"After rejecting a continuing series of proposals to become a part of the Town of Pompano and have beach properties listed on municipal tax rolls, residents of [the beach area] turned out at the Pompano Beach Bathing Pavilion and Dance Casino at a meeting sponsored by the Pompano Beach Improvement Association to organize a municipal government for the Town of Pompano Beach on June 15, 1946. Newly elected officials included Charles Dickson, a banker from Syracuse, New York, mayor; J. Allison Banks, Council president; Richard Rogers, Mary Beale, Phyllis Uibel and James B. Wilson, Jr. council members; Mrs. Hugh Stillman, town clerk; and C. E. Jones, town marshal. The first order of business was the appointment of M. A. Hortt, William L. Kester, Hugh D. Stillman, A. W. Schmidge, S. E. Northway, W. H. Johnson, J. Newton Wall and Andrew Brennan to a commission charged with drafting a zoning code for the oceanfront municipality."

(Excerpted from "Pompano in Perspective" by Marlyn Kemper)