Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
The
Rambler
Woyword Trucker
Strengthened Up
By JACK JONAS

By JACK JONAS
The traffic policeman who
happened by the vicinity of
Tenth and D streets NV. on
his motorcycle the other eve
ming must have had a day
filled with unhappy encoun-
tiers with not-too-bright
motorists.
It's a tricky traffic pattern,
around Ben Franklin's statue,
but it seems marked we'll
enough, with signs pointing
this way and that for a man
with eyes to see.
The policeman arrived just
as a truck driver pulled his
truck the wrong way into one
of the traffic lanes. The
trucker noticed the do Not
Enter" sign staring up at him,
and tried to turn the big
vehicle around a sharp corner
to get right with the law again.
But the truck wouldn't
negotiate the turn.
The policeman sat on his
motorcycle, watching, and
looking as if he wanted to put
his hands over his face and
have a good, long cry.
The truck driver, frustrated
in his attempts to get his
truck Strengthened out, finally
noticed that he was under
observation by the law.
He looked at the policeman
with a pleading where-do-I-
go-now look in his eyes.
The policeman stared back,
still with the unhappy look,
and pointed in the only direc-
ton he could think Of
straight up.
Safety
Air Commodore Henry E.
Walker, retired, of the Ar
gentine Air Force, visited
Washington as a tourist this
week and is taking back
with him an idea.
He came, happily, at the
time of the District school
opening. He was intrigued
with the American Auto
mobile A S soc a til ms
Schools Open" poster,
particularly with the cOlOrs
which seem to glow even in
bright sunlight.
He dropped in at AAA
headquarters and spent
three hours talking with
officials there, discussing the
sign, and telling them of his
plan to try to interest
Argentine cities in the same
idea. When he gets back,
he said, he'll hustle around
and try to find a sponsor.
Haven?
A lady we know, just back
from a narrowing experience
buying a cigaret holder, says
there should be tobacco stores
for women only.
Il stopped in this cigar
store to buy a cigaret holder
she said. Now you don't
take purchases like that
lightly. l had to look at
several, of course.
ut was right around the
time the buses were begin
ming to line up outside fol-
the trip home, and there
were about a dozen men ir
the store, obviously itching to
get aboard their buses.
They had their money out
wanting to buy maybe a few
cigars or a pack of cigarets
and here was this, this luoman
holding them up while she
considered this cigaret
noluer ana that.
Makes a lady feel uncom-
Portable" she said. There
ought to be tobacco stores fol
women, where we could take
our time"
Name
Why do they call it LOugh-
bOrO road?
1t was named for Nathan
LOughbOrOugh, a noted
Georgetown resident of early
District days. Mr.. LOugh-
borough bought a house in
Georgetown when the Gov
eminent moved here in
1900.
He once owned large acre
age, called "Grasslands," in
the vicinity of the present
LoughborO road.
Just when the name was
shortened to LoughbOro is
not clear, but it is not the
first corruption of the
LOughbOrOugh name. When
he served as Comptroller of
the Treasury he found it
necessary to change his
name temnorariIv IN TufF-