Milford chronicle., 1958-10-03
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phones Georgetown $500


General solicitation in this years
Boy Scout fund raising campaign
will begin Monday, October 6, ac-
cording to Ray Lloyd, general cam
paign chairman.
Mr.. Lloyd has set the goal at
$500. which tops the maximum
of $1.4S5 collected several years
ago.
The work of the Advance Gifts
Committee, headed by Jas. E. Cos
lee, Jr., is drawing to close. Mr..
Goslee has had two majors work
| ing with him-John l.. Briggs and
James F. Walls.
With Mr.. Briggs in his campaign
have been Charles B. Maillet, Dom
aid Wier, Vincent Sears and Ray
mond o. Martin.
With Mr.. Walls have been w.
! Virden Macklin, Harold S. White,
Howard Smith and j. Francis Rich
ardson.
Mrs. Raymond A. Rust is chair
man for the general solicitation,
and she will be assisted by the
following majors and captains:
Mrs Preston Workman, major;
Mrs. John Roach, Mrs. Hugh p.
Smith and Mrs. Sigurd Christian
sen, captains.
Mrs. Charles r. Maillet, major
Mrs. Robert w. Tunnell, Mrs. James
Proudfoot, Mrs. Julius Gorlich and
Mrs. John Elliott, captains.
Mrs. James F. Walls, major; Mrs.
Charles r. Cannon, Jr.. Mrs. Nor
man Abbott, Mrs. Paige Croll, Mrs.
Reese Smith, captains.
Mrs. william Stevenson, major
Mrs. Nutter d. Marvel, Jr., Mrs.
Joseph Thompson. Jr., Mrs. Frank
S. Hewitt and Mrs. Carey D. Sapp,
captains.
Each captain will have five work
ers who will make the calls.
The Georgetown Fire Co., Inc.
working on its program for Fire
4 Prevention Week, has chosen for
its theme this year ..No One Is
Immune from Fire. and has pre-
pared a statement on this subject
for public education.
The statement as prepared by the
Educational Committee of the com
pany, consisting of Chief Robert
Vanaman, Jr., the Rev. DR.. Thomas
C. Mulligan, state chaplain, and
James B. Owen. principal of the
Georgetown High School, follows
"We are sure that there isn't a
person in the area who hasn't been
shot sometime in his life, in the
arm or the leg. 1--WE mean with a
needle). Today, medical science
has us sold on the common-sense
precaution of being vaccinated a.
/ gainst contagious diseases. You
know it makes sense for our shots
protect us from crippling or fatal
illnesses. Well, we wish that the
same could be done with fire.
| "II 1857, fire claimed 1900 lives
and caused injuries to thousands of
other persons. Unfortunately, there
is no vaccine rinoculation to
stop fire injuries or ire deaths.
That doesn't mean that the only
choice left is to be fatalistic-to
shrug and say, Well, then. let ii
come if it must Yet there is de-
tense against fire injury and deaths
"a common-sense rather obvious
defense. It's effect could be much
like that Of incubation. That de-
fense is Fire Prevention.
We must be safeguarded and take
precaution against fire the same as
you would for any disease.
Death and destruction due to
fire can be reduced through your
help; not only during Fire Pre-
yention Week, October sill, but
throughout the year, Human care
lessness is the cause of fire. for al
least rs per cent of all fires are
preventable. These fires happen be-
cause of carelessness and can be
eliminated if we all pay attention
| to fire prevention.
what can you do to prevent
| fires? You can do two things: You
/ can make your home fire-safe and
YOUR families fire-safety conscious
You can start by becoming fire
hazard hunters in your homes by
attempting to locate and eliminate
the danger spots there.
"Will there be fire epidemic in
our community this year? Or will