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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21
WASHINGTON TRIP IN
1889 IS INAUGURATED

The re-enactment of the trip of Geo.
Washington from Mt. Vernon to New
York, inaugurated in 1889, as the ma
tons first President, started last
week and will end in New York on
April %, but the inaugural cere-
mony" at the fair, will not take place
until a week later.
Washington will be impersonated
by an actor, and will travel in 100
year old stage coach, drawn by four
horses and will pass through Cecil
county, Wednesday, reaching Elkton
about 2 P. M.
IS The route will take the encourage
through Washington, Baltimore, Elk
ton, thence over Red Hill to Delaware,
Newark, Marshallton and into VIII
mington, Del.
Washington's trip will be repeated
in detail as far as possible, and the
coach will travel at approximately the
speed Washington made.
This re-enactment is in connection
with the New York Worlds Fair.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21
LEAGUE UMPIRE ALSO
WELLINGTON MAGISTRATE

Hanson Horsey, of Millington, UNI
pire in the Eastern Shore League in
1888, will be arbiter of another sort
as well this year. The ex-big Lacquer
has been named magistrate at Mil
lington, where he also conducts con-
fectionery business.
Starting his baseball career at Ga
lena,, Hans pitched for Reading, Pa,
in the Tri-State League in 1910. The
following year he was added to the
mound staff in Cincinnati. In 1918
he managed Jersey City in the Inter-
national League. When organized
baseball was started on the Eastern
Shore and in Queen Anne's county in
the early month of 1897 Hans took an
active part in supporting the movement
all along the Shore. He has also been
active in the civic and business af-
fairs Of Millington.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

Springfield State Hospital to provide
adequate heating and water supply
and for sanitary improvements and
modernization in connection with food
storage; $1S3,000 to the Maryland
tuberculosis Sanatorium for additions
at Henrytown and Mt. Wilson, and for
extension of city water supply system
at Eastern Branch, Salisbury. East
ern Shore State Hospital will get
$4,000, for equipment of building al
ready completed, for alterations and
and additions to administration build
ings and to provide for laboratories
and equipment, for sewerage disposal
plant and other necessary improve
ments.
In the educational field, $500 is
earmarked for the Board of Public
Works for the acquisition of Morgan
College for Negroes; or, if no agree
ment can be reached for the acquisi-
ton of Morgan College, the Board
will have the authority to expend all
or any part thereof for the establish
ment of an institution of higher edu-
cation for Negroes, including the con-
structions of buildings and equipment.
The State Department of Educa-
ton received 100000 of which $780,
900 is for new gymnasium and equip
ment at the State Teachers College,
Towson, and like amount for remod-
cling college administration building
and dormitory buildings at the State
Teachers College, Frostburg. Other
provisions include $4,000 for Chel-
tenham School for Boys, Cheltenham,
Prince Georges County, for power
house, laundry, gymnasium and equip
ment for each; $4,000 for gymnasium
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

will be in hand on October 1. this
year, will be sufficient to complete
the construction and to purchase the
equipment of the institution. Con-
struction work there is being done
with inmate labor, of which there are
some 400 men, almost equally divided
between white and colored.
Brownsville State Hospital for Ne
groes is given the next largest a.
mount, 100000 for additional build
ings and for service facilities and
quarters for personnel. This institu-
ton, located near Annapolis took care
of colored mental disease patients to
the number of 1879 during the past
year and also has a training school
for colored feebleminded, in which
200 patients were handled in 1888.
Additional buildings are being pro-
vided to care for 200 patients.
Rosewood State Training School for
white feeble-minded persons, at Ow-
ings Mills, Baltimore County, will re-
ceive a total of 100000 for construc-
ton of laundry and power house and
equipment; for new dormitory and
equipment; for charging water sup
ply system and treatment plant and
providing fire protection for build
ings; for undermining and fireproof-
ing of existing dormitories; and for
X-ray equipment and other hospital
needs. Eleven hundred and seventy
eight patients were handled here last
year.
Other allotments to hospitals and
sanatoria include $2S5,00O to Spring
Grove for new buildings, equipment,
superintendent residence, storage
tanks, pumps and mains; 100000 to
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

