievement winners among bows
and girls of All Clubs of Kent
County have been announced bv
Miss Margaret Webb, Kent County
All Club agent. They are:
Canning, Dorothy Robb Downs of
the KentOn Klubbers; clothing.
Cynthia Metz of the Wyoming Wild
cats; dairy, Marvin Davis OF Mil
ford wildwood; farm and home
Byron Williams of the Wv
oming Wildcats; field crops. Earl
Rambo of the Houston Cardinal
Club; food preparation and frozen
foods, Beverly Short of the Willing
Workers.
Garden, John Clark of the Clay
ton Clodhoppers; girls record,
Sealenia Bell of the FELTON, Para
disc Club; home grounds beautia-
cation, William Chambers OF Can
terbury Sunnysmile; home i'm
provement, June Colder Of the
Willing Workers; leadership, Gene
Short of the Smyrna Bucking Bron-
cos; meat animal, Bruce Maloney.
of Milford MillwoOd; poultry: Ken
meth Richter of Canterbury Sunnya
side.
Recreation and rural arts. Oak
Grove Blue Hens, Westville, and
AndrewsVille.
FALSE CHARGES - The first
arrest to be made in the Dover
area under the new law regarding
false complaints was made by state
police in Dover last week when
c. Summers of near Dover
was charged with making two such
complaints.
Summers went before Magistrate
Maurice w. Carrow at Camden.
using the name of Thomas Brown.
and claimed that his wife, Dorothy
NJ. Summers, who resides with him,
and Peter Harris of FELTON, had
stolen $50 from him at a party re-
Gently. The magistrate warned him
concerning the law on making false
After Summers had the war
rants igsund for 4ha f1.,o ,,-.....