Milford chronicle., 1952-03-07
Happenings of Interest
Throughout Delaware

Court at Georgetown last Thurs
day by Judge James B. Carey.
Bratten was indicted by the grand
jury tns February on a charge Of
second degree murder Of Clifton
Hearn, also Of near Dagsboro. last
October. Arraigned February Is.
ne pleaded mot guilty as charged
but guilty Of assault" and his plea
for parole was accepted.
Character witnesses appearing
IN his behalf testified to his repu-
tatiOn in the vicinity of Dagsborn
The father Of six children, Bratten
had no previous record.
The death of Hearn resulted from
peritonitis following a shot fired
Dy a small calibre rife.
SEAFORD ELECTION - Citizen
voters on Monday elected two new
members of Seaford Town Conn
Gil, and reelected Mayor Lannes
w. Marvel.
George H. Culver, member of a
Seaford fertilizer firm, and Walter
McNeilly, owner of a garage and
auto agency, were elected to Coun-
Gil, the former by 4SS votes, the
latter by 442. Each will serve a
three-year term. John S. Hassan.
candidate for reelection to Coun-
Gil. was defeated. He polled 100
votes.
Holdover members of Council
are Joseph Williams, William H.
Parsons and Norris Kitchens. The
Council will meet next week for or
ganization.
Mayor Marvel, unOpposed for re-
election, received STA votes.
COMA - Derewood Stallings. a
truck driver from Elizabeth CITY.
N. e., is patient in the Kent Gem
eral Hospital, Dover, after having
Deen taken unconscious from the
cab of his truck by Dover police
last Friday morning, apparently
suffering from the effects of mon
oxide gas.
Police said the man evidently had
pulled from the highway to rest
near the Holden and Mundy garage
on South Governor avenue. leaving
the motor running: When garage
employees, attracted to the truck
and its occupant, failed to arouse
him, one of them, George Dill, no.
titled the police.
The police had to break the win
dows of the cab to get the uncon-
scious man out and to the hospi-
tai.
The man was reported as show
ing slight improvement.
BLOSSOM PRINCESS = Eight
goods, five of them from Whining
ton, have been nominated to com
pete for the University of Della
wares title of Cherry Blossom
Princess. The campus-wide cleo
ton yesterday was held from noon
until p. m, and today, from a.
m. until p. m., in the basement
OF the Memorial Library.
The candidates are: Ann Marie
dumas, Westhaven; Janet Hands
Porter, Camden; Jean E. Thomas.
Wilmington; Alice Jane Matthews
OF Smyrna; Claire Alava, Belle
fonte; Trudy Gilgenast, Whining
ton; Margaret A. Smith, Bridge
vile, and Joan Z. Eiebert, Will
mington.
The girls were formally intro
duced to the student body at tho
weekly college hour program in
Mitchell Hall on Monday. Donald
B. KiddOO, editor of the Review
the university undergraduate news
paper, and William S. Hearn. pres
ident of the Student Government
Association, presented the nomi-
nees.
KENT Aha display featuring
All projects building tomorrow's
leaders will be one of the high
lights of the county celebration of
National All Club Week, March 1
TO 8, 1852. According to County All
Club Agent, Margaret Webb, the
display will be in the lobby of the
Farmers Bank, Dover.
A county window exhibit contest
is being sponsored by the clubs in
the county. Each club is to depict
The All story by showing what they
are doing in their own community
club.
Seventeen clubs are organized in
the county and announce their 1864
program: January-Keeping Your
Good Health; Februar!-Pianning
the Garden; March-HOw To Look
Neat in What You Have; April
Better Crop Yield; May-Arranging
the Room Attractively and Conven-
iently; June-Egg Quality; July
Packagirg and Freezing Foods;
August Picnic; September-Tha
Right Way To Use Farm Equip
ment; OctObeT-How To Have a
Successful Party; November-Con.
serving Our Farm Land; Decem-
ber-Christmas Party.
POULTRY LOCAL - Charles D.
Parker, of Millsboro, was reelected
president of the Millsboro Local, Of
the Delaware Poultry Improvement
Association, at their regular meet
ing last night.
Other officers elected were: Ken
dali Warrington, Millsboro, Vice
President and Ralph Smith, Secret
ry-Treasurer.
Mr.. Parker, in reporting on the
work of the association, stated that
the annual dinner meeting of the
State Organization would be held in
the Caesar Rodney School, on
Thursday, March 9th. He urged
those planning to attend this dinner
to get their tickets early in order to
assist the committee on arrange