Milford chronicle., 1960-12-02
GEORGETOWN
Mrs. Constance Brown
Phone: Georgetown 1880

The Board of Education of the
Georgetown Special School Dis
trict has been receiving a moderni-
Zation and expansion building plan
for the Junior-Senior High School
as established by a recent survey
conducted by DR.. Howard E. Row
of the State Dept. of Public In
struction.
Involved will be the relocation of
the music departments, both choral
and instrumental Floyd Hart,
music supervisor, has been con-
tacted in order to determine the
feasibility of this change. Pending
approval, engineering advice will
be solicited for preliminary study.
The contemplated changes would
affect the language, business edu-
cation, science, health and ply
sical education departments, pro-
viding added facilities and class
rooms for better programming
and relieve over crowding and con-
gestion.
The three service clubs of the
town gathered together in Mid
land Grange Hall last week for
their annual Farm and City Week
observance
The Kiwanis Club was host this
year and was Joined by the Lions
Club and the GeOrgetOwn-Mills
boro Rotary Club.
Newal S. Isaacs, Lions Club pre-
sident, presided and Howard T.
Smith of the Rotary Club led the
group singing.
Wallace Koppel, Kiwanis Club,
was program chairman for the
evening and introduced the speak
er, DR.. Wilbur Hesseltine, extern
sion dairyman from the Univer-
sity of Delaware.
Several farmers attended as
guests of members.
DR.. Hesseltine spoke particu-
larly of the dairy farmer but
closed with a discussion of farm
ing in general as a profession. He
said that the farmer could fail as
readily as industry if costs were
too high and proper management
was not developed.
Regarding the dairynlan, the
speaker said that in common with
other farm products, the share of
profits going to the farmer is
small.
He sketched the beginnings of
the dairy industry by stating that
several centuries ago, few in
dividuals produced a little more
milk than they actually needed and
so began selling it until slowly
dairying became a regular busi-
ness.
He explained that the hours re-
quired are less than they once
were because of modern inventions
but that the profits are smaller
This calls for farms that are bet
ter run than was once the case.
DR.. Hesseltine said that there
were 2,100 farms in Delaware in
1889 but that he thought there
would be only 700 by 1865. He
said there were IL cows per farm
in 1945 and that by 1865, there
should be 40 cows per farm.
Better grades of cows have in
creased production, according to
the speaker, He described the
''loOse housing" now in use as an
improvement of the old stalls and
confinement.
Among ways in which to make
the dairy industry more efficient
he named record keeping and
analysis.
After his talk, Ray Lloyd show
ed a film setting forth modern
methods of raising cattle and poul-
try.
The Kiwanis Club announced
during the business session that
Troop los, Boy Scouts, would as
sist in the ''Toys for Tots" drive by
making a house to house canvass
for good used toys on Dec. 13.
Those with toys which they wish
to give may also take them to the
project chairman, William James,
at Braun's Store.
The Junior Glass of the George
town High School will present
Fog Island" as their class play on
Friday, Dec. 2, at pm, under the
direction of Mrs. Bernice S. Jones.
The cast will include: Patricia
Hill, Virginia Joseph, Sharon War
rington, La Rue Manning, Carolyn
Wilson, Margaret Best, Priscilla
Meibaum, James Johnson, Jerry
Turner, Lawrence Valencourt and
Charles Wolstenhome.
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