at st. Mary's Female Seminary, St
Mary's city; $4,000 for Montrose
School for Girls, Reistertown, for Vo-
cational building and equipment; $780,
900 to the Maryland Training School
for Boys, Loeb Raven; $4,000 to the
Maryland State School for the Deaf,
Frederick; and $4,000 to the Maryland
Training School for Colored Girls,
near Glen Burnie.
The Military Department is oc-
corded $4,000 for construction re-
pairs, alterations and additions to
armories throughout the State, and
for the purchase of ground, construc-
ton of roads, repairs, equipment and
general improvements at the State
Reservation, Cascade, Washington
County. A further appropriation of
100000 is for the acquisition of sites
and erection of Naval Militia Ar
mory in Baltimore, and hangers for
the Maryland National Guard at Dun
dalk.
In the allotment of $4,000 to the
State Department of Forestry, for the
acquisition, improvement and develop
ment of forest lands, parks, and re-
creational areas, Governor O'Conor is
carrying out another campaign pledge
and bringing to realization one more
plank of his party. The final a.
mount provided in the Bill, $4,000
tc the Board of Public Works for re-
pairs and improvements to the State
House, at Annapolis, is one that will
receive the appreciation of every visi-
tor to the State Capitol.
The provisions outlined above, a.
mong the most comprehensive ever
provided in one Bond Issue fer Hos
pital and Education purposes, stress
the fact that Governor O'Conor is in
tenscly mindful of the plight of the
unfortunate elements in our popula-
ton, and anxious to have the State
do its part by them even if other de-
sira5le projects have to be postponed
or sacrificed thereby. With the
States finances in their present con-
dition, the easy way out would have
been to defer many of the items now
being projected to some future date
However, in this as in other ways
Maryland can now hold its stand high
in the knowledge that it is meeting
squarely and courageously, obliga-
tions that many another State in the
country today is Sinking outrageous
ly.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
COLLEBE PRINCIPAL HEAD
OF SALISBURY .ROTARIANS

DR.. I'D. Blackwell, president of
the Salisbury State Teachers College,
at the annual election of officers of
the Rotary Club, was chosen as presi-
dent for the ensuing year which starts
with the first meeting in July.
Other directors named to serve with
him were Carl M. Paynter, head of the
local business school which bears the
name; John C. Krusen, local manager
for an ice cream company; and E..
Sheldon Jones, newspaper editor. Will
bur M. Rounds, present president, au-
tomatically becomes director and
the secretary and treasurer of the club
are ex-officio members.
DIR. Blackwell, who came to Sails
bury in 1885 to take charge of the
Teachers College, has been a Rotarian
for twelve years, he having been &C
tive in the Towson club before coming
to Salisbury.
During the past year he served as
chairman of the Rotary Education
Committee and was a member of the
International Service and Club Ser
vice committees.
Long prominent in educational cir
lcles of Maryland, DR.. Blackwell be-
fore coming to Salisbury, was Direc-
tor of Vocational Education, under
the State Department, for twelve
years. He is a native of Blackwell,
Missouri, a town founded by his grand
father who was one of the first set
tiers of Missouri.
DR.. Blackwell is q graduate of the
University of Missouri, 1914, received
his masters degree at Columbia in
1928 and his Phi. D. degree was obtain
ed from Hopkins in 1929.
He is a Ruling Elder in the Wi
comico Presbyterian church and a
member of the Masonic fraternity.
DIR. Blackwell is married and has
three children, the family residing at
1903 Pinehurst Avenue.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21
STATE COUNTIES
WILL RECEIVE
OVER 3 MILLIONS

