Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., February 28, 1941, Page Page 2, Image 2

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FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
95,000 DEATHS IN 1940
BY FATAL ACCIDENTS
How serious are accidents?
Well, the Delaware Safety Council
reports that the 1940 accidental death
toll of 96,500 makes accidents the
fifth most important cause of death
in the United States.
They are exceeded only by heart
diseases, cancer, cerebral hemorrhage
and nephritis.
The Council also reports that 9,-
100,000 persons were injured in ac
cidents last year.
This means that one out of every
fifteen persons in the United States
suffered a disabling injury in 1940.
That is convincing evidence that
accidents lie in wait for everyone.
It does not pay to take chances!
What if a division of the American
Army were destroyed in battle ? The
country would be shocked by such a
military loss.
And yet figures of the Council
show that in 1940 alone accidental
deaths among men of draft age—2l
to 35—totaled approximately 14,000
—equal to the destruction of a full
army division!
The loss of the nation’s manpower
through accidents is doubly tragic be
cause it has no purpose, no benefit.
It is waste—the waste of careless
ness!
“Haste makes waste" may be an
old and moth-eaten proverb, but it
applies to an up-to-the-minute prob
lem—driving an automobile.
Too many traffic accidents are
caused by motorists who try to save
a second—and lose a lifetime!
Take it easy on the road, and you’ll
save a lot of wear and tear on your
automobile, your nerves and your
family and friends who value your
life even if you don’t.
CAMBRIDGE REMOVING
SOME PARKING METERS
Chief of Police Grason W. Price
started on Wednesday removing the
parking meters from the front of the
Court House, on High street, Cam
bridge, Md.
These meters, which have been at
the above location since their instal
lation over a year ago, will be placed
on Race Street, starting at Cedar, and
will be extended just as far up Race
street as they will go.
The meters, in their present loca
tion, have never been very profitable,
and due to the demand for more
meters on Race street the City Coun
cil gave Chief Price the permission to
remove those in front of the Court
House.
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End of Rails
Modern concrete highways and
buses and trucks with their more
economic operation are sounding the
death knell of the Indiana Railroad
interurban system, once the largest
in the United States.
Soon the company will have left
only about 200 miles of operating
traction lines, where once existed
8,000 miles of track.
The situation today is a far cry a
from conditions at the turn of the 2
century when the Indiana and oth- 5
er interurban lines started to op- e
erate. There were practically no 5
hard roads then, no automobiles, no E
trucks or buses. Electric lines bios- 5
somed like dandelions all over the P
Midwest.
' When the last interurban rolled
over a recently abandoned line, 10
modern, 23-passenger buses and an ■
equal number of tractor-trailer type |
truck units made their appearance I
on an almost parallel route. !
Company officials pledge that (
modern buses and motor truck serv
ice will be offered as operators make
the final “barn only” run and quit
the controls.
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Streets Paved With Silver
We’ve often heard about people
in describing America to foreigners
say, “The streets in America are
lined with gold,”-—well, this is an
actual fact—not in America, but in
Victoria, B. C.
Women there paved eight blocks
' with silver coins to further a cam
paign of the Royal Canadian air
force to raise $50,000 with which to
purchase training planes. The la
dies’ auxiliary of the R. C. A. F.
believes that the power of sugges
tion will make people contribute to
the campaign.
' While Boy Scout troops and air
force men were lined up along the
1 silver-laid blocks, no special precau
tion was taken to safeguard the
coins.
Mighty Thirst
The hot weather caused a mighty
thirst at Midland, Calif. Blythe
shipped an average of eight railroad
took cars of water weighing
1,087,464 pounds, to the United States
Gypsum company mining town
daily, last summer. The eight cars
carried more than 128,000 gallons of
water and were shipped to the town
north of there every morning. Mid
land has no water supply of its own
and is dependent upon the Blythe
wells for its needs.
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i U. S. Minister to Bulgaria George
H. Earle, former governor of
j Pennsylvania, pops into the inter
. national news as a result of a cafe
1 altercation in Sofia involving a
L German army major in civilian
> clothes. In a statement in the
I capital, where he is stationed,
Earle said that the German threw
a champagne bottle at him when
he resented “the playing, at my
request, of Tipperary,’ a British
World war marching song." Earle
retaliated, “injuring" the Ger
man’s features
BOYS FIND DEAD MAN
IN CATONSVILLE WOODS
Walking through the woods in Ca
tonsville, on their way home from
school, three youths, Austin Rankin,
Eugene Rankin and Elmer Cams
stumbled upon the body of a dead
man.
