Milford chronicle., 1953-04-03
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

EGGS NEEDED - Sunday, April
,, is the date set for the Easter
Egg hunt for the patients at the
Delaware Colony, sponsored bv the
MILFORD Cootiette Club No. 49S
some 800 hard boiled eggs will be
decorated by members of the club.
anyone wishing to donate eggs for
tnls project, call Mrs. Thelma
Burlingame, Milford 1928, between
300 and 1880, Thursday or Fri
day nights and the eggs will be
picked up.
SUCCESSFUL BEGINNING-Tbe
New Youth Recreation Center, spon-
sored oy the Milford High School
PTA and American Legion, had a
very successful beginning In its
initial venture last Friday evening
at the American Legion Home.
Games, dancing, eats and visiting
teen-agers from other communities
featured in the first nights events.
The Milford High School Dance
y5and played for the evenings
dancing and entertainment.
The committees are planning for
bigger and better Friday nights in
the future. Many adults enioved
themselves, too.
FOLK DANCING - The Milford
and Lincoln Leaders Club met on
March 16 with Carl Dynes and q
group of Girl Scouts from Milling
ton, Nd, who demonstrated folk
dancing. There was a short busi-
ness meeting Immediately follow
ing the demonstration. Leaders and
troop committee members gave a
farewell party the same evening for
Mrs. Morris Royster, who is NOV
ing from Milford to Fort Knox
Kentucky. Mrs. ROyster was a
very active leader in Girl Scout-
ing in Milford. Everyone wished
her good luck on her travels and
hope she soon returns to make her
home in Milford.
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ELECTED-Miss Nancy Kalter
Psychologist with the Child Devel-
Opment and Guidance Division of
the State Department of Public In
structiOn has recently been elected
to membership in the National
Council on Measurements Used in
Education. The purposes of the
Council are to disseminate among
the educators the increased know
ledge of the techniqUes and instru-
ments available for the measure
ment of human abilities, persOnali-
ty characteristics, and educational
achievement, and of the procedures
appropriate for the Interpretation
in use Of such measurements.
PEACH BLOSSOMS-It's peach
blossom time again in Delaware.
The white, pink, or orange bios
SONS are at their height in Sus-
sex County orchards, where the
first varieties emerged last week,
the earliest showing in the past
25 years.
Given favorable weather condi-
tions, Orchardmen expect the pro-
fuse display of blossoms to last for
about another 10 days. ...
They also predict that-barring
a heavy frOst-there will be an
early peach crop. The profusion
of blossoms, they say, probably
means a bumper crop, despite this
years reduced peach-Orchard acre
age.
FARMERS BANK - It was on
March 25, 1852, that the new build
ing of the Farmers Bank of the
State of Delaware, at Dover, was
started. On that day, the BULLDOG
ers started digging the new founda- /
tion, and the contractors commence |
ed to build the new building, around |
the old; so that the bank vaults
and the valuables contained there
in, received full protection through
out the construction period.
1t will be several months before
the first floor is done, which in
cludes the lobby of the bank; due
to the fact that special efforts were
made to complete the second-story
so that the mOve-back to the new
location could be commenced.
NURSES LICENSED - Twenty
three recent graduates of nursing
schools have been licensed to prac-
tice as registered nurses, it was
announced this week by Miss Kath-'
crime r. Davidson, president of the
State Board of Examiners of Grad
uate Nurses.
The highest average, that of 92.1
per cent, was achieved by Miss
Mary L. Frace of the Delaware
State Hospitals school of nursing
and Miss Barbara F. Lyons, grad
uate of the Milford Memorial Hos
pitaps School of Nursing.
Among those licensed to practice
was Mrs, Elizabeth F. Rogers, a ,
graduate of the Windsor, England
Hospital School, who has now es-
-ablished Delaware residence.
OPPOSE COLLEGE CLOSING - .
A demand that the state take steps l
70 prevent the closing of Delaware
State College, as recommended to
Governor j., Caleb Boggs by a spe-
,ial committee, was made on Mon :
lay evening in a statement issued I
)y the Citizens Committee, organ 4
zed recently to lead the fight for :
adequate appropriations so that the R
would be eligible for =
ull college accTeditation.
The committee is comprised of :
Negro leaders from all sections of
he state. Clarence P. Norwood of /
dillsborO, a trustee of the Jason :
Comprehensive School at George =
own, is chairman of the commit I
ee. The meeting Monday evening =
vas held at the home of Mrs. Lillian :
Z. Sockom, the secretary. : :
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