Milford chronicle., 1954-08-27

CARDINALS TO SOLICIT = The
Houston Cardinal 4-H Club has as
sumed the responsibility Of solicit
ing the town and surrounding com
munity for funds for the special
polio drive now being urged
throughout the United States
Eileen Webb has been appointed
General Chairman for this drive.
Any member who has not been in
structed as to their territory 10
solicit get In touch with the lead
er, Mrs. Chester Benson. phone NIL
ford sS4S, or Eileen Webb, Milford
$3.50,
MARCH OF DIlTEg--Contrfbu-
tons to the Emergency Polio Drive
in Sussex County should be sent ~
the Emergency March Of Dimes.
Sussex Polio Chapter. in George
town, according to Col. Ralph 8.
Baker, chairman of the Sussex
Chapter, No local community chair
men will be named to solicit funds
IN any one community but Volun-
teer contributions are urged in
view Of the need for emergency funds
to care for polio patients and con-
tinue the Gamma Globulin and vac
cine programs being carried on by
the National Foundation. Thus far,
Sussex County has had only one
case, this -Orville Hudson,
Jr., aged years, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Orville Hudson. Of Frankford.
The child has the non-paraIytic
type. Every one is being urged to
send an emergency contribution.
POCKETS SLASHED-Two truck
drivers reported to Dover police
yesterday that their left hip pockets
had been cut out with a razor blade
and their wallets stolen while they
slept in their trucks, parked on
South Governors Avenue near
service station and a diner.
They are Burton Lewis Scott,
Dover, who lost So, and Marvin AL
len, Camden, who was victimized
for $S8 by the quietly working
sneak thief.
KENT REGISTRATION - Regis
tration Of voters for the general
election in November will be re-
sumed by the Kent County Depart
ment Of Elections auxiliary regis
trars on September Z and will be
continued through September %,
with the exception of Saturdays
and Sundays, John F. Mcdonald,
president of the department, ad-
vised this week.
The hours as presently contem-
plated will be from $50 a. m. 20
4:30 p, m, with the registration
taking place at the departments.
Office in the Kent County Court
House.
In addition to the registration
days at the departments offices,
there remain two general registra-
tion days throughout the county,
October 2 and October Is.
A total of 1886 is already on
the registration books as a re-
suit of the sittings of the auxiliary
registrars each Wednesday Of
April, May, and June and the one
! general registration day on July
] IA. Persons not already registered
are not eligible to vote at the Re-
publican primaries on Saturday.
In order to register for the cleo
tion this year, a person has to be
2l years Of age by November 2,
must be a resident Of Delaware for
one year, resident of the county
three months, and a resident Of
his or her election district for 80
days,
Residents of the state serving
in the armed forces, Merchant Ma
rine, or organizations attached to
and serving with the military, such
as Red Cross and USO, may regis
ter absentee, while all others must
appear in person.
! ACTED STRANGELY = A "a
year-old girl. now believed to be
from Washington, D. c., who was
4 arrested by Dover city police last
Thursday night for soliciting an
automobile ride, has been trans
ferred from the Kent County Jail
to the Delaware State Hospital.
The girl was fined $25 aud costs
and sentenced to 10 days in Jail by
Magistrate George X. Shockley with
the police promptly taking up an in
tensive investigation Of her back
ground.
Police said she acted strangely
after being given a Gift" by a mo-
torist, jumped from the car when
it slowed down, and continued her
strange actions when arrested and
q while in Jail. Phychiatric examina-
tions have determined she is mem
tally unbalanced, police explained.
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