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Newspaper
Cambridge Tribune
Location
Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1940
Page
3
Frank Parker of Stockbridge recalls the evolution of American autos from open bodies and left steering to hydraulic drives and left behind gear shifting. He notes road quality, production tool shortages, and the 1941 model trends amid wartime shifts.
The County Council of Homemakers Clubs meets November 6 at Zion Methodist Cambridge. Theme Art Begins at Home with exhibits of art, watercolors, frames and books. Florence Mason guest speaker Living Art with Pauline Wurst on school art instruction. 4-H message from Lucinda Holloway. Vienna club hosts. lunch 40 cents. reservations by November 2.
The October term opened with Judge T Langston Insley delivering the grand jury charge. Foreman Robert H. Matthews led a 22 member grand jury and a separate petit jury was named, amid notes of a past library depredation and recent local crimes.
The Neck District Community Club holds its 2th anniversary at Spedden's Hall today at 1 30. Miss Venta M. Kellar Assistant Director University of Maryland will be the speaker. Special music is planned and all past members are invited.
Governor O Conor announced plans to form a Maryland State Guard of about 2000 volunteers, led by a director of public safety. The unit would be infantry only with battalions in Baltimore and counties, linked to state police, anti aircraft measures, a nurses corps, volunteer fire departments, and an intrastate teletype communication system to coordinate with federal agencies. Maryland would rally to defense amid global turmoil.
Captain Lanie Ruark and Captain Augustus Adams were cleared of dismissal in a three year conflict within the state conservation service. Colonel Harry Jones found the charges a childish squabble with no evidence of wanton conduct, noting Ruark’s 30 day suspension previously met. Ruark received a trophy at the 1940 Fishing Fair for maintaining the nearest conservation boat, awarded by Max Chambers.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd visited Cambridge to honor Colonel Albanus Phillips president of the Phillips Packing Company who served as Food Counsellor for the U S Antarctic Expedition. Byrd praised Phillips foods and spoke of the expedition findings including coal minerals oil and new lands while recalling perilous moments on Little America and the Bear of Oakland voyage.
Dorchester County 4-H club members from Caro line County and Dorchester County entered animals at the first Eastern Shore Bull Show held at Garland Lake on October 26, 1940. James Mitchell won a purebred Jersey bull calf in the calf raffle and James C. Dulin won a purebred Guernsey bull calf. The show required purebred stock and dairy dams producing 400 pounds of butterfat per year. The event drew praise for junior dairymen and 4-H participation and was planned as an annual feature by the Maryland State Fair Board and partners.
Dorchester County reports week ending October 29 with undulant fever in Vienna and scarlet fever in Cambridge. E A Jones MD, Deputy State Health Officer.
Marguerite Parsons of the Cambridge office of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company received a sapphire emblem in October for thirty years of service. In October, 38 C and P employees in Baltimore City were awarded emblems, totaling 770 years of service.
State Game Warden E Lee LeCompte announced Maryland’s duck season begins today as Chesapeake Bay hosts a record throng of ducks and geese. He noted about 70 million wild waterfowl in the U S and said conservation efforts by federal and private groups boosted breeding grounds, including marsh restoration and Canadian damming projects. Black ducks gray mallards and blue winged teal breed in Maryland waters.
The Dorchester County Federation of Women's Clubs fall meeting at Speddings M E Church featured Senator Wilmer Fell Davis of Caroline County speaking on the Legislative Council and almshouse issues. Local musicians and performers from Hurlock provided entertainment, followed by a supper by the Neck District Community Club.
Edgar Allan Poe Jr a registered Democrat and former Assistant Attorney General under Governor O Conor warns that the New Deal philosophy if continued will weaken the nation. He argues democracy requires citizens to elect agents to aid but not run daily life and that government cannot give but only take from one to others. He says dependence lowers morale and productivity and likens it to moral deterioration under the era.
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