Milford chronicle., 1955-03-25
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

BENEFIT SUPPER - The mem
bers of the Greenwood Volunteer
Fire Company, Inc, will serve an
other Benefit Supper in the Fire
mems Building on Friday and SAT-
urday evenings, March 25th and
26th. Chicken Salad, Fried Oysters
and Baked Chicken will be on the
Menu
CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS -
The N. H. d. Club will have
Chicken and Dumplin' dinner this
Saturday, March 26th, starting at
4;00 p. M, in the Cokesbury Com
munity House on the Georgetown
and Bridgeville Highway.
The menu: baked chicken and
dumplings, dressing, creamed pota-
toes, sweet potatoes, turnip greens,
corn bread, cole slaw. string beans,
etc. Prices for Adults: $1.OO: Chill
dren: $50.
STATE PREMIERE - The Del
aware premiere of the oratorio.
The Evangel of the New World"
by Van Denman Thompson, will be
offered in Peninsula Methodist
Church, Wilmington, at 8 D. m,
Sunday, March %, and again the
following day at s p. m.
A chorus of 55 voices, seated
wilh the congregation, will sing.
while a cast of so will dramatize
IN pantomine the story of Metho-
dism in America from the DAYS Of
the first frontier. Originally COM
missioned for the sesquicentenniaI
celebration of the Methodist Church
in America, it was first performed
in Baltimore in 1884 with a chorus
OF 500 voices.
FIRING II Colonel S. B. Howard.
Post Commander, Fort Miles, Del
aware, announced the following
schedule of firing to be conducted
81 the Bethany Beach Anti-Aircraft
Artillery Range on the dates indi-
Gated. This is published for the in
formation of all concerned. Firing
will be conducted in Restricted
Area No. 2, between the hours OF
$500 a. m. and 500 p. m. on the
following dates:
] April, 1855; April, to and in
Guiding s April 1855; II April. to
and including Is April, 1855; Is
April, to and including % April.
1855; Is April, to and including 29
April, 1855.
No firing is scheduled for month
of April in Restricted Area No. /
and "a.
NAVY RECRUITS - It was an
nOunced this week by Petty Officer
First Glass Mark Langdon of the
Navy Recruiting Station in George
town, Delaware, that five men from
Sussex County have recently enlist
ed in the Navy and are now under
going recruit training at Balm
bridge, Maryland. Enlisted as Sea-
man Recruit are: Charlie. James
K b erts S, Bridgeville, Delaware.
Frederick Edward Lake, Ellendale,
Delaware; Donald Lee MilIman.
Greenwood, Delaware; Hugh Brian
Fleming, Milford, Delaware: Rom
aid Oliver ToOmey DagsborO, Del
aware.
Langdon also announced that
Navy Enlistments are wide open"
and there is no waiting list for en-
listment. One may report to leave
for recruit training within one
week after date of application.
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STATE POLICE - A bill to in
crease the state police force from
l44 to 180 officers and men and an
other to prohibit the Direction of
Safety responsibility from repre-
senting an insurance company were
among 13 new measures introduced
in the House this week.
The state police item was intro
duced by Representative J. Earl
Pepper (D-Georgetown) by request
and it would cost the taxpayers an
additional $279,143 during the BIZ
ennium starting July / (H-321).
resently the authorized
strength of the force is IA men,
bers. This bill would Jump that fig
ure to 1S0 and would make S115,-
547.22 available in the first year of
the biennium starting July 1 and
$163,595.78 ready for the second
year.