Milford chronicle., 1960-10-07

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sponsor the annual National High
School Writing Contest in Green
wood School during the 1960-61
school year. This announcement
was made by Mrs. June BOstick,
local contest chairman. Winners
of state contests will be eligible
for $4,000 in cash awards.
The contest will be sponsored by
the Auxiliary in cooperation with
Mrs. Frida Willis of the English
department.
SEMI-FINALIST - Mary Ann
Banning, senior at Caesar Rod
ney High School, has been notified
that she is semi-finalist in the
1960-61 National Merit Scholarship
competition.
Miss Banning is the daughter of
1t Col and Mrs. Richard Banning
who reside in Base Housing. She
is member of the Student Coun-
ell, the Honor Society, and the
school paper staff.
She lis secretary of the Base
Teen Club and is active in the
Base Chapel activities.
Mary Ann plans to become a
teacher.
COMPLETES TRAINING - Miss
Jean Ann Hastings, daughter of
Mrs. Gladys Kemp and the late
R. Clinton Hastings, has completed
her training as nurse. Jean re-
ceived her B. S. degree at the Univ
ersity of Delaware in June, and
was graduated from the School
of Nursing of the Delaware Hos
pital, Wilmington, at the fifty
ninth graduating exercises recent
ly. The exercises were held at the
P. S. DUPONT High School.
Jean is on the teaching staff at
the Delaware Hospital and will
reside in Claymont.
COMPLAINT FILED The
State of Delaware has asked the
Court of Chancery to force Laurel
to stop polluting Broad Greek and
the Nanticoke River with raw sew
age.
The action came late last Friday
morning in complaint filed in
Georgetown by Frederick C. Whit
ney, deputy attorney general for
Sussex County, who charged that
Laurels failure to provide for a
sewage treatment plant was dam
aging to public health.
Laurel taxpayers five times have
defeated a state-ordered sewage
Improvement project, which would
cost an estimated 100000.
Fridays complaint by Whitney
cited Mayor Marvel L. Lynch and
members of the town council, but
did not specify just how pollution
was to be stopped.
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BISHOP TO Bishop
John Wesley Lord, new bishop
of the Washington area, will be
the guest speaker at the annual
laymen's banquet, to be held Oct
ober 18th in Seaford at ST. John
Methodist Church. These affairs are
held yearly by the lay men of the
Dover District. All men of the
Methodist Churches are urged to
attend this large affair. In addition
to the banuet, there will be group
singing, special music and the fell
lowship of all Methodist men. John
R. Rogers, Jr., lay leader of the
Dover District, requests that every
one gets his reservation in early
to the host church, as over five
hundred men are expected at this
banquet Rev. William Hackett,
host minister, and his laymen,
promise this will be an evening
long to be remembered by the lay
men of the area. Time for the ban
quet will be $50. Dinner will be
served by the WSCS of the st.
John Methodist Church.
NIXON COFFEE = Mrs. Paul
F. Schumacher, recently appointed
one of the vice chairmen for Sus-
sex County of the National Volun-
teers for Nixon-Lodge, will give
a coffee in her home in Millsboro
at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday, Oct. IL.
Mrs. Schumacher will be assisted
by Mrs. Harry Mitchell, also of
Millsboro.
About so guests are expected to
attend, and material about the Nix
on-Lodge candidates. will be dis
tributed.
The guests of honor will be Mrs.
John ]. Williams, wife of the U.
S. Senator, and Mrs. Herbert Cal
houn, president of the Delaware
State Federation of Republican
Women's Clubs.
The organization known as Wom-
en- for Nixon-Lodge Is now active
in As states, with Democrats, Re
publicans and Independents work
ing at both the state and grass
roots community level. 1t was Or
ganized to generate enthusiasm and
participation among millions of in
dependents and to satisfy Demo-
Gratis and Republicans not already
active in the campaign.
ANTIQUE SHOW = st. Luke's
Episcopal Church, Seaford, will
hold it's Twentieth Annual An
tiques Show and Sale in the Parish
House on Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday, November Is, 16,
and 18th. The show will open at
11:00 a. m. and stay open until
900 p. M, except on Thursday
(when the show closes at 500 p.
M, with General Co-Chairman,
Mrs. John r. Goehrifg, III, and
Mrs. Harry K Miller
A delightful luncheon, for which
the ladies of the church are we'll
known, will be served all three
days from 11:30 until 1:30 at a
cost of S125, under the capable
a h a irua anSbin af Mrs Richard Guu-