Milford chronicle., 1958-12-19

clal Security Representative viii
not be at the Fire Hall in Lewes
on Friday, December 26, it was
announced this week by Edward
F. Sullivan, Manager of the Dover
Social Security Office. President
eisenhower has declared December
26th a holiday for Federal en-
pIoyees, so the visit to Lewes,
scheduled for December 26 will be
cancelled.
FORT FIRING - The Command
ing Officer, Fort Miles, Lewes, Del
aware, announced for the informa-
ton of all concerned that NO Fir
ing will be conducted at the Anti
aircraft Artillery Ranges in Del
aware during the month of January
1859.
Inquiry into any matter in con-
nection with this notice or the op-
erations in the Bethany Beach or
Dewey Beach area should be di-
rected to: Commanding OFFICER,
Headquarters, Fort Miles, Lewes,
Delaware.
RACING INCOME - The states
net income from racing at Della
ware Park this year came to ST.
668, 8,919.88, setting new record of
more than $1,000,0O0 above the pre-
vious high.
The official figures on the states
revenue from Delaware Parks 81
day race meeting last summer were
revealed this week in the annual
report of the Delaware Racing
Commission. The figure is the total
state revenue from racing at Della
ware Park minus the commissions
expenses. The total receipts were
$2,672,S71.76.
COKESBURY PROGRAM - A
carol and candle lighting service
will be held at the Cokesbury Meth
odist Church on Sunday, Dec. 21,
at 7:30 p. m.
Special Christmas selections will
be given by the senior and junior
choirs and by the combined choirg.
Mrs. Jessie L. Tibbitt, organist at
Cannon Methodist Church, will give
a recital of organ music during the
evening.
The worship service will close
with the entire congregation par
ticipating in the lighting OF the
candles. The Rev. Gerald NJ. Hen
derson, pastor, will officiate at the
service.
The MYAF of the church is In
charge of the preparations for this
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church for the holiday season.
HOG VACCINATIONS - Vac
cinations are cheap insurance
against losses to cholera outbreaks
which often occur at this time of
year says Ray Lloyd, Associate
County Agricultural Agent
The use of modified virus with
serum, at 6-8 weeks of age, has
given good results.
Only about 40 per cent of the
nations hog farmers have their
animals vaccinated, Mr.. Lloyd
says, and this is often factor al
lowing the disease to spread rapid
ly.
Hogs can be vaccinated for less
LUdA a QOlld1 w ulCu 10 a 4CdoOA-
able way to prevent a possible loss
of thousands of dollars. The maxi
mum effect of vaccines is in pre-
vention of disease and not treat
ment after problems arise.
PHONE VET DIES - Mrs. Eliza
beth O'Day Hudson, a telephone
operator in Seaford for nearly
half a century, died Dec. 12 in the
Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, at
the age of co.
Mrs. Hudson, widow of Nester
D. Hudson, worked on the town
switchboard for 43 years until her
recent illness.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Frances H. Blocker, of Sea-
ford; brother, j. Alton O'Day of
Laurel, and two. grandchildren.
Her only son, Burdelle Hudson,
also of Seaford, died last August.
Funeral services were held at
2 p. M, Monday, in the Watson
Funeral Home, with the Rev. James
E. Wescott, Jr., pastor of the Sea-
ford Baptist Church, officiating.
I Interment in Odd Fellows Gene
terry.
DEPUTY AUDITOR - Jonathan
W. Hopkins, a former assistant
cashier at the Peoples Bank in
Harrington, will be the chief depu-
ty state auditor when that office
passes to Democratic administra-
tion in January.
This was announced this week
by the auditor-elect, Ernest E. Kill
len, Harrington.
Killen also announced that Mrs.
Mary Reed, Dover, will be chief
accountant. Mrs. Reed served in
that capacity during the admins
tration of Clifford E. Hall in 1856
56.
Hopkins, a graduate of Goldey
College, was with the bank in Har-
rington for IA years. He has also
been self-employed as an account
ant and is currently associated
with the Delaware Mills Company
in Frederick in that capacity.
HOME DESTROYED = Fire be-
lieved to have been caused by a
stove explosion destroyed the home
of Virgil Wilson Post No. 1861,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, near
.Seaford last Sunday.
Fire and VFW officials estima-
ted the damage at between $4,000
and $25. 900.
The Seaford Volunteer Fire De-
partment, with three engines, and