Milford chronicle., 1959-04-24

SPRING DANCE - On May End,
Spring Dance will be held at the
Milton Fire Hall. with music fur
nished by Harry Jarman's Band.
Tickets are priced at $500 per
couple and may be purchased from
Legion members or at the door.
The. nominal charge is only $500
per couple The public is cordially
invited.
LIMITED ACCESS ROADS a
compilation of traffic fatalities for
the nation, for the year 1858, re-
veals that limited access highways
are 1000 safer for travel than all
types of highways in the United
States.
At the present time the construc-
tion of limited access highways In
Delaware Is restricted, by law, TO
New Castle County, but an effort
may be made to permit this type of
highway construction throughout
the State.
CLERGY DINNER - To be held
Sunday. April 26, 1859, at st. Ed
| mond's School Hall, Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware. This affair is be-
| ing sponsored by the Star of the
Sea Council, Knights of Columbus,
Rehoboth Beach. The time for the
dinner will be p. m. Tickets are
$1.25 for adults and 75c for chill
dren. The menu will be fried
chicken with all the trimmings.
This dinner is being had to honor
the Priests of lower Delaware and
they have all been invited. Tickets
may be obtained from any member
| of the Council or at the door.
STATE GROWING - Delaware
may be now approaching the 470.-
900 mark in population advises the
State Development Department.
On the basis of estimates and
| projections recently made by per-
sonnel of the Bureau Of Vital Sta
tistics, at Dover, the Development
Department assumes that the
First State" could reach the 470,-
900 mark, populationwise by July
1, 1853, rejecting an anticipated
gain of 10000 since July l, 1853.
Delaware's estimated population
as of last July / was 454, 900, which,
| Incidentally, was 10000 greater
than the estimated. population of a
year previous, and approximately
$4,000 more than the 1850 official
count of 31S,0S5.
213,330 STOCKHOLDERS - e.
/. DUPONT de Nemours & Company,
Inc, was owned by 213,330 stock
holders as of March 81, an increase
of 1911 over the number of hold
ers recorded at the end of 1868, and
an increase of 9,638, or AT per cent,
over the number as of March 81,
1858.
There were 1882 holders of
common stock, and 21,037 holders
of preferred stock as the first quar-
ter of 1859 ended. These figures in
clude $3.50 holders of more than
| one kind of stock.
Every state in< the union is rep
resented among the owners OF the
company.
sen. FREAR BETTER - Sena-
tor j. Allen Frear-through his Ad-
| ministrative Assistant, Robert #.
| Kelly-has extended sincere thanks
/ to the scores of Delawareans for
their messages of kindness and
| good will during his hOspitaliza-
| ton.
Through the medium of the Sem
ator's weekly statement delivered
by Mr.. Kelly, the Senator express
ed the hope that he would be re-
turning to his official duties within
the next week or ten days. Mr..
| Frear underwent an emergency
appendectomy several days ago at
the United States Naval Hospital
| at Annapolis. He became iii while
driving from Washington to Dover
and was admitted to the Annapolis
Naval facility.
! EGG GRADING SCHO0L-Grad-
ing and Gambling eggs TO meet the
| requirements of the Delaware egg
well worth the time or effort need
ed to comply, says George Vapaa,
Kent County Agricultural Agent.
A short demonstration is to be
| given at the Caesar Rodney school
in Camden on Wednesday, April
18th, starting at 500 p. m, for
farmers, retailers or anyone else in
terested in judging egg quality.
The meeting is free and open to
everyone.
George Bringhurst, poultry and
egg inspector of the State Board of
Agriculture, will review the pro-
visions of the egg law and help
those attending to score various
kinds and grades of eggs. Farmers
or retailers are urged to bring in
a few of their eggs, but there will
be plenty on hand to show differ
| ences in size, age, condition or