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Evening star., 1951-02-15
Company Is Acquitted

In Leonardtown, Md, the Gulf
Atlantic Transportation Co. of
Jacksonville, Fla, and its presi-
dent, Harold G. Williams, were
cleared of a charge of polluting
the st. Marys River by dumping
oil from a sunken barge Janu-
airy 6.
A salvage expert testified for
the defense that the only means
practicable were employed. The
judge said the prosecutor failed
to prove otherwise. The case was
delayed four hours because no
court reporter could be found.
1t proceeded when an electrical
recorder was borrowed. The prose-
cuter. Kennety c. Proctor, as
sistant State attorney general,
worked the dials.
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Truman Plea 10 Rush
$40 Billion Tax Rise
Rebuffed in House
By Cecil HoIIand

I 1ue HOUSE ways ana Means
Committee has rebuffed President
Truman in his appeal for an i'm
mediate $40 billion increase ir
taxes.
i At an hour long closed meeting
late yesterday the committee de-
cided to cover in hearings all
revenue raising suggestions made
by Secretary of the Treasury Sny-
der and any other proposals for
additional taxes.
Chairman Doughton said the
committee will decide after hear
ings whether to proceed with a
two-package program - as re-
quested by Mr.. Truman-or con-
centrate on single tax bill.
The President asked for a So
called 'quickie" bill to raise $40
billion with increases in individ-
ual and corporation taxes dated
back to January i. He said Con-
gress then should consider a
second tax bill to raise about S6.5
billion-the amount that would be
required to balance the President s
proposed record peacetime budget
of s7l.6 billion for the fiscal year
starting next July /.
Tantamount to Rejection.
Representative Reed of New
York, ranking Republican mem
/ ber of the tax-writing committee
said the decision to study all ia,
proposals was "tantamount" tx
rejection of the Presidents pro-
gram. Another senior Republican
member Of the committee, Repre-
sentative Simpson of Pennsyl-
vania. concurred in this view.
The action of the committee
came soon after it had listened tc
an eloquent appeal from Stabili-
cation Director Eric Johnston for
Congress to act with "the greatest
speed" in enacting a tough and
steep" increase in taxes. Mr.
Johnston said the tax increases
were an important part of the
Governments anti-infation pro-
gram and delay will eat at oul
economic strength"
Mr.. Johnston fully indorsed the
administrations program recently
presented to the committee by Sec.
retary Snyder. 1t calls for a 81
billion boost in individual taxes
So billion in corporation taxes anc
another So billion in excises.
Delay to Midyear Forecast.
During Mr.. Johnston's testimony
Representative Harrison. Demo.
crat, Of Virginia said there is 8
serious possibility" no tax in.
crease measure will be laid on the
Presidents desk before the middle
of the year.
The committees action support
ed that view. In indicated. more
over, that any increases that may
be voted will not be made retro
active to January l as requested
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Justice Douglas Sees
Threat Of Disaster
In Policy on Asia
BY The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 15.-Wil-
liam o. Douglas, Justice of the
Supreme Court, said yesterday "if
we continue our present foreign
policy. especially in Asia. If we
continue in our present direction,
We are doomed to disaster"
Justice Douglas was speaking to
civic club gathering.
He said the Asiatic world is in
revolution similar to that which
came to France and America.
The justice added IT gathered
my information. not in the
capitals of the Asiatic countries,
but in talking to farmers and
goat-herders in the back areas.
"The world is different than we
in America have thought. The
plain fact is that the world is in
revolution that cannot be
bought off with dollars. There
are rumblings in every village
from the Mediterranean to the
Pacific. -
1--WE think of that force as COM
munism but it is not. The Com
munists only exploit the situa-
tion."'
Justice Douglas continued: 'The
spirit which motivates these peo-
pie is pretty much the same as our
own in the American revolution.
They have catalogue of specific
complaints, such as we had in the
declaration Of independence. The
absence of medical care always
come first. The absence of schools
is second.
American foreign policy never
has been addressed to the con6.-
tions under which these revolu-
tions flourish.
I'VE send technical experts to
help in seed selection, soil conser-
vation, malaria controls and the
like. But we never raise our voices
for reform of the vicious tenancy
system of Asia under which in
creased production works to the
benefit of few.
1--WE talk about democracy and
justice, and at the same time we
support regimes in those coun-
tries whose object is to keep both
democracy and justice out of the
reach of the peasants for all
time"
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Water From Washinqton

