By Greg Bassett

Friday, March 31, 1950 --

• U.S. Census Bureau enumerators will be visiting Salisbury residents beginning on Monday. Census takers will be ringing local doorbells and asking those who live there a list of questions designed to provide a snapshot of the community. The census takers will be carrying detailed ID cards that will include their credentials. Residents are urged to answer all of the questions and do so truthfully. This is the 17th decennial census.
• Dale Adkins Jr., general chairman of the Wicomico County Cancer Drive that opens tomorrow, announced this year’s quota is $3,900, with the statewide quota set at $230,000. The house canvassing committee is made up of Mrs. Harry L. Harcum, Mrs. Glen Cowles, Mrs. T.J. Carusthers, Mrs. Harry Banks and Mrs. S.R. Atkinson.
• In the interest of greater registration of city voters, retired Maj. Gen. Amos W.W. Woodcock will speak over radio station WBOC from 7 to 7:15 p.m. tomorrow. His talk will be on the importance of registration and voting as part of the duties of citizenship. The deadline for Salisbury voters to register for the upcoming city elections is this Monday.
• A 7-year-old boy playing with a box of matches admitted he was the cause of a barn fire on Parker Road that did about $2,500 damage on Thursday. Firemen from both Salisbury and Delmar were unable to save the structure, which owner Arthur H. Bartsch said was uninsured. Farm equipment stored in the barn was also damaged. The boy was a boarder at the 100-acre Bartsch Farm.
• Salisbury Police, having received a telephone call that a mechanic had been shot, rushed to Gavin & Rogers auto agency on Market Street at about 6 p.m. Thursday. Officers found no one was on the premises and the call was a false alarm. A few hours later, police arrested a Wicomico Street man who admitted he made the call because he was angry about a bill and lien the agency had placed against his car.
• Lee Johnson, the clothing store “Where Father and Son Shop,” has its complete line of Easter Parade clothing on display and available for sale. Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts are on sale from $2.95, hats by Mallory are priced from $7.50 to $10 and Gabardine by Alligator and Schloss topcoats are $35 and up.
• City officials are preparing to switch the street lights on Main Street Downtown to new fluorescent bulbs as part of a test. The City Council has authorized a Chicago manufacturer to place the modern bulbs in 10 portable fixtures. Eastern Shore Public Service Co. lighting engineer Wallace N. Aldrich warned that fluorescent bulbs haven’t reached the point where they are practical for outdoor use.
• Some 1,000 Eastern Shore high school seniors and returning college alumni attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a new $250,000, 51-room men’s dormitory to be completed by February on the campus of Salisbury State Teachers College. The ground-breaking was timed to occur the same day as the 15th annual High School Seniors Day at the college. STC’s historic spade, used in the first groundbreaking exercise for the school in 1925, was used in the ceremony.