Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown 2S90

Nelson Coar was the only
Georgetown High School student
to receive all AS during the first
school quarter just ended
Others on the honor roll are:
No mark lower than A: Georgia
Beamer, Susan Hartranft, w. Ray
Johnson, Patricia Jones, A. Eliza
beth Ratledge.
No mark lower than b: Richard
Adams, Carroll Beamer, Penelope
Carlisle, Janice Grain, Joan Da-
wilson, Constance Dickerson, Pa
tricia Fleetwood, John Goff, Shir-
ley Golden, Sandra Isaacs, Harold
r. Johnson, Georgeann Keen, Car
oil Mumford, Janice Pepper, Edward
Ratledge, Barry Sakemiller, Kar-
en- Weir. Catherine Wilson.
Sussex Post No. 8, American
Legion and its auxiliary, held their
Joint celebration of Veterans Day
and the Auxiliary's birthday with
a supper and program at the Log
Cabin last Friday night.
cials joined in the observance.
Allen Larson, second vice COM
mander, served as master of cere-
monies. The supper was in charge
of a committee headed by Mrs.
Joyce Lambden of the auxiliary.
The Girls State delegates, Janice
Grain and Joan Davidson, were in
troduced.
Mrs. Gertrude Scout, of Smyrna,
department auxiliary president,
was introduced as were AIRS. Grace
Garris, also of Smyrna, state sec
retary; Mrs. Emma Short, George
town, national executive commit
teewoman; Mrs. Lambden, George
town, state vice president; Mrs.
Park Huntington, Mrs. John Long
botham, Mrs. Newall Duncan, Mrs.
Edwin Phillips and Mrs. Charles
Jackson.
Legion department officers pres
ent were: Park Huntington, Will
mington, commander; Charles
Jackson, Seaford, first vice COM
mander; Newall Duncan, New
Castle, adjutant; Ralph III. Lyons.
Georgetown, historian; Leon Short,
Delmar, commander District No.
4; John Longbotham, Milford, past
department commander, and Grant
Garris, Smyrna, past district COM
mander.
Past commanders of Sussex Post
who were honored were Charles
Calhoon, Edwin Clendaniel, Cliff
ton Rogers, James Hastings, Hugh
S. Smith, Lester Brumley, Stuart
Russell and Ralph H. Lyons.
Alden Carton, past commander of
Milford Post No. 8, was also pres
ent and showed motion pictures
taken at the national convention in
Atlantic City.
Following the supper and gener-
al meeting the Legion and its aux
iliary retired to separate business
sessions.
At the Legion meeting Lawrence
Lind, commander, presided. Will
liam Lambden gave a. report on
membership showing that the post
now has 1856 members or 12S per
cent of the national quota.
Also announced was that another
flag campaign will be carried out
December 7. Tentative plans were
made for the annual Christmas par
ty.
Roy Ayres was introduced as a
new member. Attention was call
ed to the ambulance subscriber
campaign now under way, with the
deadline of December 81.
At the auxiliary session, presid-
ed over by Mrs. Ralph lyons, it
was decided to hold the monthly
meetings again on Monday even
ings. Rehabilitation" will be the
subject of the December meeting.
There will also be an exchange of
Christmas gifts and the Christmas
gifts for the veterans hospitals
will be collected.
The 26 resolutions, passed by the
delegates to the Delaware Farm
Bureaus annual business session,
are being distributed to the MEM
bership by James II. Baxter, Jr.,
Georgetown, state president.
Charles Mills, Rehoboth, is chair
man of the resolutions committee.
The resolutions came up from
small groups in each county, to be
passed by the county bureaus and
then presented to the state body.
Two of the resolutions had to do
with deer hunting, one being that
later dates be set for hunting with
guns in order to prevent unneces-
sary damage to unharvested crops
and the other that rife slugs
shouldn't be used in shot guns.
Several of the resolutions had tc
do with water, made of special in
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