Smyrna times., 1947-01-23
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Represented
In Council

SOullCu represent NdlIcd mltIeSlS
and business groups ranging from
education to private enterprise.
Each one was elected by the people
of the town to govern it, and took
the office well qualified.
Mayor S. Creadick Ennis is a
lifelong resident of Kent County.
He has been engaged in the Ennis
and Deakyne garage business for
twenty-five years, twenty-three of
which he has been associated with
the Ford Motor Company. In 1928,
he was elected to the Board of Di-
rectors of the National Bank of
Smyrna of which he is now a men,
ber. A member of the Town Coun-
Gil for nine years, he was elected
to the office of Mayor in February
1943. He is a member of the
Smyrna-Clayton Chamber of Com
merce.
Ralph G. FAIRIES, a graduate of
the Wilmington schools, is a veter-
an of two years service during the
first World War and is an ex-Post
Commander of the David c. Har-
rison American Legion Post No. IA.
Mr.. FAIRIES became associated with
L. M. Price and Son in 1922 and
remained with the company until
two years following the death of
Warner w. Price, Sr, when his
services were terminated. For the
past four years, he has been in the
fertilizer and farm machinery bust
ness, operating from Townsend,
Del. He has been a member of the
Smyrna Town Council for the past
five years.
Henry w. Price, who was a
member of the Gasoline and Tire
Panel and served on the Ration
Board during the war, was elected
to the Town Council in February,
1914. In the fall of 1916, he was
elected Secretary of the Council to
fill the post left vacant by the res
ignation of Richard Long. An en-
ployee of Sears Roebuck and Com
pany, Dover, he has been a men,
Der of the local School Board since
1945.
Glenn S. King, member of the
faculty of the John Bassett Moore
School, became a member of Coun-
Gil in an unopposed election in
February, 1946. He holds the
Master of Arts degree from Cor
nell University where he majored
in drama. During his sixteen years
here he has taken an active part in
community affairs, serving on the
local ration board, on various COM
mittees for civic betterment, and
on the Vestry of st. Peters Church
of which he is now secretary. He
is a member of the Smyrna Lions
Club and of the Smyrna-Clayton
Chamber of Commerce and was
chairman of the statewide COM
mittee of teachers of English which
drew up the present state curric-
ulum in English at the high school
level.
In October, 1916, Henry Shapley
was appointed to the Town Coun-
Gil to fill the unexpired term Great
ed by the resignation of Richard
Long. Mr.. Shapley graduated from
the Smyrna High School after
which he was employed for two
years by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. For ten and one-half
years he operated a soda and candy
business in town. He received his
discharge from the service in Feb
ruary 1916 after serving 35 months,
18 months of which were overseas
in the European Theatre with the
First Army. In March of the same
year he accepted position with
the Wilson Cabinet Company where
he is now employed. Mr.. Shapley
is active in local affairs and at
present he is Director of the Lions
Club, Director of the local chapter
of the Red Cross, a member of the
Official Board of Asbury Methodist
Church and an active member of
the Citizens Hose Company
Stanford c. Marvel assumed his
duties as Town Manager of Smyr-
ma on Saturday, June Is, 1945. Mr..
Marvel, at that time, was living in
Dover, but moved his family to
smyrna as soon as housing was
available. For a number of years
he had been an employee with the
State Highway Department, for
sometime, one of the two Kent