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after ten million dollars had been
spent on 1t.
In 1887 the Pennsylvania Turn
pike Commission was created and
the R.F.C. and P.WA. provided
loans OF $2e, ,000, 900 to finance the
construction Of the turnpike. The
Com mission. purchased with $4,000
900 OF this money the abandoned
railroad, thus obtaining ia miles
OF roadbed and seven tunnels. In
October 1888, work on the new road
started, involving the largest high
way earth moving job In the his
tory Of the world. Before the new
turnpike IL finished Is million cubic
yards Of earth and rock will have
been excavated. "A total OF 392 1000
tons OF cement, 80, 900 tons OF steel.
TOO, 900 tons Of sand and more than
million tons Of crushed stone will
20 into the new highway. tho build
ing of which will entail the use OF
SIS, ,o00, 900 worth of road building
machinery to complete the job In
20 months instead of the normal
three or four years.
At its peak, work on the turnpike
required $4,000 men on the payrolls
of 127 general contractors. The total
cost per mile OF the road will be
$279,o0o. Draining and grading
alone will cost $13s,700 per mile as
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Condensed from Eo.3 OilpoysJ

Condensed from Eo.3 Oilsc0ys)
SOMETIME this summer motor
lists will have q dream OF many
years standing come true when
traf'ic starts out over what is ON
ciaily known ~ the Pennsylvania
Turnpike, . new super-highway
stretching l6o miles between Har-
risburg and Pittsburgh, dipping
under mountains and hills; cutting
l4s miles on the New York to Chi
cago route; providing road visibili-
y Of At least 600 feet and bypass
Ing all towns en- route. Two con-
crete lanes. each ~ feet wide. will
be separated BY . ten foot land
scaped parkway.
For mere than . hundred years
Pennsylvanir has tried to bufld .
road that would overcome many Of
the barriers presented BY the Alls-
gneny Mountains. As far back as
1877 Pennsylvania appropriated
money for \ railroad through the
mountains which would avoid
mountain grades. In 1882 construc-
ton work began on the South Penn
syivania Railroad which reduced
mountain grades $4,000 feet long to
less than 1000 feet and gradients
from . per cent to less than 3 per
cent The project was abandoned
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Pearce, Jacqueline Potter, Gwen
Smith, Ruth Swarr, Aris Truax,
Lois Wade, Joyce Wilson.
Grade Al, Miss Scout, teacher
Elizabeth Barnes, Jean Brown,
Constance Burris, Jeanette Cham
bers, Peggy Clark, Elizabeth
Deamer, Marie Foxwell, Thelma
Foxwell, Margery Lamb, Tallulah
Everett, Carl Bartlett, James
Buckson, Carl Clough, Elwood
Graham, Donald Heinold.
Grade AZ, Miss Adkins, teacher
Jack Lister, Edward Melvin,
Carlos Messick, Louis OIliphant,
Carlisle Pryor, James Ryan. Rob
ert Warner, Mabel McNatt, Sadie
McNatt, Virginia Sairn, Grace
Shorts, Joan Springer, Anne Stew
enson.
Grade 81, Miss Purnell, teacher
Paul Brommer, Billy Buckson,
Carroll Elzey, James Foxwell,
Stanley Francis, Earl Harris, Don
aid Knots, Audrey Ashton, Mary
Alice Blendt, Dorothy Bodine, Vir-
ginia Burchard, Betty Clampitt,
Leota Hadley, Betty Lovegrove.
Grade 80, Miss Postles, teacher
Virginia Mcfarland, Joyce John
ston, Dorothy Scuse, Lorraine
Smith, Eugene McNatt, Russell
McNatt, Ronald Nowland, Leonard
PIeasanton. Wayne Pryor, Leslie
Machene, Patrick Springer, Char
les Wade.
Grade 2-1, Miss Neese, teacher
Herbert Brown, Victor Brown, Lee
Moore, Edward Porter, Charles
Reed, Betty McClain, Francis
Smith, Margaret Truax.
Grades IL and 2-1, Miss Ric-
ards, teacher-John Burris, Earl
Shane, Harold Swarr, Wallace
Badur. George r. Bell, Robert
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
Mind Your Manners
And Keep Your Man

