Evening star., 1952-04-25

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In Foitfox Officially
Delayed to June I
Daylight saving time will bor-
row an hour from the Washing
ton area in the wee hours Sun
day morning.
At 2 am, except in Fairfax
County. time officially Jumps for
ward an hour. The so minutes
will be paid back on the last
Sunday in September.
Most people, if they remember
it, will set their clocks ahead be-
fore retiring tomorrow night.
Some night owls will observe the
ceremony at 2 am. Others in
evitably will forget to do either
Approximately $4,000 clocks in
Federal buildings will be set
ahead tomorrow or Sunday by
master control mechanism or by
hand.
The same is true of timepieces
in District buildings. The time
won't make any difference in the
clocks controlling street lights.
They run on Eastern Standard
Time, geared to turn the lights
Is minutes after sunset and douse
them 80 minutes before sunrise.
Some Adjustments.
Biggest job probably falls to
the jeweler who will have to set
ahead any number of display
clocks.
For the most part, airlines. rail-
roads and bus lines will follow
standard time, with some adjust
ments for passengers on advanced
time.
For many night shift workers,
the advent of daylight time will
mean an hours less work when
the clock skips an hour. They'll
have to pay it back in September,
however.
Along with daylight time will
come the usual rehashing of
arguments about it.
. Many urban dwellers like the
extra daylight hour for golf. gar
dening and the like. Most farmers
frown on tinkering with the clock
and disturbing their dawn-to-
dusk schedules of feeding, milk
ing and tending crops.
Approved in 22 States.
The advanced clock is con-
sidered a boon to considerable in
dustrial production. But home
makers often complain it's hard
to get the children in a mood for
sleep before the daylight ends.
In all, about IS million people
live by daylight time. Most popu-
lar in the industrial Northeast, it
is approved officially in some %
States and the District.
Surrounding areas in Maryland
and Virginia go along with the
District. Fairfax County, however,
will not officially turn it's clock
ahead until June 1.
The Virginia General Assembly
forgot to add an emergency
clause to bill allowing the nearby
Virginia area to go on daylight
time with Washington Sunday
without the Governors express
permission.
The omission discovered, Gov.
Battle on Tuesday telegraphed his
permission, but Fairfax law re-
quires 30-day public notice. For
practical purposes, however, coun-
ty residents will go on daylight
time with the rest of the area.
But the county will have to con-
duct it's official business on stand
ard time until June 1.
Benjamin Franklin thought
daylight-saving time was a good
idea more than ITO years ago.
But no one actively campaigned
for 1t until 1907. Then a Lon
don builder began pestering Par
lament to change the standard
time.
The British tried it out during
World War I to save fuel and
electricity. Finally they passed
a permanent summer time" law
in 1925.
Repealed Here in 1919.
The United States passed law
during World War I, too. But
strenuous opposition from farm
ers forced it's repeal in 1919, even
over President wilson's veto.
After that. the Federal Gov
ernment tossed it to the States.
Most of them passed it on to COM
munities. Federal daylight-saving
time was brought back during
World War II, but was dropped
again after Japan surrendered.
The Pennsylvania Railroad this
year will take special notice of
the advanced time by publish
ing timetables for hourly New
York Wilmington Baltimore :
Washington trains in daylight
time.
To distinguish the special sched-
ules from the regular ones, they
will be printed in blue instead of
black.
To Adjust Through Trains.
Pennsylvania will adjust num-
Der of through trains between East
and West, as well as most of those
between New York, Philadelphia,
Washington and Pittsburgh for
daylight time.
Hourly trains between New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and WASH
inton, Philadelphia and New Eng
land points, will be adjusted to
daylight time. So will trains to
|seashore resorts and all commuter
trains.
New schedules of the BIO. ef-
fective Sunday, adjust in many
eases in consideration of large
cities where daylight time prevails.
The Greyhound bus lines will
continue scheduling standard time,
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