Milford chronicle., 1952-11-14
Six Named To Top
U. S. Tax Post Offices
CONTINUED sr0m nrst 7arsl

mead the AUDIT division, and j Edo
win Lewis, of near Dover, present
cashier of the collectors office,
will head the collection division.
William F. Gibney of near Media,
Pa, at present a special agent with
the Philadelphia office, will become
the head Of the intelligence divi-
sion, while L. F. Knight, also of
Philadelphia, will become the act
ing head of the alcohol and tobac-
co tax unit.
Graham Appointed
The appointment of Francis. P.
Graham, acting collector of the
collectors office since last July,
as director of the Wilmington office
was announced in Washington this
week by Secretary of the Treasury
John w. Snyder.
Mr.. Graham will head a group Of
Is or 20 persons to the formal
ceremonies in Philadelphia where
six directors and a district COM
missioner for the Philadelphia dis
trict-which includes Pennsylvania,
Delaware, and New Jersey-will be
installed by Secretary Snyder.
The secretary is due to speak at
the meeting which opens at 10 a. m.
in the Philadelphia High School for
Girls, Seventeenth and Spring Car
den Streets, where Commissioner
of International Revenue John B.
Dunlap will also speak.
A tax forum to which attorneys
and tax accountants as well as the
general public have been invited,
will also be part of the program
with Edward c. DOugherty of Phil
adelphia, as announced commission
er of the district, in charge.
For the Wilmington office the re-
organization means an expansion in
services and a slight expansion in
personnel, while all of the differ
ent offices are made directly re-
spOnsible to the director.
New Unit Set Up
The naming of Mr.. Knight as act
ing head of the alcohol and tobac-
co tax unit is a new position At
! the present time there is an inspec-
tor who formerly was responsible
to a Camden office.
The new audit division will be
composed almost entirely of reve-
nue. agents, who formerly came di-
rectly under the Baltimore agents
office.
Mr.. Graham, who will receive
! $1O,8O0 in his new post, lives at SOC
Jackson Avenue, WOOdcrest. He is
a native of Harrington, a graduate
of Harrington High School and at
tended GOldey College. He joined
the Wilmington office January B.
1941, and has served there ever
since, with a 14-month Interrupt
ton for Army service. He was
named assistant to Collector Ern-
est E. Killen when the latter was
named collector and named acting
collector when Mr.. Killen resigned
last July. He is married and the
father of two children.
Mr.. Brown, born in SeafOrd and
raised in Lewes, completed &c
years Of service with the bureau
in August. He is a University OF
Delaware graduate and certified
public accountant Joining the
Huntington, w. Va, office of the
bureau as a revenue agent in 1922
he served there until 1880 when he
was transferred to Wilmington. He
was named agent-in-charge of the
office in 1899 in the office in the
Continental American Building. He
is married and the father of two
sons.
Both Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Brown
were certified for the directors job
by the Civil Service Commission in
August, along with Jesse S. Cooper
of Camden, former state treasurer
Native OF Maryland
The new head of the audit divi-
sion. Mr.. Bennett is a native OF
SharptOwn, Md, who attended
Temple University and Pace College
in New York. He is also a certified
public accountant. Mr.. Bennett
joined the bureau as a specia
agent in Washington in 1885 anC
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fore coming to WILMINGTON as {
revenue agent in 1886.
The new head of the collection
division, Mr.. Lewis, is a native O
: Dover, who graduated from Dover
! High School and attended the Uni
veTsity of Delaware. He joined the
, office in 1910 and was named cash
ier in 1947 He is married and the
father of three children.
Mr.. Gibney is a native Philadel
phian who graduated from GirarC
} College and attended the Pennsyl
vania Institute of Criminology al
we'll as taking additional courses il
accounting and criminology. H,
Joined the bureau in 1945, aftel
} previous service with the Civil Ser
,, vice Commission, and has been ;
special agent working out of tn,
Philadelphia office since that time
The appointments are expected Il
} be announced the day the change
over becomes effective. The one re
) naming division head, administra
, tive. is not eXDected to he narnpt