Milford chronicle., 1953-07-03
GEORGETOWN


Blaine Adkins, of Millsboro gave
an interesting account of their
recent tour of Europe before the
GeOrgetOwn-MillsborO Rotary Club,
here recently. Together with Harry
Williams of MillsbOro, they attended
the convention of Rotary Inter-
national held in Nice, France, in
May. They toured France, Belgium,
Germany and their report included
highlights Of the tour and Obser-
vatiOns of conditions existing in
each country.
| The Georgetown-M -Millsboro Rotary
Club will entertain a young English
girl, Miss Susan Jennifer Spence
for three months, beginning July
1st. Miss Spence will visit the United
States under the sponsorship
of the International Research Fund.
Inc, of New York City. The local
Rotary Club will be responsible
for all expenses, including housing.
board, entertainment and pocket
money from the time she arrives
in New York until she leaves again
for England.
Miss Spence, who is the daughter
of Walter T. Spence, civil en-
plOyee of the British Government,
is a graduate of Sutton High School
in Sutton, Surrey and has been
awarded the Surrey County Scholar
ship, 1914 to 1852 and the Surrey
Major Scholarship, 1925, to the
London School of Economics,
London University.
Her visit to Delaware will afford
the desired opportunity to study at
first hand, the American Way of
Life; American customs, and cul-
ture and the structure of govern
ment economy. The young visitor
expects to specialize in cOntempor-
ary government in the London
University, which demands a de-
tailed knowledge of American
government and while Ing the U. S.
will make a particular study Of
relationship between the powers
of the federal, state and local
government. She is a member of the
United Nations Society and has
elected to take "The Structure Of
international Society" in her exam
for her degree. Her ultimate aim
is to serve overseas with the British
Foreign Office and she expresses
the belief that world peace can
only come from a common under
standing between people" She has
travelled extensively in European
countries since the age of Is
especially in France and Switzer-
land and hopes to find many friends
in the U. S. Miss Spence is due to
arrive the early part of July and
return to England the first part
of October.
Charles Lemuel MumfOrd. aged
So, veteran of World War l, died in
Delaware Hospital early Thursday
morning, after a long illness.
He was a son of Mrs. Earcha
Fisher and the late Walter MumfOrd,
of this town. Besides his mother
he is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ora MumfOrd, three sons, Lemuel,
of MillsbOrO; Walter Kenneth and
Paul of Georgetown and a daughter,
Miss Mae Mumford, also of George
town. There are also 5 step
daughters; one step-son and 13
grandchildren, sisters and one
brother. The sisters are Mrs. Edna
Vigneault, of Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Olive Kelley, Philadelphia. Pa;
Mrs. olivia Stems, Philadelphia;
Mrs. Helen Lankford, of Bridgeville,
Del; Mrs. Beatrice Butcher, WOr-
cester, Mass. and one brother
Hershel Mumford, Georgetown.
Funeral services were held in the
Carey Funeral Home, on N. Bedford
Street, here, on Sunday afternoon
at 1880 o'clock, with Rev. William
o. Hackett, pastor of Wesley
Methodist Church, officiating. In
terment was in Union Cemetery,
here. Members of Sussex Post No 8,
American Legion, of which Mr..
MumfOrd was a member, served as
pall-bearers.
District No. 4, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, which comprises the ten VFW
Posts in Sussex County have officers
for the 1953-54 term. Commander
elected was Oliver J. Cropper, of
Selbyville; w. Layton Johnson, of
Georgetown. Sr. vice commander;
Charles E. Griffith, Greenwood, Jr.
vice commander; Carlton Moore,
Selbyville, District Chaplain; Will
son Hudson, Georgetown, Judge Ad-
vOcate; Edward Tingle, SelbyviLe,
quartermaster.
Mr.. Hudson is the present
commander of Raymond Reynolds
Post No. 1881 in Georgetown, and
Mr.. Johnson, has been quarter
master for the same Post since 1949.
John Martin PettyjOhn, so years
old, farmer of near Georgetown,