The counties of Maryland will be
the recipients of approximately $500,
900 of the $4,13O,000 provided in the
Bond Issue Bill signed by Governor
Herbert r. O'Conor within the past
few days. Much of it will go to cor
rectional institutions, hospitals, and
sanatoriums, to which the Governor
pledged his aid when he declared, in
his Inaugural Address on January II,
The States obligation to the patients
in the mental institutions, the hos
pitfalls for the tubercular and feeble
minded must be met squarely and ac-
comodations afforded in keeping with
decent standards of living and hospit-
alization.' soy 'a- '4..'
The entire amount of the issue,
moreover, will be devoted to actual
capital expenditures, as the Governor
recommended strongly in his budget
message to the Assembly. The prac-
tice of mortgaging the future by bor-
rowing to meet current charges is
fundamentally unsound, he declared
at that time, and will inevitably lead
to extravaganza and waste. Despite
the generous provisions made for the
various State-aided institutions, how
ever, even with this additional $4,-
10000 of bonds, the bonded indebt-
edness of the State will be reduced
$9,671 900 by September 80, 1941, an
about-face in the method of handling
State finance that cannot fail to win
the approval of every Maryland tax
payer.
When it is contrasted with the fact
that, during the four years period
Immediately preceding Governor
O'Conor's administration, bonded debt
aggregating 20,6S7,O00 was created,
it becomes increasingly evident that
Maryland's finances are now once
more on the proper path.
Heading the list in amounts provid-
ed in the new Bond Issue Bill is the
MARYLAND State Penal Farm, at
Breathedsville, to which 81 200, 900 has
been allotted for completion of con-
struction begun in 1881. This a.
mount, together with balance which
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

made satisfactory progress during the
year, the State Forester says. Each
comprises an artificial lake, rustic
cabins and other recreational struc-
lures, along with water supply and
sewage disposal systems. A third
recreational area is under develop
ment at High Knob, not far from
Frederick, and fourth on the Elk
Neck State Par kat the head of Ches-
apeake Bay.
In 2539 man-days spent in fighting
frest fires the CCC made it's annual
contribution to the protection of pub
lie and private property in Maryland.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

When you have something to cell
rent. or trade or have lost something.
rum classified In our paper. Il geta
results when others fail
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-04-21

Raymond Loewy, king Of
modern designers, styled thi:
new Champion to perfection!
Quality materials and expert
Studebaker workmanship
keep it running smoothly!
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
Motor Vehicle Taxes in West
Va, Higher than US Averag

West Va, motorists are pay
ing motor vehicle taxes which
are on an average 1913 per cent
higher than the national aver
age, Edwin F. Patrick, Secre-
tary of the w. Va, Petroleum
Association, declared today fol-
lowing an analysis made by his
organization of the various tax
es paid by motor vehicle opera
tors in this state last year.
The association found the
average motor vehicle operator
in this state paid $685. in special
automotve taxes last year, COM
pared with average paymeri.s
OF $51.13 made in the nation as
a whole. One Of the principal
reasons for the higher taxes
paid by motorists in this state
was found to be the state and
federal gasoline taxes, which
total &c a lgall9op and amount to
$89.S2s lper, vehicle during the
course of a year. This is 66.f5
per cent of the entire fnbtor
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23

vehice tax bill and is substanti-
ely higher than the average
federal and state gasoline tax
es paid elsewhere in the L. S.
Other fajtors which we,.'
responsible for bringing the tax
bill in tbs state above the ma
tonal average were the two per
cent privilege tax on the value
of automobiles and the two per
cent consumers tax on motor
oil purchases. .
There is no reason why the
motorists Of this state should
be asked to pay higher taxes on
the operation of their vehicles
than do the motorists Of other
states" Mr.. Patrick said. 1T
looks to me as though we in this
state ought to look carefully
over our tax bills to see whether
we cannot get some measure of
relief. We might start with
some of the heaviest taxes and
attempt to have reductions made
there's FIRST especially where a
portioDof these taxes are of a
temporary mature, such ag the
Temporary emergency federal
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
BEWARE GREEK GIFTS

