REHOBOTH'S NEW CONVENTION
HALL
Sunday, April 18, 1965,
dedication plans are under way for the $250,000 Municipal building
and Convention Hall with its first event scheduled for next Saturday.
Mayor Joel C. Stamper has
announced that dedicatory ceremonies will be held May 28, eve of
the Memorial Day weekend, traditional season opener for this
resort.
Stamper has named
Commissioner Joseph J. Crowley chairman of the committee and others
to serve with him, Commissioners Frank Parker, Jesse Gundry,
Eugene Russell and Richard Hackett, Paul Curtis Stokes and convention
director Miles Frederick.
The first event in the new
convention hall will be a cabaret dance sponsored by the Lord
Baltimore Dance Club.
Stamper has said the city
is pleased with the response for use of the new facility and that the
following events are already scheduled; May 23, Selbyville
Cotillion club, May 27, Peninsula Conference Christian Services,
W omen’s Society of the Methodist Church, June 4th to
June 6, VFW Annual Convention, June 11th state
convention of WWI veterans, July 19, Beebe auxiliary dance, July
16 to July 18th, an antique show, August 7, annual Blue
Carriage Ball.
Source: Washington Evening
Star, Washington, D.C. April 18, 1965
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