Milford chronicle., 1957-07-12
GEORGETOWN
gIrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown 1880

The Georgetown Volunteer Fire
Co. through Chief Robert Vana-
man, announced this week that
the month of June in Georgetown
provided a 75-year record because
there were no fire calls during
that month.
Believing it to be a record, Chief
Vanaman searched the IRE records
as far back as 1882. He was assis-
ted by Thomas Pepper. former
chief, and the oldest living mem
Der of the local department, and
Olin d. Johnson, also a former
chief and the second oldest mem
Der of the company.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. MALL
igan, state fire chaplain and an
active member of the local con-
pany, said that the company.s ed
ucational committee, of which he
is member, hopes that the absen-
ce of fires was the direct result
of the intensive fire safety cam
paign recently conducted here, and
the public's cooperation.
The record was broken, however,
early in the morning of July 2.
when a small fire was reported.
Roland Miffiin took in an ac-
quaintance who was down on his
luck and lost his home and all his
possessions when the guest fell
asleep on the sofa with a lighted
cigarette.
Fire completely destroyed the
two-room shanty at the ~" here
early last Tuesday morning. On
consultation with Georgetown Vol
unteer Fire Company Chief, Rob-
ert Vanaman, the fire police have
brought charges of disoIderly con-
duct against Harold Willis, 35, the
overnight guest
The alarm sounded at 1:45 a. m.
and while the blaze was under
control in half an hour, firemen
remained on duty for more than
two hours. The house was directly
across the road from five storage
tanks OF the Atlantic Refinery and
there were wooden houses on each
side
Chief Vanaman estimated the
damage at about $500.
Donald Hyland, Laurel, head of
the Sussex section of the state
employment service, detailed the
problem of the migratory workers
to members of the Georgetown
Millsboro Rotary Club at their
meeting at the Indian River Yacht
Club last Tuesday night.
crops in Delaware that make the
migrant necessary, explained how
they are recruited in the south and
the conditions facing them in the
labor camps in Delaware.
He said that the camps have
been greatly improved and that
they are now under the control
of the State Board of Health.
Harold S. White was program
chairman for the evening and in
troduced Mr. Hyland.
Visitors were Everett Walls, Mid
dletown, and Frank Oliphant, Lau-
rel.
Russell Geyer, Milton, was fined
$3.50 and ordered to pay the costs
of prosecution for drunken driv-
ing by Judge James B. Carey in
Sussex County Superior Court last
week.
.Geyer had originally been fined
$500 and given the mandatory jail
sentence of so days as a second
offender by former Magistrate Os-
car B. King, in Georgetown, Feb.
%.
He appealed the conviction and
the case was brought to trial be-
fore jury on Monday 1t was one
of the most bitterly fought drunk
en- driving cases in recent months
with the jury bringing in a guilty
verdict Former u. S. Senator
James NJ TunneIl, Sr., defense at
torney, demanded a poll of the
jury.
In passing sentence, Judge Car
ey explaind to Geyer that the
prison term had been omitted due
to the change in the law which
wines from the record any offenses
prior to February 20, 1856.