Milford chronicle., 1952-02-08

clety of Christian Service of Union
Methodist Church will meet this
Friday evening. February 8, at the
home of Mr., and Mrs. Thomas Col
lett. There will be ice cream and
cake for sale. There will be Sun
day School on Sunday, February
10 at p. m. Preaching service by
Rev. O'Neil at 3 p. m.
. LACROSSE = Milt Roberts. head
coach of lacrosse at the University
OF Delaware, has been named sta
tistician for the intercollegiate La
crosse Association. The appoint
ment was made by c. Gardner NAL
lOnee of Johns Hopkins University.
president of the association. The
Delaware mentor has sent letters
to all lacrosse coaches in the coun-
try, requesting old records and also
asking them to keep a complete
file on future team and individual
! records.
OOUNI1 AGENT-COunty Agent
William E. Tarbell, Dover. has re-
sumed his duties after a long siege
of illness, "but working back into
the job by easy stages"
JOhn Crothers, assistant agent,
who headed the work of the Office
during Mr.. Tarbell's absence, will
continue to give full time to field
work and night meetings, with Mr..
Tarbell, for the time being, taking
care of the Office and paper work
while getting back into the full
swing of the job.
MODEL DISPLAY - It is hard
to think of combine as a TOW. il
is hard to think of a tractor or a
tractor trailer as toys, but at the
Farmers Bank of the State of Della
ware, models of farm equipment
are displayed.
You can see youngsters irving tn
take some tractor, a tractor trailer.
or a combine and put it on the
floor to play with it.
The same is true of the bank
of1lcers, some of them have been
playing with the model equipment
every day.
The display is provided by In
ternatiOnal Harvester COmnanv
John Deere Company and Edward
Hitlin of the Capital Sign Service.
CONTRACT AWARDED R A.
Haber, Chief Engineer of the State
Highway Department, announces
the awarding of the contract to the
Standard Bitulithic Company, New
ark, N, j., for the improvement of
the existing highway from George
town to Hardscrabble.
This project will complete the i'm
prOvement of the highway from
Laurel to Georgetown, the section
from Laurel to HaTdscrabble hav-
ing been widened and resurfaced
| two years ago
Starting at the Georgetown CITY
/ limits and extending west to U. s.
Route 113, the highway will be AZ
! feet In width and will extend from
curb to curb with new sidewalks
being placed along the route.
From U. S. Route 113 to Hard
scrabble the existing highway will
be widened to a width of % feet
and the entire roadway will be re-
surfaced with a hOt-mix asphalt
covering. The length of the entire
project is 6729 miles.
The Standard Bituiithic Company
was low bidder on the project, their
price being S391,97O
COU RSES-The Division of Uni
versity Extension of the University
OF Delaware is gratified by the re-
sponse of the citizens of Kent and |
Sussex Counties to extension course
offerings for the second semester
which gets underway this week.
Two courses of particular inter
est are being offered in lower Della
ware communities in this second
half of the school year. First, a
course in the Education of Ex-
ceptiOnal Children" at the George
town High School on Thursday
evenings at 1880 o'clock. RATHER
inc L. Hultsch, School PsychOlo-
gist of the Wilmington Board of |
Education will be the instructor
for this course.
And the second, a course in 'Hu-
man Growth and Development" is
being offered at the Lewes High
School on Monday nights. This
course carries three graduate cred
it's.
Announcement is made also that
the Wednesday night courses-orig-
fnally scheduled for the Dover
High SchOOl-have been transfer
red to Wesley Junior College.
HONORED FOLK - Twenty-four
outstanding dairy farmers in the
Harrington area were honOred by
the Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Com
pany of Philadelphia at meeting
held for the producers Wednesday
night at the Harrington High
School Auditorium in Harrington.
The event was the fourth annual
Award Program held
by the Philadelphia Company to
recognize and reward dairymen
with outstanding production rec
Ords in high quality milk and year
round level production.
Heading the list as top prize
were Howard r. Young,
juoO1n ond EIdVrrord w LToro,,,,. |
the two dairymen cited
as having achieved the greatest
success among district farmers.
Other daiTymen hOnored at the ,
meeting attended by SUPPLIES
l22 shippers and their families Z
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