Milford chronicle., 1957-12-20
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware


/ SUSSEX CLINICS - December
%, 1857: Chest Clinic, Laurel,
Health Unit, Pine Street, 1000
a. m. and 200 p. m; Venerea1 Dis
ease Clinic, Georgetown, Health
Unit, sos E. Market Street.
December 26, 1857: Well Child
Conference, Frankford (c), Health
| Unit, Main Street, LOO p. m.
NEW CEMETERY - A transac-
| tion has been completed which will
| give the Dover area a new ceme-
terry. Sixty acres of land between
Dover and Bishops Corner, on the
west side of the Dupont Boulevard,
have been acquired from Jacob
zimmerman. The group develop
ing the project is headed by Pau.
w. Phillips of Sudlersville, Md.
and M. III. Jacobs of Chestertown
Md.
BOND ISSUE - Voters of the
Georgetown Special School Dis
trict. authorized a $4,000 bond is
sue for school construction pur-
poses at the special election held
last Saturday.
The money will be used in
building four-classroom addition
to the elementary section of the
school and will include equipment.
| alterations, and improvements.
! The state share of the construc-
tion cost has been given at $4,000.
| MINSTREL SHOW - Dates for
the fourth annual Bridgeville
Lions Club Minstrel have been set.
Show Boat, locally produced
show featuring local talent will be
given on the stage of the Sidney
Theatre in Bridgeville Thursday
and Friday, Feb. 2O-21. Edwin
James will be the director.
Two popular end-men will re-
turn from previous years. They are
Palmer Corey and Dutt Wheatley..
Four other end-men will be select
ed soon.
Rehearsals will be held after the
regular Lions Club meetings. They
will start soon, Mr.. James said.
EASTERN STAR Sussex
Chapter No. z, Order of Eastern
Star, elected officers for the forth
coming year. The outgoing Worthy
Matron and Worthy Patron are Lot
tie Cleaver and Joseph Bostick.
Elected were: Worthy Matron,
Elizabeth Tull; Worthy Patron,
Norman Tull; Associate Matron,
Eunice Marshall; Associate Patron,
Robert Marshall; Secretary, Eunice
| Tufi; Treasurer, Evelyn Waller;
Conductress, Grace Cline; Assor
ciate Conductress, Rosa Burton;
Trustee, Lottie Cleaver.
The officers OF 1857 and their
husbands wives met at the English
Grille for dinner and social hour
on December 6.
YMCA DINNER - The 18th an
nual dinner of the Dover YMCA
will be held Monday, January 27,
at $50 p. m, at the Hub Restaur-
ant, Dover, E. w. Buchanan, gen.
eral chairman, announced this
i week.
Four committees are making
preparations. Hudson e. Gruwell
is chairman of the committee on
planning and program; H. Gordon
| Fromm, promotion and ticket
sales; Jack Smyth, publicity, ana
Robert H. Reed, arrangements,
| decorations, and reception. Tickets
will go on sale Immediately after
Christmas and may be secured
from any member of the Y board
of directors.
LOST AT SEA = A 27-year-old
| jet pilot of Capitol Green, Dover,
is the object of an intensive air.
sea search today in an area 430
miles northeast of the Azores,
where he was forced to ditch his
plane on Wednesday last.
| He is First Lit Donald G. Burle-
son, whose parents live in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. His wife and two
| children are at the Dover devel-
| opment.
Burleson was in a flight of four
F-84-F Thunderstreaks being fer
| ried to Chateaureux, France, 13O
miles south of Paris.
| One Of his companions said he
saw Burleson bail out and after
circling the area, saw him in a
life-raft The other pilot ran so low
on fuel, according to a Dover
| spokesman, that he had to put in
at Bordeaux instead of going on to
Chateaureux.
BADLY BURNED - Mrs. Mary
Kitchens, 65, East Street and
Maryland Avenue, Delmar, badly
burned when fire swept the kitch-
en- of her home last Wednesday, is
reported in serious condition in the
Peninsula General Hospital, Sails
bury. Delmar firemen were called
to the home during the raging
snowstorm last Wednesday night.
Firemen said three small grand
children, whose mother is Mrs.
Paul Bramble, make their home
with their grandmother. While
playing, Paul Bramble, z, turned
over a small portable oil stove.
The kerosene flowed through the
kitchen and set fire to that part of
the house.
Mrs. Kitchens was burned in at
tempting to fight the fire. Attaches
at the hospital said she was burned
over 80 per cent of her body. The
children escaped injury.
LAUREL CHAMBER - The Lau-
rel Chamber of Commerce elected
its board of directors for 1858 at a
meeting in the Rigbie Hotel last
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