Monday, Nov. 14, 1977 --

• Salisbury Mayor Elmer F. Ruark deposited the first dollar today in the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle on the Downtown Plaza, officially kicking off the charity group’s annual Christmas Campaign for 1977. Joining the mayor in the important moment were SA Director Capt. Richard Ulyat, SA Christmas Chairman Richard Holloway and SA Advisory Board Chairman Bill Adams.
• •Wicomico schools Superintendent Harold A Fulton said that junior and senior high school students will not be permitted to remain in school if they cannot not show proof by Dec. 1 that they have been vaccinated against measles. Clinics for any unvaccinated students will be held at the county’s high schools Nov. 28-29.
• Mel Toadvine has been named Managing Editor of the Salisbury Daily and Sunday Times. Dean Farmer, the newspaper’s General Manager, made the announcement on Thursday. The 37-year-old Toadvine will succeed Richard L. Moore, who has worked at the newspaper for 38 years and will retire in December. Toadvine has served as Assistant News Editor for the past seven years. He joined the staff in 1961 as a photographer.
• The Ellen Street water tank, located near Church Street and North Salisbury Boulevard, is being dismantled. The old and rusted 200,000-gallon tank — built in 1926 — has been criticized as an eyesore in desperate need of repainting.
• The Salisbury Community Players will open its season tonight with an evening filled with haunting Melodies, skilled dancing and rib-tickling comedy with a performance of “Our Impossible Dream” at the Wicomico Senior High School Auditorium. “Our Impossible Dream” is made up of songs and performances from 14 musicals that have opened and appeared on Broadway since 1964. Written by Sue Hess and Mary Ann Dunn, the show is produced by Jane Whittaker, directed by Mabs Cullen, and choreographed by Shirley Meeks and Margaret Yow.
• Wicomico Senior High School teachers Nancy Lynn Hancock and Bernard Robert Bond were married Saturday in Grace United Methodist Church in Salisbury. The former Miss Hancock teaches Business; her new husband teaches Spanish. After a wedding trip to Acapulco, Mexico, the couple will live in Salisbury.
• Santa Claus will arrive by fire truck on Friday, Nov. 25, at noon at the Salisbury Mall. The jolliest of all jolly Christmas figures will arrive at the mall’s west entrance aboard a truck from the Salisbury Fire Department’s Station 2. Upon arrival, Santa will be escorted to the new Santa Reception Center.