Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1954-02-19
Happenings of Interest
Throughout Delaware

HILLYER TO SPEAK - Robert
HillyeT, poet, lecturer and Pulitzer
Prize winner will be the guest
speaker of the GEORGETOWN New
Century Club, on Thursday eve
ming, March 4, at 8 O'Clock. The
meeting will be open to the pub
lie. Mr.. Hillyer will read group
of poems, many of them his own.
He is visiting professor of Eng
hsh at the University of Delaware.
RULE BOOK PLANNED - A
radio committee to work with a
ike committee Of the Kent County
volunteer Firemen's Association in
the compilation and printing of
rules and regulations governing
the operation of all FIRE radio
equipment has been appointed by
Thomas Heather, Maryael, presi-
dent of the Kent County Fire
Chiefs Association.
The committee comprises: First
Assistant Chief George ID. Hill. Jr..
Dover, chairman; Chief d. Douglas
Mills, Harrington; and Chief James
Truax, Smyrna, who is also deputy
hre marshal for Kent County.
LEGION ENTERTAINS - Young
veterans Of the Korean action
mingled with the grey haired vet
Grams of World War Z, as did also
veterans of World War II at an
open house for veterans held by
Walter L. Fox Post No. 2, The
american Legion, in the Legion
building recently.
The affair also served as a get
acquainted session for the yeter-
ans as Commander Frank Lucia
of Fox Post had each one of the
almost hundred veterans in at
tendance stand and identify them
selves.
The lone speaker on the program
was Edward Mulrooney, of Will
mington, who has a long active
record in Legion activities and has
hlled both state and national Of
noes in the organization. Speaking
on the value Of cOmradeship among
veterans, Mr.. Mulrooney outlined
the manner in which the American
Legion was formed and reviewed
some of the difficulties encounter
ed in its early years.
BROTHERS DIE - Former State
Senator E. Sherman Webb of Odes-
sa and his brother, Frank Webb.
former Wilmington real estate
broker, both died over the past
weekend.
The former senator, who was Ga.
died suddenly at his home last
Saturday at $3.50 p. m. from a
heart attack. He has been under
physicians care for about three
weeks.
His brother, who was n, died
last Sunday at 1880 a. m. at the
STATE Welfare Home and HOSPITAL
Tor the Chemically Ill, where he
had been bed patient for about
three months. He died of harden
ing of the arteries.
Senator Webb, a Democrat. was
! elected to the State Senate in 1913.
and served at the 1949 and 1851
sessions of the General Assembly.
he VIII be remembered as the
Democratic senator who demanded
but did not Obtain-the resigna-
ton OF his party's state chairman
before the special session in De-
cember, 1850.
MARCH OF DIMES - Prelinoin-
airy returns on the March of Dimes
in Sussex County, from IL of the
IL communities now total s15.-
1924, according to Col. Ralph s.
Baker, chairman of the Sussex
Chapter.
Only one community. Harbeson
mas turned in a final report total
ing $272.S0. The Lord Baltimore
area reports $4,000 in hand, an all
time high for that area and more
returns yet to come in.
incomplete reports from the
Following towns show the follow
ing sums: Delmar, S6S7.26: ELLEN
| dale, $423.00; Greenwood. $3.50 on.
Georgetown, $2,159.50; Laurel 50 .
1880; Lewes, $1,2O2.19; Lincoln
$856;OO; Millsboro, $4,000; Reho-
both both, $l,SS2.5O, and seaford, S4,-
NO reports have been turned in
at headquarters from Milton. Mil
Iord' DagsborO, frankfort, Bridge
vile and Selbyville. All communi-
Vt chairmen are urged to complete
| reports and send then, in q. eoo,,
as possible. The campaign time
was extended in Sussex County
for two weeks because of storm