If memory of ancient history
serves us right, some Wiseacre
OF the walled city admonihed the
people to beware of the Greeks
bearing gifts" when the big
horse was rolled in. Much the
same reaction has been felt from
Attorney General Murphy's re-
cent blast calling for a "billion
dollar operation on the public
payroll" Mr.. Murphy made a
good Republican speech, but it
coming from him, the public is
somewhat doubtful of the sim
cerity of the theme and is ask
ing itself just what the joker
is. The public is inclined to be-
lieve that it is the same type of
appeasement speech as those
made by Harry Hopkin, who
every time he whips the horse
with one h n he holds him
back with the other. The Atty.
General declared that there
were deadheads on the state
and national payrolls that were
there for political reasons and
million of them could be cut
off and save the tax payers O
the country a billion dollars. If
Mr.. Murphy's suggestion it tax
Ell there would be no better
place to start than in his own
department and he, himself
would be the logical starting
place. Murphy was one Of the
Roosevelt lame duck appointees,
having been given the job as
purely political favor after the
people of his own state had
f,,rnCI hin, IO,r,, for III, No1.-
Deal administration. If Mr.. Muir
ply is sincere let's see some &C
ton and if the action isn't forth
coming the taxpayers can be
well assured that after 1910 a
Republican administration will
carry out the economy moves
suggested by the Attorney Gen.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
Harlan Company Signs Up

Harlan, Ky, June 20. vii
Lam Turnblazer, Harlan district
president Of the UMWA announ
ccd today the Crccch Coal com
pany had signed a union shop
contract with the union--the LIST
member Of the Harlan County
Coal Operators association to do
so @t,yt
yI IJ. Gndl 91,
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
N. and w. Gross in May Is
Estimated at Near 1886 Level

Philadelphia. - With bitumin
OTIS coal raining having been re-
sumed on May Is and the de-
mend stimulated, gross revenues
Of the Norfolk and Western for
May are expected to show a
sharp rebound from the low
point in April and will not be
much under those of a year ago.
Gross revenues for May are es-
timated around $5,OOO,OOO, com
pared with $4,255,840 in April
and SIS, 1851 in May, 1888.
NniJIIstt ( ..' .nI/
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
" EDITOR WHlITlC0 PASSES 4
Judge McClintic Raps rs
Liquor, Dope and Jails
which he encountered i'm Charles

which he encountered in Charles
ton. 80. 80.
1T can be raised Fight here in
Bluefield, anywhere i'm fact" he
said. That's the hell of it,"
Violation of the liquor laws is
still going on as strongly today
rs when prohibition was in eff
feet, Judge McCl.nt.c declared.
The violators are the maker, the
seller and the possessor.
"Norcotics and liquor are the
worst things have encounter
cd" he stated.
Judge McCl:ntic also rose to
the defense Of the courts of law.
Enormous eXaggerations are be-
r:ing the judiciary. he excla:m-
ed, even though there has been
one miscreant judge it does not
mean that all courts are corrupt.
He reviewed the federal laws
rcgading mony, mai, banks, con
servat;on of birds, lottery and
Interstate commerce. ..,., ,,,z.s !.
The petit jury was called and
dismissed until Wednesday pm.
at 200 o'clock when new cases
will be hear.
Attorney Jack Marimari, OF
War, was admitted to practice
in the court.
Jury Members
l.. A. Hooper was made fore
man of the grand jury, other
members of which are:
Phillip T. Lilly, BluefeLd; Jno
Peters, f. Beckey; H. l.. Mon
droff, Beckey; A. A. Angrist,
Bluefield; A. G.. Cline, Pineville;
Mack Burrell, Maitland; E. w.
Anderson, Princeton; J. 3. New
man, Freeman; Hardy Hough of
Kmball; Fred Morris, WEIGH;
f. Fl. Doyle, Bluefed; A. S. Burn
side, Dry Creek; G. ID. Hagey,
Warrior Mines; Joe Pals, Key
stone; Archie Davis, keystone;
p. p. Kerr, Berw;nd; Dat Ste
wart, Jesse; A. l.. Wagner, Nc
Comas and Par.s Lester, Han
over. ......
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
Editorship|of 80 Years
Ended by Death

ty to assume the editorsh;p of
the newspaper at. Keystone. He
purchased the paper for which
he first went to work and re-
organized the publication under
the name sOf the Mcdowell
Times. 81
Editor Whittico was a vigilant
fighter for his races rights, ac-
tive participant in all state and
county movements for race inn
provement, Member of all Negro
fraternities Of the state, an elder
of the Presbyterian church and
superintendent of the Sunday
School. He was probation officer
of Mcdowell county, this being
the onl y public office he ever
held. "a
Mr.. Whittico was twice mar
ried. He is Survived by his sec
ond wife, A, Ids E. Whittico,
and three ehndfene BY his first
marriage: Mrs. Altha w. King,
of Kimball; Leonidas and John
v. Whittico, both of Philadel-
pha. A fourth child proceeded
him in death.
He also leaves one brother,
DR.. j. M. Whittico, of William
son; and three sisters, Mrs. J.
a. Jenkins, of Williamon; Mr..
Sarah Clarke and Mrs. M. j.
Murphy, both of Ridgeway.
Mr.. Whittico was one of the
organizers of the Kimball Under
aking company, mad was chair
man of the board of directors of
that cmpany at the time of his
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
FDR Ducks Bird Term Query

