Milford chronicle., 1953-05-22
LEWEs


The DeVries Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club OF Lewes
has selected delegates and alter
mates to the state convention in
Laurel next Friday, Saturday and
Sunday and made plans to install
new local officers on June 8. The
new president is Mrs. Louise
Moore, succeeding Mrs. Grace e.
Hopkins, at whose home the annual
election took place. Mrs. Edith
Scott was elected vice president;
Mrs. Olive Powell, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Dorothy Fitch, re-
cording secretary, and Mrs. Hazel
Downs Birmingham, treasurer. The
installation at the home of Mrs.
Florence II. Russell on Savannah
Road will follow a covered dish
supper as a club benefit Delegates
to the state convention will be Mrs.
Louise Moore, Mrs. Florence Rus
sell and Mrs. Dorothy Scudder. AL
ternates will be Mrs. Dorothy
Fitch, Mrs. Margaret Trader and
Mrs Mary Fisher. The convention
manual was prepared and edited
this year by the DeVries Club.
Coast Guard vessels continue to
search the mouth of Delaware Bay
off Lewes for the body of a pilot
boat engineer who was knocked
overheard in a collision at 2 am.
Sunday. The victim was assistant
engineer Lloyd T. Larrimore, 54, of
RehOboth Beach. He was lost and
eight crewmen were injured, one
critically, when the 300-foot, 5,767-
ton Canadian freighter Corner
Brook, bound for Norfolk in a
dense fog, sliced amid-ship into the
125-fOot pilot boat Delaware, nearly
cutting it in half Louis A. Cain, 81,
of Lewes, was given brain surgery
in the Delaware Hospital, Whining
ton. Mr. Cain was the chief engin-
eer, and is in critical condition at
this writing. Others injured and
now in the Beebe Hospital, Lewes,
are two Delaware River pilots,
Capt. G.. Herbert Orton, Jr., 40, of
Lewes, suffering from shock and
Philadelphia,whO sustained an in
jured hip. Also injured were Capt.
Garry Edgans, SO, of Lewes, skipper
of the Delaware, who suffered a
Wrenched back, and the chief cook
of the Delaware, Otto Nilssen, 43,
also of LeWes, who sustained minor
injuries Capt. William S. Ingram,
Capt James r. OrtOn, brother of
Capt. G. Herbert OrtOn, Jr., who
was treated for shock and Capt.
Earl T. Poole. all of Lewes, receiv-
ed cuts and bruises but were not
hospitalized.
The accident occurred one and
a half miles northwest of Over
falls Lightship, when the Norfolk
bound Corner Brook, with a cargo
of newsprint, cOllided with the Del
aware, owned by the Pilots AssO-
citation for the Bay and River Della
ware. The Pilot boat was. preparing
to remove the Lewes pilot, Capt. d.
Anthony Potter, who had navigated
the steamer down from Philadel-
phia to the Delaware breakwater.
The Daily Vacation Bible School,
sponsored by the Bethel Methodist
Church, Groome Methodist Church,
Lewes Presbyterian Church and St.
Peters Protestant Episcopal
Church, will be held June Sth to
June 10Th. Glasses will be conduct
ed Mondays through Fridays, 9 to
1880 am, for these two weeks.
There will be classes for boys and
girls 4 to IA years of age.
The Beebe Hospital graduation
exercises will be held in Lewes
High School, $3.50 pm, May 29th,
with Sen. John J. Williams as prin-
cipal speaker. Three girls will re-
ceive diplomas: Marjorie L. Colds
boro, Lucille Mears and Helen