Milford chronicle., 1956-04-06
FARM BUREAU MEETING

FARM BUREAU MEETING =
The Andrewsyille Farm Bureau
Discussion Group will meet at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Brown
on Wednesday evening. April IL.
at 5 p. m. -
CANCER CLINICS - April 5:
Harrington, New Century Club, call
Harrington 1856 for appointments
April II and 10: Dover. Health
Unit, Ala South State street, call
Dover 1922 for appointments;
April 20: Smyrna, Health Unit,
East Commerce street, call S-ayr-
ma 800, for appointments; April
26: Milford, Health Unit, Shore
Theater Building. call Milford 1885
for appointments.
RED CROSS FUND-Delaware's
1856 he'd Cross fund drive has
climbed a. within 80 per cent of its
$313, ,668 goais John d. LaMothe,
general chairman, has announced.
"Our big need now,' Mr. LaMothe
said, is to put ON that extra squirt
of energy that will put us there. .
Figures released by the drive COM
mittee show that receipts and pied
ges total S220,905.
The campaign ends two weeks
from today.
STAG NIGHT-The Kent & Sus-
sex Scottish Rite Club will have
Stag Night on Thursday, April 5th,
at 700 P. M. in the Harrington
High School Cafeteria with James
B. Kilvington presiding. A baked
ham dinner will be served.
Jacob G. Messner will act as
toast master and Samuel Williams
Is dinner chairman There will be
reports of committees and the en-
tertainment, arranged by J. Henry
Mcdonnell, will consist OF three
vaudeville acts.
POSTS BAIL - Vincent e. Bas-
Of an automobile involved in fs..
tai accident ON March 20. was re-
leased from the Kent GaneSe1 Hes-
pital and then posted $4,000 cash
bail in Superior Court for his ap-
pearance at the April term of court,
BaAssett is charged with man
slaughter Calvin S. Fowler. %,
Bowers Beach, who was riding with
him at the time of the accident, was
pronounced dead ON arrival at the
Kent General Hospital after the
mishap, which occurred on u. S
IS, about mile north of FELTON,
according TO the allegation. Bas-
sett suffered head injuries.
! FIRST CASE Possibly the
first person in the state to be ar
rested for drunken driving after
the new penalties went into effecd
was given the new minimum sen.
tence for second offenders b.
Judge Isaac ID. Short in Court O
Common Pleas Monday morning O
this week.
Carl Edward Truitt, So, Seaford
was arrested about 7 p. M, Febr7u-
ary 29, the same dsy that the new
penalties were pat into use at $50
p. m.
He was fined $500, assessed the
costs of the case, and sentenced to
Sussex County Prison for SO days
He had pleaded not guilty and
when sentence was pronounced
his attorney. James M Tunnell,
Sr.. said that he would consider
filing an appeal.
MINISTER'S MEET = Thirty
three ministers and their wives
from the Dover District Ministerial
Association of the Methodist Church
gathered at the zoar Methodist
Church near GeorgetoWn, Monday
for an all day session
Devotions at 1879 a. m. were
conducted by tie Rev. Joseph "
Holiday, pastor of the Georgetown
Methodist Circuit of which the hos
tess church is a part Mrs. Glenn
ence Luzier gave a solo, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Louise Davis Dorey
The business session was con-
Quoted by the Rev Harold Wilkins,
pastor of the Middletown Methodist
Chur1h snd president OF the dis
trieG association.
Che Rev DIR. O. A. BARLEY, sup
eriDneadent of the Dover District,
out lined some of the highlights OF
the General Conference to be held
This month in Minneapolis.
The w. S. c. S. of the church
served an elaborate luncheon.