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Monday, February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Time Machine: 1995, Pre-1922, 1902, 1910, 1938, 1970, 1975.
December, 1995
Daily Times (Salisbury)
Not dated
(Location in picture below is Front & Market Streets. Buildings at left fell victim to the fire of 1922. The Empire Theater is across the street at right and survived. Building in shadow at right is approximate location of the current Delmarva Discovery Center.)
Democratic Messenger 1969 Centennial Edition
December, 1902
Democratic Messenger
January, 1910
Crisfield Times
November, 1938
Salisbury Times
1970 .. Can you believe it? The Beatles have split up!
1975 .. Newcomer VHS challenges Beta.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Early Days Of TV Triggers Memory From Reader
Thanks to the Pocomoke Public Eye reader who shares the comment below after reading a July, 2019 story we posted about the early days of TV on the Eastern Shore.
Remember TV French class? Our school, Princess Anne Elementary, had one TV. When it was time, we trooped upstairs and watched a female teacher speaking incomprehensible English and Breton French, and later, a man talking about rolling r’s and saying “Watch my lips.”
This would have been c. 1960.
View the original article:
The Pocomoke Public Eye: WBOC-TV BEGINS BROADCASTING JULY 15, 1954.
(1/30/21 reader comment)
Anonymous said...WBOC started broadcasting Delmarva TV School in 1958 in conjunction with the Boards of Education in the surrounding counties. TV classes were offered in art, science, music and French. Each elementary classroom was equipped with a television on a rolling stand and classes were scheduled throughout the week, initially starting in early afternoon. Our second grade science class was first on the daily schedule and the preceding program was the Liberace show. (Anybody remember him?) Miss Julia Robertson was our teacher and also a big Liberace fan. About a half hour before our class was supposed to begin Miss Robertson would turn on the TV, "just to warm it up" and close the classroom door and warn us not to tell anyone what we were actually watching.
(1/30/21 tk for PPE says)
Miss Robertson was my third grade teacher. She was a wonderful teacher and liked by everyone. Yes, I do have to admit that I'm old enough to remember Liberace.
Time Machine Preview
This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:
1995 .. Reactions from the Pocomoke business community on Wal-Mart coming.
Pre-1922 .. (Picture & info) Pocomoke City's Public Square.
1902 .. The passing of a "kind hearted, charitable old-time doctor" in Worcester County.
1910 .. Prominent Crisfield doctor incurs painful mishap while making a house call.
1938 .. Worcester Countians are urged to unite in boycotting
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
HEARING HELD ON CAROZZA-SUPPORTED SMALL BUSINESS PROTECTION LEGISLATION
Annapolis, MD—The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee (JPR) held a hearing on Senate Bill 210—COVID-19 Claim - Civil Immunity on Tuesday, January 26. Senator Carozza is the lead cosponsor of Senate Bill 210.
Senate Bill 210 was introduced by Senator Chris West (R-Baltimore County) with bipartisan support. This bill would provide immunity from civil liability for claims related to COVID-19 for all who follow applicable federal, state, and local statutes, rules, regulations, executive orders, and agency orders related to COVID-19 (COVID-19 rules and regulations) so long as the person’s actions do not amount to gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing.
Senate Bill 210 has the support of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce; the Salisbury, Ocean City, and other Lower Shore Chambers of Commerce; the Maryland Restaurant Association; the Ocean City Hotel-Motel Restaurant Association; the Maryland Retailers Association; and the Maryland chapter of the National Federation for Independent Business.
Natural Gas For Somerset County?
Wetlands permit decision due on natural gas pipeline in Somerset County
ANNAPOLIS — The last major hurdle for the extension of natural gas into Somerset County rests with Maryland Board of Public Works which is being asked by Chesapeake Utilities Corporation to approve a wetlands permit so it can run an 8-inch pipeline from Eden to Westover.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Time Machine: 1878, 1944, 1982, 1909, 2012, 1973, 1967.
September, 1878
Baltimore Sun
Footnote: The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 originated in New Orleans and spread up the Mississippi River and inland during the spring and summer of that year with 120,000 cases reported and between 13,000 and 20,000 deaths. In later years it was found that Yellow Fever was borne by a species of mosquitoes from tropical and subtropical climates. The last epidemic of the illness in the U.S. was in 1905.
(Info source: Digital Public Library Of America)
August, 1944
The Parsons Sun (Parsons, Kan.)
Footnote: Camp Somerset at Westover was a former military installation turned POW camp during World War II and in later years was used as a camp for migrant laborers.
(Reader comment)
Anonymous said...During World War II Mason Canning Company on Clarke Avenue employed upwards of 100 women, mostly to peel the tomatoes after scalding. Most local men were off to aid the war effort so German prisoners from Camp Somerset were brought in as laborers, mostly to load cases of tomatoes on the railroad cars. Every day at noon the factory whistle would blow and the ladies would take their noon break by climbing up into the rail cars and having some fun with German prisoners. After the German defeat in May of 1945 many of the prisoners refused to return to Germany and wanted to stay and enjoy all the benefits of the American way of life.
