Milford chronicle., 1956-08-10
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware
CANNING CENTER.

CANNING CENTER - Follow
ing the custom of recent years, the
Caesar Rodney Canning Center is
ill operation on Thursday of each
week under the direction of Mrs.
Margaret E. G. Hairgrove. Anyone
wishing to use the facilities of the
center, and finding it impossible TO
do so on the regular canning day,
may make an appointment for a
more suitable time by calling Mrs.
Hairgrove at Bedford 1868 any
time after 900 a. m. on Thursday.
SUSSEX CLINICS - August 13.
1856: Venereal Disease Clinic,
Georgetown, Health Unit, COS E.
Market Street, 1900 Noon; Cancer
Detection Center, Frankford, Health
Unit, Main Street, 9:45-11:45 a. m.
This service is for women 25 years
of age and over. Call Rodney 3161
for appointments.
August Is, 1856: Prenatal and
Postnatal Clinic, Seaford (c). Man
ticoke Hospital, 1000 a. m.
August II, 1856: Prenatal and
Postnatal Clinic, Bridgeville (c),
Health Unit, 110 Market Street,
lao p. m.
SUSSEX DIGGERS - The Sus-
sex Archaeological Association has
cancelled its August 16 meeting
since the members are busy pre-
pairing to enter a float in Lewes'
anniversary parade
Consequently, the diggers will
not meet until September 20. All
that time, DR.. Chesleigh A. .Bonine
of Rehoboth will give talk on
Pompeii.
The association is setting up a
float for the Pageant of Years par
ade on Saturday. August IL, depict
ing the aboriginal Indian tribes
men living in this section before
the arrival of white men.
WHEAT ALL0TMENTS- Farm
ers on land on which no wheat was
seeded for grain for any of the
years 1854, 1855, and 1856, may ap-
ply for 1857 wheat acreage allot-
ment, according to Joseph W. En-
mis-, chairman of the Kent County
Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Committee. To be con-
sidered for an allotment on a
farm which had no wheat seeded
for grain for any of those years,
the farmer must apply in writing
to his county ASC Committee by
August 15, 1856. Blank application
forms are available at the county
ASC office at 313 South Governors
Avenue, Dover.
| DIRECTORS TO MEET - Mem
bers of the local Southern States
Board of Directors and the Farm
2 Home Advisory Committee voted
at their Annual Meeting Planning
: Conference held recently to hold
t their local Southern States Annua
q Membership Meeting on Septembei
/ 10. The meeting will be held a
/ Milford, Delaware.
i. Highlights of the Membership
Meeting will include election O
e local Board of Directors and Farm
}, Home Advisory Committee mem
: bers; the showing of Partners" I"
r a color movie prodaced by the Nat
f ional Council of Farmer Coopara-
l tives. and a Whats The Answer
: contest.
KENT CLINICS - August 13,
1856: Well Child Conference, Do
yer, Health Unit, Ala S. State
Street. 100 p. IN. Call Dover 5711,
Ext. 10 for appointments.
August Is, 1856: Venereal Dis
ease Clinic, Dover, Health Unit, Ala
S. State Street, 200 p. m; Mil
ford, Health Unit, Shore Theater
Building, 11:30 a. m.-12 80 p. m.
August Is, 1856: Chest Clinic,
Dover, Health Unit, Ala S. State
Street, 1000 a. m.
Il August 16, 1856: Cancer Detec-
tion Center, Dover, Health Unit,
Ala S. State Street, 9:45-11 AS a. m.
!, and 12:45-2:45 p. m. This service
is for women rs years of age and
over. Call Dover 1922 for appoint
ments.
GUIDANCE TEACHER - DIR.
Donald j. Diffenbaugh of Baltimore
County, Maryland, has been ap-
pointed Director of Guidance Ser
/, vices in the Child Development e.
Guidance Division of the State De-
partment of Public instruction.
He succeeds DIR. Robert j. Darl-
ing who is now associated with the
California Test Bureau. Dr. Diffen-
baugh assumed his new position on
, August 1, 1856.
DR.. Diffenbaugh was a guidance
counselor at the Sparrows Head
High School, Maryland, for the
past year. He served as a teacher
: and counselor in the Hershey,
Pennsylvania, public schools from
: 1899 TO 1855, and in the Montgom-
cry County, Pennsylvania, public
schools from 1895 to 1899.
( NEW H0MEMAKER = M. Fran
t ces Shoffner has taken over her
: duties as Home Demonstration
: Agent in Sussex County. Miss Shoff-
: ner, who replaces Mrs. Nancy r.
: Shelton, was formerly Homemak-
ing Teacher in the Rehoboth Spe-