From The Smyrna Times,
Feb. 14, 1935
New British liner after sea record
New York will be brought within 96 hours of the European continent when the giant British liner, Queen Mary, launched last September, takes her place in the Atlantic steamer service.
The schedule now being worked out for the liner will provide for a 96-hour passage between Cherbourg and New York, at an average speed of 32 1/ 2 knots – four knots faster than the fastest crossing ever made. This would bring her near to the dirigibles with respect to speed.
The present record for the Cherbourg-New York passage is 111 hours, made a few weeks ago by the liner Bremen. The actual Atlantic record is held by the Italian liner Rex, which in August 1933 covered the 3,181 miles from Gibralter to New York in 109 hours at an average of 28.92 knots.
Link proposed from Delaware to Ocean City, Md.
Declaring that the present single highway bridge across the Sinepuxent Bay is wholly inadequate to accommodate traffic during the summer season to and from Ocean City, Md., civic groups in Berlin, Md., and Ocean City last week launched a movement seeking another traffic outlet from the Maryland resort.
Mayor W. Thomas Elliott of Ocean City presented two plans. The first advocates the immediate construction of a dual state highway between Berlin and Ocean City with a second bridge, while the second proposal would be to build a coastal beach highway extending from Ocean City northward to the Delaware State line to connect with the present Bethany Beach-Fenwick Island beach road in Delaware….
Conservation Corps Camp planned in Kent
Two additional conservation corps camps are assured Delaware as soon as the administration formally advises Dr. Robert Fechner, director, that funds are available for expanding the corps, it was learned last week. The Kent County Camp will probably be located near Leipsic to take care of the vast areas of marsh land from Dover to Woodland Beach….
Work sufficient to keep busy the present camps and 400 to 600 more young men for two years was indicated….
New work would be in Kent and New Castle counties, as it is expected that the ditching on 41,000 acres of salt tidal marsh in Sussex will be completed by June….
Funds for expanding the CCC work to at least double the present strength will be provided out of the four billion dollar work relief appropriation now before Congress….
Girls’ basketball team defeats Middletown
