Milford chronicle., 1951-02-02
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware


UNIVERSITY BUILDING - The i
ground was broken Wednesday at
the University of Delaware for the
first new building in 10 years-a
residence hall to house nearly 100
women students. It will rise i'm
mediately north of New Castle resi-
dence hall
The $5OO,0O0 structure. which
probably will not be ready for oc-
cupancy before February, 1862,
was made available through funds
from the bequest of the late II.
Fletcher Brown.
SCOUT HONOR COURT - Mou-l
day, February 5th, has been set As
the date for the next Boy Scoa /
Court of Honor for the Dover Dis
trict, according to information
from Ellis LeCrone, District Ads,
vancement Committee Chairman.
The Court at which badges will be !
presented for all ranks from End
Glass to Eagle will be held at the
Peoples Congregational Church in
Dover at 1880 p. m. Scouts and
Scout Leaders from Milford will
participate.
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HOSPITAL-In an effort to CO.
ordinate the Public Relations Pro-
gram of the Kent General Hospital
and to enlist the interests Of the
Clubs of Kent County. A meeting
has been called for dinner at the
Dinner Bell Inn in Dover, on Fri |
day evening, February 2, 1851 at
6:15.
Each Club of the County has
been invited to send Representa-
tives and to share in this underai
taking which means so much for
the protection of the health Of the !
County.
CONFIRMATION - The Rt. Rev.
DR.. Arthur R. McKinstry, bishop of
the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. (
will administer the rite of confir-
nation to two classes downstate,
Sunday, February 4th.
Bishop McKinstry will appear at
All Saints Episcopal Church, Del
mar, at $3.50 a. m. Following the
confirmation ceremony there, he
will go to St. Luke's Episcopal /
Church, Seaford, to confirm a class
at the IL a. m. service. He will
preach at both churches.
Bishop McKinstry is expected to
lunch with the rector and Mrs. /
Ferne, following the two services.
NURSES TO MEET-The Mem
Orial Hospital Nurses Association
will meet in Harrington at the
Wonder Bar on Monday, February
5, for it regular monthly meetingj
at p. m, for dinner. The speaker |
for the meeting will be Warren
Bunting, a rehabilitation counsel
lor. Recently elected officers of the
Association are: president, Miss
Frances McNatt; vice president,
Mrs. Retta Lank; secretary, Mrs.
Mary Steen; treasurer, Mrs. Irma
Sherman. State and Alumni dues
will be due in March. This is an
important meeting and good at
tendance will be appreciated by the
officers.
HEAVY MlLkER-The purebred
Ayrshire dairy herd of G. Wallace
Caulk, Woodside, Delaware, has
achieved top recognition during
a recent month for outstanding pro-
duction. The Caulk producers are
credited with averaging 927 lbs. of
4.O9o milk and 81 lbs. of butterfat
for the respective testing month.
which places them among the ma
tiOn's top Ayrshire herds in the
Ayrshire Herd Test Division of 25
to so COWS.
With $4,000 Ayrshire cows on
test, the Ayrshire breed holds the
record among all dairy breeds as
having the highest percentage of
its cows on test.
DOVER MYSTERY MAN - State
police of the Dover troop are inves-
tigating the background of an un-
communicative man taken into GUS
tody for vagrancy, suspicious of the
possibility that he may be wanted I
elsewhere.
The man, arrested while hitch
hiking along the highway north of
Smyrna, represented that he could /
not speak English and gave only the
information that he is a Russian. i
He declined to discuss himself with /
interpreters, police said, and then
it was learned he could speak Eng
lish well, but continued mum.
Police said the man wore work
clothes and stitched into the cloth
ing was the name, "Sam Mackars. . /
He is described as between 55 and /
so years of age, five feet six inches
tall, las pounds, gray hair, partly
bald, light complexion, medium /
build, and wears a Stalin-like mus
tache.
HOTEL FOR DOVER? Report
Of the Hockenbury System, Inc,
Harrisburg, Pa. which has made i
survey as to hotel needs in Dover.
sets forth that an equipped 6OJ 1
room inn-type hotel would cost
$4,000 and similar 4O-room
structure would cost $35O,O00.
NJ. .. Hockenbury, vice president
and general manager of the inVes-
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