This Day in History: 1942-06-28
New Jersey Governor Edison Edge rejected the plan for a reduction in street lighting as proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in case of a war emergency. Writing for the New Jersey Municipalities, he said that except in times of an actual air raid, any brownout or reduction in the size of street lamps would interfere with our primary purpose, the production of war goods. Any reduction would result in “added traffic hazards without any significant decrease in case of detection and identification from the air”, he wrote. (Bristow)