Milford chronicle., 1961-01-20
Happenings of Interest
Throughout Delaware

COUNTY LINKS TO MEET-The
Sussex County Links will have a
covered dish supper at the Agri-
cultural 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.
CHURCH SUPPER-The annual
parish meeting and supper of st.
Paul's Episcopal Church will be
held in the parish house Monday,
January %, starting at $3.50 p. m.
After supper, the meeting will
move upstairs to hear reports OF
the various organizations, the
treasurer and the rector, who is
the Rev. David B. Mulford.
Three new members of the yes
try will be elected to replace the
retiring vestrymen--Houston VIII
son. Louis H. Burton and Melvin
Mumford.
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EMBARGO RESCINDED - The
State Board of Agriculture an
nounced today that notice has
been received from Dr. Gordon M.
Cairns, Dean of Agriculture, Mary
land State Board. of Agriculture,
that the embargo against the inn
portation of swine into Maryland
from Delaware has been rescinded,
effective Immediately.
The Board said this action was
taken because the outbreak of hog
cholera has abated and is now un-
der control. The State of New Jer-
sey had rescinded the embargo at
an earlier date.
KILLED IN CRASH - Harry
Dickerson Ellis, 3S, of Millsboro.
was killed last Friday night when
his car ran off Route 64 near Gum
boro and crashed into a wooded
area.
He was taken to the Beebe Hos
pital in Lewes and pronounced
dead on arrival of internal injuries
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The death raised Delaware's
highway fatality toll so far this
year to three. This is six less than
recorded for 1860.
State police at Georgetown said
Ellis was travelling west at an APP
parent high-rate of speed. The car
ran off the highway and into a
woods, smashing down several
| trees.
Police said the road was wet at
the time.
STATE CHAIRMAN = A Seaford
Jaycee, Bruce Kallos of AZ Read
Street, Seaford, is serving as state
chairman of the Jaycees' record
and recognition program, it has
been announced by DIR. Richard T.
Bennett, Wilmington, president of
the Delaware Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Kallos, an employee of the Du-
Pont plant in Seaford, has been in
the Junior Chamber of Commerce
for the past four years. During this
time he has served as internal af-
fairs director, external affairs vice
president, and is now executive
vice president.
He is a member of the Sussex
County Engineering Society and
serves as counsellor of the Meth
odist Youth Fellowship at Mt. Oliv-
ct Methodist Church.
Dupont STOCKHOLDERS -E.
/. DUPONT de Nemours & Company,
Inc, was owned by 226,640 stock
holders as of December 81, 1860,
an increase of 2,9S8 over the num-
Der of holders recorded at the
close of the third quarter of 1860
/ and an increase of 9,069, or All per
cent, over the number as of Decem-
ber 81, 1859.
There were 210,84O holders of
common stock and 21,279 holders
of preferred stock as 1860 ended.
These figures include 5,479 holders
of more than one kind of stock.
The company has approximately
$4,000 employees, of whom about
49,S00 were stockholders at the end
of the year.
Every state in the Union is rep
resented among the owners of the
company.
AIRMAN KILLED Benjamin
Winokur, %, an airman at Dover
Air Force Base, was killed last
Thursday night when his car
struck small bridge abutment on
Route 13 south of BIackbird.
I State police said the airman ap-
parently fell asleep at the wheel.
His death was the second this
year on Delaware highways.
He was a member Of the 1607th
Field Maintenance Squadron at the
base.
Troopers said Kinokur's car went
off the left side of the southbound
lane at the bottom of a small hill,
struck a concrete culyert, went IL
more feet. spun around, and stop
ped heading north. Troopers found
Winokur's body on the road, along
side his wrecked car.
Winokur was pronounced dead at
1920 a. m. few minutes after ar
rival at the base hospital.
Winokur was not married. He
lived in Philadelphia.
DEADLINE SET = The deadline
for acceptance of materials for dis
tribution at the Delaware booth at
the 9th Annual Pennsylvania Rec
reation and Sportsmen's Show,
Harrisburg, February ell, is rapid
ly approaching, advises the State