Evening star., 1941-08-09
Most Of Virginia
Prepares for
Daylight Saving
Change in Time
Will Not Affect
Capital Suburbs

> With the exception of the area
near Washington most of Virginia
prepared today to go on daylight
saving time at midnight tomorrow.
The Old Dominion's list of locali-
ties and industries responding favor
ably to Gov. Prices request for
voluntary cooperation in the OBJ
servance of Eastern daylight time
as a part of the national defense
program continued to lengthen to-
day, the Associated Press reported.
Mayor Ward Swank of Harrison
burg proclaimed daylight saving time
for that municipality and the city
council put 100 city employees on the
fast" time schedule. Elkton and
Broadway already had announced
plans to move the clocks forward
one hour, and Bridgewater and
Dayton were waiting to take action
contigent on the decision reached
by officials of neighboring Harrison
burg.
Richmond Awaits Action.
Mayor James v. Bickford of Hamp-
ton proclaimed daylight time, falling
in line with nearby Phoebus, Fort
Monroe and Kecoughtan. Nanse-
mond County officials also announced
intention to adopt daylight time.
Mayor Gordon B. Amber of Rich
mond is expected to issue a procla-
nation today calling on Richmond
citizens to observe daylight time.
The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Co. of Virginia was added to
the growing list of industries and
businesses which will advance their
clocks one hour as a means of con-
serving electric power. The hours
of telephone company business Of
fees and the work schedules of tele-
phone installation crews will be ad-
justed to daylight saving time in
those communities where such time
is adopted but will remain as at
present in localities retaining East
ern Standard Time, company Off.
cials said.
Railroads and bus lines form per-
haps the largest single group in
Virginia which will retain standard
time.
Already Work Early.
A. I. Lowmaster, vice president
and general manager of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railroad, said the
majority of the c. g. o. employees
in the State ARE already effectively
on a daylight-saving time basis"
beginning work at am. which
is much earlier than employees in
most industries go to work"
Mr.. Lowmaster explained that
trains in Virginia operate on Eastern
standard time under regulations
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
In view of this situation. Mr..
Lowmaster said, the C. g. O. will
make mo change in working hours
except adjustments in station serv-
ice to meet local conditions and
local convenience"
Among other localities which have
announced intention to adopt day.
light time at midnight Sunday are
Portsmouth, Newport News, Suffolk,
Bristol, Charlottesville, Virginia
Beach, Radford, Roanoke. Buena
Vista, Front Royal, Fredericksburg,
Edinburg, New Market, Mount Jack
son, Strasburg and Woodstock. Nor
folk will go on fast" time at 2
a IN. tomorrow.
Suburbs Follow District.
The City of Alexandria, Arlington
County and Fairfax County-feeling
themselves too dependent on Wash
ington-have declared officially they
will not adopt the new schedule un-
less the District does
Commissioner John Russell Young
said, however, that Washington will
remain on Eastern standard time
until surrounded by daylight saving
time.
Nearby Maryland, too, is abiding
by the example of the District.
States affected in the presidential
call for a new deal of time are
Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina,
North Carolina. Georgia, Mississippi,
Florida and Virginia.