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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Jack Rue<br />Special Correspondent for THE CHESAPEAKE</span></div>



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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Editor’s Note: Jack Rue has been a longtime resident of St. Mary’s County. We asked him to tell us how the beginnings of Lexington Park as the business hub of the county took form. &#8212;  ; This was Jack Rue&#8217;s first column in The Chesapeake and was first published in August of 1988, ten years before his suspicious death.)</span></p>



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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I had the good fortune to fly six congressmen around the world, heading west. It is claimed that this was a first as it was against the prevailing winds. When I received orders I was unsure about whether I should go regular Navy, go back to Ann Arbor and get my law degree or simply to hang my hat here.</span></div>



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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My wife Penny and I went to see Mr. W. J. MacNeil, assistant secretary</span> of the Navy, and two congressmen. They suggested that I ship over and continue to fly VIP’s. I told Mr. MacNeil, known affectionately as Mr. Mac, that we were considering opening a business in Lexington Park. MacNeil noted that Patuxent River NAS was going to be one of the largest naval air stations in the world because of its proximity to Washington, D.C. He also said that the runways over the water, the availability of 7,000 acres,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and the air space reserved for testing were all positive indications of continued growth.</span></p>



<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He also said he wanted to come down and see us and asked me to show him the base. He came down on a Sunday and said he wanted to see the base anonymously. There was a picnic going on at the Officers’ Club and we walked around. Admiral Shouffle was there and I introduced him. On Monday morning, the admiral called me and nicely advised me to advise him when I had distinguished visitors. I told him I’d comply the next time I brought Winston Churchill.</span></div>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">Daugherty introduced me to Phillip E. Grey and we signed a lease, which occurred in the spring of ’46. The county was wide open, all types of gambling everywhere.</h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I had not seen Cadet (Jack) Daugherty since our Pensacola, Fla. Days. Penny and I went to the club in</span> August 1945. There was a big band, and Capt. and Mrs. Daugherty were jitterbugging. They had a large crowd watching them,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and I hollered, &#8220;Hey Dog, you dance better than you fly.&#8221; That is where it all started.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He had bought an acre outside the gate where Raley’s Furniture Store is, saying he was going to open a gas station. I said I had been to Hi Millison and that I wanted to open a clothing store. He asked if I had ever run a clothing store before, and I said, &#8220;No.&#8221; Then he said, &#8220;Every time I see you, you are sitting on a bar stool. Get behind the bar where the cash register is and get some of your money back.&#8221;</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I responded, &#8220;Fearless Leader, that is the best advice that one pilot can give to another.&#8221; The reason he and <strong>Gabe Gabrelcik</strong> are well-to-do now, and I am a pauper, </span>is<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> they were selling gas by the gallon,</span> and I was selling booze by the ounce. I could also drink my product,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and they couldn’t.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Daugherty introduced me to Phillip E. Grey,</span> and we signed a lease, which occurred in the spring of ’46. The county was wide open, and all types of gambling were <span style="font-size: 12pt;">everywhere.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I went to see C. B. (Dick) Greenwell, Clerk of the Court,</span> ;and got my liquor license. He asked me only one question: &#8220;Are you a citizen of the United States?&#8221; I replied, &#8220;I did not buy these medals, wings, and uniforms at a pawn shop.&#8221;</p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then I asked if I should go to the liquor board and the health department. He said, &#8220;We have none&#8221;. When I asked about Sunday sales, he replied, &#8220;I drink Saturday afternoons and Sundays and don’t refuse to sell me a drink.&#8221;</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wondered about slot machines, and again,</span> he said, &#8220;We have none.&#8221; They were illegal at the time. You paid a <span style="font-size: 12pt;">$50 annual tax to the federal government. Slots were on all the naval bases — they were legal on federal property.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My brother Medric had just gotten out of the Navy as a cadet, and he came to help us. </span></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Ken asked me to write ‘My First Month Out of the Navy.’ </em></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Being in transport, my flying was similar to the airlines — only 80 hours a month with little ;of the time off (except when I had line duty.)</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Penny, Med, and I spent our time restoring Batty’s Purchase and the two tenant houses for rentals. The &#8220;Rue Purchase Road&#8221; was a logging trail; we borrowed a truck, and the county loaded gravel from the Hayden Farm, which Jim Dobry bought later. Chap Thompson was head of county and state roads. The shovel was at the pit. I saw Hayden and asked how much a load. He said, &#8220;Fifty centers.&#8221; I asked who was going to count the loads, to which he replied, &#8220;You are.&#8221; Oh, for the good old days!</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">After we bought Batty’s Purchase, I went to the county commissioners — J. Frank Raley Sr., Frank Bailey,</span> and Matt Bailey — and asked them to take the road over. When I left, Eddie O’Brien (no relation to the present O’Brien’s — unless you go back to Ireland) came in,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and they said, &#8220;Who does that lieutenant think he is? We have natives who have been waiting 40 years for us to take over their roads.&#8221; O’Brien said I was not a bad guy.</span></p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">We put beer on ice in garbage cans, booze and paper cups on boards, and the customers helped themselves. &#8220;Rue’s Roost&#8221; never closed! All our help pitched in on the move. Fran Harris came with us on the Friday morning of the opening.</h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He had the best club in the county. It was called Esperanza,</span> and it sat at the end of Green Holly Road,<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> where John Lore built his home. The clubhouse had a successful fire (how do you start a flood?).</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We spent the summer of ’46 getting supplies for &#8220;Rue’s Roost,&#8221; buying some new furniture from Woodies, and getting wagon wheels from the 7</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My Navy friends named the place; they kept asking when &#8220;Rue’s Roost&#8221; was going to open. The old one was where Raley’s Furniture store is, and we had a locker club upstairs for the enlisted men as they were not allowed to wear &#8220;civvies&#8221; aboard the base.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When you go to the new Roost, you will see the same bar, wagon wheels, etc. Mr. Page built both bars, and they got the brick for the fireplace from the old slave quarters at Tudor Hall — so they say.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Charlie Himmelheber built the new Roost, and Jackson Raley helped build it. We opened the old Roost on Good Friday, 1947. I called three of my skippers, and they put this in the plan of the day for a week. &#8220;Jack Rue, one of our plane commanders, is opening a bar this Friday at 1800 — all hands turn out.&#8221;</span></p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">We opened the old Roost on Good Friday, 1947. I called three of my skippers, and they put this in the plan of the day for a week. &#8220;Jack Rue, one of our plane commanders, is opening a bar this Friday at 1800 — all hands turn out.&#8221;</h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was payday; I</span> thought the Navy marched out. There were very few cars and civilian clothes in 1946. Rationing was still on. The old Roost was supposed to be a hardware store; I<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> am still biting nails.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The &#8220;know-it-alls&#8221; said we would go broke because we had tablecloths. You could not get near the place on Friday or Saturday. George Aud came in Sunday. I did not know him. </span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He said, &#8220;Where are your name brands of booze?&#8221; </span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We had none. He went to his liquor store and brought me two cases of assorted booze — VO, scotch etc. When I asked him how much I owed him, he said that salesmen would be here the next week to sell me all the good brands, adding, &#8220;This is a nice place; keep it that way.&#8221; I said &#8220;Aye, aye, sir!&#8221; Where do you find a friend like that?</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We opened the present Roost (now the Lexington) on September 15, 1950. It was another Friday — payday — and we did not close the doors until about 3 a.m. on Monday. Johnny Dolak, Jack Daugherty, Bill Chapman, Harry Buckley and myself carried the bar top down the street from the old to the new Roost — cobwebs and all. I called it atmosphere.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We put beer on ice in garbage cans, booze and paper cups on boards, and the customers helped themselves. &#8220;Rue’s Roost&#8221; never closed! All our help pitched in on the move. Fran Harris came with us on the Friday morning of the opening.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">People ask me why I sold the place. &#8220;The booze got stronger, my wife nervouser and the girls faster.&#8221;</span></p>



