Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-12-17
WARN MOTORIST
OF DIMOUT LAW
State DimOut Director Warns
About Kent and Sussex
Driving Rules
HOUSEHOLDERS WARNED

All visiting as well as resident
motorists driving in Kent and Sus-
sex Counties at night must now
have the upper half of their
headlights BACKED out and use low
beam only. Col John P. LeFevre,
state dimout director, announced
that state police have advised him
they have made plans to enforce
the regulation and will make ar
rests after a reasonable time. The
police, he explained, are combining
their activities at present to issu-
ing warnings for any violations OF
the general dimout rules but may
begin making arrests at any time.
Warning Signs
w. w. Mack, chief engineer of
the State Highway Department,
has informed the dimout director
that dimout warning signs will be
placed by the department on roads
leading into Kent and Sussex Coun-
ties from New Castle County and
Maryland. Enforcement of the
headlight requirement of the gen.
eral military dimout regulations
applying to all coastal dimout areas
of the Second Service Command, in
which the two lower counties OF
Delaware are included, follows ap-
proval last Wednesday by the State
Council of Defense.
Approve Regulations
The council previously had ap-
proved all of the regulations for
enforcement with the exception OF
the one making it mandatory to
drive in the two counties with the
full upper half of the headlight
lens covered with opaque paint OF
other material and with low beam
only, although it had held that the
low beam be used.
Parking Light Area
Colonel LeFevre stressed, how
ever, that where headlights are Wis
ible from the sea, vehicles still
must operate with no more than
two driving lamps and each such
lamp shall not exceed 25O beam
candle-power," with the explana-
ton that parking lights generally
are within this specification. Areas
where parking lights must be used
in approaching the Delaware Bay
or Atlantic Ocean were marked
with signs some months ago.
High Beams Out
''The use of high-beam head
lights is out for the duration II
Kent and Sussex Counties" Colonel
LeFevre warned. 1T is imperative
that all persons living or visiting
in the dimout areas familiarize
themselves and comply with the
regulations of the commanding
general of this service command
governing not only vehicular lights
but the other regulations CONTROL.
ing the limited use of essential
lights and prohibiting the use fol
the duration of many types OF
lighting classed as non-essentia-
illumination"
Exterior Lights
Colonel LeFevre called attention
to the requirement that "all exter'
ior advertising signs are prohibit
ed" and lights of parking lots, fill
ing stations, holiday decorations
and tourist signs must be shielded
so that the source of light will not
be visible at an angle less than AZ
degrees below the horizontal AL
outdoor fires are banned, lights fol
protective or manufacturing pur'
poses are strictly regulated and in
terror lights of houses, stores, etc.
must be reduced or shaded care
fully. No naked light from the in
terror of any building is permitted
to be directly visible from the out
side, he emphasized in further ex
PLANTATION.
Householders Warned
at is suggested that households
ers refrain from having lamps neal
windows or other openings unless
the shades are carefully drawn ant
the direct source of light shaded,
said Colonel LeFevre. Porch lights
may be used if so shielded that the
source of light is not visible at al
angle less than 40 degrees below
the horizontal and wattage reduced
so that the Illuminated area doe!
not exceed one foot candle at any
point. The dimout director pointed
out that light meters for measuring
light are available at state police
stations and at municipal and othel
power plants and some other places
Services at st. Peters Church
c. Datar,c EypicoopoI Church