About 1000 homeowners in the
Annandale area of Fairfax Coun-
ty have assurances of a water sup
ply because Of an emergency proc
lamation by the Virginia health
commissioner.
At a mass meeting last night to
protest service from a private firm,
they were told the State had certi-
fed an emergency exists, thus
making possible the sale of water
to the company. The water comes
from Washington. via Falls
Church. The Government cannot
sell water to private firms except
in emergencies. A permanent So
luton is promised Annandale in
about three months.
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rather cold with rain probably
mixed with sleet in the morning
Virginia Cloudy and rather
cold tonight. low Is to 80 north
and 80 to IS south portion. To-
morrow cloudy and rather cold
with rain probably mixed with
sleet in north portion in the
morning.
Wind velocity at 1880 o'clock
this morning. II miles per hour;
direction, northeast.
Evening star., 1951-02-15

aCeQ Dy COn~ s"seS" A'o"s'
gress as part Of the 1949 Federal
Pay Act and applied to all agen-
cies. A 400 limitation was placed
on the positions. All 400 jobs
were subsequently filled.
However. the national emer-
gency caused Congress last year
to remove the 400-job ceiling and
authorized the Government to ap-
point as many officials in Grades
16 to Is as was thought necessary.
These appointments were limited
to agencies connected with the
emergency program. However,
President Truman limited the
number of these additional top
jobs to $50.
PAY Senate Civil Service
Subcommittee headed by Senator
Smathers. Democrat. of Florida.
will begin hearings on postal pay
legislation a week from Monday.
The date for hearings on pay
raise legislation for the Govern
ment's classified employees has not
yet been set, but Chairman john
ston of the full committee assured
classified workers that their pay
raise hearings will also be held at
an early date.
| X X X X
| LOYALTY-The Federal Loyalty
Review Boards proposal to the
President for greater authority to
fire suspected Communists in the
Government. will result in no
witch hunts" among Federal
employees, loyalty officials promise.
Incidentally. the boards recon-
mendaGions were reported exclu-
sively in this column on January
81. The loyalty board. declaring
that reasonable doubt" cases now
are resolved in favor of the en-
ployes. has asked that the loyalty
regulations be revised to give the
Government the benefit of the
doubt in borderline cases.
Loyalty officials say the over
whelming majority of Federal
employees are perfectly loyal and
need not concern themselves with
the proposed changes. They de-
clare there are only a handful of
employees who are suspect on the
basis Of past activities.
| X X X
WELCOME BACK-The thou
sands Of friends and admirers
here of Arthur S. Flemming are
very happy to see him back in
Washington. Mr.. Flemming is the
Governments manpower co-or-
dinator and works directly under
Mobilization Chief Charles Wilson.
Those who remember Mr..
Flemming's outstanding work as
Civil Service Commissioner here
are certain he'll do an excellent
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Non-Portison Fioht

State Senator Dewitt S. Hyde
Montgomery County Republican
promised an all-out fight to revive
the bill for non-partisan elections
OF the Montgomery County Coun-
Gil. A committee voted to kill II
yesterday.
The State Senate also overrode
two vetoes Of Republican Gov
McKeldin. concerning filling o1
certain vacancies. and advanced
toward passage a bill repeating 9
Jim Grow" law which segregate.
whites and Negroes on Chesapeake
Bay ferries.
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by the administration. Some men,
bers of the Ways and Means Com
mittee are particularly opposed tc
making increases in individual in
come taxes retroactive, contending
it would work undue hardships on
taxpayers in the lower income
groups.
Price Director Michael v. Di-
Sale, another witness at yester-
days harings. also urged the tax
increases. But he warned that
such increases will be reflected in
higher prices. "Our job" he
added, will be to try to keep prices
still in reasonable relationship
Evening star., 1951-02-15
PerIe Mesto Is Speaker
AT Paris Stag Party
BY The Assoeiofed Press