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 <li style="display: block; width: 100%;" class="slide-13438 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 17:52:30"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-says-that-Ken-Jen-Pete-and-Jen-got-these-beautiful-blues-out-on-the-Dream-Maker-with-Capt.-Mike-on-July-16-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13438 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina says that Ken, Jen, Pete and Jen got these beautiful blues out on the Dream Maker with Capt. Mike on July 16, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13440 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 17:53:52"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-featured-the-huge-cobia-of-Kyle-Johnson-on-July-15-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13440 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina featured the huge cobia of Kyle Johnson on July 15, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13442 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 17:54:33"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-notes-that-Kyle-Johnson-of-Rock-Solid-Charters-was-not-playing-around-that-morning-the-biggest-of-the-two-cobias-was-55-inches.-July-12-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13442 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina notes that Kyle Johnson of Rock Solid Charters was not playing around that morning, the biggest of the two cobias was 55 inches. July 12, 2017</div></div></li>
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 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13451 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:01:10"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-displays-the-great-catch-of-the-day-of-Travis-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13451 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina displays the great catch of the day of Travis</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13452 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:01:42"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-asks-for-anyone-to-identify-the-species-of-of-ray-in-this-photo-caught-in-the-Honga-on-a-flyrod.-July-10-2017-626x405.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13452 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina asks for anyone to identify the species of of ray in this photo caught in the Honga on a flyrod. July 10, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13454 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:03:46"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-displays-the-proud-catch-of-Teagan-and-Randy-on-July-10-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13454 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina displays the proud catch of Teagan and Randy on July 10, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13456 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:05:13"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-featured-Susan-and-Daves-catch-on-July-10-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13456 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina featured Susan and Dave's catch on July 10, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13459 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:07:36"><a href="http://buzzsmarina.com/" target="_blank" aria-label="View Slide Details" class="metaslider_image_link"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-featured-the-Charlie-Steward-Crab-Boil-on-July-8-2017-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13459 msDefaultImage" /></a><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina featured the Charlie Steward Crab Boil on July 8, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13461 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:09:42"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-featured-the-huge-cobia-of-Kyle-Johnson-on-July-15-2017-1-850x550.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13461 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina featured the huge cobia of Kyle Johnson on July 15, 2017</div></div></li>
 <li style="display: none; width: 100%;" class="slide-13464 ms-image " aria-roledescription="slide" data-date="2017-07-19 18:11:34"><img src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Buzzs-Marina-heavy-blues-on-July-19-2017-533x344.jpg" height="550" width="850" alt="" class="slider-13436 slide-13464 msDefaultImage" /><div class="caption-wrap"><div class="caption">Buzz's Marina heavy blues on July 19, 2017</div></div></li>
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Letter from High Chimneys: My first 30 days out of the Navy
