Milford chronicle., 1958-06-20

HAIRDRESSERS - ,rhe Della
ware Kent-Sussex Hairdressers AS
sociation Unit No. met in the
West End Room of the Dover Ho-
tel this past Monday evening" for
their regular monthly meeting.
ANNIVERSARY The Elle1-
dale Home Demonstration Club
will celebrate their 18th anniver-
sary, June oath, Tuesday evening,
in the Glendale Fire Hall, with a
covered dish supper at Z p. m.
Members and invited guests. Each
member please bring table setting,
table cloth for invited guests,
covered dish and soc toward ex-
penses. Mrs. Harvey M. Wilson,
club president, urges all MEM
bers to attend.
MARINERS WARNED - It has
been brought to the attention of
the District Engineer that vessels
have been travelling at excessive
speeds in the Lewes and Rehoboth
Canal at Lewes, Delaware.
Owners and operators of vessels
using the canal are requested to
travel at safe and reasonable
speeds in order to avoid excessive
/ wave action and resulting damage
| to other vessels and property
along the waterway. Failure to
comply with this request will re-
suit in disciplinary action against
the offending parties.
KENT COUNTY YOUTH - The
Christ Church YPF members at
tended the last meeting of the Kent
County Convocation for the season
last Sunday in Dover. Following a
light, tasty supper, officers for next
year were elected and the Rev.
Paul Kellogg showed interesting
colorful slides of his recent trip to
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
OF interest to those who remember
Trey Smith, son of Mrs. Jane
Smith, formerly of Milford, Trey
was elected president of the Kent
County Convocation. The previous
Sunday he was elected president of
the Youth Commission of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Delaware.
BIDS INVITED = Bids have
been invited for alteration work
and new construction at the spe-
cial antiaircraft radar and gap
filler site at Fort Miles, Delaware,
according to Colonel Stanley t. B..
Johnson, u. S. Army District En-
gineer at Baltimore.
Principal features of the work
include interior alterations to a
portion of an existing building,
construction of a new one-story
generator building with an Opera
tors Room addition, bituminous
paving of roadway and parking
area, and outside mechanical and
electrical work. The successful
bidder will be allowed five months
to complete the job.
Contractors have until 3 p. M,
EDST, June 20, 1858, to submit
sealed bids. Prospective bidders
can obtain drawings, specifications
and bidding papers by contracting
the District Engineer, P.O. Box
1715, Baltimore 8, Md.
SERIOUS CHARGE = A 33-
year-old Harbeson woman, pro-
prietor of sandwich shop, was
arrested last Sunday on a murder
charge after police found William
James Mitchell, "a, of Dover, his
throat slashed with bread knife.
Mitchell, who was stabbed at
about a. M, Sunday, died in Do
Ver's Kent General Hospital short
ly after noon.
The woman, Glennie Belle Dar-
den, was arraigned on charge of
murder before Magistration Fran
els Short of Georgetown. She was
held without bond and was COM
mitted to the Sussex County Cor
rectional Institution.
Police, who were still investiga-
ting the incident said the stabbing
was apparently the result of an
argument
The woman is the proprietor of
Darden's Restaurant about three
miles south of Harbeson.
Mitchell was a migratory farm
worker.
STATE FARM HANDS - The
farm hand in Delaware has a
shorter work day than his boss ac-
,ording to the Delaware State De-
yelopment Department.
Basing it's observations on re-
ports of the u. S. Department of
Agriculture, the Development De-
oartment advises that, as of June
[, the average work day for hired
agricultural workers was 81 hours
while that of Delaware farm opera
tors was more than ten hours-10.4 A
hours to be exact
Inasmuch as the average work
day in 1856 was go hours for Del
aware farm workers and 1912 hours
for the farm operators, it would
seem that there is trend towards
4 shorter workday for the hired
hand and a longer werkday for
those doing the hiring and super
vising.
This trend is apparently in effect
throughout the nation, u. S. De-
partment of Agriculture statistics
Indicating that, nationwide. the