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FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
iO-MILE SPEED LAW
IN EEFEGT IN VIRGINIA
A rigid 10 mile-an-hour speed lim
it for all vehicles went into effect
last week throughout Virginia, Gov
ernor Darden announced after confer
ring by telephone with Leon Hen
derson, administrator of the Office
<of Price Administration in Washing
lon. Highway officers made state
ments warning Shore motorists to
■this effect.
The Governor said he would di-aft
an executive order probably at once
setting the speed limit and warned
that it would be enforced from the
time it became effective. The regu
lation will be in line with a request
from President Roosevelt in March
asking for a reduction in speed lim
its to 40 miles an hour. In a last
minute amendment to the speed lim
it bill introduced in the General As
sembly by Delegate E. B. Moore, of
Berryville, the Governor was given
authority to reduce the State limit
to 40 miles if he deemed it necessary.
The Governor said he had consid
ered leaving the maximum speed for
buses at 45 miles an hour in order
not to disrupt interstate schedules,
but he said he had concluded that
the additional five miles per hour per
mitted buses would not give enough
additional service to compensate for
the added consumption of rubber.
The Governor’s telephone conver
sation with Mr. Henderson resulted
from a call which Mr. Darden made
to Marvin Mclntyre, presidential
secretary, to learn the views of Fed
eral authorities on tire conservation
by means of speed regulations. Mr. j
Mclntyre, an old friend of Mr. Dar
den, said he would take up the mat- j
ter with Mr. Henderson, who called
the Virginia Governor a few minutes;
later.
Mr. Henderson said the 40-mile-an-,
hour limit would save gas and rubber;
both of which are important wartime
commodities, and expressed the view
that an additional five miles per hour
for buses would not provide sufficient
extra service to compensate for the
faster consumption of rubber.
The price administration official
said that the wear on tires increases
decisively beyond a speed of 40 miles
an hour and urged that speed as the
overall limit.
Under the terms of the Moore bill, ‘
the speed of passenger cars and bus
es would have been reduced to 45
miles an hour and the speed to trucks
would have been cut. to 40 miles an j
hour effective at midnight Thursday
of last week.
WORK ON WIDENING
HIGHWAY BEING PUSHED
The work on widening the state
highway between Accomac and Tasley
to three lanes is being pushed quite j
rapidly. By the end of last week
concrete had been poured on nearly
all of it.
Cottons and linens need not be boil-!
ed each time, if they have had a hot
rinse after washing.
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ROGER W. LANKFORD
Pocomoke City Hardware Maryland
MRS. R. E. POWEI.L
DIES IN SALISBURY
Funeral services for Mrs. Murray
Estelle Powell were held at the Wi
comico Presbyterian Church, Sunday,
afternoon at four o’clock. The ser
vices were conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Thomas A. Williams, pastor of the,
church, with which she had been a;
member for seventy-six years. Inter-!
. ment was in the family lot in the'
Presbyterian Churchy a r d , where ,
many of the families, prominent in
the church are laid to rest.
Mrs. Powell had been ill for about
eight weeks prior to her death which
occurred at her home on the corner
of North Division and Broad Sts.,
Thursday evening, April 9th.
Mrs. Powell was the daughter of;
the late Samuel Gordy and his wife, j
\ Leah Mcßride Gordy, daughter of the j
late Thomas Humphreys, father of j
the late Humphrey Humphreys, Geo. j
Washington Humphreys and Dr. Ca- j
thell Humphreys. Mrs. Powell was I
born in Salisbury on March 25th, 1852,
and reached her ninetieth birthday a
few weeks prior to her death.
She was the widow of the late;
Robert E. Powell, one of Salisbury’s l
j leading business men, and the found- j
er of the large department store of j
R. E. Powell & Co., which he, togeth-j
er with his brothers the late Irvin!
S. Powell and James L. Powell and
the late Samuel E. Gordy, brother of;
the deceased —all born merchants— !
! built into one of the largest business- ;
!es of its class on the Shore,
i Mrs. Powell is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Daniel Burton Can- 1
non; a grandson, Robert Ennals Pow- J
ell Cannon, now stationed at Fort
Meade with the 29th Division, U. S.
A., finance office. Mr. William S.
Gordy, Jr., president of the Salisbury
National Bank is a nephew and Miss
Nancy Murray Gordy, Walnut Street,
Salisbury, is a niece.