HARM as we'll as charity
u should begin at home, if a
woman is wise and wants to keep
a harmonious marriage. For too
often a husband, the man she has
promised to cherish, has to bear the
brunt of nerves and tantrums from
a woman who is famed far and
wide for her gracious ways.
The fallacy that bad manners
should be reserved for the home
circle is illogical, according to Ruth
Anna Read in an artltle appearing
in May Good Housekeeping. Says
Mrs. Read, women don't promise
to love and cherish the grocery boy
or the man who comes to read the
meter, yet they never treat such
people to the exhibitions of fits
and sulks that patient husbands
must witness and presumably for
give and forget.
"Why not try gentle treatment
on your husband, just once, when
he's not expecting it? He won't
drop dead. Instead, if you persist
in your experiments in conjugal
courtesy-and there are countless
opportunities for experiment as
every wife knows-he1l probably
pay you back in your own golden
coin. People are like that"
Even husbands.
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restaurants and bars throughout the
country. A "juke" box is a record
playing machine which stands out
prominently in these small gather
ing places for youngsters and old
sters inviting them to hear their
favorite band play a favorite tune
for one small nickel.
Bands have been made and broken
during the past three or four years
purely on the basis of their "iuke"
box appeal. If the kids don't like the
way an orchestra plays they don't
drop in their nickels and the orches.
ira starts skidding as far as national
popularity is concerned. In the
March Cosmopolitan, Dorothy Kill
gallen quotes Benny Goodman on the
subject in her article, "Swing Set"
Flere is what Mr.. Goodman has to
ray:
"The most important part of nv
professional life is spent in record
ing studios +. if 1 play the same
chorus on record, it's there and
anyone who wants to can listen to
it and buy it and save it and play it
over - and hundred years from
now it's still there, if anybody cares,
and just as good"
Glenn Miller was catapulted to
national fame via the "juke" box
and his superb rendition of Sunrise
Serenade." The nickel music lovers
liked that record and kept on put
ting their nickels in the box. So then
the radio knew that Glenn Miller
had something and the people who
make records knew he had some
thing and there he is.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

hotel. Wow'.-Tm glad I'm not
the house detective.
The High School Band drove
down to Milton last Wednesday to
take part in the parade.-Ray
Smith played the new secondhand
valve trombone. Twas formerly
owned by member of Paul
Whiteman's group.
1t was a side-splitting show one
mite last week for the onlookers
when this columns author took an
involuntary dive in Lake Como
FULLY clothed The water was
pretty good, but oh that air!
Words flew thick, fast, heavy,
etc, following a discussion about
the High School May Day being
cancelled. -Civics class was the
battlefield.
We hope nobody came around to
see the May Court program last
week after reading about it in the
colly-yum. The shindig was called
off at the last minute and too late
to get story about it cut out So
sorry!
The "barn-dance" at M. Pratt's
was something new for the school
ers but the Senior weinie-roast
was olstuff. Remember the roast
last fall? How can il be forgot
ten ?-Yah Hoo!
The Lotus Gardens expects to
have a boom the mite our darling
Seniors arrive home from the Cap
ital.
Lee Slaughter has acquired
much popularity among the fems
since he's licensed his new bus.
('36 Ford V8)-Just wait until I
get my yacht, by gosh.
What Senior lad took a trip to
Baltimore and back last Thursday
mite? (you probably know his
name anyway, so | won't menshun
it'll
The fast pace that the Middle
town lads are setting in Smyrna
cost them S17.50 last week via Of
ficer Deamer's assistance. (40 m.
p. h. in town limits.)
George Thawley and his group
travelled up to Sunny Brook last
weekend to listen to Samuel
Hayes band.
The grand-stand on the athletic
field was smoochin spot for some
soph's and freshies the mite of the
Cinderalla May Program.
Little Bits:
Jack Francis being unusually at
tentive to Charlotte Everett
Harry Beck and Eleanor Pierce
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
BEST ESSAYS
ON AVIATION
National Aviation Forum Con-
Contest Open to All Stu
dents; To Award Medals
DATE LINE SET MAY %

