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...Edgewood...
...staff thinks a railroad station should be is exemplified in two brand-new, spick & span stations of the Pennsylvania, designed by Loewy Architect Lester Claude Tichy, which last week awaited only a job of spring landscaping before making their full-dress bow to the traveling public. These stations (at Edgewood, Md. and Ridley Park, Pa.) are as light, airy and cheerful as a country-club terrace...
...Edgewood's station (a twin of Ridley Park's except for some differences in building materials) is a bright, clean-looking, boxlike structure faced with natural-finish redwood and brick, materials expected to keep their looks without maintenance for many years. On its track side, where an 8-ft. overhanging shed roof offers shelter, a huge plate-glass window gives waiting travelers a complete view of all incoming and outgoing trains...
...birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...
...Defense Corps includes air-raid wardens, decontamination squads, auxiliary police and firemen, many another defense category. Instructors, mostly city policemen and firemen, now get their training at the Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. So far, out of 5,000 needed, 508 have been trained. Under the new plan, training centers will be expanded to seven. Legionnaires will be selected to attend and establish State schools until each State has at least one. It will be up to the Legion to finance the State schools, add other training centers at all of the Legion's 11,780 posts...