PARIS, Feb. 15.-Mrs. Perle
Mesta. American Minister to Lux
embourg, was the guest speaker at
a stag affair today. She told her
Iall-male audience at the American
Club I'VE must have courage to
stand by the things we know are
right"
With a glance ahead to Wash
ington'S birthday, Mrs. Mesta.
who is here for a short visit, said
she felt that Gen. Washington
would approve of Gen. Eisenhower
and what we are trying to do to-
day."
Evening star., 1951-02-15
Bronx Couple Seized;
Truman Plot Believed
| Hafched in Home
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-Secret
Service agents have seized a man
and wife whose Bronx home was
described as the Puerto Rican
Nationalist party meeting, place
where the Truman assassination
plot was Matched.
The two, arrested yesterday, are
charged with obstruction of jus
tice In the investigation of the
plot. They are John Correa, 43,
and his wife, Mary.
Federal Judge Edward Wein-
field opened a sealed indictment
naming the Correas in connection
with the plot leading to the gun
play outside Blair House last No
vember /.
Dinner Meeting at Home.
Assistant United States Attor-
ney Frederick Block told the Judge
that a dinner meeting was held
in the Correa home two weeks be-
fore the attempted assassination
of President Truman.
The prosecutor said that one of
those at the meeting was Oscar
Collazo, one of the two Puerto
Ricans who tried to blast their way
into Blair House.
The Government believes, Mr.
Block said. that the dinner "was
a conspirational meeting at which
plans for the assassination OF
President Truman were laid and
at which Collazo was selected"
Party Leader Convicted.
Collazo, a New Yorker, was
wounded in the Blair House battle
and is under indictment in Wash
ington for the murder of a presi-
dental guard. His confederate
Griselio Torresola, also a New
Yorker. was shot to death during
the assassination attempt.
Collazo and Torresola were
named as members of Puerto
Rico's fanatically anti-Americar
Nationalist Party, which seeks
complete independence for the
island.
Pedro Albizu Campos, 65-year-
old Harvard-educated leader OF
the party, was convicted yesterday
in San Juan. Puerto Rico, on a
charge Of attempted murder. He
faces a jail sentence of one to Is
years. The charge grew out OF
an abortive revolt there that took
SO lives. The revolt and the Tru-
man assassination attempt were
staged by the Nationalists to draw
attention to their cause.
Bail Set at $4,000.
At the New York court hearing
late yesterday, Mr.. Block said that
others at the dinner in the Correa
home were Julio Pinto Gambia,
president of the New York branch
Of the Nationalist Party; Juan
bernarQo LeDrun, Juan FRANCISCO
Medina and Antonio S. Blanco, all
three said to be chiefs in the Ma
tionalist' Party movement.
The indictment also named
Raquel Diaz, 35. of the Bronx. and
"a warrant has been issued for
her arrest. .
Bail of $4,000 for Correa and
$12,500 for his wife was set by
Judge Weinfeld.
Correa. owner of a dress factory
was sentenced last December to
80 days in jail for contempt after
appearing before a Federal grand
jury investigating the assassina-
tibn plot. He was released then
in $4,000 bail pending appeal of
the sentence.
Evening star., 1951-02-15
Operation Piece-meoI

A 350-pound woman is recov-
ering in Arlington Hospital from
the effects of piece of steak
caught in her throat.
A specialist last night removed
the obstruction-described as
quite a bite"-from her esoph-
agus. T-bone costs $1.25 q
pound.
Evening star., 1951-02-15
Kangaroo Court?

