Milford chronicle., 1953-09-25
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

OA0RCA AAGlD gGEM RAG0G4tCA VIII etAA
award cOmmemorating 25 years
of service with the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
Frank B. Brown, district super
presented the award to
Mrs. Cooper at the Dover Western
Union office Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Cooper, whose home is at
Houston, Del, has been associated
with the Dover telegraph Office
since 1889, when she transferred
from the Philadelphia office. She
has two sons, julius H. Cooper, Jr.,
Delmar, Del, and Capt. Randolph
G. Cooper, Kingsville, Texas.
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CHEST X.RAY-The Delaware
Statewide Chest X-Ray Survey will
have an X-ray unit at Spence's
Bazaar in Dover on Friday, Sep
tember 25th, from 1000 a. m. to
600 p. m. This is to accommodate
all the people who were unable to
have a chest 'X-ray because OF the
breakdown of the unit at Spence's
last week. This will be the last
chance for an x-ray in Kent COun-
ty during the Statewide Survey.
Anyone in Kent County who has
not yet had an x-ray is urged to
take advantage of this opportunity
at Spence's Bazaar on Friday.
deYALINGER HONORED-State
Archivist Lean deValinger, Jr., has
been elected by the Society of
American Archivists as a member
of its council, the governing board,
for five-year term.
His election took place at the So
ciety's 18th annual meeting in De-
troit, one of three meetings at
tended by Mr.. deValinger on a trip
to Detroit from September 9th to
10th. While in Detroit he and
others at the meeting visited the
Ford Motor Company archives at
Dearborn, Mich.
The other two meetings which
Mr.. deValinger attended were the
annual session of the American
Association for State and Local
History, held at Detroit, and a
meeting of the Manuscript Society
in the William L. Clements Library
of the University of Michigan, Ann
ArbOr.
HELD IN SHOOTING-Two per-
sons were wounded, neither seri-
Ously, in Seaford about $3.50 last
week when William F. Stafford, So,
fired several shots at his wife and
another man in the Stafford apart
ment on Thompson Street.
Albert Watkins, so, of SeafOrd.
was shot in the head and left arm,
and StaffOrd's wife was hit in the
right leg. Both were taken to the
Nanticoke Hospital, treated and re-
leased. Two hours after the shoot
ing, SeafOrd police took Stafford
into custody after he had offered
to turn himself in to police through
William Bailey, an attendant at a
SeatOrd service station. Bailey
turned the 80 revolver used in the
shooting over to police. Stafford
is being held on a charge of as
sault with intent TOT kill.
| INTERESTED-U. S. Rep. Her
bert B. Warburton, appearing on a
WDEL-TV program recently, dis
closed he is definitely interested
in running for the U. S. Senate in
1854.
The nomination by the Republi-
can Party for the seat has been re-
garded as wide open because such
obvious candidates as Clair J. Kill
lOran, chairman Of the Republican
State Committee, have said they
are not interested.
If Mr.. WarbuTtOn is the candi-
date-this will be settled az the
: party's state convention next Aug
ust-he undoubtedly will run
against the incumbent, U. S. Sena-
tor J. Allen Frear, Jr, Democrat.
GOVERNOR NAMES-Two Mil
ford Area businessmen, Clarence
, NJ. Welch, JT., and David S. Hugg.
have been appointed by Gov J..
Caleb BOggs TO serve as members
of the statewide committee for OBJ
servance of National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week.
, Messrs. Welch and Hugg, together
! with eighteen other Delaware busi-
nessmen and civic leaders, will
work with Mason E. Turner, WI
mingtOn, committee chairman, in
, arranging an appropriate program
for the period October 4th to 10th.
which has been designated by
presidential and gubernatorial pro-
q clamatiOns, 'as National Employ
!, the Physically Handicapped Week..
! ANTIQUE SHOW - The second
annual antique show and sale will
q be held in the gymnasium of Wes-
Q ley Junior College on April Z. 8
: and 9, according to Mrs. J. Paul
= Slaybaugh and Mrs. Richard Titus
: cO-chairmen of the faculty com.
mittee for this show.
The antique show is a yearly en-.
y terprise of the students and fac.
q ulty of Wesley Junior College
! Many added features promise t.
: make this event more interesting
\ this year.
; Mrs. Suzanne Neves is the trea.
, surer of this group.
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GENERAL LANK HOSPITALTZ
e ED-Milford's Grand Old Soldier.
e General William E. Lank was ad
5. mitted to the Veterans Administra
I. tion Hospital, Brack-Ex, on Tues
y day, for treatment Ninety years
= "yohng," General Lank-or colo
mel" as he is known from one enc
of the state to the other-has Ions
h been active in veterans activities
= and is believed to be Delawareh