The man was later identified as
Walter F. Elliott, of Browns Island.
Elliott had been a patient at the
Spring Grove Hospital, and had been
missing from the institution for some
time.
According to Officer J. A. James,
who investigated the finding of Elli
ott’s body, the youth stated that they
were walking along in the woods
when they suddenly spied an inert
form lying on the ground.
On closer inspection the boys found
that the man was dead, and they has
tened to the home of Emmanuel Dav- ,
is, who lives nearby. The boys told
Davis of their discovery and he in
turn notified the police.
Dr. Keiffer was summoned to the
scene and rendered a verdict of death
due to exposure.
When yon have something to sell
rent or trade ran an ad in our Claw
(fled Columns.
Tombstones And
[Monuments
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If we of today leave no [
record to show that those \
we loved havt lived, what t
is to be expected of tomor- \
row’s generations who will [
not know—nor care. y
Pocomoke Marble j
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C. K. HOWARD, Prop. |
Pocomoke City, Md. |
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tho Heart of BALTIMORE
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HAVE LOVE POINT
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LEAVE BALTIMORE
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DAILY DAILY DAILY os. Sat
760 m. m. StOO p. m. 9:00 p. m.
Pationgort, Automobile* and
Tracks Handled on All Trlpo
PAS9INGIRSi
ONI ftC- ROUND TRIP
50C WAY * BSC (4-doy Unit)
4t, ONI-DAY
09C excursion
AUTOS "Si™? 0 '2
TRUCKS "SKS? 0 3 to 6
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•AITIMOII A INI IAIIUN IHOII
BALTIMORE & EASTERN R.R.
MARKS BEER’S
10,000 th BIRTHDAY
Mr. George H. Hocker, Secretary of
the Brewers Institute of Maryland,
announced today that he is reminding
whom it may concern of the ten
thousandth birthday of Beer, man’s
! oldest beverage.
“The history of beer closely paral
lels the history of man. Where and
, when the oldest beverage made its
advent into the human scheme is be
yond the sphere of human knowledge,
lost somewhere in the mists of an
tiquity, along with its fellow, bread.
There is no question but that pre
historic man was familiar with them
both,” said Mr. Hocker. “Some au
| thorities say that beer is as much as
100,000 years old, but we are settling
j for 10,000.”
The earliest authentic records of
human accomplishment Babylonian
—mention these two commodities fre
quently and reveal clearly that their
production was a highly developed
science at a very early date. The an
cients referred to beer as “Barley
Wine,” and it is most interesting to
learn that the beer of the cradle of
civilization was, for all practical pur
poses, the beer of today!
Beer should be regarded in its
proper light and continue to hold the
respect due it as a beverage and
commodity which history and tradition
warrant.
Leaves Unique Will
A penniless French sailor who be
came the richest man in Louisiana
left a strange will—the setting aside
of $30,000 —the income to be spent
each year to solve the financial dif
ficulties of young married couples
who wish to marry but are not able,
financially.
He is Julien Poydras, a bachelor
himself, who died about a century
ago. Because of his kindness, girls
of that area are assured dowries
from a fund left for just that pur
pose.
He was noted in Louisiana for oth
er acts of philanthropies. The first
public school in Louisiana was erect
ed through his donation, while his
endowment started the first charity
hospital. He also donated a huge
sum for the construction of the first
almshouse in the state.
Spends Vacation Walking
Berle Putman, Prescott, Ariz.,
postman, spent his entire vacation
walking on a 200-mile jaunt, says
the American magazine. He walked
along the floor of the Grand canyon
from the junction of the Colorado
and Little Colorado rivers, to Lake
Meade at Boulder dam.
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WORCESTER DEMOCRAT, POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND
Scientist Missing
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Sir Frederick Banting
Sir Frederick Banting, 48, of To
ronto, discoverer of insulin, used
in diabetes, is missing along with
three others in a military air
plane which vanished during a
1 flight several days ago. It was
feared the ship may have come
down in the sea off the east coast.
Banting won the Nobel prize for
his scientific achievement, ac
complished in 1922.
HON. J. BOOKS MAPP
QUALIFIES AS COMM.