Arlington Democrats accuse in
dependent members of the County
Board of conducting a kangaroo
court" in a recent Police Depart
ment investigation.
Last night the Democratic
Council said the inquiry "consti-
tutes an inquisition" because the
board had no right to subpoena
policemen or require them to
testify. Last Saturday the board
ordered an end to the ear-long
investigation conducted by a spe-
cial citizens committee.
Evening star., 1951-02-15
The Weather Here and Over the Nation

District of Columbia Cloudy
rather windy and cold this after
noon, high about 38. Cloudy and
cold with low near % tonight. To-
morrow cloudy and cold with some
rain or sleet likely.
Maryland - Cloudy and cold
with some freezing rain or sleet
likely in west portion tonight, low
20 to 25 west and 25 to 80 east
portion. Tomorrow cloudy and
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Insurance Heurinq Set

RICHMOND. Feb. Is (P.-The
State Corporation Commission has
set March 6 for a hearing on the
request of the Virginia Insurance
Rating Bureau for increases in
the premium rates on insurance
against crop damage by hail.
Evening star., 1951-02-15

LygmunL LII
tynski. COM
mercial coun-
selor and sec
ond = ranking
diplomat in the
Polish Embassy
had quit the
employ of his
C m m u n is t
G ov e rn m e Mt
January 20.
His plea to
be permitted to
remain here as
a private citi-
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ChiIeuns War on Seals

Fishermen of Valparaiso, Chile,
prepared rifle and machine-gun
drive against large numbers of
seals whose voracity was destroy
ing nets and driving fish shoals
away.
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Shoot If You Must . :

A group of Oak Ridge (Tenn.)
students planted q Confederate
flag atop the Virginia State
Capitol in Richmond yesterday.
The building was the capitol Of
the Confederacy during the Civil
War.
But Capitol Guard J. T..
Goldsby was not disturbed. Said
he: MAYBE those Tennessee
boys hadn't been this far north
hefOre."-AP.
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dent Truman
to revise the
$50 figure up
ward. Just how
many will be
pro m d 70
the choice top
jobs / $ n t
known, but it's
expected to be
more than 200.
Grades 16. II
and Is, which
pay $ll,80o to
$4,000 a year,
were first cre-
Evening star., 1951-02-15

Seet, freezing rain forecast for tonight
Western New York. Western and westward
Eastern Nebraska Eastern Oklahoma Most
and Southern Mississippi Valleys the Central and Eastern Gulf
States and the southeast coast expect rain The Pacific
States also expect rain showers 1t will be colder
South Atlantic Central Gulf States from
Central Valley westward souheastward. AP Wrephoo
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Polish Diplomat Quits;
Aide 10 Ambassador
Asks u. ). Sanctuary

Polish Ambassador Josef Winie-
wicz' top assistant has resigned
and is seeking sanctuary In the
United States.
State Department officials said
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The Federal Spotlight
The Federal Spotlight
More Top Pay Promotions Due
AS Truman Lifts $50 Limit
By Joseph YOUNG

President Truman has
ca who will get promotions to the top $1,000
Federal positions The promotions will be
Originally Mr. Truman had limited $50 the
in agencies connected with the emergency could
Evening star., 1951-02-15

It is estimated that most human
beings can distinguish about co
colors.
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tReadings at Wasflinrton Airport.

