Milford chronicle., 1959-03-20
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown $3.50

The kickoff luncheon for the
1853 Crusade of the Sussex Coun-
ty Unit of the American Cancer So
ciety will be held at Jones Mem
orial Hall, here on Friday, April
3, at 1880 p. m, it was announced
at the units meeting Monday night
in the State Board of Health Office,
Layton Ayres, Seaford, will be
Crusade chairman and Robert w.
Tunnell, local attorney, will be vice
chairman.
All active members of the unit
and town chairmen for the Crusade
have been summoned to the lun-
cheon.
Mrs. Emily Womach, Seaford,
announced that DR.. Albert J. Wild
berger, Georgetown, will be the new
lay service chairman succeeding
Dr. Ruth Rivard, Millyille, who re-
signed.
Mrs. Joseph Mach, Seaford, chair
man of public education, reported
a showing of the films Thine and
Two Women" and Alexander Ten
Spot, to be given at the Sidney
Theatre, in Bridgeville, on March
"a, at 1870 p. m. She said that each
town chairman has been notified of
this showing and asked to bring a
carload of women to view them.
DR.. Rivard will be there to an
Swer questions.
1t was voted to purchase the film
Thine and Two Women" for use
| in Sussex County.
Mr.. Ayres announced the county
goal of $4,000 for 1859 and said
that he would make up a quota for
each town.
| Mrs. Womach appointed DR.. Les
lie Dobson, Mrs. Roger Wander
grift and DR.. Rivard to serve on
the nominating committee.
Hugh P. Smith was honored for
his seven-year service as super
visor of the local Ground Observer
Corps at the 40th birthday dinner
of Sussex Post No. 8, in the Log
Cabin last Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Smith organized the corps
here and had charge of it's work
until it was taken over by the U. S.
Air Force.
He was presented with a GER
tificate and pin by 1t. Col. D. II.
Dietz, Trenton, N. j., who had
charge of the GOC for Delaware
and New Jersey.
Also honored was Granville Mes
sick, employe of the State Highway
Dept, for 1000 hours as chief OBJ
server at the Gravel Hill station.
Harold F. Wilson, Georgetown
Civil Defense director, was speaker
at the dinner. He described the
Among the guests for the occa-
sion were World War veterans,
C. E. Clendaniel, Charles s. Cal
hoon, Walter Townsend and Mar
tin Petit.
Also invited as guests were Chas.
Jackson, Seaford, state commander;
Donald Hyland. Laurel, vice COM
mander of District 4, and Past
State Commander John Long
botham, Milford.
william G. Lambden, commander
of the post presided The auxiliary.
headed by Mrs. Charles Hill, pre-
sented the past with a large birth
day cake. 8
A delegation of 35 State and
County Farm Bureau directors met
on Wednesday, March 18. with u.
S. Senators John J. Williams and
J. Allen Frear and Congressman
Harris Mcdowell in Washington,
D. c., to discuss Farm Bureau poll
cy on several key issues before the
Congress.
James H. Baxter, Jr., Georgetown.
state president, will head the group
accompanied by Joseph Penuel,
Milford, vice president, and Roland
E. Garrison, Kent County president
and Earl Emerson, president of
New Castle County: Mrs. Johna-
than Wheatley, Delmar, state wo-
mems chairman;, Granville Shock
ley, Milford. state legislative chair
man; Mrs. Gladys Mack, Kent