Milford chronicle., 1961-05-26

ICE CREAM FESTIVAL - The
Lois Circle oft he w. S. C. S.,
Mrs. Viola Layfield, chairman,
will have Homemade Ice
Cream and Cake Festival on the
lawn across from the Bank in
Dagsboro, August 11th.
STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL -
Saturday, June 3, 1861, at o'clock
p. m. at the Frederick school yard,
sponsored by WSCS, FELTON, Jun
ior Band. Pony rides. fire truck
rides. booths and loads of snacks.
Home made ice cream, strawberry
shortcake, hot dogs, hamburgers,
sodas, etc.
SANCTUARY CHOIR TIL
Sanctuary Choir of the Grace
Methodist Church, Georgetown,
Delaware, will present a concert
of sacred music on Sunday, May
2S, at 500 p. IN. The choir has
prepared selections which have
long been standards in the history
of the Church music. The program
will feature such composers as
Bach, Handel, Schubert and others
as well as spirituals and tradition
al hymn tunes.
The concert will be conducted by
H. Eugene Bovine with Mrs. Her
man B. Roach as organist. The
choir hopes that the readers will
attend since the chance to hear the
great music of the church does not
always present itself.
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RECORD PARADE = The Del
marva Chicken Festival, long no.
ted as the event attracting the big
gest and longest parade each year
on the entire Delmarva Peninsula.
this year looks like it will outdo
itself in this department.
Robert Favinger, marshall for
this years Festival Parade at Sea-
ford, Del, June II, reports that rs
entries have been received so far
in the parade's eleven divisions.
Some 700 invitations have been
sent out, he says, and so a 31A-
mile long parade could easily be
in prospect by next Monday when
entries close.
Besides the fun and honors, en-
trants will be competing for more
than $1,000 in cash prizes, IA tro-
phies and a number of special
awards and prizes.
SOCIAL SECURITY = BY the
end of 1860, more than 11,450 peo-
pie in Kent and Sussex Counties
were receiving old-age, survivors
and disability insurance benefits.
The total benefits paid to these
people for December 1860 was
$662, ,4S1, according to Edward F.
Sullivan, manager of the Dover
Social Security district office.
Nationally, almost Is million
people were receiving about bill
lion dollars a month in old-age,
survivors, and disability insurance
benefits at the close of 1860. Many
of these people were made eligible
for benefits by the changes in the
law made in 1960-such as the re-
duction in the amount of work re-
quired to qualify for benefits and
the removal of the age so require
ment for disability benefits.
Kent and Sussex people partici-
pate ard share in this program
along with the rest of the United
States. The table below shows the
number of each type of benefit be-
ing paid in the two county area as
of December 81. 1960,-the date of
the latest available figures.
KENT JURORS - Jury Commits
sioners Earle N. Faulkner and
Louis j. Parker, Jr., have impanel-
ed these petit jurors for the June
term of Kent County Superior
Court:
First Representative District:
Arthur T. Moffitt, Myrtle Davidson,
John Birkling, and Margaret
Schoolfield; Second, Mrs. Ruth
Fisher, Mrs. NJ. Hayes Wilson, Sr.,
Mary L. Postles, and Matthew Nit
ten; Third, Frank Cole, John Hob
son, Clarence Emerson, and Fran
els c. Powell; Fifth, John Hart
nett, Lewis Bailey. Mrs. Blanche
Blackburn, and Miss Emma Will
Inns; Sixth, William Hays, Warren
Dill, Amos Minner, and Watson
Dill; Seventh, Ernest Cool, Thom-
as Pickering, Henry B. Appleford; /;
Eighth. Mrs. Mozella Hardy, Louise
TO- Kemp, and Bradley Steele;
Ninth, Elizabeth Algier, George
Simpson and Helen McNally;
Tenth, Charles West, Betty NJ Mill
man. and Harold w Hall