Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1960-10-27
20 YEARS AGO

On Monday night, October
2lst, the Boy Scouts held a
Court of Honor, in the Teach
ters' Room of John Bassett
Moore High School. The meet
ing opened with the Lords Pray
er, the Flag Salute, Scout Oath,
and Scout Laws. MIR. Ellery ].
Ward, introduced the new Scout
Executive, Mr.. Wilkens. MIR.
Wells FAIRIES then presented
Bobby FAIRIES, Francis Sylvester,
Gerald Lamb and Buckle Elter-
ich with the Tenderfoot Badge
Elmer P. Corrie presented the
Second-Class badges to Jack
Mood, Jack Griffin, and Eddie
Tucker. Then Mayor Matthews
presented Jack CARTS with the
First-Class Badge. Rev. Thack-
aberry presented Buddy O'Neill
and Frank Badur with Star Bad
ges. He also presented these
boys with Merit Badges. Mrs.
F. ]. O'Neill gave a talk on
what l Expect the Boys to Get
Out of Scouting" Mr.. Ward
closed the meeting with the
Scoutmaster's prayer.
Members of the Smyrna Girl
Scout Troop will leave at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning for
a weekend house party at the
Redden State Forest Lodge.
Adult leaders who will accom-
pany the girls are Mrs. Lee
Gooden, Mrs. Thomas Russell,
Mrs. Maria Benson, Miss Mil
dred Reynolds, Miss Ruth Moi
fit and Mrs. Vernon Westfall.
During the weekend, the scouts
will budget, plan and cook the
meals, schedule the entertain
ment, and various activities, as
we'll as invest the seven new
members who joined the troop
this fall. The scouts will return
Sunday afternoon.
1t may be Roosevelt versus
Willkie most places but it's Hill
yard versus Bell at Smyrna Sen
ior High School. This unusual
situation was made known yes
terday by campaign managers
of the two rival candidates for
President of the United States
of Delaware. BY way of eX-
PLANTATION to the laymen of the
community, the members of the
Senior Civics classes have de-
cided to conduct a mock cleo
ton as a eliminating activity
in their unit on "Electing a
President" In carrying their
plans into effect they hope to
include as many as possible OF
the countless activities involved
in the election of chief execu-
tive. During a regular class per-
iod on Tuesday morning, the
class was divided into two po-
litical parties-the Liberals and
Conservatives. Each party in
turn held it's convention, at
which time the delegates" gave
elaborate nominating speeches
and proceeded to ballot until
they had chosen candidates for
president and vice president.
Balloting for all offices was ex-
tremely close and no candidate
was chosen on a first ballot. |
However, the Conservatives fin
ally decided on ticket COM
posed of Adeline Hilyard for
president and Charlotte Everett
for vice-president. The Liberals,
after holding a party caucus in
the back of the classroom, de-
cided to oppose the Converse
tives with ticket consisting
of Robert Bell for president with
Nelson Slaughter as his running
mate. Election day will be No
vember 4th and Registration day
will be October 18th at John
Bassett Moore. The home rooms
represent states of the United
States of Delaware, and each
one has its assigned number of
electoral votes-according to its
population.
The meeting of the Smyrna
Business Association Tuesday
night resulted with the appoint
ment of new committee to-
continue work on the Halo
we'en Mardi Gras, on October
Both, plans for which were ten
porarily suspended last week.
The new committee, which will
take over where the Mercantile
Committee left off, consists of
the following members: John
Jacobs, chairman; Ellery j..
Ward William KenWorthV. Dub-