Milford chronicle., 1960-09-30

Delaware Antique Arms Collec-
tors Association will sponsor an
Antique Arms Show in the Officers
Club at the New Castle Air Base,
Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday,
October 2, 1860, between the hours
of IL a. m. and 4 p. m. Arms, news
papers, powder TASKS, Kentucky
rifles, muskets. martial pistols and
their components from the Revolu-
tionary War period through today
will be on display. The public is
invited, free, to attend and join
the meetings of this organization
that are held the first Sunday of
each month.
SCHOLARSHIP - William HI.
Hall, son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
l.. Hall, 209 Harrington ST., Seaford,
has been awarded ]. Warren Mar
shall Scholarship at the University
of Delaware.
Hall, graduate of Seaford High
School, is member of the Nation
al Honor Society, the Boy Scouts,
DeMolay and the Methodist Youth
Fellowship. He was president, Sec
retary and treasurer of the Indus
trial Arts Club at Seaford during
his years as student there. He
also. was a semi-finalist in the Ma
tional Merit Scholarship program
and spelling champion in contest
sponsored by Goldey Beacon
School of Business.
u. OF ID. ENROLLMENTS-
dergraduate enrolment at the
University of Delaware has scared
to a new high with the registra-
tion of 2,750 students. More are
expected to enroll before the close
of the late registration period, Sat-
urday, October 1.
The number already enrolled ex-
ceeds by nearly ten per cent the
1924 undergraduates enrolled last
year.
A record breaking freshman
class of 993 students is RESPONSE
BILE for much of the growth. Robert
Gebhardtsbauer, assistant director
of admissions and records, said that
late registrants will probably make
the Class of 1864 the first in the
history of the university with more
than 1000 members.
COAST GUARD = United States
Senator j. Allen Frear today an
nounced that the competitive ex-
animation for entrance to the u. s.
Coast Guard Academy will be held
nationwide on February 10th and
21st 1861.
In making the announcement,
Senator Frear explained that the
four-year course offered by the
Coast Guard Academy leads to a
Bachelor of Science degree and .
commission as a career officer in
Americas oldest sea-going service.
Mr.. Frear emphasized that there
are no appointments or geographi-
cal quotas for entrance to the Coast
Guard Academy and urged all
qualified young men who are in
terested in this worthwhile pro-
fession to write for details and
application to Coast Guard Head
quarters in Washington. d. c.
FLA TEAMS - Delaware's Fu-
ture Farmers of America will DEM
onstrate their skills in egg grading
and poultry judging as the giant
three-day exposition of the North
eastern Poultry Producers Coun-
Gil (NEPPCO) gets under way at
Syracuse, N. Y, October 4. accord
ing to Professor Ralph P. Barwick,
H.
ton, University of Delaware.
The same three experts will
handle both types of competition at
the exposition. All three come from
Newark They are Joe Clymer,
Richard Allen and John Herring.
The team coach is William r.
Kent, Jr., vocational agriculture
instructor, Newark Senior High
School
Teams from all IA of the north
eastern states will be battling it
out for top honors at the conven-
tion.
LOWER CORN CROP-The 1860
national corn crop is now estf-
mated at billion 1872 million BUSH
els-or per cent below the record
1859 production, according to the
latest U. S. crop estimate received
by R. Harry Wilson, committee
chairman at the Kent County ASC
Office at Dover.
The nationwide corn yield for
1860, as of September 1, was esti-
mated at so bushels per acre, COM
pared with 515 bushels in 1859 and
a 10-year average of 41.6 bushels.
Production of all wheat is esti-
mated at / billion 1858 million bush
els, the second largest crop of
record 1t is more than fifth larg-
er than 1859 but 6 per cent less
than the record crop of 1858.
The composite yield per acre of
2S leading u. S. crops in 1860 Is
now estimated to be higher than
last years field and second high
est of record, exceeded only by
1858, the ASC office reports. Rec
ord yields per acre are expected
this year for sorghum grain, pea
nuts and tobacco.
INSTALLATION - Mrs. Stella
Baker, Claymont, president of the
auxiliary of the Delaware
State Volunteer Firemen's Asso-
:iation, installed the newly elected
,fficers of the Sussex County Wo-
mems Auxiliary at the September
Meeting in the Greenwood Fire
Hall.
They are: Mrs. Emma Short.
Georgetown, president; Mrs. Mary
button, Lewes, vice president; Mrs.