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THE HOME JOURNAL
A Virgin Islands Publication
Published Every Monday,
Wednesday and Saturday
EARLEB. OTTLEY . .. ... Editor
5 cent a copy, 50 a month,
$5.00 a year $7.00 abroad
Advertising Rates on Request
Wednesday, April 23, 1952
Disturbing Action
An ordinance designed to
extend the life of the Vir
gin Islands Tourist Devel
opment Board which is
due to expire on June 30,
was the subjec: of reated
controversy in the Legis
lative Assembly last week.
The members from St.
Croix have never been will
ing to pay one half of the
expenses of the Tourist
Board, as required by u: e
law enacted by the Assem
bly. Upto now, the St.
Croix legislature has con
tributed only S6OOO to the
Board, and has failed to
provide the additional
S3OOO to match the S9OOO
put up by this municipal
ity.
St. Croix argues that the
Municipa!:ity ot St. Thomas
and ~t. < ohu reaps most of
the benefits of the tourist
trade, therefore the latter
should pay most of the ex
penses of the agency. Fig
ures released by the [our-!
rist Foard, however, indi
cat d that f r the past two
fiscal years the ag-ncy has
been sp-nding an ever
increasing sum to feature
St. Croix exclusively, with
ohe view of popularizing
the island among potential
visitors. If any island is
receiving favored treat
ment from the board, it is
St. Croix.
It is distur' ing to hear
representatives from one[
municipality assailing the
motives and intentions of!
the other, and taking the|
narrow-mind:d view that|
each island must receive
$1 of tangible results for
every single dollar invest
ed. Such arguments give
|r Ise to recriminations
which pull the islands
wider apart. If we are
finding it impossible to
reach agreement now on
the expenses for one or
two agencies which serve
t h e Virgin Islands as a
whole, how are we going
to make out when the two
municipalities are abolish
ed, and t he expenses of
running the entire Virgin
Islands will have toibe
borne by one treasury?
‘Will it ever be possible to
reach agreement on an in
sular budget?
‘ Police and Prison
l Department
Charlotte Amalie
St. Thomas, V.I. :
Sheriff’s Notice
| The Public_is hereby noti
fied that the Sheriff wiil take
action a s prescribed in
Section 10 of: ‘‘Ordinance to
Provide Addit onal Revenus=s
by Levying Certair Trade
Taxcs and Fees.”” by the at.
tachment and sale of personal
properiy o f persons owing
Deunquent Trade Taxes, un
ess the same is paid in to the
Cffice of the Sheriff at Fort
Christian not later than sioo
p.m, Friday May 2, 1952, I
Action will also be taken to
advertise and sell real pro-|
per.y under existing law , for!
which R:al Preperty Taxes arel
due for the calendar year 1950,
unless ihe same 1s paid in to
rhe Office of the Commission
er of Finence not laier than
3:00 p.m.,Friday, May 2 1952.
Eaile H. Charles, Sheriff
Office of the Shenift
St. Themas, Virgin Islands |
April 21, 1952 |
For Sale
1 Table Model R.C.A
Radioc, §45,
1 Radio Phonograph
(Silvertone) SBS.
1 Baby Stroller $7.
Irene L. Torres
No. 10 King’s Street
The Home Journal
Police And Prison Department‘i
| Charlotte Amalie
~ St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
Special Traffic Regulations
In the event of an Air Raid’
Alert, which will be indicated
by the sounding of the public
sisens, (three minutes of fluc
’tuating or warbling sound)the
following procedures will be
‘ubserved:
1. All vehicles, with the ex
ception of those owned by Fe
deral Agencies or Municipal
Departments, will immediate
}ly pull over to the extreme
left side of the street, road or
highway. and stop. Care will
be taken by t he drivers of
these vehicles not to block‘
street crossings or -intersec-
Ltions. 1
2. Drivers an d passengers
in all vehicles w ill get out.
and take cover in the nearest
building, where they will re
main until the all clear signal
(three steady b 1 a s t s of the
public si r ens of one minute
'duration each, with intervals
of two minutes between each
blast), or until they are evac
!uated to a designated area.
3. Federa] and Municipal
vehicles will proceed at a mod
erate speed directly to their
respective department head
quarters, park on the extreme
left of the street, and await‘
orders from the heads of their
departments. |
4. All vehicles of the Public
Works Department, with the
exception of garbage trucks
and fire engines, will report‘
to the motor pool of that de-
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partment, and await orders
from the Superintendent.
Garbage trucks will pull over
to the extremeleft of the road
or street and stop. Fireengines
will operate under orders from
the Brandmajor.
5. Buses will immediately
‘move at a moderate speed to
the nearest bus-stop where
they will prompty discharge
all passengers, then proceed
directly th the nearest ter
minal, where they will re
main until the all clear signal
is sounded, or other orders for
movement ane given.
6. Pedestrians will take
cover in the nearest building
and remain therein until the
all clear is sounded,or evacua
tion orders are given.
7. Persons who may be in
churches, theaters, stores and
other public buildings wili go
to the gound floor of these
places and remain where they
are until the all clear signal
is sounded, or orders for their
evacuation are given.
8. Persons connected wilh
Civil Defense Activities., who
wear or conspicuously display
appropriate Civil Defense In
signia, and such vehicles
(with appropriate identifica
tion displayed) as may be used
for their transportation are
exempted from the provisions
of these regulations.
Earle H. Charles
Director of Pulice
APPROVED:
Morris F. de Castro
Governor.