Milford chronicle., 1957-01-18

CHICKEN FESTIVAL = The
tenth annual Delmarva Chicken
Festival will be held in Laurel on
June 11-12
Laurel was selected at a meet
ing in Selbyville of the board of
directors of the Delmarva Poultry
Industry, Inc, sponsors of the af-
fair.
Sterling White of Delmar is pres
ident of the group
VESSEL MEETING - A Meeting
of the Delaware Association of
Small Passenger Carrying Vessels,
at Bowers Beach Fire Hall, Friday,
January 18th, 500 p. m.NThis meet
ing will be open to all persons en-
gagged in or having an interest in
the business of carrying passen-
gers in small vessels. We would be
glad to have a reporter from your
paper attend the meeting. Thank
you.
POULTRY FIGURES - The fol-
lowing figures show the procure
meat CT poultry by the Armed For
ces for the months of September,
October and November 1856, along
with the amount of such purchases
obtained from the Delmarva Penin-
sula, are as follows: September
u. S. total (pounds), 4,700,000; Del
marva Peninsula (pounds, also per
cent of totaD S3,733 (14549o); Oc-
tober: 100000; 1,331,S21 (24.55qo) 4;
Move EN- b er: 5,200,O00; 1857 1886
(26.10%o).
DIVORCES GRAINED. = Judge
James B. Carey has granted de-
crees nisi in the following Sussex
County divorce cases
Elizabeth Mary Gaines V. John
Wesley Gaines; Roberta Ann McIll-
vain, infant, by her next friend,
Vera G. Brown, V. James Harry
McIIvain, III; Ruth E. Tull, in
fant, by her next friend, Eleanor
Lorraine Horne, V. Floyd A. Tull,
Jr.: Hester Miller V. William A.
Miller; Lillian Mae Stanley V. Will
liam G. Stanley; Fitchie Mason V.
Alice Mason; Amanda Ruth Daw-
son V. William Franklin Dawson.
TRAFFIC COUNT = Increases
in traffic during December, in COM
parison with the same month of
last year, were recorded at all but
one of the permanent traffic count
ing stations maintained by the
Traffic and Planning Division of
the State Highway Department.
The one counting station regis
tering a decrease was along U. S.
Route 13 at a point north of Smyr-
ma and it is thought this decrease
might have been caused by the
normal flow of traffic between the
Delaware Memorial Bridge and the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge leaving
this route at Tybout's Corner or
Odessa.
SALES MANAGER - Samuel
Mantell has been :iamed sales pro-
motion maEager of the Internation-
al Latex Corporation, covering all
tPlaytex and Isodine products, ii
was announced today by w. 0.
Heinze, president.
Mr.. Mantell, who began as a
salesman with tb. Corporation in
194S, has serve1 as district sales
manager in Eew York and Chicago.
! Playtex, the worlds largest girdle
manufacturer, produces the most
popular bra design sold, and is the
world leader in the production OF
waterproof baby pants. The Iso-
dine Pharmacal Corporation, phar-
maceutical. division of the Inter-
national Latex Corporation, pro-
duces Isodine (R) .Antiseptic and
Concentrated Isodine Gargle, the
first in a series of pharmaceutical
products.
FIRE AIDES - A quarterly
meeting of the Delaware Chapter
of the American Association of
Firemen was held last Sunday af-
ternoon in the Robbins Hose Com
pany hall.
Newly elected officers assumed
their duties at this first 1857 meet
ing. They are: Alfred Hurlock, Sr.,
of the Five Points Volunteer Fire
Company of Richardson Park, pres
ident, who is also vice president
of the national organization Har-
old H. Barnes, Smyrna, vice presi-
dent; Marion Sherwood, Delmar,
secretary. and Arthur Hope, Della
ware City, treasurer.
The group in Delaware is a
branch of volunteer firemen's or
ganization, which is nationwide,
and which is devote ed to the spon-
sorship of natioDsi programs which
are of assistance to volunteer fire.
men in their community duties.
The next meeting of the chapter
will be at the Robbins Hose Com
pany Hall on April at 2 p. m.