The National Aeronautic Asso-
citation has announced a National
Aviation Forum essay contest. The
contest is open to elementary
school pupils, trade school, high
school, and college students. Those
who submit the best essays to the
U. S. Office of Education will re-
ceive trophies and medals to be
presented by the National Aero
nautic Association. Each State
superintendent of education is be-
ing asked to announce the contest
to schools and colleges within his
own State. Contestants are re-
quested to mail their essays to Dr.
Robert w. Handbook, U. S. Office
of Education, Washington, D. c.,
who is directing the educational
activity for the National Aviation
Lorum of 1910, to be held in Wash
ington during the week of May 26-
All essayes should arrive in the Of
flee of Education by May %.
Subjects of essays for the differ
ent groups are as follows:
1. College students Some As
poets of the Civil Aerotnutics Au-
thority Flight Training Program"
600 to 600 words)
2. High school students Grades
9-12)-"The Use and Value of Av-
iation Subject Matter in High
School Courses" (400 to 500
words).
8. Trade school students (In-
cluding all students in trade class
es)-"S Safety Aircraft Manufac-
turing, Servicing and Repairing"
400 to 500 words.
4. Elementary school pupils
(Grades My Interest in Av-
iation." (25O to 300 words).
Essays will be judged upon sub
ject matter, composition and gen
eral appearance. Special arrange
ments are to be planned for award
ing Of prizes to essay winners in
the capitals of States in which the
winners reside.
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are a new pair, now-Clarence
Garis, chief CASANOVA about town
when Bill Melvin's away--Doris
Pyle is working at Shin Longs
sweety shop off'n on now. Me-
thinks business will pick up for
Shim.-Helen Shahan wearing a
wrist-watch owned by a certain
sailor.-Lew Conaway received an
invitation to the Centerville, Md,
Jurior-Senior Prom. Have you
noticed Snaps new sign Janet
Keith and Eunice Sparks seen at
Wagon Wheel with two lads from
Middletown.
At Snaps Sunday mite the topic
of discussion at a certain table
was the May Court put up job.
Crickie D. asked the question
about what do you have to have to
be a May Queen. Evan Gebhart's
prompt reply, Personality" 80
Crickie, ''Well tell me who in the
Senior Class has personality p
Pete Stats piped up, Ray Smith.
But I don't think he'd make a very
good May Queen" !"-Haw!
We haven't consulted our private
information bureau yet, but we
think the little lady that AL Rob-
inson was with in Snaps Sunday
mite dwells in Dover.-W Well find
out, don't worry
Flash: Ray Smith (of the Smith,
Stats and Bell Commerce St.
gang) has received his scholah-
ship to enter Roosevelt Military
Academy out yonder.
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Keep Your Salt
Cellars Clean

of the fact that the goods are SUBJ
standard. They will tell their
friends Soon a whispering cam
paign is under way. He suffers.
1t is only by being careful at every
minute of the day that his goods and
service are up to high standard that
the man who advertises can sue
ceed.
You expect more of him than you
do of the man who does net adver-
tise. The non-advertising manufac-
turer or merchant can fall down in
delivering quality and service. You
may expect him to. But the man
who advertises has to live up to his
high obligation.
So you see that advertising is
great vigilance committee, estab-
lished and maintained in your in
terest, to see that the men who
aspire to sell you will always be
worthy Of your trade.
The merchant who advertises
must treat you better than the mer-
chant who does not. He must treat
you IS though you were the most IN
fluential person In town.
AS a matter OF cold fact you are.
You hold the destiny Of his business
in your hands. He knows it. He
shows it. And you, benefit by good
service. by courteous treatment, by
good value-and by lower prices.
Be critical Of advertised goods
and stores which advertise. They
want you to be critical Advertis-
ing invites you to compare before
you buy. 1t stands or falls ON value
alone.
q Charles B. Roth
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against $25, 200 per mile for Ordinar,
road building. Some six and one
half miles of tunnels will be used.
all concrete lined, power-ventilated
and equipped with various safety
devices. These tunnels will reduce
grades and cur YES, cut down mile
ago and defeat trafilc-delaying fogs
and storms on mountain tops.
Although this new highway will
be known oflcially A. the Pennsyl-
vania Turnpike. 1t 10 popularly re-
ferred to n the dream highway"
Even now truck and bus operators
are preparing TO use It ~ . time
and money-saver on runs between
New York and Chicago. At present
most trucks avoid the Pennsylvania
Mountains and nee = northern route
some 134 miles longer than the
Turnpike route. Interest has n
ready been shown In extending the
road to tho United States Navy
Yard at Philadelphia and the Com.
mission Is also viewing the posi-
bility OF carrying II at the western
end to the West Virginia hne.
Others talk OF stretching 1t eventu
ally to Chicago and Detroit. Certain
it is that this ultra-modern highway
will be a mark for future road
builders to shoot at for some tim
TO come
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

dollars for farm parity payments
and 85 million dollars for the food
stamp plan, nevertheless, the farm
bloc and the spenders were able to
overcome the economy forces and
have these amounts rewritten in
the Agricultural bill for 1941.
There is also likely to be included
in this Agricultural bill fifty mil
ion dollar appropriation for tenant
loans when the House takes up
this bill for further consideration
this week. Since no provision will
be made for securing funds to take
care of these added millions, this
money can only be secured by
further borrowing which means a
further increase of the national
debt and a further fastening of the
day of financial bankruptcy.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

