Milford chronicle., 1953-02-06
LEWES


enty,three fire calls were respond
ed 20 during the year, with 46 being
in the town of Lewes proper and
q in the rural sections or in other
towns.
Fire loss in Lewes amounted to
$29,650O0 while in the rural sec
tion the loss totaled $43, 900.
Little Patricia Wyatt, Lewes
school third grader, is having the
time Of her life basking in the eyes.
Of her classmates. They all envy
her because Patricia doesn't have
to go to school each day but can
keep up her studies right at home.
The little eight-year-old girl is
confined to her bed with rheumatic
fever, and although faced with
probable two years of that inactiv-
ity, she goes back to school each
day through a new cOntrivance
known as the school to home inter-
communication Of the Bell Tele-
phone system.
Here is how the little invalid,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. Ed
ward Wyatt OF III Second street,
became the heroine of her clas.
Last October a sudden illness at
the Beebe Hospital was diagnosed
as rheumatic fever. Doctors said
she needed a lcng rest, and inas-
much as her mother is a trained
nurse, they per nited her to go
home for her ling cOnvalescence'
Her father il a former town COM
missioner and now operates the
Wyatt Taxf service here.
Patricia can sit up in bed and
hear everything that goes on in her
class room by pressing a button on
a little gadgett beside her bed that
looks like a telephone switchboard.
Moreover. every time the teacher,
Miss Irene Ford, asks a question
Patricia can answer by pressing
s'taIking. key" and everyone in the
class room can here her. Thus, she
can keep up with her school work.
The set-up is similar to an inter
communicating system furnished
bv the piamOnd State Telephone
Company for use iii large offices.
It consists of a combined speaker
microphOne unit at the school and
one in Patricia's bedroom, about
one mile away. When school time
rolls around each morning, Patricia
fins on a small switch like the one
NOn a radio. In the school room
Miss Ford Just turns on the power
INIT. The schoOl-home unit was in
stalled through the cooperation OF
DR.. John S. Charlton, state director
of child development and guidance.
Mrs. Fannie Gray of Mardella
Springs, Nd, is spending some time
here with MF. and Mrs. Frederick
G. Clifton, Jr., and family at their
residence on Franklin avenue. Mrs.
Clifton is Mrs. Gray's neice.
Mr.. John Abbott of Newark, Del,
spent the week end here with his
wife and daughter Dian at their
home on Mulberry street.
Mr.. Harvey Baker who is a pa
tient at the Beebe Hospital, mas
improved at this writing.
Mr.. Ralph McCracklin, who un-
derwent an operation last week at
the Beebe Hospital, is getting
along very nicely at this writing.
Mrs. Walter Donovan who has
been confined to the hospital be-
cause of illness, has returned to
her home here, where she is now
recuperating.
Funeral services for Carl ]. Har-
rison. we'll known Lewes plumber
who was found hanged in the town
iaii of the Lewes Fire Hall last
Thursday, were held Monday at 2 p.
m. in the Atkins Funeral Home.
The Rev. DR.. William Leishman,
pastor of the .Lewes Presbyterian
Church, conducted the rites, ana
the burial was made in the LeWes
Methodist Cemetery. Mr.. Harrison
was found by Lewes police hanging
from a top bar of the Jail cell with
his head caught in a moose maze
from his leather belt, according TO
Sussex county cOrnOr Volhe =.
Grav of MillsborO. Dr.. Paul T.
Triekett of LeWes, pronounced hlm
dead and the body was examined a.
the Beebe Hospital by DR.. y. j. Pol
lax. pathologist, Of Dover.
He had Just been released from
the Beebe Hospital the preceding
Monday where he had been under
treatment for heart ailment. A
native Of Lawes, the son OF MRS.
Fred r. Harrison, Of Lewes, and the
late Mr.. Harrison, he made ms
home on 335 Market street where
he conducted his plumbing estao-
lishment. 80
Besides his mother, the former
Miss Dolly Johnson of Lewes' ne Is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Eliza
betb Kitchens Harrison, Lewes, ano
two sons, S. Ross Harrison q
Iowas and P. Virden Harrison, now