Hon. J. Brooks Mapp, of Keller,
last week qualified as commissioner
of fisheries of the State of Virginia,
and released the following statement
to the press:
“I am deeply and lastingly apprec
iative of the endorsements given me
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tor on Rubber and self
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Weidema Brothers
Westover, Md.
by my friends of the Eastern Shore .
of Virginia for commissioner of fish
j eries, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of my late beloved brother, j
G. Walter Mapp.
“The endorsements, along with the j
i many kind expressions and best wish- j
es, received since my appointment, j
have placed me under lasting obliga
tions to the people of the Eastern
Shore and have given me courage in i
' undertaking this, my first public of
fice.
“I realize keenly how important the
seafood industry is to the Eastern
Shore and to Virginia, and I am
equally conscious of the fact that
there is much about this industry
that I do not know. I most heartily
ask the cooperation of all those in
terested in this important industry,
and in turn want to assure them of
mine. Suggestions from those inter
ested will not only be received, but
will at all times be welcomed.”
|FEAIS*FOWER|
IN I9IS
PLAN "Hit” MEALS
AT BIG SAVINGS!
Df course you’re trying to save money. So
£ are we *IL But you can put lota of money
/ •# *"'<* and serve “hit” meals, not hit-or
i Lg \1 miss meals, if you buy your foods at yoar
II fA II neighborhood A&P! For here are shelf af-
Vr T T Jm * fr **helf of delicious foods, all at down-to
-1 'MV.' ' 1 % earth prices! Come, look them over today.
Ask the friendly clerk for the ’’bays of the
If f OOP STOWHI? week.” Get the habit of baying high qaal
ity foods for low prices at A&P!
FLOUR SUNNYFIELD 12 Bag 35c I
24-LB BAG 69c
Lenten Suggestions!
Marayrtni SPAGHETTI OR NOODLES Cc
macaroni ann page P kg o
Beans ve Tn a n% a a n ge 2 'IZ IP
Spaghetti c Sn e pag E 2“r 15‘
Coldstream Pink Light Meat
SALMON TUNA
2 £ans 29 c Fish Jan 13 c
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Fruit Suggestions!
Crisp Iceberg Fresh Texas
LETTUCE SPINACH
5e Cc
lb
Juicy Florida
GRAPEFRUIT each 3c
Old-Fashioned
Winesap Apples 4 lbs 17c
TURNIPS, white or yellow 2 lbs 5c
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Tender Green Lowest Price In History!
8 O'CLOCK
COFFEE
3 No. 2 OOc 9 1-lb OCc
Cans ““ 4s bags 4 *o
Com Flakes sunnyfield ll c
Tomato Soup ANN PACE 3 I# d“ 17*
IvnfV Qna n * regular medium 1 e
ivory ooap size cake for only 1
With the purchase of a large box of Ivory Snow at 23c
A wipe and it's bright Granulated Soap
BAB-O |Ac KIRKMAN’S Ige 91c
can iv pkg£l
Soap Flakes Cleanser
OCTAGON lge 99c BABBITT’S O 11c
pkg“ O cana II
White Sail White Sail
SOAP FLAKES lge ICc CLEANSER O 1A C
Pkg W O cans 1U
Bor®* Soap Vegetable Shortening
KIRKMAN’S JJk J9 C SPRY 1-lb Jgc Jlb
Ann Page Sandwich White House
SPREAD 8-oz J£c 16-0* 2Jc EVAP. MILK £ tall 2J C
Jane Parker Butterscotch
Layer Cake „29*
1
Daily Egg 25-lb bag 100-Ib bag
SCRATCH FEED 50c $1.90
Daily Growth 25-lb bag 100-lb bag
CHICK STARTER 62c $2.41
DAILY GROWTH 25-lb bag 100-lb bag
LAYING MASH 58c $2.2$
25-lb bag 100-Ib.bag
BROILER MASH 62c $2.39
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A&P Quality Meats!
Fancy Legs of Steer Beef
LAMB CHUCK
ROAST
lb. 25c lb. 23c
Skinless Sunnyfield, whole or shank half
Franks lb 23c Hams lb 25c
Dry Salt Sunnyfield Sliced
Side Meat lb 17c Bacon l / 2 -lb pkg 15c
Lean Smoked Necks lb. 31c
Friday, February 28, 1941