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News article from Cumberland Evening News, 1936-03-20

Gov. Nice Makes Personal Inspection Of Flood Areas

Arrives At Point Of Rocks To Find Water Ten Feet Deep In Streets; Issues Formal Statement Calling On State Legislature To Take Emergency Action; Asks $3,200,000 Bond Issue

Point of Rocks, Md., March 20 —Scenes of utter desolation greeted Gov. Harry W. Nice in Western Maryland today as the executive, accompanied only by a state trooper, arrived unexpectedly for an inspection tour of the flood-stricken Potomac valley.