Thursday, Feb. 11, 1965 --

• The Wicomico County Centennial Committee has thus far received 59 design entries for a new Wicomico County seal. The contest was formed to stimulate interest in the county’s history, leading up the planned 100-year celebration in 1967, Mrs. George E. Burnett, Centennial Committee Chairwoman, said there is no record of the county ever having an official seal. She said most of the seal submissions have come from local school students.

• The Salisbury Jaycees said they will greatly expand the exhibits planned for the upcoming annual Sportsman and Boat Show at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center. In the past, the show has consisted mostly of boats. This year, however, vendors presenting trailers, guns, fishing equipment and hunting gear will also be displayed. A special attraction will be several glider planes on display. Glider flying has accelerated as an industry, with a company in Wallops Island recently offering glider sales and training.

• State Sen. Mary Nock of Salisbury is sponsoring a bill in the General Assembly that would force those stopped for suspected drunken driving to choose between submitting to a chemical test or losing their driver’s license. Currently, chemical tests are voluntary, which makes charging all but the most flagrantly inebriated drivers difficult. Gov. Millard Tawes said he backs Nock’s legislation; Sen. Frederick Malkus of Dorchester County said he opposes it.

• Local photographer William P. Dryden has opened a new business at 414 South Division St. -- Dryden’s Camera Center. The shop will offer everything a photographer needs, from cameras to darkroom equipment. A Salisbury native and 1959 Wicomico High School, Dryden had worked at Photo-lite since he was 15 years old and worked under the late Richard Rouse.

• At this week’s matches draw for the 1965 National Indoors Tennis Tournament, General Chairman Bill Riordan announced the mega-popular event will be returning to Salisbury in 1966. Miami, New York City and Jackson, Miss., also placed bids to host the event, but Riordan said Salisbury’s recent success as host site made it an easy choice. The event is already sold out for this year. More than 18,000 people attended last year, Riordan said, and the event “made a tidy profit.”

• Salisbury High School basketball coach Marion Waller has selected the seven-member All-Star Basketball Alumni Team. Those selected: Phelps Dennis, Purcell Smith, Clayton Dashiell, William Johnson, David Williams, Bobby Holbrook and Vaughn Young. In an era of segregation, Salisbury High School won the Class B Championships from 1957-1959. Waller’s coaching record stands at 111 wins and 51 setbacks.

• Twenty-one student nurses from the Peninsula General Hospital School of Nursing will be “capped” Friday night in a ceremony at Prince Street Elementary School. Hospital Board of Trustees President Avery W. Hall will preside over the ceremony. After graduation exercises, a reception will be held in the nursing school’s auditorium on Locust Street.

• The annual Boy Scouts’ Government Day was held Wednesday, as Scouts received firsthand exposure to the inner-workings of government. One of the more amusing scenarios saw Scout-Sheriff Robert Abel -- with the help of Deputy Sheriff John Walston -- arrest county schools Superintendent Royd Mahaffey on charges of forcing too many classroom days on youngsters. Scout-Judges Raymond Heller and Glenn Davis tried Mahaffey in People Court -- under the oversight of Judge H.I. Loreman -- and found Mahaffey guilty as charged.