Milford chronicle., 1953-07-24
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

nual children's pet show, SPONSOR
ed by the Dover YMCA, will be held
at the Water Street Recreation
Center in Dover on Thursday, July
80, starting at 2 D. m. Children
under Is years Of age can enter
any Of their pets in the show.
Trophies and other prizes will
be awarded to the prettiest, smart
est, funniest and most unusual pets
entered in the various classifica-
tions.
Each child will be limited to two
entries and entry blanks can be
procured at the Office Of the YMCA,
on King street, Dover, or at the
Recreation Center
PROGRESS - Some 8 or 10 pIas-
terers have been working diligent-
ly this past week at the Farmers
Bank Of the State of Delaware new
building to get the ceiling of the
huge lobby plastered with a sound
proof substance. They have now
completed with their work and their
scafolding is coming down, inside
the bank.
The tellers fixtures and the off,
GERS quarters, begin to take shape.
The tellers counters will be of the
friendly type without bars or OBJ
stacles. The banking fraternity Of
the nation is waiting to see this
new type of counter because never
before has it been used. It will give
TO Dover and to Delaware one OF
the most up-tO-date banking lobbfes
IN the country. The size Of the lob
Dy VIII cover some 1900 square feet.
this has been made necessary be-
cause of the tremendous volume Of
business handled by the institu-
tion.
SCHOOLS - The State Board of
Education Tuesday night approved
entering into an agreement on a
one--year trial basis with the Mary
land State Board for joint use of
the Delmar, Del, and Delmar, Md,
school facilities for children on
both side of the state line.
The Delaware school organiZa-
ton will consist of grades one
through three and seven through IL
while the Maryland school will
handle grades one through six.
steps for further integration of
the two units will be studied by
both state boards during the trial
period.
On petition of a majority of resi-
dents of the Ebenezer Negro School
District, the board authorized the
closing of that school. with pupils
TO attend the MiddletOwn Compre-
hensive School. Seventh and eighth
grades of the Delaware City Negro
School also will be transferred to
Middletown, the board decided.
Z L E c TROCUTED Lewis
Graves, III, 21a-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Graves, Jr., of near
Nassau, east of Lewes; was cleo
trocuted in his fathers garage af-
ter he plugged a power lawn
mower into an electrical outlet and
fell across a live wire of the now
er.
Z. E. Carey of Millsboro. deputy
coroner for Sussex County, gave a
verdict, of death by electrocution
He said the little boy toppled from
a stool in the garage about 5.3O
?; M aIter he plugged in the ma
chlne. He struck the live wire on
the mower and was burned in
three places on the abodmen.
Ine family lives on the Lewes
Highway between Lewes and Mas
sau: The mishap occurred about
$3.50 p. m. 'U'
The little boys mother. Mrs
Eleanor Graves, found him and
rushed him to the Beebe Hosnita1
at LeWes, where he was pronounc-
ed dead on arrival by DR.. James
Beebe, Jr
BEEBE HOSPITAL paw
laboratory addition to the Beebe
Hospital is under construction
which will be under the super-
vision OF Dr. Otaker J. PolIack
pathologist, of Dover.
The laboratory is being set uD on
the third floor Of the 100-bed in
stitution by converting an open deck
Tor this purpose. The addition, 81 x
II feet in size, is expected to be COM
pleted early in August.
Contract for the construction was
awarded to the Rehoboth firm Of
D. F. Quillen and Sons by the hos
pital advisory board.
DR.. Pollack is a former European
pathOlOgist who came to Delaware
in February. 1852. Miss Dorthea
Quinn of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, a recent
addition to the hospital STAFF, will
be chief technician.
The Beebe Hospital has acquired
a new resident physician, DR.. Elmer
P. Nemes, a native of Roumania. He
is a graduate of the University of
Cluj, Roumania. In 1945 and 1916
he was toxologist with General
deGaulles army of the Free French
Medical Corps, and was later medi-
cal director of sanitary works
in Venezuela.
He has been in this country since
1948 and served as resident physi-
clan in the Royal Hospital, New
York, in 1850. He became associ-
ated with the Beebe Hospital on
July 1st