14-YEAR-OLD BOY IS
VICTIM OF BULLET
; A detail of soldiers making a tour
of vacant properties last week found
a 14-year-old boy who, according to
■ state police, had fatally shot himself
! because of an unrequitted school-day \
love. [
The youth, Melvin, Baker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Baker, of Collins-j
ville, near Georgetown, died of
wounds of the head Thursday night;
in the Milford Memorial Hospital,
about eight hours after his body was
found. He was a ninth grade pupil
at the Georgetown school.
A note, the contents of which po- j
lice withheld, told of his futile affec-:
j tion for a schoolmate. ,
Sergt. Harold L. Waring and Pri-
vates Edward Yers, James Bell and
: Irving Zudeck, making a daily inspee- <
tion of empty buildings, saw the body
of the youth protruding from a side <
room as they entered a vacant house
about two miles from Georgetown.
The boy was unconscious as they
! took him to the office of Dr. G. M.
Valkenburg, who administered treat
ment and then ordered the boy remov
ed to a hospital.
State police said the boy was last
seen riding his bicycle and carrying
a rifle ove T ’ his shoulder.
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r Ry RUDULPH PELL ELLIS-“The Host cf New York' ...— I
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NOTE: This is the first of a scries
of columns about New
York, written from the
standpoint of what surveys
have shown the visitor to
New York is interested in.
When the World’s Fair was on
during 1939 and 1940 millions of
persons visited New York. But the
surprising fact developed that these
visitors were far more interested
in New York City and its vast im
provements. buildings, shops and
museums, its Greenwich Village
spots and its Times Square attrac
tions than they were in a $l5O,- J
000,000.00 exhibi
tion. Visitors
peculiar trait
about New Yorkers. They are self
centered. They think what interests
them will interest out of town visi
tors. Even editors on our great
metropolitan papers seem to be
bitten by the same bug. Their idea
is that since a great bridge or new
highway or tunnel interests New
Yorkers —as improved facilities
naturally do in this tremendously
crowded area people elsewhere
have the same interest when they
think of New York. And in this
they are woefully mistaken. A’ very
comprehensive survey made by the
Merchants Association here sustains
this contention.
So with the columnists who write
New York columns, syndicated
throughout the country- Their
chatter is about night clubs and
Broadway personalities; and yet
the visitor survey mentioned above
gave the night clubs a rating of 1.6
percent. Or one person in sixtyt
This writer had occasion to get
the reaction of a great many
thousands of visitors in the Fair
in 1939 and 1940; and his experi
ence checks with the Merchants
Association survey. He found that
even the Broadway shows got but
scant attention. One person in
twenty ranked them of prime
interest.
But the fact remains that Ameri
cans like to visit New York, even
if they don’t do the things that
New' Yorkers do when they get
here. Figures issued by the New <
York Transit Commission show
BRONZE TABLET MARKS site where Mr. Makemie resided in
RESIDENCE OF ORGANIZER Onancock. The marker was erected
by the Makemie Memorial Associa-
A bronze marker with granite base tion - Suitable exercises dedicating it
was erected in Onancock last week wiH be held at an earl >' date
to Rev. Francis Makemie, organizer
of Presbyterianism in the United One should never look at a soul fie
States. The marker is on the proper- f° r twenty minutes. Always open the
ty of Miss Manie Fosque on Market oven door carefully, for souffles fall
Street and is supposed to be near the. easily.
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! We Confess j
—To Our Mistake In Fashion Buying |
-And We Thaw A Bomb Into Prices!
3 Dresses For The Price Of One,
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longer. We " ,a |' a \nsTAKE. We thought
I 11: as weU as suits: you have in 1
you d like dresses this year you ■
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We’re and sl^tjhS^Kes
I tef afford, no “atter what hind of budget you
I have. In this exciting fashion lo y but you >n
many not-to-be-had-again vtoo •• • c \ ear ,
| ztst^f&rsrjssi.’s.
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Former Prices Up To Former Prices Up To
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ll SALISBURY
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT, POCOMOKE CITY, MARYLAND
that during 1910 an average of over
50,000 out of town visitors came to
New’ York every one of the 366
days in the year—a grand total of
18,300,000 visitors.
There would seem to be a need
for a New York column which will
be written from the standpoint of
what interests these visitors,
rather than from what interests
the resident of this big burg. It i 3
with this in mind that this column
is started. We want to tell you
about what’s new in New York;
but we want to do that about the
things we believe and our experi
ence indicates you will be in
terested in.
However —and this is the crux
of the matter —we do not want to
make the mistake of imagining that
we can read our readers’ minds.
