Milford chronicle., 1961-11-17
Happenings Of Interest
Throughout Deldwdre
ANNUAL FALL DANCE

ANNUAL FALL DANCE - OF
the knights OF Columbus, Star OF
the Sea Council, will be held Sat
urday, November Is, at St Michael's
Hall in Georgetown. Dance TO the
Lou Paris Orchestra from 500 ,.
m. to 1 100 a. m Dress is OPTIONAL;
refreshments. Everyone invited.
NOVEMBER MEETING = The
November meeting OF District No.
3 of the Department OF Delaware,
Veterans OF Foreign Wars, origin
ally scheduled for Wednesday even
ing, November Is, at Dover Mem
orial Posi-, and subsequently, post
pOned, has been re-scheduled for
Wednesday evening, November %,
at the same location, according to
an announcement made Wednes-
day by Roy Williams, Commander
of the Kent County District.
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SUPPER - The annual Chicken
and Dumping Oyster Supper, with
hot sweet potato biscuits will be
held at the Nanticoke Community
House on -Bridgeville
Rd., Saturday afternoon, Novem-
Der IS, starting at P. NJ. Every
one welcome plenty of room.
Committee for arrangements are
Mrs. Henry I. Short, ST., Mrs. Ma
bel Lambden, Mrs. George Carmean,
and Mrs. Roy Layton.
BURRSVILLE CONFERENCE -
Deaconess H. Elizabeth Dalbeg Of
the Riddle Memorial Home in Wilm-
ngton, Del. will be the guest speak
er and show slides at Union Chur-
ch, Burrsville Sunday, Nov. 18th.
Miss Dalbey has been a mission
airy to the Congo and also to ia
pan; on the occasion she will a.
quaint us with missions i'm the
Peninsula Conference. Everyone is
invited to this missionary confer
ence which begins at $50 with a
covered dish supper.
NEW HERD SIRE-Evans Nor
gan, Glendale, recently purchased
a registered Ayrshire herd sire
named Del-Acres Donell from L.
Robbins Webb, Lincoln.
This bull was bred by Mr.. Webb.
The production and type quail
ficatiOns of the animals in the
pedigree of this young bull are
such as to qualify him for the
Ayrshire Breeders Associations
rating of Preferred Pedigree"
The bull is son of the Ap-
proved sire, Redina Double Don,
whose "a tested daughters ave-
rage 11,573 lbs. of milk, 4.5O per
cent 521 lbs, butterfat, M. E. 2x
305 days. The dam of "Donnell"
| is Del-Acres High Linda. She has
top herd test production record
of 14,106 lbs. of milk As percent
628 lbs. butterfat, actual at 6 years
and 7 months of age in 305 days
on twice day milking.
SOME MEASURING-Civil EN-
gineering students at the Univers-
ity of Delaware last week mea-
sured precisely the distance from
the Memorial Library to Newark's s
| Delaware Avenue in less than half
a second.
1 "A 1OW y Cal 15O O0O11 AC00 III g
ments would have been impOssi BILE,
explains Professor Thomas Brock
enbrough, but electronic equip-
ment today enables surveyors to
accomplish amazing results.
The students used Cubic Cor
poratiOn's Electrotape system un-
der the direction of Admiral Frank
G. johnson, after they had received
| instruction in the use of the equip
ment.
The distance, incidentally, is
847. .26 feet, converted from a read
| ing in centimeteys. DR.. BrOcken-
brough said the maximum error IN
such a measurement is three mill
ionths of the distance.
RENOMINATED = Isaac Tho
mas, Marydel, has been renOminat-
ed as a candidate for supervisor on
the Kent County Soil Conservation
Board. Mr.. Thomas has served on
the Board since it was organized
| in 1914 and is at present Treasur-
er of the Board He has been act
i've in all phases of the cOnserva-
ton program and has served on
several committees concerned with
advancing the conservation of soil
and water resources of the county
and state
Other interested farmers or land
owners who may desire to be q
candidate for election to the Board,
may be nominated by ten or more
farmers or landowners of the coup-
ty.
Requirements that cantiidatks
must meet are as follows:
/. Be a Kent County farm opera
tor or landowner.
Q. Receive the written endorse
ment of ten other landowners or
farm operators in the county and
present this endorsement to the
Kent County Soil Conservation Dis
trict office, Dover, by December I.
1861.
3. Reside in the Northwest SEC
ton of the county known a. the
second senatorial district, or the
Bird and 4th representative dis
tricts.