Milford chronicle., 1957-11-29
Light Co. Officials
Are Entertained

Officials of the Delaware Power &
Light Company were enthusiastic
ally welcomed to Millsboro at a
COMMUNICATIVE banquet recently,
at Sans Restaurant, Millsboro.
During the meeting, Harley B.
Mitchell, president of the G. of C.
spoke in behalf of the business
men and expressed appreciation to
the power company for their de-
cision to locate their 80 million
dollar Indian River power plant
in the Millsboro area.
Mr.. Mitchell presented Mr.. Nell
son with honorary membership in
the c. of G. and assured the COM
pany's president that the Mills
boro businessmen would gladly as
sist the employees of the utility
firm in taking up residences in the
Millsboro community.
During Mr.. Nelson's remarks,
various reasons for selection of
the Millsboro site were outlined.
Mr. Nelson said the friendliness of
the MillsDoro people was a contrib
uting factor.
Other factors considered were
the large tract of land available,
the presence of the Indian River,
nearn essof transportation, avail
ability of labor and other consider
ations.
c. Robert Godfrey was master of
ceremonies and introduced various
civic group representatives who
brought greetings from their re-
| spective groups within the COM
munity.
Introduced were: Clarence Lin
go, Sr., president, Sussex County
Levy Court, Joseph c. Lingo, chief
Millsboro Fire Co., and member
of Millsboro Town Council; Gran
vile Messick, president, Millsboro
School Board; Raymond S. Goslee,
president, Millsboro P. T. A: w.
Edgar .Timmons, president. Board
of Stewards. Grace Methodist
Church; the Rev. Elmer P. Baker,
rector, st. Marks Episcopal Chur-
ch; Elton P. Godfrey, commander,
Indian River Post No. %, Ameri-
can Legion; Frederick Hudson,
commander, Sussex Memorial Post
No. 1922, VFW; Mayor Sanders P.
Darden and Postmaster Roy E.
Jones, president, MillsborO Town
Commissioners; Harley w. Moore,
president Millsboro Lions Club; !;
Samuel Timmons, president Mills
boro Xiv anis Club and Jesse
Jones immediate past president,
Georgetown-M Millsboro Rotary Club.
Harry Long, Supt., Indian River
Power Station, spoke and intro
duced these d. P. & L. Co. officials
and personnel: Marvin Gibbons,
results engineer; Ralph Marsh,
supt. of mechanical maintenance !;
Francis Looymans, electrical main
tenance head; David Winslow, as
sistant plant supt.; Ray Taylor,
James Wimbrow, and Andre Dane,
shift engineers.
Also introduced were three repre-
sentatives of the United Engineers
Contractors, Inc; R. NJ. Edwards.
supt. of construction; Nelson
Spence and Don Carswell.
| Robert Mullen, assistant man
ager of production for the ESPS
Co., was introduced and sopke of
| the plants operations. He intro
duced Henry Sterling. production
manager. ESPS Co.; and Mr.. Nell
son.
u. S. Senator John ]. Will
liams, was the main speaker of the
evening and brought greetings to
the group not only as a Millsboro
resident, but as we'll as from the
Congress in Washington.
Rev. Baker gave the invocation
and Miss Harriet Nichols played
the piano.
Presid lent Mitchell appointed
three past presidents of the Mills
boro c. of c. as a nominating COM
mittee for the organizations slate
of officers for 1858. They include
Leroy Monroe, Wesley Bullock, and
Edward S. Cordrey.