Milford chronicle., 1952-11-07
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Artistic Industrial Arts Club
of the Delmar School of which
Richard Peterson is the president.
has decided to repair furniture to
raise funds for the club operations.
under the direction Of William Rev
nOlds, instructor. Those having
need of repair jobs should contact
Peterson or Mr.. Reynolds.
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ANTIQUE SHOW-The st. Luke's
Antique Show for the twelfth sue
cessive year offers you the oppor-
tunity to browse among all kinds
and varieties of antique treasures.
This annual event will be held at
the Parish House, November 18, 10
and 20, from 10000 am. to 10000 p.
m. each day except Thursday when
the show officially closes at 500
pm. The show is sponsored by the
Auxiliary Guild who also serve a
delicious lunch each day for your
convenience.
SCOUTING - Four members of
of the committee for Milford Cub
Pack No. 101 recently completed a
! course in scouting and have been
awarded certificates attesting to
satisfactory completion of basic
Cub Scouting courses. Those at
tending the course, given at State
Teachers College, Salisbury, includ-
ed Mrs. Mary L. Jackson, den moth
er of Den No. 3; Harold R. WeIch,
Jr., and William e. Kelly, assistant
cubmasteTs Of Pack No. 101, and
David Hugg, committee chairman.
Dale L. NolCn, Boy Scout execu-
tive for lower Delaware and a
Milford resident, made the arrange
ments for the school of instruction.
CONFERENCE.-The third annual
Parents Conference on Reading,
sponsored by the Reading Clinic of
the School of Education at the I'm
iversity of Delaware, will be held
Saturday, Nov. 8, on the Newark
campus.
Books for Children" has been
chosen as the theme for this years
conference, aimed at pointing up
methods of stimulating an interest
in reading in children from kinder
garten through high school.
Sectional meetings have been ar
ranged at which there will be no
speakers. Instead, panel of con-
sultants will be available to an
swer questions. The panel will con-
sist Of parents, teachers, school Ii
brarians and authors of children's
literature.
YULE PROGRAM - Civic clubs
and businesses of Harrington again
will conduct a Christmas program
This year, it was decided at a meet
ing at the Wonder Bar in Harring-
ton.
Samuel A. Short, Jr, president of
the Harrington Better Business As
sociatiOn, appointed the following
committees:
Lighting and decorations, Ray
mond Giles, Claude Cahall and
Clarence Collins; Santa Claus
house and Christmas tree, J. Ed
ward Taylor, Charles Peck, Jr., and
Benjamin Emory, Jr.; solicitors for
funds, Arnold Gilstad, Randall
Knox, Jr, Harry Boyer, Eugene
Anderson, Clarence Collins, Roland
Stayton, and Fulton J. Downing.
Other committees will be appoint
ed later. The next meeting will be
held Wednesday, November 12, at
p. m, at the Wonder Bar.
ACHIEVEMENT DAY-On We'd
Hesday, November 12, the Kent
County Home Demonstration Coun-
Gil will have its annual Achieve
ment Day from ten until three in
the Capitol Grange Hall, Dover.
Women of the twenty-four Home
/ Demonstration Clubs in Kent COun-
ty will be present for the program.
The two principal speakers will
be Chaplain (Major) Lyman T.
Barger of the Dover Air Force Base
and Mrs. Nell H. Griffin. Chaplain
Barger will show a film and talk
about the relationship between the
/ community and the Air Force Base.
Mrs. Griffin is an assistant profess
sor in the School of Home EconOm-
les at the University of Delaware,
and teaches a course in Family
Life.
Also included on the program
will be instrumental music by stu
dents from Caesar Rodney High
School, group singing lead by Miss
Margaret Black, and a report from
the National Home Demonstration
Council Meeting by Miss Blanche
Price Of Harrington. Reports on the
achievements of the Kent County
Clubs will be made by Mrs. Hey
man ROOsa, Milford; Mrs. William
Taylor, Harrington; Mrs. Joseph
Ennis, Smyrna; Mrs. William Ster-
ling, Dover and Mrs. Paul hartman,
Dover.
FIRE SCHOOL-Plans are be-
ing completed for a Kent County
fire school to be held at the fire
house in Harrington next Satur-
day and Sunday, Ralph H. Boyer,
Dover chief of the Robbins Hose
Company and chairman of the COM
mittee in charge of plans for the
school, announced this week.
Registration will start at 1870
p. m. Saturday. Among the in
structOrs will be Curtis Laramore
of the University of Maryland Fire
College, and Thomas E. Baker, a
former chief of the Robbins Hose
Company, will conduct a class in