Milford chronicle., 1952-05-16
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

MOSQUITO-The MOSQUITO Con-
rol Division Of the State HIGHWAY
department. is planning for possibly
I've spraying applications by air
'Ver the marshland during the
coming summer season.
This was indicated when the Ne
'artment issued specifications pro-
riding for approximately ninety
leres Of spraying during the coming
season.
This spraying takes place over
about $4,000 acres of marshland.
To provide for this spraying the
specifications also called for 40
300 gSlons Of No. 2 Fuel Oil.
NATIONAL GUARD-The Della
ware National Guard will be alert
ed early Saturday morning to par-
in statewide guard prob
lem. The guardsmen wbl conclude
a program which started April %.
at which time enemy" forces land
ed in the United States and have
fought their way to Delaware in an
attempt to reach Washington.
During the morning, high-ranking
officers will accompany Gov. Elbert
N. CarVel on a tour of the guard
defenses. He will be the guest Of
honor at the military ball to be
held that night at the state armory
in Wilmington.
1t Col. Warren E. Perry, plans
and operations officer of the 261st
AAA Brigade. said units scheduled
to tire at the New Castle County
rife range would continue with
that part of their training. They are
members Of the state detachment.
band, and the 262nd Ordnance Conn
pany Next weekend, members of
the brigade and the 19Sth AAA
Group will fire.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cleo
tritication will be discussed at a
conference Of vocational agricul-
ture teachers during the week of
June 18th, according to a planning
committee report released TODAY bv
Mr.. W. Lyle Mowlds, State Super-
visor Of Agricultural Education.
The conference, to be held in Har-
ringtOn on June 1920, is a Joint
project of the Delaware Electric
Cooperative, the Delaware Power
and Light Company, and the State
Department of Public instruction.
Mr.. Mowlds stated. Vocational agri-
culture instructors will receive a
total Of five days of training on
the following subjects:
Planning the Farmstead Lighting
System; Planning the Farmstead
Wiring System; Electric Motors and
Controls; and Planning Farmstead
Water Systems.
By means Of this in-service train
ing program, vocational agriculture
instructors will have a better un-
derstanding of electricity and can
be of greater service to present and
prospective farmers in the solving
OF elect-iIication problems, Mr..
Mowlds stated. The joint planning
committee include: ]. r. Carroll,
Agricu tural Engineer of the Della
ware Electric Cooperative, Chair
man; w. Lyle Mowlds, Supervisor
of Agricultural Education for the
public schools of Delaware: Fran
els L. Mckee and A. B. Parsons.
Delaware Power and Light Com
pany, Harrington.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. firms in the
Kent and Sussex areas 'rending a
service for which a charge is made
are warned by the Office of Price
Sterilization TO comply with the
filing and posting requirements of
Ceiling Price Regu' alton "a. Affect
ed by the regulation are laundfies,
dry cleaning establishments, many
kinds of repair services-ranging
from electrical appliances and auto
mobiles to shoes, and charges made
by storage warehouses, parking lots,
banks, and many other businesses.
According to Willard d. Boyce,
OPS Director for Delaware, the
dead inc for complying with the
posting and filing requirements Of
the regulation is long past. Under
such circumstances, Mr.. Boyce said
he felt that OPS was justified to
refer names of those falling to
comply to the enforcement branch
of the price stabiliZatiOn agency.
The regulation requires that
charges made by service firms be
no higher than those during the
period from December 18th, 1850,
to January 26th. 1851, and that
those prices be posted in the place
of business and filed with the or
ice Of Price Sterilization.
To help businessmen with this
and other OPS problems, represen-
tatives from the price stabi izatiOn
Office will be at the Council Cham
bers, Municipal Building in Milford
on May goth from to p. M, and
in the Burton Buick Building in
Georgetown on May 22nd from 2
to p. m.
REGISTRATION-With one half
of the registration days already
passed only III registrations have
been listed in the Department of
Elections for Sussex County.
Slightly over 1000 names we're
stricken from the register for fail-
ure to vote in the last FIVE years.
Registrations on the first three
registration dates totaled only As.