Milford chronicle., 1949-09-02
First State Utility
Board Is Appointed
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next two fiscal years are appro-
priated to the commission for the
carrying out of it's duties.
H0lds Other Posts
Mr.. Hazard is perhaps best
known. OF the three appointees. He
has long been active in Democratic
politics and has served as president
of the Wilmington City Council,
chairman of the Democratic City
Committee, and chairman of the
party's state committee. He was re-
Gently appointed by Governor Car
vel to the State Board of Park Com
missiOners and was made chairman
of that body. He represents Delx-
ware on the National Rivers and
Harbors Congress.
A native of DagsborO, Mr.. Haz-
zard attended schools there and
was in the lumber business in klat
town. In the early 192O's, he joined
the Warner Company of Philadei-
phia with which he is still ass0cia-
ted. A sales representative for the
firm in Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland for many years,
he is now sales manager of the ag-
ricultural and rural building divi-
sion, with headquarters in Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. Hazard is married and the
father of two children. He is af-
filiated with Doric Lodge No. 80,
Free and Accepted Masons, Will
mington; Hope Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons. Georgetown; St.
Johns CommaHdery No. 1, Knights
Templar, Wilmington; Lulu Tenn
pie, Philadelphia, Ancient ARABIC
Order of the Mystic Shrine. He
represents his firm in the Whining
ton Chamber of Commerce. He and
Mrs. Hazard are members of st.
Andrews Protestant Episcopal
Church in Wilmington.
Holds Law Degree
Mr.. DerricksOn was born at
Frankford and moved to Dover
during his teens. He attended Will
nington Conference Academy
Dover, Mercersburg Academy,
Trinity College and Duke Universi-
ty from which lie received a law
degree in 1927.
Associated with a family hotel
business most of his life, he prac-
ticed law in New Bern, S. c., TO.
about five years before concentrate
ing on the hotel business. He is
president of Derrickson Hotel, Inc.
Wheeling, w. Va, vice-president
secretary and treasurer of Derrick.
SON Hotel Operating Company
Charlestown, w. Va, vice-president
of the v. & w. Hotel Corporation
MOorhead City. N. c.; president ot
the r. & V. Hotel Corporation. East
Orange, N. j.: president of the
Venita Hotel Corporation. Dover
and president of the Blades Corp
grafton, Dover.
MIR. Derrickson has also been as
sociated with mis- father and bro
ther in lumber businesses in Soutl
Carolina and in Dover.
Elks, KiwanlS Member
He is member of the Elks, tn,
Kiwanis Club, Kappa Alpha, a so
cial fraternity. and Gamma Eft
Gamma, legal fraternity. He is
member of the Board of Trade @
Wheeling and has served two term
as president of the Dover Cham
Der of Commerce. He is membe
of the Kent County Horse Associa
tiOn and has served as chairman Q
the Red Cross in Dover.
Prominent in Democratic pOliti
cal circles, Mr. DerricksOn is on
Of the Governors military aide
and, as such, has the honorary it'll
of lieutenant-colonel. He is Marie
and the father of two children.
State Grange Officer
Mr.. Phillips was born nea
Georgetown and he attended gram
mar and high schools in that com
munity. He also attended the Uni
versity of Delaware for a timt
From 1913 through 1915. he taugl
in rural schools near Lewes an
worked at farming during the sun
mers. In 1915 he began operation {
family farm and continued
that occupation until four year
ago. In the past year, he has bee
associated with the Southern State
Cooperative Store i'm Nassau.
Mr.. Phillips is secretary of IL
Delaware State Grange and mast'
of COOlspring Grange. He and Ii
wife are members of st. George
Episcopal Church. They have l
children.
Mr.. Phillips has served as {
election and registration Off;c
and he was reading clerk of Il
House of the 1871 General Assem-
ly.