Milford chronicle., 1961-03-10

| Alumni Association will hold their
banquet on April %, 1861, in the
Greenwood School Field House at
$50 p. m.
BANQUET member of the
Ladies Auxiliary of the Green
wood Volunteer Fire Company who
| is planning to attend the Sussex
County Firmen's Ladies' Night
Banquet and Dance, should con-
tact Mrs. Elaine Jones before
March 10. Call FI-9-4304.
ID. X. C. LUNCHRON-The Beta
Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma
met for a luncheon at the Dinner
Bell Inn in Dover on Saturday,
March 4th. Miss Mary Bonar, Bap-
tist missionary in the Congo, was
guest speaker.
SUPPER II The Viola Commun-
ity Club will hold a ham, chicken
salad and dumpling supper on Sat
urday, April 8th, in the Viola Com
munity Building, in Viola. Serv-
ing will be family style and from
4:30 until 700 p. m. Adults, $3.50;
children, 75c.
The next covered dish supper
and business meeting will be held
in the Viola Community Building
on Saturday. March 25.
L. =. BUYS CHICKENS - The
school lunch program will receive
100000 pounds of frozen chicken
purchased by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture last Wednes-
day from Delaware professors, it
was disclosed this week.
The purchase represented part
of a nationwide move to acquire
1,440,00 pounds at prices ranging
from 31.9S to 1929 cents. Total
cost of the chickens was $558, 900.
Shipments are due from March
1851.
MUSICAL FANTASY - Murder
kill Lions will hold their second
annual show. This year the club
will present a Musical Fantasy"
titled This Thing Called Love"
under the direction of Irwin"
Master. The show dates are Fri
day evening. March II, and Sat-
urday evening, March is. Curtain
time will be 500 p. m. at the Fred
erica School Admissions are $1.00
for adults and soc for children.
| Tickets may be obtained from any
member of the Murderkill Lions
or the president, Frank H. Beebe,
DE-5-5220. day; or DE-5-54S0, ev-
ening.
! FREAR CONFIRMED - The u.
S. Senate unanimously confirmed
| the appointment of former Della
ware Senator J. Allen Frear as a
member of the Securities and Ex-
change Commission recently.
Frear's former Senate colleague
John j. Williams, praised the ap-
pointment and urged his confirma-
ton in the $40, ,000-a-year post
Senator ]. Caleb Boggs, who de-
feated Frear in last November S
election. also supported the con-
Grmation. Both had earlier testi-
fed on Frear's behalf before the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee.
Frear's term expires June 5,
1865. He succeeds the late Har-
old c. Patterson.
DRAFT TEST-The annual draft
deferment test for college students
will be given April % in Whining
ton. Newark, and Dover.
Brigadier General Harry B. Van
Solver, state director of selective
service, said the test will be Civ
en at Pierre S. DUPONT High
School, the University OF Della
ware, and Delaware State College.
The score received by the stu
dent is used by the draft board
when there is a request to defer
man so he can finish under
graduate or graduate work.
Applications must be postmark-
ed by midnight April 6. They are
available at Local Board No. L,
Keith Building, City Plaza and
State Street, Dover; Local Board
No. .. State Armory. Georgetown;
and local Boards and 4. Sixth
and King Streets, Wilmington.
.
BOY SAYED-A 5-year-old boy,
Kenneth p. Hoover, Jr., was saved
from possible strangulation in the
garage of his home, ia Rodney
Road, Dover, recently.
His rescuers were his mother
and salvage crew of the Dover
Fire Department.
The lad was playing in the gar
age and had climbed to shelving
on which storm windows were
stored He apparently slipped and
his head caught between the shell
wing and the side OF the garage
and he was hanging there when
his mother found him.
Mrs. Hoover pushed her SON up
ward to release his head and neck
but then he had to take crouch
ing position on the shelf behind
the storm windows from which he
could not extricate himself.
The firemen. under Assistant
Chief Robert +. Quillen, removed
the storm windows and freed the
youngster.
PohoLon NaxAys