Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-01-22
LEWEs

The second annual Mothers
March will conclude the March of
Dimes campaign for funds, on
Tuesday night, January 26, has
been announced by Mrs. Linford
Y. Palmer of Lewes Beach. Mrs.
Palmer is chairman of the local
campaign for the sixth year. She
is assisted by Mrs. Harold E. Wal
lin, also Of Lewes Beach. The
Zwaanendael Club is sponsoring
the Mothers March, and Mrs. Nell
ia Clifton Naylor is chairman.
Every house which has not been
contacted for a contribution by that
date is requested to have porch
light on between the hours of z
and 8 D. m, as a beacon for the
mothers who will wind up the
drive. Mrs. Palmer has announced
the following chairmen for the
campaign to get under way imme-
diately: Business Section, Mrs.
Emory B. Birmingham; Coin Col
lection Boxes, Mrs. John p. JOS
eDh; Lewes Beach Area, Mrs. w.
Allen Vessels; Pilot Town Road
Section, Mrs. James B. Austin; Mas
sau and Five Points Section, Mrs.
Elberon T.. Connaway; Quaker
town, Mrs. Edmund Chamberlain;
Carpenters Corner Mrs. Forrest
H. Purdy; Miller Development,
Mrs. John Arthur; Savannah Road,
Mrs. Harry S. Frazer; Kings High
way, Mrs Norman B. Baylis; Null
berry Street, Mrs. Nellie c. Nay
lOr; Market Street, Mrs. James
Palmer Fourth Street, and part
of Chestnut Street, Mrs. Joseph c.
Phillips; Residential Area of Sec
ond Street, Mrs. Frank L. Moon;
Front Street, Mrs. Robert J. Ken
nedy; Franklin Avenue, Mrs. Loren
Percival; Washington Avenue, Mrs.
Henry F. Hill; Jefferson Avenue,
Mrs Harry Cox; Madison and Rail-
road Avenues, Mrs. Charles Park
er; East Third Street and Rodaline
Avenue, Mrs. Herman HeTOnOmus;
deVries Circle, Mrs. James F. Mac
intire; McFee Street, Mrs. William
S. Jefferson; Dewey Avenue, Mrs.
Irving ellis; Coleman and Vickers
Avenues, Miss ROsalie Porter; New
Road and Park Avenue, Miss Mary
GoOch, assisted by Miss Elsie
Wingo and Miss Sara Stewart.
Mrs. Frazer, herself a victim of
infantile paralysis, who has often
been treated at Warm Springs
do Ln4
her son, Dicky Frazer, Miss Phyllis
Rush, and Mrs. Marshall Plummer
will be her assistants on Savannah
Road.
A female frfgate bird, grounded
by ice on its body and enormous
wings, has found sanctuary in the
home of Homer B. Ingram, local
businessman, and his petite French
wife, Pepi Mrs. Ingram spotted the
bird on the shore of the Delaware
Bay directly opposite their house
last Monday morning. When her
husband arrived home for lunch, he
carried it to the house for a badly
needed cleanup job. They removed
ice from its. eyes, its 5-inch long,
erful wings, which when Outspread
measured slightly under z feet
from wingtip to wingtip.
Housed in a cardboard carton
in the third floor of the Ingram
home, the. frigate, normally found
only in tropical or sub-trODicaI
climates, is surprisingly dociIe. The |
huge seabird at first dubbed Cap |
tain, by the Ingrams, is now the
Captains Lady. Two problems
the Ingrams. One, feeding
the bird which has been forcibly
fed since her arrival, and secondly,
how to get the bird back to it's
natural habitate in the warm south
land. The first day Lady" was
fed on scallOps at 95 cents pound.
Refusing fish heads and hard crabs.
Lady gobbled the ''innerds" of a
sea trout when put in her mouth,
and swallowed them with evident
relish. Canned sardines are like
wise on her diet. Why the vOyager
was as far north as the Delaware
Capes is matter of great cOnjec-
ture. Ingram believes it may have
been feeding along the Gulf Stream
and found itself blown north by the
blizzard. There is another school |
of thought that it may have been
a sailors pet, kept on deck, which /
got loose when its cage could cas-
lily have been damaged by the biz /
Yards wind and snow. At any rate.
It was thoroughly iced, and unable
to fly, and hardly able to breathe.
when found by little Mrs. Ingram.
Announcement has been made of
the engagement CT Miss PATSY
Louise Dodd, daughter Of Mrs. viii
liam DOdd and the late Mr.. Dodd.
OF Lewes, to George Lawrence
Sweeney, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George L. Sweeney, 'Sr., OF Derry.
Pa. The wedding will take place
upon Miss Dodd's graduation from
Lewes High School in June. Mr.
Sweeney is a seaman in the NAVY
and is completing his enlistment
soon. He graduated from the Derry
High School IN 1851, at which time
ne received a medal for the most
valuable player for 1851" in bas-
ketball, when he participated in the