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Article: Walter B. Chambers Jr. Marit ...
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- The Washington Post
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- November 8, 2008
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Walter B. Chambers Jr., 89, a retired chief of emergency planning
for the U.S. Maritime Administration, died Oct. 24 at his home in
Silver Spring of complications from a fall at his home in April.
Mr. Chambers began his federal career in 1936, while still in
high school, as a messenger with the U.S. Shipping Board Merchant
Fleet Corp., which was part of the U.S. Maritime Commission.
He stayed with the agency, which later folded into the Maritime
Administration, for 38 years, retiring in 1974.
He was a U.S. delegate to NATO's Planning Board for Ocean
Shipping from 1969 to 1974.
Walter Benjamin Chambers was born in Washington and graduated
from Western High School in 1940. He served in the ...