Milford chronicle., 1959-05-15


Speaking Contest will be held this
Friday, May 18th at the Midland
Grange Hall, Georgetown. at 1880
p. m.
CANCER CENTER - The State
Board of Health will conduct
Cancer Detection Center in Milford
at the Health Unit. Shore Theater
Building on Thursday, May 2Sth,
for the examination of women Is
years of age and over. There is no
charge for the service, and all sus-
picious cases will be referred to
the persons family physician for
treatment.
Call Garden 2-49s5 for appoint
ments.
SUSSEX FIRE L0SS-William
E. Donovan, Sussex County fire re-
corder, has just released the latest
report on Sussex County fire fig
ures for the month of April show
ing total losses of $173,570.
OF this, $70,560 was covered by
insurance leaving a net loss of
$102,920 for the month";. $76,11O
of the total loss was in urban
areas, $97,46O was for rural areas.
Grass fires topped the list of
separate fires with rs. Next was
woods fires with 54 mercantile, 4
dwellings, 20; chimney, 10; auto
mobiles, 3; chicken houses, z, and
miscellaneous, Al.
Dagsboro and Georgetown tied
for the company responding to the
most alarms with 23 each. Blades
had the largest loss with $4,000.
WILLIS FLOWN BACK-Gor-
don Willis, senior vice president
of the Farmers Bank of the State
of Delaware, who suffered a stroke
two weeks ago in ST. Louis, was
flown back. to Dover last Saturday
by the Air Force and taken in an
ambulance from the Dover Air
Force Base to Kent General Hos
pital.
Air Force officials said Mr.. Will
lis, who was accompanied on the
plane by Mrs. Willis and an Air
Force nurse, had no i'll effects
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been considered as serious since
he was stricken.
The banker was a member of
a Delaware delegation flown by
the Air Force to the Air Force
Academy at Colorado Springs.
TAX DELINQUENTS-Leading
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neglected their state individual in
come obligations, State Tax Com
missioner Alexander r. Abahams
said this week: "All who owe state
taxes should pay. If they do not
choose to pay in the regular man
ner, then ways will be found to
make them pay.
There has been no let-up in that
office since the final rush on in
dividual income tax payments and
corporation quarterly Withholding
tax payments were due last Thurs
day midnight and on May 1, re-
spectively.
Twenty-three hundred letters
have gone out since last Saturday
to delinquent taxpayers with a
warning that payment must be
made to avoid action by the State
Tax Department to collect.
MUSIC FESTIVAL-The annual
John M. Clayton School Spring Mu-
sic Festival will be presented at
the next PTA meeting, May 1S, at
8 p. m, in the school auditorium.
More than 100 pupils in grades
five through IL in the Junior and
Senior Bands and the chorus will
participate in this event under the
direction of G. Linden McIlvaine,
Jr., with the public invited to at
tend.
The seventh, eighth and ninth
| grades of the school have Just
completed their spelling bee with
Debbie Hickman of the seventh
grade, emerging as victor for the
grand champions crown. Runner
up was Joyce Long, ninth grade.
Debbie was winner first in the
seventh grade contest with Sandy
Hancock as runner-up, and the
eighth grade champion was Patti
Chandler with Bruce Hudson as
runner-up.
GIRL SCOUT CONCLAYE-Sen-
ior Scouts from the Peninsula
Council and the Wilmington Area
Girl Scout Council, will gather at
Camp Todd, near Denton, Mary
land, this weekend for training
session preparatory to this sum-
mer's National Senior Girl Scout
Roundup in Colorado.
Girls who will attend the Round
up will practice pitching camp in a
900 square foot area allotted each
group of eight girls. In this area
they will pitch four tents, and an
outdoor kitchen. They will go
through other phases of the Round
up program such as cooking meals
for nine on charcoal, flag ceremon-
les, and swapping articles of inter-
est characteristic of their area. A
high point of the weekend will be
the Saturday night campfire.
This will help to prepare the
girls for their trip to Colorado,
said Miss Jane Kirwan of Cam
bridge, Roundup Chairman for the
Peninsula.
She will be joined at the May
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Todd by Miss Margaret Jones of
Claymont, trainer for the Will
mington Area patrols, and Miss
Dorothy Gambler of Salisbury, the