chants from whom we buy it. 1t is
our criticism which keeps the stand
ards Of goods and stores high.
One OF the many advantages Of
advertising is that it invites US to
be critical Of the goods being ad-
vertised.
The advertiser assnres us that his
goods arc good. He invites m to
compare them with sthers. We do.
n he relaxes for . minute and lets
his standards drop. We discern 1t.
We tell others. We cease buyiEg
his product.
He knows THAI even the finest OF
commercial regulations will suffer
IL mere handful NJ people get wind
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

the household, but if
they were not. re-
gardless of the gra-
ciousness and charm
of her hostess, she
put them down as
dowdy folks.
Not all of US, fortu-
nately. are quite so
critical. but in one
sense we are. And it
is good that we are.
We are critical of
the merchandise we
biIy md of tho mar
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
BAND LEADERS keep
WEATHER EYE ON JUKES

A BUSINESS running to $780,
n 100000 annually has sprung
into being, mainly through the
nickels of teen-age youngsters.
That business is based on more
than 500, 900 luke" boxes in small
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

Cole, Jonne Deakyne, Lois Demp-
sey, Raymond Dyer.
Grade 1-2, Miss Stats, teacher
Billy Bartlett, Frederick Ches-
ter, Linden Doughten, Donald Fair
cloth, Katherine Jones, Joan Nc
Matt, Robert Michener, Mary En-
lily Miller, Donald Poore, Gene
Short, Verna Smith, Patsy Sylves-
ter, Doris Walton.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

& He other day l read Of an &C.
} centric old woman, rich and So
cially prominent, who went from
house to house Judging the occu-
pants by the condition of the salt
cellars on their tables.
If these were clean and well kept
she put her stamp of approval on
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
NOTICE

Dead or disabled horses, cows
and mules removed FREE of
charge by calling DOVER 749 R
13. No animals removed unless call
is made Immediately and no an
imals dying from a contagious dis
ease will be removed.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
L. Out-Slugs Caesar
ROdney S-5

lBin) BOdley's home run
's- Rodnsy with Miffin
& b,;s was the big factor
II, victory over the home
!. Everett was on the
krarna and except for the
when Caesar Rodney
m runs on three triples,
l nd a single, he pitched
& striking out seven and
krly one. After that first
y llo#ed but two hits.
a irt scored In the thlru
| fsr Guy Swan doubled,
! sqins walked and Danes
! sonng two runs. In the
| sang Pay Smith singled,
Y second, Nelson (Pete)
! (hslsi, scoring Smith.
h il the beginning Of the
k,ag forged ahead when
be passes, issued by the
] soiney pitcher, and q
| ! Hopkins provided two
b zure now read Smyrna,
u Rooney 4; but in the last
/ b ming the Caesar team
b 10 push another score
! ting the score.
lans the climax; with Bod
htting for his round-trip-
! he score reading, at the
|ls ming, rs in SmyrDa's
Ayns added one more
| A seventh inning when
Lovers triple drove in a
e,t iead Of him. Lower
haly, was out when he at
70 make home.
= ss 8 team, batted .321
! pns, collecting ten hits.
4 bone nun now ties him
for smuggling honors
sng a single, four bag
ht got bis in the A. I.
! rne.
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16

r., wssnie Roast asst .,ari.
r'a I J.B. NJ piled piled ny !
E';;;;:;;' 4; ,'s5: ss'''i' re event. vent "ss
q spast.' ,..r appointed
fIsss + +, the fire, provide
ks.st y d and / GOD. Donations )
s.-, 4 the class bOught
\, narshmallOws' coca
X X, rsdios, a planned trea,
b. r. nd singing furnished
r., entertainment.
b. i, last informal gain
9 rs D.iar l+,' Class and every
|i m. y i make it a most
Isns. u;ng Miss
d Mrs. Glelln ~ n'I, IPobart
EghsE ana -, rro,,n N
! seOIpanieu - 2
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
st Wins Duel With
SMYRNA 2-l

