Milford chronicle., 1960-02-19
LEWES

Members of the Farm Home Ad-
visory Committee of the Irving ID.
Burton agency, Southern States
Cooperative, attended a day-long
training meeting last Tuesday in
Dagsboro. The Burton agency is
located at Nassau.
The functions and operation Of
the Southern States were explained
by speakers on the program. Lun-
cheon was served by the Women's
Society of Christian Service of the
Dagsboro Methodist Church. The
afternoon session featured demon
stration of interior decorating and
painting, conducted by Miss Matte
Kesselr, Southern States home eco
nomist from Richmond, Va. Women
attending firm the Burton agency
were Mrs. Irving ID. Burton, Mrs.
Holland Hill, president of the
group; Mrs. Apollo Kielbasa, sec
retary, Mrs. Willard Webb, Mrs.
Edwin Wilson, and Mrs. Edward
Wolfe.
A committee which will work
with Army officials in making
plans for the dedication of the U.
S. Army Reserve Center in Lewes
has been formed and held it's first
formal meeting Saturday.
Committee members include Otis
H. Smith, Mayor of Lewes; Clar-
ence Lynch, Mayor of Rehoboth
Beach; Milton X. Fried, editor of
the Delaware Coast Press; DR..
Leon II. Farrin, superintendent of
the Lewes Special School District;
Norman b. Baylis, Lewes business
man; William Spooner, commander
of American Legion Post No. II,
Lewes; Col Sam p Eschenbach
(USAR), commanding officer of
Detachment /, 2010th USAR Logis-
tical Command, and Col. Riley E.
McGarraugh of Lewes
Captain Richard b. Caldwell, CO.
mmander of the Kent-Sussex area
of the XXI U. S. Army Corps and
senior unit advisor at Fleming and
Goodwin USAR Center in Dover, and
Master Sgt. Clarence N. Coleman,
unit advisor at the Lewes USAR
Center, are acting in an advisory
capacity to the members of the
dedication committee.
Officers and men of Capt. Frank
B. Small's Battery G, 3rd Howitzer
Battalion, 33rd Artillery, have been
training i'm the new 100 man Center
since last April. Formerly they
trained at Fort Miles.
Constructed at a cost of $117,130
by the Leonard Pevar Company of
Kennett Square, Pa, the new train
ing facility has an exterior of con-
crete masonry with brick facing.
Facilities include classrooms, off
ices, locker rooms and shower
rooms.
Although a definite date has not
: been established for the dedication
ceremonies, the committee expects
to finalize plans within the next
six weeks and are in hopes of ded-
icating the building the later part
of March.
A kickoff dinner starting a
drive for funds and construction
material for a Little League Base
ball Park at Lewes, was held Sat-
urday at p. m. in Bethel Fellow
ship Hall.
Baseball luminaries and state Of
ficials who attended the dinner
gave short talks on the advantages
OF erecting a Little League stad-
ium on plot of land on Pilottown
Road which has been donated bv
the town.
Bulldozers have already been
working on the plot, Ieveling it off
according to specifications, a scale
model OF which has been on dis
play in the window of the Lewes
Board OF Public Works for towns
people to view. The sic unanim-
ously agreed upon by officers of the
Lewes Little League and the town
board is approximately 400 by 300
feet at the corner of PiIottown
Road and Ship Carpenter Street
adjoining the towns public tennis
court.
The famed Lewes Coast Guard
Station has a new commanding Of
ficer.
He is Chief Warrant Officer Jack
w. Mcdonald, who has arrived with
MS wife and three children and are
now occupying rented cottage on
Lewes Beach.
CWO Mcdonald replaces CWO |
III. M. Joynes who took over the |
post In 1855, and has been relieved
after serving the Lewes station
TOUR years. Mr.. Joynes has been
transferred to the Winter Quarter
Lightshlp off Chincoteague, Va.
Ihe new commanding officer
came TO Lewes from Hawaii. He is
career officer and plans to re-
main in the sevice a full thirty
years. His wife is a native of Ans.
tralia. Their three daughters
Lynne, Susan and Kim. have been
enrolled this semester at the Lewes
Public School.
Miss Catherine C. Maull has a.
gain accepted the chairmanship of
the National Heart Drive for the
Lewes area for her third success
sive year The drive is being con-
Quoted through the month of Feb.