Milford chronicle., 1961-01-13
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout DeldWdre

SUSSEX LINKS = The Sussex
County Links will have a covered
dish supper at the Agricultural
Substation on Saturday, January
81 at $50 p. m. Rolls, butter and
coffee will be provided as usual.
Each should bring his own table
service. A business meeting will
follow the covered dish supper.
COUNCIL MEETINGS - The l.
III County Council will meet a.. the
Agricultural Substation on Thurs
day, January 26 at 7:30 p. m. All A.
H club officers and leaders are urg-
ed to attend. Recreation is being
planned to follow the regular bust
ness session.
SUCCESSFUL PARTY - Over
800 All boys and girls enjoyed a
full evening skating and dancing at
the Roll-Land near Seaford on New
Years Eve. Mr.. Robertson did an
excellent job in planning the pro-
gram and providing the noise max
ers. All there had a most wonder
full evening as they ushered in the
New Year.
CANCER CRUSADE = DR.. Peter
Van Wyck was today named Chair
man of the 1861 Cancer Crusade in
lox nj G
made by Dr. Leslie v Whitney,
president of the Delaware Division
of the American Cancer Society.
DR.. Van Wyck. who is Director
of the Hercules Powder Company
Research Center, will lead the
thousands of voluntc ars in the April
Crusade, which has q goal OF S140,-
600. He was Crusade Chairman for
New Castle in 1869
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN - The
Kent County Democratic Women's
Club will hold their meeting on
Thursday evening, January II,
1861, at the Dover Court House.
Time of the meeting is 500 p. m.
The Kent County Democratic
Chairman, Colonel Vernon B. Der
rickson, will be the guest speaker.
This will be the first meeting of the
year, and will be an important one.
The nominating committee for
the new Officers will be named at
this meeting. Mrs. Blanche Cahall,
President, urges all members to be
present.
SIMPSON RESIGNS - The Gaze
sar Rodney Board of Education at
lbs meeting on December 27, 1860,
accepted the resignation of DR.. Will
liam B. Simpson, superintendent of
the Caesar Rodney Special School
District, to become effective July
81, 1861.
DIR. Simpson, a graduate of the
University of Delaware, received
his masters degree at Cornell Uni
versity and his Doctorate in Educa-
ton at Temple University in 1851.
In 1890 he was employed as a
teacher of science and agriculture
in the district, and was appointed
superintendent in 1882. DR.. Simpson
has served as superintendent of the
Caesar Rodney Schools for the last
| twenty-three years. His future
plans are indefinite.
PLAY FESTIVAL - Deadline for
entries in the 10Th annual Delaware
Play Festival has been set for Feb
ruary 6, it was announced TO-DAY by
DR.. c. Robert Kase. director of the
University of Delaware Dramatic
Center. The two-day festival will be
held in Mitchell Hall at the univer-
sity March 23 and "a.
Copies of rules and regulations
and application forms were sent to
all school and community theatres
in the state and surrounding area
this week. Sixteen schools and eight
community groups will be accepted
in order of receipt of entries.
Deadline for submission of play
selection is February 20, said DR..
Kase. The festival is sponsored
jointly by the Delaware Dramatic
Association and the University Dra-
matte Center.
SOCIAL SECURITY - Social Sc
curity benefits may now be paid to
survivors of workers who died be-
fore January /, 1910, if the worker
had at least a year and a half OF
social security work when he died,
says Edward F. Sullivan, District
Manager of the Social Security Adj
ministration.
Before the social security amend
nents of 1860, no monthly benefits
were payable to the survivors of
worker who died before 1910.
Under the new law, If a worker
had social security credit for at
.east a year and a half, benefits
may now be payable to his widow
land dependent mother) If age 81
or older, to his dependent father at
age 65, and to his disabled children
il they became disabled before they
reached age 18. This is true even if
the family had collected the lump
sum" at the time the family bread
winner died.
For further information regard
ing this new provision, Sullivan
said get in touch with your social
security office at 230 w. LOCKER
man Street In Dover.
SPANISH TEACHER - Senior