Milford chronicle., 1960-02-12
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Deldwure

B'NAI BIRTH wOMEN-Local
residents will be among the 400
women who will help mark the
25th anniversary of B'nai Birth
Women, District 8, in April.
The silver anniversary will be
the theme as area residents attend
the 1860 District Convention.
The Convention will be held in
Philadelphia, April 1925.
Delegates from this area will be
announced at later date.
COKESBURY CONFERENCE -
This Friday evening, February IL,
at 1880 p. m, the Annual Business
of the Cokesbury Methodist Church,
located on the Bridge
vile Highway will be held.
Reports from the chairman of
various commissions and commit
tees, church officers and the pas
tor will be presented. This will be
followed by a general business
meeting and election of officers for
the coming year.
Refreshments to be served after
the close of the meeting.
CHARTERS REVOKED - The
charter of 1,190 Delaware corpora
tions have been repealed by proc
lamation of Governor j. Caleb
Boggs because of the corporations
failure to pay taxes.
The list of corporations was pub
lished February 4. Governor
Boggs' proclamation is dated JAM
uary 20, however.
Among the corporations which
have gone two years without pay
ing their taxes and therefore have
lost their charters are the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of White People, the organi-
cation which sparked the Negro
pupils in Milford in 1854, and the
Active Young Republicans of Kent
County, Inc.
Others in the list represent wide
ly diverse businesses, including
many corporations with activities
chiefly out-of-state.
The tax-delinquent corporations
were reported to the Governor by
Alexander R. Abrahams, tax COM
missioner.
SENATOR william z.
Cline, sixth grade teacher, Dover
Elementary School, Dover, and
President, DSEA, recently in
letter lauded Senator j. Allen
Frear, Jr., Delaware, for his posi-
tive vote on the Senate amendment
which brought back into the fed
eral support act provision for all
ocation of teacher salaries.
The Senate passed the McNa-
mara bill (Senate No. 81 late
Thursday evening, February A..
Under the grant authorizations,
Delaware would receive $1,282,000
for teacher salaries and school
construction for 196G-61 and a sum
slightly higher for 1961-62. Using
formula based on an appropria-
tion of $29.00 per school age child
, ages to IL, the measure allocates
funds for only two years and will
terminate in 1862.
Final decision on distribution OF
funds in each State will be left in
the hands of the education depart
ment; in Delaware's case, this will
be the State Board of Education.
The money must be earmarked for
either teacher salaries or school
construction purposes.
Final vote on the bill was 54-35.
Both Senators from Delaware voted
against the bill.
The bill will be sent to the House
of Representatives where some
amendments have been proposed.
PLEAD GUILTY-Four of the
men accused in a series of bur-
glaries in lower central Sussex
County late in November, were ar
raigned in Sussex County Superior
Court on Friday by Deputy Attor-
ney General Frederick P. Whitney.
They entered guilty pleas to some
of the charges. Arraigned with
them was Mrs. Loretta Mae Lynch,
"a, Millsboro, who pleaded guilty
to one of the three counts against
! her.
She pleaded guilty to aiding and
abetting" the burglary at the An
drew Hickman service station on
Route 113, at Dagsboro, where she
accompanied the others and drove
the car. She pleaded not guilty to
the same charges in connection
with the burglary of Hudson's
General Store at Millsboro and
Ernest Kitchens service station at
| Ocean View.
She was represented by Attorney
Robert ID. Thompson, Jr.
Others who pleaded guilty were
Russell ]. Powell, 21, Dagsboro;
Wayne B. Munlford, Is, Millsboro,
and Reese B. Mumford, Millsboro,
each to five counts, and Herbert L.
Donohue, 23, Frankford, to two
counts.
Judge James B. Carey ordered
pre-sentence investigations in all
cases.