New Lights For Liberty Statue To Blaze Soon
A modernization of the Statue of Liberty torch to a Lamp of Liberty using three 3,000 watt mercury vapor lamps will illuminate the statue with a blue white glow. The project, planned for January 1, 1942, aims to enhance visibility within a wide radius as a symbol of democracy amid world oppression.
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New York Harbor
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Bartholdi
Stacone
America
Statue of Liberty National Monument
Barthholdi
New Yorn Arbor
Bedlooe’s Island
Joseph Pulitzer
France
Pulitzer
New York
Emma Lazarus
Farms Scoured For Defense Workers
College Park Md Dec 17 The University of Maryland extension service launches a campaign to prevent wasteful rubber tire use on farm machinery and urges substitution of small gasoline engines for manpower to free farm workers for defense industries as selective service draws workers.
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College Park
Extension Service
University of Maryland
Ray W. Carpenter
Selective Service
Ordinance Amends Sewer Wastes Regulation in Winchester
The ordinance tightens sewer waste rules requiring council permission for discharges, pH controls, pre approval for process changes, entry rights for inspectors, and penalties. Violators face fines from 10 to 50 dollars plus repair costs. provisions apply to storm water and obstruction removal. passed December 15, 1941 with VA Knight as Clerk.
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Common Council
Furtner
City of
Winchester
Knight
Amending the Winchester Tax and License Ordinance
The Common Council of Winchester amends the 1940 ordinance to tax gasoline and oils at $50 per vehicle, impose soft drink license taxes of $25 for manufacturers and $50 for sellers, and set vehicle license taxes for transfer trucks. It details permit options, free licenses for certain noncompensated uses, and scale rates from $15 to $100 per truck, plus a $100 blanket license for multiple trucks.
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Common Council
Winchester
Commissioner of Revenue
Desert Mice Live Without Water in Smithsonian Study
In the Smithsonian annual report Ernest P. Walker says several desert mice survive without drinking water. They eat grass seeds oats and hay and convert fodder’s hydrogen and oxygen to body water. He recalls a pet female mouse resisting water with rolling sand antics.
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Washington
Ernest P. Walker
National Zoological Park
Smithsonian Institution
Chemical Society To Buy Defense Savings Bonds
Waynesboro December 17 Dr Alan Berne Allen Jr chairman of the Virginia section of the American Chemical Society said all available surplus funds of the section will be invested in United States defense savings bonds. A three member committee in charge of the investment was named Dr Roy McCracken A M Smith and Dr R M Hoffman all of Waynesboro. Berne Allen is a Du Pont Acetate Research division supervisor.
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Waynesboro
Alan Berne-Allen, Jr
Virginia
American Chemical Society
United States Defense Savings
Richmond
Roy McCracken
A. M. Smith
R. M. Hoffman
Berne-Allen
The
du Pont Company
Victor Krueger Named Assistant Assessor for Virginia
Victor Krueger, formerly with the West Virginia Tax Commission, is named assistant assessor for the Virginia Corporation Commission. He fills the post on a temporary basis after E. C. Ambler, a reserve officer, left for active duty with the air corps. Ambler receives a leave of absence for the duration of his military service. Heating grapefruit before pressing or canning reduces the peel oil taste per government scientists.
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Richmond
Victor Krueger
West Virginia Tax Commission
Virginia Corporation Commission
Kreuger
E. C. Ambler
Air Corps
Ambler
Sigma Xi Announces 1942 Lecture Series Leaders
The Society of Sigma Xi released its 1942 lectureships with speakers from Cornell Harvard and UC Irvine delivering topics on energy in stars high pressure physics pituitary studies and liquid structure. Lectures will be given at dates and places to be announced and aim to bring leading scientists and information to Sigma Xi chapters at major universities.
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Science Service
New Haven
Conn
Society of Sigma XI
H. A. Bethe
Cornell University
P. W. Bridgman
Harvard University
H. M. Evans
University of California
John G. Kirkwood
Cornel University
Lionel S. Marks
Sigma Xi
Larger Store Sales Rise Across Virginia and District
The Federal Reserve reports department store dollar volume in Virginia and the Fifth District rose about 20 percent for 11 months of the year versus 1940. November Virginia sales were 18 percent higher. Maryland up 20 percent. South Carolina 27 percent. West Virginia 18. North Carolina 17. City gains included Baltimore 15-20, Charleston S C 37-36, Richmond 10-14, Norfolk 39-39, Washington 17-20, Winston-Salem 4-13, and others 16-18.
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Richmond
Virginia
Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve and
Tony
South Carolina
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
North Carooina
Baltimore
Charleston
S. C
W. Va
Huntington
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Washington
Winston-Salem
N. C
Complete blackout at Newport News shipyard test
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company announces a complete blackout after midnight Wednesday marking the first test blackout for the large shipyard. The shipyard itself will not participate in the peninsula wide blackout tonight.
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Newport News
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
City Appropriates 500 Dollars for Textile Waste Study
Be It Ordained that five hundred dollars be appropriated from the 1941 unexpended budget to pay Alexander Potter Associates for services with the Virginia Woolen Company's engineer. The survey and recommendation concern treatment and disposition of textile waste and were presented to Council. Gyan in Common Council Dec 15, 1941. VA. Knight, Clerk.
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Alexander Potter Associates
Virginia Woolen Company
Gyan
Common Council
President Roosevelt Cultivates and Sells Christmas Trees
Roosevelt maintains a substantial Christmas tree operation on his Hyde Park estate. He has planted over 300,000 trees since 1912, focusing on conifers with a preference for tulip trees. Trees fetch 50 to 75 cents for 3 to 7 foot specimens and 1 to 3 dollars for larger community trees, with Hyde Park workers cutting the trees in advance of the season.
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Washington
F. D. Roosevelt
United States
Nelson C. Brown
Brown
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Roosevelt Estate
Christmas Tree Vintages Compared to Roosevelts Best
The article likens Christmas tree quality to wine vintages noting that 1938 and 1941 were Roosevelt era best years. It frames market season expectations around seasonal tree quality variations.
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Roosevelt
Dentists Link 60 Percent of Gum Disease to Occlusion
A dental professor states most dentists agree about 60 percent of diseases of surrounding tissues arise from bad occlusion between upper and lower teeth. The claim highlights bite alignment as a major factor in dental health debates.
O Conor and guard clash over identification at duty point
Gov Herbert O Conor and Brig Gen H Mohr argued over guard identification during a state defense inspection. Guardsmen reportedly refused entry until Mohr confirmed the governor's identity, and the exchange highlighted tensions at a vital defense post.
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Annapolis
Herbert R. O’conor
H. Mohr
Mohr
O’conor
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