Milford chronicle., 1953-05-22
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware


SUSSEX DIVORCES-A decree
nisi in each of three divorce suits
was granted by President Judge
Charles S. Richards, in Superior
Court, at Georgetown. Effective as
Of May 8, the decrees were granted
in the cases of ROsalie M. Hawkins
V. Lee A. Hawkins; Ronald Lee
Dean v. Loretta Young Dean and
Rose r. CiccOne v. Louis CiccOne.
Decision was reserved in the
divorce suit of Mary Wilson and
the Lewes Trust Company, a cor
poratiOn of the State of Delaware.
guardians of w. Ferris Wilson v.
Effie Mae Wilson.
CROSSINGS-The eleven mil
lionth crossing of the Delaware
Memorial Bridge was registered
last Saturday night at $40 o'clock,
by the sOuthbound car Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman Assenza of Tampa,
Fla.
Mr.. Assenza is an engineer for
the Continental Can Company. He
and his wife were en- route from
New York to Baltimore on a vaca-
ton trip
G. Lester Daniels, general man
ager of the bridge, greeted the
couple, and presented them with
picture of the bridge.
FARM BUREAU health com
mittee to meet with doctors and
work out a program to provide for
better medical care in rural COM
munities has been named by the
wOmen's committee of the Del
aware Farm Bureau
On the committee are Mrs,
Charles B. Moore, representing
New Castle County; Mrs. Robert
Sanderson, Kent County, and Mrs
Edwin Williams, Sussex County.
Other plans of the committee
call for support of the statewide
chest X-ray program and partici-
patton in the UNESCO Omitted Ma
tiOns Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural OrganizatiOn) program tC
provide farm implements to back.
ward nations.
NEW CITIZENS-Seven persons
were admitted as new citizens Of
the United States in Naturalization
ceremonies conducted in superior
court, Georgetown, by President
Judge Charles S. Richards. Those
admitted to citizenship are: AL
phonsO YOdlbauer, of Seaford, &
native of Germany; Gerardus Keh.
lenbrink, of Bridgeville, native Of
the Netherlands; Mrs. Bertha Ma
tide Lange, of Lewes, native ot
Germany; Mrs. Remedies GallardC
Robb, of Georgetown, native Of thu
Philippines; Mrs. Paula DOrOthe:
Jones, of Lewes, native of Ger
many; Horace Neville Baugh, o
Georgetown, native of Jamaica
British West Indies; Mrs. Isobe
Marjorie DObsOn, Seaford, of Ca
madam birth.
POST OFFICES-The closing O
II fourth class post offices in Del
aware looms in connection wit
the economy program of the Pos
Office Departments new "stream
lining" policy, it was disclosed owe
the past weekend in Washington
d. c. Fourth class offices, operat
in the red, yielding often only
third of what is spent on them.
The IL Delaware offices took il
$19,485 in receipts, he said, Will,
salaries paid their postmaster
was $4O,661.
The following post offices ar
fourth class in Delaware: Beal
Bethel, Bowers, Cannon, Christiana
Clarksville, Pennington, KentoI
KirkwoOd, Little Greek, Melville
Nassau, Port Penn, RocklanC
StOckley, Woodside, and Viola.
KENT DIVORCES-Decrees mis-
were granted in six divorce actions
a decree was denied in one casC
and decision was reserved in an
other by Judges James B. Carey i
Superior Court.
Decress were granted in the suit
of Ada F. Crosby v. Richard
Crosby, Helen WasylkOwslxi Pheffe
v. John Pfieffer, Evelyn H. Bryan
: V. Clarence Herbert Bryant; Edn
May Scott V. James Edward Scot
Margaret Catherine Tharp Wall
V. Charles Wilmer Walls, and Ell
zabeta Jean Cahall v. Ralph v
. Cahall
A decree was refused in the su
of Herbert P. Allen v. Emma Eliza
I beth Allen.
) Judge Carey took the action {
: Floyd Nelson Long v. Betty Jea
: Long under aIvisement.
= GUARD HELD-A former guar
at the Sussex County Jail
, Georgetown was held in 81 600 ba
for Superior Court this week 70
lowing his arrest by state polio
l detectives on a charge of aidin
= and abetting the escape of foU
. prisoners from the institution lal
, December 1st.
+, Detectives said the erstwhiI
F., guard, Lorenzo B. Lowe, 48,
Georgetown, admitted participatin
( in the escape plot just as the
were about to give him lie dete,
tor test.
They reported Lowe smu~gle
= eight hacksaw blades into Il
a county prison to the men all
= whom were captured a short tim
K after their break and are now baC
in JAIL
= Lowe was discharged from II
+ Jail shortly after the escape an
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