Milford chronicle., 1953-11-27

COUNTRY FAIR-In order to
raise funds to assist in paying for
a new piece of fire-fghting equip
ment, the Bridgeville Volunteer
Fire Department and it's ladies'
auxiliary will jointly sponsor an
Old-fashioned country fair in the
fire hall on December As, accord
ing to Edward Mariner, general
chairman. The new equipment, to
be delivered in January, will cost
$4,000.
One feature of the fair will be the
auction sale of a seVen-fOot mount
ed sailfish caught off Florida and
donated by Paul Hyde. Some of the
members assisting in the project
are Joseph Wiley, Fenwick H.
Thompson, Bernie Sylvia, Robert
Bennett, Myra Dimes, Louis Col
Inns, Mrs. Alberta Smith, Mrs. Hat
tie Sylvia, and Mrs. Pearl Thomp-
son.
DAM BIDS-James Julian, Els
mere, submitted the low bid of
$5l,517.50 for constructing a con-
crete dam and spillway at Will
f-llams' Pond, east of Seaford on
the road to Middleford, when four
Dlds were opened by the State
Highway Commission at Dover last
Friday.
Other bids were: Delmarva As
phalt Company, Seaford, $55,65O;
George and Lynch, Wilmington,
S6O,795, and John D. Sheets Con-
structlon Company, HalethOrpe,
Nd, $6O.915.
The dam will cause the pond to
expand in area. The former dam
was destroyed by a storm some
years ago.
10 ADDRESS BANKERS-Edwin
T. Neilan, Executive Vice President,
Equitable Security Trust Company,
Wilmington, Delaware, will address
the newly organized Sussex Chapter,
American Institute of Banking at
a meeting to be held in the Lewes
Fire Hall, December 2, 1858, at
500 p. m. Mr.. Neilan's topic will
be Commercial Loans and Con-
sumer Credit"
PENSION STUDY-The State
Employees Pension Study Commits
sion, at its organization meeting
on Monday, elected DR.. Claude L.
Benner as chairman and State
Senator William o. Covey, Jr., (R-
SeafOrd) as secretary. DR.. Benner
is president of the Continental
American Life Insurance Company.
James M. ROsbrOw, secretary of
the Unemployment Compensation
Commission, was designated as staff
director for the study commission
The commission was created by
the last session of the General As
sembly in resolution sponsored by
Senator Covey. Members, in addi.
tion to the Senator and DR.. Benner
are Robert c. Tesh of the Dupont
Company; George w. Wright, super
intendent of schools at Smyrna
4 and DR.. M. A. Tarumianz, super
intendent of the Delaware Stat
. Hospital.
| The new commission will make
it's headquarters at the Offices O
the Unemployment Compensation
Commission, COL Shipley Street
Wilmington, at the invitation Of
Albert Stetser, chairman-executive
director.
INCREASING POPULATION
Delaware registered a popula-
ton increase of $4,000 or SO pei
cent, in the period from April
1, 1850, to July l, 1862, the U. S
Census Bureau reported this week
latest estimate, reported that
the states population climbed from
31S,0S5 to $4,000 in the approximate
twO-year period.
The figure represented a con
tinuation of the 1940-5O trend, wheI
I, Delaware's population climbed from
! 266,505 to 318,OS5.
The Census Bureau reported thai
: in all, 38 states and the District o.
f Columbia registered population in
creRses in the latest count, while
= 10 lost ground.
J. The biggest increases were Cali
/. fOrnia, up $4,000 to a new total o
:, 11,542,O00; Texas, up 472,000 to 8,
f $4,000; Florida, up 100000 to 3,
v liz, 1000; Ohio, up 327, 900 to S,27S,OOt
= and Michigan, up $4,000 to 6,
100000.