Washington, June 20.--While
third term al k continued to
come from the inner circles of
the New Deal, President Roose-
VT parricd today a bluntly word
ed question from a reporter as
to whethe he would be a candi-
date again in 1910. He told the
reporter to go and stand in a
corner. .. go.
1t was the first time since the
speculation over the third term
reached its present proportions
that the issue had been laid
squaelX before the president at
d press conference.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
Young COP Move
Offices to Wheeling

COOTQllldtlHS every move so
that each activity will count
the most in the drive toward a
complete Republican victory in
1910, the West Virginia Young
Republican League transferred
their state headquarters from
Chaleston to Wheeling this week.
According to President Russell
G.. Nesbitt, the move was de-
signed for economy and to en-
able him to keep in close con-
tact with the various functions
Of the League. The new head
quarters will be located in the
Register building which former
ly housed the Democratic news
paper, the Wheeling Register
The Register suspended publica-
ton in 1885, during the first. adj
ministration of the New D a |.
The headquarters will be staff
ed by an executive secretary and
publicity director. President Mes
bitt has indicated that he will
devoe his full time to the acti-
vities of the League, giving
full time principal attention to
the organization campaign now
under way. The League goal,
set to be reached by September
] of this year, is 100 new clubs
and $4,000 new members. The
state headquarters of the Lea
que were opened in Charleston
on March l of this year, with
q dinner honoring the COP
members of the state legisla-
ture as the dedication ceremoni-
es. The headquarters have been
the hub of Young Republican
activity during the intervening
months. He;gth of activity in
HI Charleston headquarters
was gained when through the
Young COP Offices muc of the
campaign work for the reelec-
ton of Mayor D. Boone Dawson
was carried n. Meeting in Park
Crsburg, Kanawha county mem
bcrs of the Executive Committee
of the League suggested the
move to permit Nesbitt to be
closer to. the activity and to
cenralize the functions to gain
a maNimqwl Of efficiency; The
headquarters will be opehed to
intera9tfd Republicans at all
times and an open invitation to
visit til e m has been extended
over the state. "" :, ~
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
PROGRAM, WEST VIRGINIA
DAY, WORLDS FAIR, JUNE "a

Court of Peace ..as k,..p
Music Introduction "Its Wheel
ing Steel" Entire Cast ppm.
The Master of Ceremonies
................. James Kay Thomas
Hon. Grover Whalen. Pre-. of
........tlte New York Worlds Fai
The Honorable Homer A. Holt,
....."GOvernOr Of West Virginia
Dorothy Ann Crow, SOphrano
Ardenne White, Tenor
and, The Musical SteeImakers
TIE Hon. Edward J. Flynn. ....
....U. $. C:1mmiSsi lner-G,eneraI
Hon. Louis A. Johnson. Asst.
Sec'y Of War, VIVA. Soc. Of DC.
The steel Sisters
Introduction Of Members Of the
w. Va, Fair Commission
Musical Finale by Entire cast Of
"Its Wheeling Steel"
Visitors to the Far are very
cordially invited to make the
vest Virginia building their
Headquarters during their stay.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-06-23
Unusual Race Of VIVID Ceesb

An unusual race of wild geese In
lflnj said to exist In British Columbla
and southeastern Alaska They are
'Io1qkpown locally as white checked
,,,o,i geese and resemble tie ws4flHnown
CANDIDA goose IN many reepects. be-
'blaortng approving etely tha game size
but much darker IN 'pGthns eIqEheg
cieS in that " tSey Sfs td Sf{S rs s.
migrate south in the fall and many
remain TO spend their entire life in
the northern raLre.