Milford chronicle., 1954-04-09

WSCS - The WSCS of Milford
Neck Church will meet Friday,
April 8, at 1880 p. m. in the churc9.
All members are urged to attend.
TABLE TENNIS-Mr. w. G. Nau-
man, Jr., will come to Wilmington.
April 9Th and 10th. He is the Down
State representative in the Della
ware State Table Tennis Tourna-
ment, to be held in the Y. M. C. A.
FESTIVAL OF MUSIC-The Jun
ior High School Festival of Music
will be held this Friday evening at
$500 o'clock at the high school
auditorium. The Junior High
Chorus and Band will sing and play
several selections, under the direc-
ton OF John H. Bunnell and George
Messick.
CANCER CLINIC - The Cancer
Clinic will be held on Thursday
April %, in the Health Unit, from
10 o'clock until u, and, one o.
clock until 3. For appointments.
call Milford 1859.
GAS TAX-February, 1854. was
a record month for state motor
fuel tax collections, with S439.-
499.l7 collected by the State High
way Departments motor fuel tax
division.
The total, made public this week
by Herbert d. ClrIey, Jr., auditor
OF the division, is the largest ever
recorded during the month of Feb
ruary and is $25,016.80 more than
was netted during the same month
last year.
The tax covered the sale of g.
7S9,462 gallons of motor fuel. an
Increase of 499,814 gallons over
February, 1853.
LYLE MOWLDS HURT-Suffer-
ing the loss of one finger and dam
age to other fingers, as well as
broken bones in the hand. w.
Lyle Mowlds, state supervisor of
vocational agriculture, is a pa-
tient in the Kent General Hospi-
tai in Dover.
Aiding in the unloading of a
shipment of surplus property, Mr..
Mowlds, who is also state director
OF surplus property, was standing
at the truck with his hand on the
unloading plank when a heavy
crate, which had been placed on
rollers, started down the plank
and the rollers went over his
hand.
The accident occurred at Mr.
MOwld's home, 896 South State
street, Dover, where the shin
ment was to be stored for later
distribution.
SUCC0R OFFERED-Ofrers of
aid have come from three organi-
cations and many individuals for
the family of nine burned out of
their home five miles west of Do
yer last Wednesday afternoon.
The fire victims, Mr.. and Mrs
Joshua Chandler and their seven
children, ranging in age from one
year to II years, are at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L. Van
de Water, neighbors living on the
DOver-PearsOn's Corner Road.
Organizations giving aid are the
Red Cross, the Dover Needlework
Guild, and the Grange.
CD TEST - Delaware military
and civil defense forces are sched-
uled to lake Fart in a nation-wide
civil defense exercise on June IA
and 10, it has been announced by
Colonel d. Preston Lee, state di-
rector of civil defense.
Simulated bomb blasts in PhiIa-
delphia and Baltimore will be mart
OF the exercise. There will be 20
mock attack on Delaware.
Commenting on the new H-bomb
Colonel Lee expressed the opinion
that If an H-bOmb were dropped
on Philadelphia it would AFFECT
Delaware as far south as Dover.
He said that the H-bomb would
be toe powerful to use in an attack
on Wilmington or Dover, Those
cities, he explained, would be tar
gets of suitable size for A-bombs.
NEW FIRE ENGINE - Bridge
vile Fire Company's new fire en-
CINE has arrived and already un-
dergone tests near Bridgeville.
The test, at aearn's Pond, was
attended by members of the Bridge
vile Fire Company, an engineer
of the Orin Roanoke Company.
builders of the engine, and con-
Quoted by the fire insurance de-
partment engineers.
The new engine is powered by a
zoo horsepower motor, has a 75O-
gallon -per-minute pump. The an
paratus pumped 975-gallons-peP
minute during the test. The mod
ern fog lines were operated up to
a pressure of 700 pounds.
The tank has a capacitv Of
1000 gallons of water. The truck
carries 1900 feet of 215Ainch hose
and 400 feet of booster hose. Plans
call for installation of a portable
light plant and two-way radio
telephone.
Special feature of the eauip-
ment is a deluge nozzle capable Of
using three 21a-inch lines for its
supply. 1t is principally designed
for large fires where a large water
supply is available.
Special housing ceremonies are
planned Sunday, April %, between
and o'clock. The public is in
yited. Refreshments will be sery-
ed