Milford chronicle., 1954-04-02
DelnlGrUG Chicken
Festival Directors Are
Working Hard
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( Harry Karcher, of Greensboro, Md.
This will mark the first time
that the Junior Chicken Cooking
/ Contest has been run on a nation
al basis. The number of entrants
will be limited to so; One-fourth
of the entrants 10 come from
junior contestants outside the Del
marva area and the remainder
evenly divided between Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia. Should
there not be enough entrants from
other states to fill that quota, the
place will be given to the next in
order Of receipt of applications on
the Peninsula. The Junior Cooking
Contest will take place on Tues
| day, June o. The first prize offer
ed this year will be $4,000 in cash,
plus a stove of the winners choice
and a gold trophy.
The Senior Chicken Cooking
Contest will be held on June %.
The first prize for the winner in
the Senior Contest will be $5OO.00
cash award plus a stove of the
winners choice and a gold trophy.
An additional prize may be added
if details can be worked out in
that connection. The Senior Con-
test will be held on June 90 and
the number Of entrants will be
limited to 100, divided as follows:
% from other states; 25 each from
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
AS in the Juniors Contest, if en-
| trants from outside the Peninsula
do not total 25, then entrants from
the Peninsula will be assigned a
place, the selection being made in
the order of receipt of entrance
| blanks.
Earl Hawk, of Greenwood. chair
man for the Beauty Pageant and
Queen of the Festival Committee.
is being assisted by Mrs. John
Branch, in Milford, Del; Mrs. AL
vim Mills, Greenwood, Del; Mrs.
John Doughty, Snow Hill, Md:
Mrs. Clarence Phillips, Preston,
Nd, and Mrs. Harlan BOwden, Ex-
more, Virginia. In the meeting held
in the Georgetown High School
last Friday night, Mr.. Hawk re-
ported that II communities had al
ready been lined up to hold local
elimination contests to select a
candidate for Miss Delmarva. He
stated also that he had good pros
| poets for a total of at least 26.
organizations in every community
on the Delmarya Peninsula are be-
ing urged to set up contests TO
select a representative to partici-
pate in the contest. The awards TO
be presented will be announced bv
Mr.. Hawkin in the near future.
along with rules for the contest
ants, etc.
Within the next few days a gen
eral headquarters office will he
completely set up in the show
rooms of the Delaware Power and
Light Co, at Race and DenOt
Streets, in Georgetown with a fuIl
time staff. The telephone number
in that headquarters will be an
nounced as soon as it can be OBJ
tanned.
f. Glen Grain. of Georgetown.
has accepted the chairmanshiD of
the general committee for the host
town and will be assisted bv
/ corps local business men. civic
leaders and groups.
The Beauty Pageant and select
tiOn of Miss Delmarva will take
place on the opening day of the
Festival, June 81 and will be held
IN the Georgetown High School.
another highlight of the first dav
VIII be the opening of the e0uip-
ment show and exhibits, all per
tanning to the theme of the Festi-
Val-Delmarva chickens-how thew
are produced, prOcessed and mar
keted and a showing of the most
modern methods of brOiler grow
ing on the Peninsula along with
me latest scientific information
along these lines.
| There will be a Talent Show as
I another feature, with William
Jaeger, of Radio Station WJWT
serving as general chairman. II
IS expected that this feature will
be staged on Tuesday. June %
The parade chairman, Earl Rust
assisted by H. w. T. PIrnell and
James E. Goslee, Jr., of George
town, has already laid the ground
work for parade details and deco
Tatlons. Avery Ellis and w. Carl
Utz of Georgetown of the Diamond
State Telephone Company are CO.
operating on wire services and
members of the parade committee
from the other two states on the
PENINSULA will be announced soon.
Applications for entrance in the
Senior and Junior Chicken Cook
ing Contests should be mailed to
mrs. Arthur S. Handy, Lewes, Del.
II The farm nOnu1ofio,, 90 A.. ~ =,