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More than two hundred years ago,” says the writer, “George Washington surveyed the town of Washington, Virginia. Lately, a woman mayor and her alliwoman city council have been surveying the town a bit themselves. As a re* suit, grass no longer grows in the streets of Washington, stray dogs do not roam the town and there are no dark street* with broken " street lamps.
During the past year they’ve _ been able to institute better town ; housekeeping, as well as tend their own, is observed.
The account is highly complementary, “Young and pretty as a cover girl, Her Honor, Mayor Davis, is the wife of a Justice Department ' attorney, George H. Davis Jr., has three young children as well as a town to manage. The election all started tue*-v much as a joke, Dorothy Davis admits, someone just happened to say that town housekeeping was bad and that the women could do a better job of it. The little town of 250 took the women up on it. Trial Justice, B. M. Miller took over their campaign and they were swept into office.”
But once in office, the women have given the town its first budget, havq reported a surplus because “we shop around for the \ most value for our money, as all housewives have to do,” the article lauds. • ■ ■, ’• . —.::-/
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