High, 70, at 1850 pm.
Low, 80, at $40 am.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hishest. 72. on February 13.
Lowest, IL. on February 8.
Tide Tables.
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Maryland
and
Virginia
Northern Virginia Reserve
CD Corps Authorized
News in Brief

Organization Of a reserve corps
under the Northern Virginia Re-
gional Defense Council has been
approved.
Each locality In the region was
asked by the council last night to
enroll citizens available for..serv-
ice in an emergency. Gov. Battle
will be asked for State funds to
aid the area, comprising Airing
ton. Alexandria, Falls Church and
Fairfax.
Evening star., 1951-02-15

LEARNING THE KNOW-HOW-James E. Palmer jr. Oeft)
president of the Big Brothers of D. c. and Judge Charles Fahy
of the Circuit Court of Appeals the District
ting instructions from David Reed of AL street.
Alexandria, at the opening of the model exhibit
Station Judge Fahy the button trains
the Big Brothers exhibit that will models
furnished by the A. Gilbert Co. Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1951-02-15

About 60 to 80 per cent of the
graphite currently used in the
United States Is imported.
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COIlgreSS.
However, the expanding emer-
gency program has caused Presi-
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Monthly precipitation in inches in
Capital Current month to datel:
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one-ha1 hour after sunset.
PrecipitatiOn
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The Sun and Moo,
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24
of Staten Island. New York.

OF Staten Island. New York.
DR.. Roger Murray, of Whining
ton, is spending the rest of the
month here with his wife and
daughter, Helen, at their cottage on
Lewes Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel C. Palmer.
OF Kings Highway, have received
word that their grandson, Robert
q. Rayner, from Korea, that he has
been promoted to Sergeant. He ex-
poets to leave about September 18th
to return to the States, and will
visit his grandparents here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen C. Vaughn.
Of Harbeson, are receiving congra-
tI!ations upon the birth of a son.
Stephen Carlisle, Jr., August 5th.
at the Beebe Hospital. Mrs. Vaughn
may be remembered as the former
Miss Jean Sharp of Lewes.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ara
Palmer, II, widow of Walter Pal
mer of Lewes, who died last Thurs
day in the Beebe Hospital of a
heart attack, were held on Sunday
afternoon at the Atkins Funeral
Home, Lewes. The Rev. William
Hamilton of GroOme Memorial
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24

ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24
LEWES

The Eastern Sussex County So
4 rOptinist Club is sponsoring two
scholarships, one at Beebe Hospital
one at Milford Hospital, for two
student nurses. The Lewes mem.
bers for their money raising prof.
ect, are giving away a fully equip.
ped bicycle, which will be done al
the Lewes-RehObOth Football game
on Thanksgiving Day at Lewes
Donations are 25 cents each OF
five for a dollar. There will be q
prize of $500 for any boys or girl
selling the most tickets. Any bow
or girl interested in this, please
contact anyone of the following
Sara AlbertsOn, Margaret Stam-
baugh, Frances Baylis, Louise Wes-
coat, Florence Wingate and Estella
Clifton. The bicycle is being furn-
ished by the Lewes Hardware
Store, thrOug the courtesy of 0. D.
zacharias, and will later be there
on display.
An announcement has been made
by the Pushmobile Derby commit
tee members, of the Lewes Lions
Club, that the affair will be defer
red this year The committee made
this announcement with regrets
but stated it was necessitated be-
cause of the inability of contestants
to secure regulation wheels for
their entries. The government has
restricted the sale of the wheels
There are not enough derby wheels
available for sufficient number of
contestants in order to be able to
stage the race. The committee an
pOunced, however, that the Derby
will be continued next year if at
all possible.
Residents of Lewes Beach and
Fort Miles section who for awhile
last Thursday night had visions of
being cut off from the mainland.
learned that even a bridge in the
sweltering weather that prevailed
needs a shower bath occasionally
Alerted by the firemen's sirens. the
usual crop of fire engine followers
raced towards the State Highway
bridge, fully expecting to see the
only connecting link to the beach
front in flames. AS they arrived at
the scene, they found the ffremen
throwing streams of water on what
looked like a smoking" span, but
there was no evidence of fire.
Bridge tender Alden Riley ex-
planned that the bridge had begun
to buckle in the middle during the
prolonged heat and humidity, and
the water was to cool down the ex-
pansion. What had caused tho
smoke he couldn't say, but he
thought it was just dust and mist
Nor could he account for the hn-
usual and steady clink-clank of the
mechanism nearby residents had
been noticing of late.
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24

