Milford chronicle., 1959-08-07
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

JULY RAINFALL-July, the sec
ond straight soggy month, brought
5.21 inches of rain to Delaware, ac-
cording to measurements at the u.
S. Weather Station at the New
Castle County Airport, 1873 per
cent more than the July normal
of 4.49.
Despite the high rainfall, the
weatherman said, the long dry
spring has kept the total for 1859
to date (19.59 inches) below the
average for the year SO far (26.11
inches).
CANCER DETECTION CENTERS
This service is for women rs
years of age and over.
August 13 and August 20: Dover
Kent County Health Unit, Ala
South State Street. Call RE-4-4822
for appointments.
August 21: Smyrna-Health Unit
East Commerce Street. Call
Olive 3-7088 for appointments.
August 26: Harrington = New
Century Club Call Exeter S-SS55
for appointments.
| August 81: Milford-Health Unit,
Shore Theater Building. Call Gar
den 2-5766 for appointments.
FAIR ATTENDANCE 4Oth
annual Kent and Sussex Fair clos
ed last Saturday with a top at
tendance of 10000. Auto races
were the feature last Saturday af-
ternoon. T. Brinton Holloway, ex-
ecutive secretary of the fair asso-
citation, said the total attendance
for the week showed a 10 per cent
increase over last year.
The weather man cooperated
with plenty of sunshine (and
heat) during the week, with the
exception of Friday afternoon
when the rains came"
The fair association will meet
in January to elect officers and to
make preliminary plans for the
1860 fair.
HIGHWAY BIDS-Six contract
ing concerns submitted bids for the
work of improving Route 10, from
the Maryland line to Willow Grove,
when the State Highway Depart
ment opened bids on this project
last week.
Henry G. Eastburn and Son, of
Newark, submitted the low bid of
1858, 1864 for the work which con-
sists of widening the existing high
way to % feet and resurfacing the
entire roadway with hot mix as
phaltic concrete.
Also included in the project is
the construction of three new
bridges and the widening of an
existing bridge. The length of the
improvement is 6.8 miles.
The section of Route 10 to be
improved serves a large amount of
traffic from nearby Maryland points
to various sections of Delaware.
CONVENTION AIDE-Norman c.
Abbott, Georgetown, former presi-
dent of the Delaware Rural Letter
Carriers Association, has been ap-
pointed chairman for the national
convention of the organization to
be held in Washington, d. c., be-
ginning August IL, by Charles Lar
sen, national president.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abbott will attend
the convention, which continues un-
til August IA, as delegates-at-large
David G. Speicher, Bridgeville, will
be state delegate to the association
convention.
The auxiliary will also convene,
with Mrs. Speicher as a special
guest. Other state guests will be
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Parker Burkart,
Jr., Dover; Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan
Tull, Delmar, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Conoway, Greenwood.
The association meetings will be
at the Sheraton Park Hotel and the
auxiliary will meet at the Shore
ham Hotel.
HELD WITHOUT BAIL = Will
bur Jackson, 43, Florida itinerant
farm worker, is being held in the
Sussex County Correctional Insti-
tuition without bail, charged with
the knife Staying last Saturday of
fellow worker, David Simmons,
%, also of Florida.
According to state police the
knitting took place in the vicinity
of the farm workers quarters at
the Draper Labor Camp on the out
skirts of Milford at $50 p. m, when
the two men, engaged n dice roll
ing, got into an argument. In the
fight which ensued Simmons re-
ceived a deep stap wound in the
chest. He was taken to the Milford
Memorial Hospital and was dead
upon arrival.
State police detectives question
ed men at the camp and arrested