Milford chronicle., 1962-08-31
LEWES

The new pumper ordered by the
Lewes Fire Department, Inc, will
feature a 1000 G.P.M. high prea-
sured pump. a IL volt electrical
system, a 100 ampere alternator
a 500 gallon booster tank, electric
re-wind booster hose reel with
200 feet of 1-inch hose and stand
ard equipment which will come
through on the new pumper. Also
added new equipment, which will
be on the new pumper. will be
a smoke ejector. Mine Safety APP
pliances Co. Air-Pak Masks and
longer ladders for better rescue
work. The cost of the new pumper
win be $4,000 dollars.
This is the first new fire pump
er ordered by the fire department
IN ten years. Within the next two
years the company will have TO
get rid of some of it's older equip
ment due to cost of upkeep and
hard to get parts for older equip
ment. 1t has cost the Lewes Fire
Department about $4,000 to put fire
III WOl hlllS SOu-
dition, from March 6th-Sth storm.
The Lewes Fire Department is
having it's annual fund drive now.
III the firemen have been by your
house and you were not home.
please send in your donation now.
Your local firemen depend on you,
as You depend on them when you
are in need. Your donation may
be the life line you may need
someday. When the fund drive is
completed in the Town of Lewes
and Beach, the drive will start in
the rural area. The Lewes Fire
Department, Inc, would like to
thank all those who have helped
in the past.
Capt. Theodore c. Freeman, 80,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Free
man of Lewes, graduated August
18th from the Experimental Test
Pilot Course at the Aerospace Re
search Pilot School, Edwards AFB,
Calf.
The eight month course is one
of two given at the exclusive
school. 1t is designed to train
flight test officers in the latest
methods of aircraft testing and ev-
aluation. The 'post-graduate" Aero
space Research Pilot Course is de-
signed to train pilots and project
officers for manned space research
programs.
Before his selection for the test
pilot school Captain Freeman was
assigned to the Directorate of
Flight Test at the Air Force Flight
Test Center, Edwards, as a Flight
Test Engineer.
Capt. Freeman entered the mill
tary service after graduation from
the u. S. Naval Academy in 1858
and has since returned to the Un-
iversity of Michigan, in 1858, to
gree in aeronautical engineering.
The new test pilot is married
to the former Faith ID. Clark of
Grassy Hill Road, Orange, Conn.
They have a daughter, Faith
Bonnie Bryan of Lewes, 21, re-
ceived three of the top awards re-
Gently at the Seth annual graduat-
ing exercises of the Beebe Hospital
School of Nursing in the Lewes
School auditorium.
Miss Bryan's awards were as
follows: ''The highest scholastic
average, awarded by the Beebe
Hospital Board of Directors; "the
best in obstetrics" from the Beebe
Junior Auxiliary, and the Beebe
Alumnae Award for 'the best in
the operating ROOM.
The Senior Auxiliary citation
went to Miss Katharine Stockley
of Georgetown for ''the best all
around student, and the award for
"the student making the most pro-
gress" went to Miss Norma Lee
Smith of Georgetown, presented by
the faculty of the School of Nur-
sing. Others in the class of six
graduates were Virginia Collins,
Ocean View; Linda Heath, Will
mington, and Patricia Ruddy from
Broomall, Pa.
All of the graduates were pre-
sented special gifts. They were
savings bonds from Benjamin F.
Shaw, III, of Wilmington, the an
nual Shaw Memorial Gifts; the du-
Pont Memorial Awards of cash,
from Mrs. A. Felix dupont and
gold initial pins from Mrs. ]. H.
Tyler Mcconnell, member of the
hospital board. Other donations to
all graduates were the DIR. Rich
ard Beebe Memorial Awards of
cash.