st pitching by Dunn,
Highs hurler, and two
si0fs enabled Newark to
Myna on the home field
fs Of Fl. Dunn allowed
ut almost duplicating the
iysar ago at A. |. Dupont
@Ylla was set down with
Lee Everett pitched the
ns t0r Smyrna, and gave
alss hts, one a hore-run
n Newark center-felder.
iH inning.
As second, last, and win
cane IN the sixth inning
scored, even though
aa get a hit. Smyrna's 5
asS Up when Ray Smiths
'ssa a runner to reach
Nelson Stats error en-
= ~, . score after he had
Ind base. : :
a' hitting takes a dron
aar average of .255.
y. ' the game, to .225; a
airty points. :
pitched a nice gar,a
\. :. ave'' but you can't win
s Without hits. THE team
" for the game.)
FLING THE PACE
! y student chic
, rs y ! made along primo
4 r,,'a a9s down the front.
,.s sss sporting a blush.
I ~ =, a9aSle. '1l e.brsasted frock.
Mt ~0 oress is of
sns ss~.y Nov,
4, seSl0r = Prom is the
! N. n 2. high-schoolers
Ass :. Bob : cummins D,u,s and
u. W ~ tAs rythm for the The
~ : - Mrs. Herbert E,
=. ~. = hand to greet Of Of
IA n.y. NJ. " We don't have a
l.sa = ] 'sprhs dance, ssi' ac-
porssaaas,.,sss sas meet; !, has Just
s.rsa ,se,-He ,.s goes 10
n1 i. - Panama this
eAsr ,n 4,apolis Mid
vet Eei,h 'n OF a mon
E. Issy r. s. | s@i!s. s4ss,
Il @as @aassssna1, sssI !. Al
Smyrna times., 1940-05-16
ATTENDANCE AT
PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Continued from Page Three)
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WASHINGTON
NEWS LETTER

Continued from Page Three)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-04
Share the Burden With the Guard

Soon members of the national guard and reserve
corps are going TO begin leaving civilian life for years
tour Of duty on active service.
The uniform is going to be in places where it has
seldom been seen IN the past Thousands of families and
business offices and factories will the chair
cleared desk, the bench machine on which new hand
Is being broken in"
In the past national guard and reserve corps service did
not mean those things These peacetme soldiers up
their regular vacation time learning their
country Their absences in training were brief.
But being called up for training real dsrup-
ton in personal and working lives 1t longer enough
that American soldiers be given brief funda-
mentals and called ready. War Europe presents il
our eyes today skill and teamwork comparable to
that of we-oed football This takes times These
young men giving it,
All honor to them These national guardsmen and re-
serves are the who the need when the did
not see it. They the who evenings and week
ends and vacations to their country when the
indifferent They have had unpleasant service to perform
in of domestic disorder natural catastrophe They
have been sneered at tin soldiers, and shifted at by
the compacent.
They stuck their organizations in the years
nobody cared Now the nation calls them first Now they
look better than the sneerers and sniffers.
The duty which they will soon embark is not theirs
alone Those who do not also have duty. 1t is to
operate and help in every possible way to minimize the
sacrifices they make
So far possible their jobs should be kept ready for
their return that in addition of their lives they
need not also face the prospect of beginning over when
their training Consideration and help for their
families and obligations in order.
These young about to shoulder, voluntarily
their obligation citizens to bear defense of their
country.
This does shift the obligations of others to their
shoulders creates additional obligations for those who
do not march
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-04


Although 1t is known general
ly in Industrial circles that the
American war department must
approve British orders before
they are placed with American
arms plants, 1t Is not generally
known that the war department
can halt fulfillment Of any Eng
lish contract II the department
deems that step TO be In the in
terest of the United States or
II the particular plant concerned
is needed for American produe-
ton.
Each time his ma jesty's gov
eminent wishes to buy some
military equipment here, they
must present a formal request
for approval of the transaction.
Uncle Sans brass hats then
consider the proposal in the
light of possible competition
with the srmy's own needs.
The officers have been particu-
larry delighted at the co-opera-
ton of Defense Commissioner
Knudsen along this line.
II IL in the interest of Ameri-
can defense to have the British
order military weapons and am
munition of the size, type or
caliber used by our own army
and navy. This permits produc-
ton without delay of American
material from the same tools,
dies. and machinery. Incident
ally. II the United States and
England become allies, standard
equipment become interchange
able. The other day the British
exerted great pressure on the
war department for approval of
an offsize gun. Dannish-born
Knudsen backed up the khaki
men in their demand that an
American caliber be ordered.
The night sessions of the
senate made good newspaper
copy but failed to prevent nearly
a weeks delay in the Legislative
foundations of the defense pro-
gram because of the Labor day
week end.
Every days delay on the
$4,000. 000. 900 defenseappropria-
ton bill is considered important
by those officials in Washington
who are certain the U. S. will
be in the war openly in a few
weeks.
The congressman gave lip ser
vice to speed as their slogan in
moving as soon as possible all
the remnants on the defense
counter. 1t is almost impos-
sible. however. to speed up the
congressional operations. par
ticularly before and after a holi-
day such as last week end. A
good example of this is found
in the adjustment of the differ
ences between the senate and
house versions OF the five bill
hon dollar appropriation.
Immediately upon its passage
by the senate. leaders OF the
upper house enthusiastically pre-
dicted that the conference neces-