Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24
Local Vets Are Planning
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of the Delaware Ladies' Depart
ment and presently department sec
rotary, and Mrs. Mary c. Hugg,
home fund chairman of the de-
paTtment and president of the Mil
ford COotiettes Club. Two other
members of the Blue Hen Auxili-
airy, Mrs. Hilda Cannon and Mrs.
Anne Duphily, will attend Cooti-
cites functions as representatives
of the local CoOtiettes unit, and
still another member of the local
auxiliary and COOtietoes Club, Mrs.
Jane MulhOlland, will be in at
tendance at several of the affairs
arranged for auxiliary and COoti-
cites members.
The first ones of the local group
to arrive in New York will likely
be Tom Schlegel and Bob Martin,
who plan to leave Milford on Fri
day afternoon. Other members of
the New YOrk-bOund group will
leave Milford on Saturday and
Sunday. Headquarters for the Mil
ford group will be the Paramount
Hotel. Business sessions of the
Y. F. w. encampment will be held
in the Hotel Aston and those of
the Ladies Auxiliary will be held
in the Hotel Commodore; Coolies
and CoOtiettes will use the Hotel
McAlpin for their functions.
The joint memorial services,
marking the official opening of the
encampments, will be held in the
list Regiment Armory, Sunday
evening; this spacious drill hall
will also be the site of a joint v.
F. w. Ladies' Auxiliary session
Monday morning and a beauty pag-
cant Monday evening. DelaWar-
cans, in general. and Sussex COun-
tians, in particular, will have a
/ real roofing interest in the beauty
| pageant Miss Barbara RaWlins,
talented young brunette from near
by SeafOrd, being Delaware's en-
! try in the contests leading to the
browning Of Miss V. F. w. of
1851" Miss Rawlins is we'll known
| through this area as a result of
her competing in a STARS in the
Making" contest, held here two
years ago, and in the Miss Della
ware" contest, held recently at
Dover. Miss Rawlins finished run
ner-up to Miss Suzanne PARROT in
the 1851 Miss Delaware" contest
her talent speciality is tap dane
ing.
During the ladies' encampment
the results of the V. F. w. Auxil-
iary's nationwide AmeriCanism
essay contest will be announced
Miss Mary X. Kepler, of Milford
whose essay, Freedoms Open
Door," was adjudged best in Local
and state contests, is among those
whose essay entries are receiving
consideration in the final judging
for the national awards.
In addition to the memorial ser.
vices, joint opening session, anC
beauty pageant, the encampments
will be highlighted by numerous
events and functions, including sew
eral banquets and luncheOns, a s.
hour parade on Tuesday, a Coolies
tOrchlight parade Monday evening
a million dollar Pageant OF
Drums" on Wednesday evening
and election and installation O
national officers on Friday.
Among the national figures def
nitely scheduled to address en-
campment sessions or banQue
gatherings are: Hon. Thomas E
Dewey, Governor of New York
Hon. Vincent Impelliterri, Mayo
of City of New York; Hon. Warner
r. Austin, U. S. Representative Il
the United Nations; Eric Johnston
U. S. Sterilization Administrator
Hon. Daniel Kimball, Secretary o
. the Navy; Hon. Maurice Tobir
Secretary of Labor; Carl r. Gray
Jr., Veterans Administrator, an,
, Robert Ramspeck, U. S. Civil Ser
: vice Commissioner. Others VIII,
have been invited to attend ant
address the encampment gather
, ings include President Harry S
Truman, General Douglas A. Mac
Arthur, Secretary of Defense Gen
eral George C. Marshall, Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen
eral Omar N. Bradley, Secretary o
Commerce Charles Sawyer, Sena
tor Paul Douglas of Illinois, Sen
ator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, ant
Selective Service Director MajO