Milford chronicle., 1950-11-24

BRIDGE REOPENED-The State |
Highway Department has announ-
ced that the bridge over the st.
Jones River, at Lebanon, has been
reOpened for traffic. Some weeks
ago the bridge was damaged bv
overlooking, but repairs are now
completed and the bridge is again
in service. The highway crossing
the bridge leads from the Wyom-
ing, Camden, Rising Sun and Leb-
anon area to Route 113 at the Do
yer Air Force Base.
LEWES c. OF c. - Louis F.
Ingram, young cashier of the
Lewes Trust Company, was elect
ed president of the Chamber of
! Commerce recently at the annual
dinner meeting in the Sequoia Tea
/ Room.
Ingram succeeds Weston H. Ellis
/ who served as president the past
two years. The new vice president
is Major Justus B. Naylor. Sussex
County engineer of the State High
way Department. H. Geiger Om-
wake, superintendent of the Lewes
School is the newly elected secre-
tary, and Postmaster Alton Lee
Brittingham is the treasurer.
Four new directors were elect
ed: Daniel H. c. Littleton, Cornell
ius c. Marshal, Weston H. Ellis,
and Frank Shapiro.
EMERGENCY "HAMS" - Three
Dover amateur radio stations are
establishing civilian emergency
communication facilities in this
area. Two are in two networks
equipped to handle disaster COM
munications.
The stations are W3MOD, owned
by Tony Kweder, New and Loock-
erman street; W3GUS, owned by
Parker Burkart, Garden Court Mo
tel, North Dover, and W3PMV, a
station installed by Fran Erdle in
his automobile.
Kweder and Burkart are active
in the networks. One is composed
of stations in Maryland and Della
ware and the other was recently
established in connection with
Delaware Civilian Defense activ-
tiles by William Brobinson of Min
quadale.
WILL VISIT EUROPE-Mr. Jack
ShOckley is a salesman in the Ira.
vel Department of The Philadel.
phia National Bank, 1416 Chestnut
, Street, Philadelphia, Pa. This fine
Travel Department makes a point
of training their assistants so tina,
they may be properly fitted for tn,
position they hold as travel coun
selors. Jack, this year, is crossin,
t the ocean on the Britannia of tn,
Cunard Line eastbound, and on tn
e mighty Queen Elizabeth west
t bound, and in between these sail
= ings, visits the outstanding point
: of interest in London and PART
and inspects the many hostelrie
: so that he may be in a position /
+ properly advise those going fol
f ward to the two great Europea
d capitals.
= Mr.. Shockley is the son of MI
f and Mrs. John r. Shockley of Lin
! coin. Delaware. He was educate
: in Milford and Milton schools. HI
, is a graduate of the Milton Higl
School, class of 1947.
MACK LAUDED - Resolution.
of appreciation for the long servic,
of w. w. Mack with the State
Highway Department and regre
over his retirement were adopted
at the meeting of the State High.
way Commission in Dover yester.
day.
Mr.. Mack will retire at the age
of 20 on December 13. He has had
SO years of service with the de.
partment, 20 with the department
proper; two years as consultant
and the last two as director of the
: Delaware River crossing division
: of the department.
Z On January l, Colonel William
Y A. McWilliams, present associate
director of the Delaware River
crossing division, is scheduled tC
= succeed Mr.. Mack.
- Eighteen of Mr. Mack's 29 years
of service were as chief engineer
= On July 8, 1948, he became direc
= tor of the Delaware River crossins
S division, succeeding Lieutenant
y General Eugene Reybold.
5 Mr.. Mack will be guest of honor
: at a dinner to be given at the Din.
I ner Bell Inn at Dover, tentatively
; set for November 29.
5 He will attend the meeting Of
the American Association of State
2 Highway officials, of which he wa:
= formerly a director, in Miami, Fla.
5 December to z.
2 DETECTIVE PASSES - Jane:
D. Orvis, "a, of the Delaware Stat,
! Police, collapsed and died last
Friday night in front of Harvard
Medical College in Boston, where
he had just completed a course Oh
= legal medicine.
The officer. who lived in Clayton
died of natural causes, according
to Boston Medical Examiner Mi
chael LuOngO, after falling to The
street while leaving the colleg,
building.
Detective Orvis, assigned t.
/ Troop at Dover, had enrolled il
$ the seminar with another Della