May, 1982
Daily Times (Salisbury)
September, 1909
The Gering Courier (Gering, Neb.)
October, 2012
Worcester County Times
1973 .. The U.S. senate begins hearings into Watergate.
1967 .. I'm sticking with regular. Premium gas is over 30-cents a gallon!
Friday, January 22, 2021
Proposed WADE'S LAW ups penalties.
SENATOR CAROZZA’S BILL, WADE’S LAW, RECEIVES SENATE HEARING
Annapolis, MD— Senator Mary Beth Carozza’s Senate Bill 17— Criminal Law – Life–Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel – Criminal Negligence (Wade’s Law) was heard in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on January 19. This legislation would establish the offense of a life-threatening injury by motor vehicle or vessel as criminal negligence with imprisonment for 18 months and/or a fine of $5,000.
“Current law provides that manslaughter by vehicle by criminally negligent driving is a misdemeanor and subject to a maximum three-year imprisonment and/or a $5,000 fine. Yet if the victim is maimed, paralyzed, or suffers some other life-threatening injury, that same criminally negligent driver is only liable for a $500 fine. Senate Bill 17 provides a more just penalty,” Senator Carozza said in her testimony.
At the hearing Senator Carozza spoke about a case from her community involving two Worcester County road workers, Scott Tatterson and Wade Pusey, who were struck by a criminally negligent driver. The violent crash occurred on February 22, 2016, and left Mr. Tatterson dead and Mr. Pusey with several life-threatening and life-sustaining injuries. This case was brought to Senator Carozza’s attention by the Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office after it was clear that the only offense the driver could be charged with was a motor vehicle citation carrying a maximum penalty of $500. In 2017 as a State Delegate, Senator Carozza first introduced Wade’s Law as House Bill 585, and it unanimously passed in the House of Delegates. In 2019, she reintroduced Wade’s Law as Senate Bill 248 and it unanimously passed the Senate but did not advance in the House before adjournment that year.
Joining Senator Carozza in testifying as the lead proponent in support of Senate Bill 17 was Wicomico County Deputy State’s Attorney Bill McDermott, who has continuously made the case for the passage of this legislation and first brought Wade’s case to Carozza’s attention when he worked for Worcester County. Mr. McDermott emphasized the fact that Senate Bill 17 is simply building on existing law to create a more just penalty for the crime of criminally negligent driving causing a life-threatening injury.
Also joining Senator Carozza this year was Je’ani Lyles, who also suffered both life-threatening and life-sustaining injuries as the result of a criminally negligent driver on June 18, 2018. Je’Ani’s mother, Carla Ortiz, described not only the horror of the crash with Je’Ani suffering a severing of her T8 vertebrae, multiple surgeries, and paralysis from the chest down but pleaded for a more just penalty to hold those who are criminally negligent responsible for their actions.
“Let this be the year that we see Wade’s Law all the way through to final passage… My parents always taught me that if you believe in a just cause or action, then you keep working it, not for yourself, but for people like Wade Pusey and his family, Je’Ani Lyles and her mother, Carla, and for all the unnamed victims. We are completely committed to seeing this through for the sake of future victims. You keep fighting the good fight,” testified Senator Carozza.
Senate Bill 17 has the support of the Maryland’s State’s Attorneys’ Association, the Maryland Chiefs of Police Association, the Maryland Sheriffs’ Association, and ABATE, Maryland’s only motorcycle rights organization.
Worcester Public Schools Update
Responsible return update from Superintendent Lou Taylor.
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Time Machine Preview
This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:
1878 .. Citizens of Pocomoke City send aid to a Mississippi community plagued by a multi-state Yellow Fever epidemic.
1944 .. A thousand prisoners of war at Camp Somerset in Westover end a sympathy strike for workers at canning plants where the prisoners are assigned work.
1982 ..
2012 .. The 75th anniversary of Pocomoke City's Municipal Building.
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Hogan wants hybrid learning
(WBOC)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CBS/AP)- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday “urgently” called on local school systems to return to hybrid in-person learning by no later than March 1.
View full article:
Hogan Calls on Md. Schools to Move to Hybrid In-Person Learning - WBOC TV
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
The Nuclear Football
The so called "nuclear football" is carried by a military aide to the President of the United States at all times and contains the equipment the president would use to authenticate orders for launching a nuclear strike.
Here's what will happen during the change of command on inauguration day.
View article:
How Trump will hand off the 'nuclear football' to Biden - CNNPolitics
(Reader Comment)
Anonymous said...CNN article - "The reason is explicitly laid out in the Constitution, which gives Trump complete authority over the US nuclear arsenal up to the very second Biden is sworn in at noon on Wednesday."
Me - ??? Having read the Constitution more than once I have NEVER seen any reference to a nuclear arsenal, explicit or otherwise. Oh, well, it's CNN.
(tk for PPE says:)
The subject of our nuclear arsenal and our U.S. Constitution is touched upon in an article from a number of years ago in Harvard Magazine. The article, titled "Nuclear Weapons or Democracy," can be viewed at the link below.
Nuclear weapons are incompatible with the U.S. constitution and democracy | Harvard Magazine
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