! Theories were rampant that tbr
smoke came from the constant fric.
ton of mechanical parts. In the
meanwhile no vehicles were allow
ed to pass over at their usual apeed
as the bridge tender tagged them
down until well after 8 D. m. The
slow traffic is still enforced.
The State Highway Department
has been asked to investigate the
future safety of the span. The
bridge is the first upIift electrical
span at Lewes, built around 1928
Miss Margaret Poynter, of Phila-
delphia, formerly of Lewes. is
spending the remainder of The
summer months at her cottage on
Lewes Beach.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Herbert NJ
Hazard and their children. Linda
Lou and Ricl1y, are now living at
Tyndall Air Force Field on the
West Coast of Florida where Lieu
tenant Hazard will be stationed
for eight weeks. Mrs. Hazard was
the former Miss Mary Lou Willard.
daughter of Mrs. Everett Reed, of
Lewes.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Edward Schell, of
Brandywine Hill, Wilmington, and
family, spent the week in LeWes.
as the guests of Mrs. SchelPs bro
ther and sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. Rowland Marshall and their fam
lily at their beach residence.
House guests of Captain and Mrs.
J. Wright Rowland and their daugh-
ters, Jay and Margaret, at their res
idence on Ship Carpenter Street,
are Mrs. Rowland's brother-in-law,
and sister, DR.. and Mrs. Stapleton,
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24

be around her home until the fall.
inspite Of her age, SO. She spent
most Of her life in and around Eel
ton. She had a large number of
warm friends, gained by her good
disposition, kindness and was al
ways ready to help when needed.
She gained quite a few friends
through her work, as a dressmaker.
She was good and faithful wife
a devoted mother and a peaceful
heighbor. She was known to her
many friends as Grandmother Alb
bott". She will be greatly missed.
Funeral services were held on Sun
day afternoon, August 18th, at 2
o'clock at the Berry Funeral Home
at FELTON,. Services were in charge
OF the Rev. Rowland, pastor of the
Baptist Church, Milford. Interment
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24

in the Abbott's old buring grounds
She is survived by three daughters
Mrs Mary Moody, Mrs Emma Jones
OF Chester, Pa, and Mrs. Florence
Harris of BOothwyn, Pa, three
sons, Clarence of FELTON,, William
OF Houston and Rodney of Wash
lngton, d. c. IL grandchildren and
II great-grandchildren also survive.
Rev. and Mrs. William Kitchens
are spending their vacation with
Mrs. Kitchens parents in Pennsyl-
vania.
Miss Carolyn Horney has return
ed home after spending a week
with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Horney at Lewes.
Mr.. Lewis Harrington spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louder Harrington.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bringhurst has
returned home after spending sew
eral days in Boston, Mass. where
she attended a w. c. T. U. Conven-
ton.
mere was no Sunday School or
church Services held on Sunday
and will be no services on Sunday.
August 26th. Our minister is on va
cation.
Mrs. Addie L. Herring, Miss Mary
Biddle and Mrs. Clinton Bennett
visited friends at RehObOth on Sun
day.
The Allied Youth is holding a
meeting at the home. of Miss Mil
dred Simpson on Friday, August
24th, at 8 p. m. A full attendance
is desired. There will be a Winnie
Roast" at the close of the meeting
Milford chronicle., 1951-08-24
Sweeper Efficiency cUrbed

sHAFTER, Calf. = (R The
Chamber of Commerce has an
nounced a solution to the problem
OF the street sweeper that was too
eitlcient. Seems the sweeper one
OF those tank-size motorized Jobs
with a big rotary broom--had been
scooping up street signs as well as
rubbish. The city had put the
markers too close to the curb.
The chambers solution: lumin-
Gus signs placed high on posts well
clear of the sWeeper's path.