Milford chronicle., 1958-09-05
Happenings OF Interest
Throughout Delaware

$2,s74,O0O FOR BASE-President
Eisenhower last Friday signed
$1,S54, 100000 appropriation bill for
military construction, including
$4,000 earmarked for the Dover
lLsl) Air Force Base. Both Mill
tary Air Transport Service and
Strategic Air Command use the
Dover base.
BANKER 40 YEARS-Miss Eliz-
abeth IT, Wilson, of Delaware
Street, Smyrna, is receiving con-
gratulations from friends and Of
ficials of the Farmers Bank of the
State of Delaware as she ceIe-
brates 40 years with the ba1lk and
its predecessor. Miss Wilson be-
gan her banking career in August.
1918, with the Fruit Growers Ma
tioral Bank
BANKRUPT-Herhert e. Kemp.
Jr., carpenter, of near Magnolia.
Kent County. was adjudged bank
rupt on his voluntary opinion filed
last Friday in the U. s.. District
Court.
The order of adjudication and
the. order referring the action to
Bankruptcy Referee H. Newton
White. Jr., were signed by Judge
Edwin d. Steel, Jr.
Kemp's petition, filed by Will
niHgton attorney James j. Walsh,
showed debts of S8,3S2.81 and as
sets of $85. Kemp is employed by
Edward F. Thorney of Wyoming.
ATTEND INSTTTUE-Carl Vim
cent and Ronald Howard, members
of the Lewes School Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America, Les
ter S. Hess, vocational agriculture
instructor. and Samuel M. Sloan,
state director of Southern States
Cooperative, are attending the Am
erican Institute on Cooperatives. at
Pennsylvania State University.
Both of the FLA boys have es-
sential parts in the program. They
were awarded the opportunity of
attending the Institute upon at
tanning high standings in competi-
tive contests administered through
out Delaware.
JOB OPP0RTUNITY-UntiI Sep
tember 30, 1858, applications will
be accepted for the position of
Fireman-Laborer in Post Office
Service, paying $3.50 a year. No
written test is required. Six
months experience in firing sta
tionary steam boilers or locomo-
tive boilers is required. Full in
formation and applications forms
may be obtained by contracting the
Civil Service representative at the
Post Office in Milford, or the direc-
tor, Third U. S. Civil Service Reg
ion, 107 U. s. Customhouse. End
and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia
s. Pa.
KENT September 8:
Well Child Conference - Dover.
Health Unit. Ala South state
Street, 100 p. m. Call Dover Sill,
extension 10, for appointments.
September g: Venereal Disease
Clinic-Dover, Health Unit, Ala
South State Street, 200 p. m. ven-
ereal Disease Clinic Milford.
Health Unit, Shore Theater Build
ing, 1870 a. m.-12:3O p. m.
September IL: Well Child Con-
ference-Milford (w), Health Unit,
Shore Theater Building, 10:0O a.
m. and 100 p. m.
September IL: Chest Clinic -
Milford, Health Unit, Shore The
ater Building, 1000 a. m.
NEW POST-Karl Seeger, who
has been engaged in poultry re-
search for the American Cyanamid
Company near Georgetown, has re-
moved to Orange Cove, Calf, where
he will be in the research division
of the firm.
Mr.. Seeger went to Georgetown
in 1912 as poultry pathologist at
the University of Delaware sub
station at Georgetown and later
joined the Cyanamid staff. He has
been active in the Georgetown
Kiwanis Club and the Georgetown
Presbyterian Church.
Mr.. Seeger's daughter, Miss Mar
cia Seeger, who is a student at the
University of Delaware, accom-
panied her father to California, but
will return to continue her edu-
cation at the university.
CULLEN RETIRED - After
531z years of service with the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
w. HI. Quillen of Bridgeyille. has
retired, it was announced last Fri
day
Mr.. Quillen began as a messen-
ger boy at Centreville in 1905. La
ter he became a telegrapher, and
since 1882 he has been a block
operator at Harrington.
Mr.. Quillen is married to the
former Fannie Welch of Bridge
vile, and they have four sons,
Randolph Quillen of fredericksburg
Martin Quillen of PennsviIle, ".
j.; Richard QuilIen of Lincoln, and
Narle Quillen, now serving with
the u. S. Air Force in French Nor
occo. Africa.
Mr.. Quillen plans to spend his
retirement working in his yard
and garden in Bridgeville.
SUSSEX CLINICS - September
.8: VenereaI Disease Clinic -
Georgetown, Health Unit, sos East
Market Street, 1900 noon.
September g.: Venereal Disease
Milford, Health Unit, Shore
Thoafar Puildinr 11.20 a m 11.2n