Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1955-04-29
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

PHONES GAIN - An expendi-
ture of a considerable amount for
the installation of additional dial
equipment in the LeweS control Off
ice is planned for this year by the
Diamond State Telephone Company.
Included also will be the construc-
ton of new wire and cable lines
in that locality.
The Lewes office now serves
some 1,760 telephones, as compared
to only 1872 about 10 years ago, says
the manager, Harold S. White, To-
cal manager for the company. The
work is expected to be completed
by the end of April.
DELEGATES NAMED - Mem
bers of the Citizens Hose Company,
Smyrna, named the following dele
gates to attend the Delmarva Vol
unteer Firemen's Association con-
vention at Seaford, May 10-11:
Robert Jacobs, Howell Barnes,
Stout Bickling, Harold Hufschmidt,
and Harper Jones. The alternates
are Wilson FAIRIES, Ralph G. FAIRIES,
Jr.. James E. Turner, Jr., James
Truax, and William Carson.
The Smyrna firemen will take
part in the parade and will be ac-
companied by the Smyrna High
School Band.
CIVIL DEFENSE - The regu-
lar monthly meeting of the School
Civil Defense Committee for the
State of Delaware was held at Do
yer on Tuesday, April &c, at 10000
A. M. The Committee received re-
ports from all schools on civil de-
Tense activities for the month and
was pleased to note an improve
ment in participation in civil de-
Tense over the previous report. The
Committee approved for submission
to Colonel ID. Preston Lee, State Di-
rector of Civil Defense, a proposed
directive for the training of all
school personnel in first aid. This
proposal was the result of a joint
study by State Department of Edu-
cation officials and A. w. Rand, Di-
rector of First Aid and Safety Ser
vices of the Delaware Chapter,
American Red Cross.
The next regular meeting of the
School Civil Defense Committee will
be held May "a at 1000 A. Nj.
MUSIC CAMP - Final plans for
the fifth Delaware Vocal Music
Camp have been announced by H.
Franklin Carroll, Camp Director,
according to Floyd T. Hart, State
Director of Music Education. The
Camp will be held at Wesley Junior
College in Dover, June 20-26, and
will be administered by the State
Department of Public Instruction
and the Delaware Music Educators
Association. Early registration in
dicates a capacity enrolment.
DR.. Clyde r. Dengler will return
as choral director and the follow
ing teachers will serve on the camp
staff: Mrs. Eugenia A. Matz, De-
partment of Public instruction
Charles H. Reid, William Penn
High School; Wallace w. Pancoast
William Penn High School; Miss
Mary E. Monroe, Department OF
Public instruction; Miss Miriam L.
Hollowell, Richardson Park School /;
Miss Joan /. Steele, Seaford Spec
jail School District; Mrs. Mary H.
Nichols. Georgetown Special School
District; Bruce Henrickson, Del
mar School; E. Richard Haarde,
Greenwood School; Albert J. Wood.
Dorothy w. Brill, Commodore Mac
Donough S C h DOL: Edward j.
Schwarz, Dover Special School Dis
trict.
FARM INCOME DROPS = Last
summers protracted drought, Sc
we're crop losses, and drop in some
farm commodity prices is catching
up with Delaware farmers, to the
tune of a S2,226,000 drop in farm in
come for the first two months of
this year, as compared with the
same period in 1854.
A report this week from the U. S
Department of Agriculture showed
that Delaware's farm returns for
January and February of 1855
amounted to s11,721, 600. For the
comparable period last year, the in
come from agricultural sources was
$13,947 900.
Farm observers in the state ex-
planned this by noting that the price
of milk is off; that corn prices have
not advanced during the winter as
they were expected to, and that
livestock prices also have tumbled
The corn situation is a serious
puzzler. Crops of that grain from
Ohio and other Midwestern states
have come into Delaware to make
competition, and, thus, to retard
sales of Diamond State farmers and
depress the local price.
On a national level. the weather
is substantially, to blame for the
lowered farm economy.
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