Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1952-06-13

back in use on dOWn-state high
ways this week with police making
four arrests for excessive speeding
and handing out approximately rs
reprimands.
State trooper said the equip
ment is being used on Route IA near
RehobOth, and just south of Milford.
1t is in use only couple hours be- !
fore dark, they said.
All of the speeders arrested, ac-
cording to police, were driving fast
er than 60 miles per hour. The rep
rimands were given those motorists
who only slightly exceeded the
speed limit.
The drivers arrested were taken
before Magistrates Collins of Mil
ton and Cooper at Georgetown All
were fined $40 and costs
YOTE-The Dover Junior Cham
Der of Commerce is putting extra
efforts into it's Get Out the Vote"
campaign by investigating to learn
if every eligible person in Dover
area is registered to cast a ballot.
Ernest Danneman, chairman of
the JayCee's committee in charge
of this work, said the group in CO.
operation with the Dover school
authorities, will conduct a house
toulouse canvass throughout the
area on June 14th between n. m.
and shutdown.
High school students will visit
each home to learn if its residents
are registered and make a list of
persons not on the voters list.
! For those not registered, a slip
containing information on the reg
istratiOn place and dates will be
left.
FUND GRANT-Dr. John A. Per-
kins, president of the University of
Delaware, has announced a grant
of funds tOtaling $94,O00.O0 to inn
plement the University's inter-de-
4 partmental American Studies Pro-
gram.
The Rockefeller Foundation has
made $75,OOO.OO available for this
program to be expended over a
three year period. $15,0O0.00 has
been contributed by another fOun-
datiOn and 100000 has been given
by an individual benefactOr from
outside the state of Delaware.
The expanded program in Ameri-
can Studies will embrace the re-
Gently established courses of study
in the cooperative program between
the University and the Henry
Francis DUPONT Winterthur Museum
rs well as new graduate and under
graduate programs in American
Studies.
KILLED BY CAR-An unidenti-
fled man was fatally injured near
his parked automobile on the State
Welfare Home Road a short dis
; lance west of Route ID, south OF
. Smyrna last Sunday night.
r In nearby Pennsylvania, a Z
. year-old boy was killed by a Goa
? truck in front of his home il
r Marcus FoOk late Sunday after
5 noon.
, State police making a prelimi-
+ nary investigation of the accident
near Smyrna said the man had
stopped his car on the roadway
/ and had gotten out when he was
= struck by another car.
The man was taken to the Kent
General Hospital in the Smyrna
ambulance and pronounced dead on
arrival.
Police said he was between S5
; and 40 years of age.
The driver of the other automo-
bile has been taken into custody by
police but his name was not imme-
diately learned.
JAILED-In Superior Court at
Georgetown, Ellis ,Fassett OF
Bridgeville was sentenced to pay a
fine of 5000 and serve four years in
Sussex County prison by Judge
Charles L. Terry, Jr. Fassett was
indicted by the grand jury in Oc-
tOber of 1851 on a charge of as
, sault with intent to rape a Bridge
! vile girl. The case was continued
. and he went on trial April %, a
jury returning verdict of guilty
= Paul Metzler Taylor, charged
= with breaking an dentering with in.
y tent to commit larceny in the liqu.
. or store of Ross Collins in Sea
ford, was sentenced by Judge Jane:
B. Carey to pay prosecution cost!
and serve three months in SUSSEX
/, prison. He pleaded guilty to tn,
charge on March %, and an appli
cation for parole was referred fol
! investigation. The parole was de
o MED by Judge Carey. On two SINH
3 lar indictments he received tn
? same sentences to run concurrent
> ly.
@ Charles Smith, DagsborO Hun
l. dred, was sentenced by Judge Ter
: ry to two months and costs. Smitl
II was found guilty in a jury trial Of
v. charge of assault and battery o.
1t Ernest Kitchens at DagsbOrO.
CITIZENSHIP Five women weT
admitted to citizenship and anothe
was repatriateG at naturalizatio
, exercises before Judge Charles ]
u Terry, Jr., in Superior Court Las
Friday with the judge stressing I
them the advantages citizenshi
g brings and the responsibilities
imposes.
er The new citizens are: Mrs. Ann
Hildegard Lilianne Elliott, formerl
ar of Dover and now of 1900 WEI
$. Street, Wilmington. native of Gel
e. many; Mrs. Nadeia Marvel, Lift
I'd Creek, native of Russia; Mrs. u
sula Marianne Thomas, Viola