We believe we learned something
about the visitor’s wishes and tastes
the last three years. That will be
enough to start on. But if this
column is to interest and serve you
—and that is the only excuse for
its publication—it will be necessary
for us to get together. Don’t leave
me guessing about what interests
or would interest you about New
York. Write and tell me. Most
columnists have a horror of letter
writers —unless they are “fan mail ',
telling them how good they are.
This Columnist is different. What
he wants to hear from you is stuff
starting like this: “Why don’t you
tell us about etc., etc.” Or he will
welcome inquiries about anything
in New York. These inquiries will
all receive personal attention and
will be replied to by letter. And you
need not enclose a stamp for reply!
We shall consider it a real help
to us in writing our column. Your
inquiries will be the best indica
tion in the world as to what in
terests people away from New
York about things here. And that,
dear reader, is what this column
wants to give its readers.
We are at war. We may have to
forego many things. But there is
one thing that will not be cur
tailed; and that is travel. Travel
tends towards national unity. W.
Bruce MacNamee, Chief, United
States Travel Bureau, writing in
the New York Times, says: “A
united and determined nation
shares the intense conviction of its
leaders in Washington that our
victory program takes precedence
over all else. Inextricably asso
ciated with this thought is the en
couraging realization that travel is
one industry which can continue,
and perhaps even expand, without
impairing our war efforts.”
Mr. Ellis will be glad to ansiver
any inquiries. Address him at 130
West 42 nd St., New York, N. Y.
! VACCINATION
SHOULD RECEIVE
DUE ATTENTION
If you have not been vaccinated a
gainst typhoid fever within the last
two or three years, Dr. R. 11. Riley,
Director of the State Health Depart
ment, advises you to go to your doc
tor or the nearest health officer and
have him give you the three ‘shots’
that will protect you against the di
sease.
This advice is addressed particular
ly to boy scouts, girl scouts and other
I youngsters who are looking forward
I to spring and summer hikes and trips.
But it is meant also for others, young
| or older, whose business or pleasure
takes them to places where there may
be doubt as to the purity or safety of
the water supply or as to the care
with which food is handled.
“You take typhoid byway of the
mouth,” Dr. Riley explained. “It is
larely contracted in any other way.
; You drink, or eat. the disease-produc
mg germs in water, or milk, or in
other foods contaminated by dis
charges from the kidneys and bowels
lof persons ill with typhoid, or from
| others, no longer ill. but who have
I had the disease and who continue, at
times, to discharge the germs. Such
! persons are known as ‘carriers.’
“If these discharges are not care
fully disinfected and carefully dispos
ed of, the disease-producing germs
may seep into the water supply or en
danger food supplies. There is al
ways the possibility, also, that ‘car
riers’ will be careless in their person
al habits and will neglect to wash
have been to the toilet, and will in
their hands thoroughly after they
feet any food they handle.
“Public health measures —protec-
tion of public water supplies from
contamination, sanitary disposal of
sewage, pasteurization of milk and
food supplies and of food handling;
skilled medical care and precaution to 1
prevent the spread of the disease
from an individual to others, have j
done a great deal toward protecting
the public against the disease. But
j experience has proved typhoid fever
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to lu a very tricky disease and there
are sources of infection to which in
dividuals at- exposed that cannot be
reached by public measures and for
hich v: < cinati< n against the di: -a.--
■is an impotent! afeguard.
“The three 'shots’ that will protect
against typh.oid are divert at intervals
of a week apart. As it takes some
time for the protective treatment to
he established throughout the system,
it is wise not to delay in having it
done. My advice is: ‘Don’t wait until
the summer is here to be protected
■ against typhoid. Have it done, now.’
“The State Health Department fur.
nishes the vaccine free of charge to
physicians in the counties. Your on
ly expense will be your doctor’s fee.”
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Friday, April 24, 1942
NAVY OFFICER HEARING
SET FOR APRIL 23
:he hearing of Lieut. -Commander
Sloan Danehower is scheduled for
i nursday. /April 23rd, before Trial
Magistrate William I. Nabb, accord
ing to State’s Attorney Calvin Har
rington, Jr.
Lieut. Danehower is charged with
assault with intent to kill Miss Eunice
Holmes, in the early morning hours
of Wednesday, April Bth.
Danehower was arrested and placed
in the Dorchester County Jail, where
he was held until Saturday, April 11,
when he was released under $3,000
bond, for his appearance on April 23.