Milford chronicle., 1959-11-13
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Delaware

CRASH VICTIM DIES-Injured
last July % in the collision of the
Middletown Fire Company ambu-
lance and a truck in Odessa, Arthur
w. Boyles, SO, the ambulance driver,
died November 6 in the Veterans
Administration Hospital, Brack-Ex.
Boyles of 220 North Broad Street,
Middletown, and an attendant,
George d. Lawrence, 80, s East
Green Street, also of that town,
were badly hurt in the crash. The
ambulance was empty at the time.
The collision of the ambulance
and a tractor-trailer occurred at
Routes 13 and 299. Unhurt in the
crash was Frederick Cidone, 20,
East Patchogue, Long Island, N.
Y, the truck driver.
GEORGETOWN SCOUT FUND =
Harry S. Smith, community chair
man for Georgetown for the Boy
Scouts of Americas fund campaign
has announced that the Georgetown
total of $3.50 was second highest
in the county.
Robert w. Tunnel, Georgetown,
was chairman of the Sussex Dis
trict. Mr.. Smith had as his COM
mittee, Colonel Ralph S. Baker,
chairman for special gifts; Floyd
A. Mcgee, general solicitations;
Richard G. Coeckeritz, auditor; Mel
vim Hearn, prospects and rating;
Mrs. Newal S. Isaacs, publicity and
arrangements.
STATE rs GROWING-If Della
ware continues to grow in popula-
ton in the next decade as it has
since 1850, the state will have be-
tween 10000 and 212,000 children
under 18 by 1870, pointing up the
need for continuous expansion of
school facilities and continuous in
crease in number of teachers, ad-
vises the Delaware State Develop
ment Department.
The state information agency
points out that in 1850 the state
had $4,000 children under the age
of Is years, and, on the basis of
estimates made by the u. S. Cen
sus Bureau and other usually re-
liable sources, the total for 1860
will likely be between 148,000 and
161, 900 for an increase of between
so and so per cent in a single dec
ade.
Looking still further into the fu-
ture, the Development Department
predicts that Delaware's child pop
ulatien will be between 161 900 and
| 1S9, 900 by 1865, and may go to as
high as 212,000-or double the 1850
child population-by 1870.
ELECTION TIME Farmers in
Kent County, Delaware, were re-
minded today by R. Harry Wilson
that elections will soon be held to
name an Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee for
| each agricultural community. To
be elected are a committee chair
man, vice chairman, regular mem
/ ber, and two alternates in each
community.
The elections are held each year,
and this year they are scheduled to
be held throughout the county be-
tween November 20 and December
1. The elections will be conducted
by mailed secret ballot. Supervis-
ion of the elections will be in
charge of community election
boards, each composed of three far
mers who are not now ASC officers.
Mr.. Wilson points out that the
community elections will be fol-
lowed by a county convention.
where a county ASC committee will
be elected. The chairman of each
community committee elected will
be the community delegate to the
! county convention.
Farmers eligible to vote in the
elections are all those who have
an interest in farm as owner, ten
ant, or sharecropper. Each voter
likewise must be enrolled in or be
eligible to participate in at least
one of the. programs administered
locally by the ASC Committees,
bsuch as, wool incentive program,
lsoil bank program, marketing quo
lta-price support program, facility
loan program and agriculture con-
servation program (ACP).