The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-12-02


The story of that duck Hunt"
in John Lacy's chimney was put on
the Associated Press wire, and is
being carried in daily papers all
over the country. The story first
appeared in the Morning Herald"
last week.
Elsewhere in this issue there is
a story of the November meeting of
the Black Eyed Susan Chapter of the
National Secretaries Association, in
which l noted that the guest speak
er's subject was Posture"
Could it have been that he got a
glance at the cover of the Chapters
quarterly bulletin?
It's good to be able to report that
Merrill Hays, who has been serious
ly i'll at the Washington County Hos
pital, is making fine recovery and
is now back at home. He was able
to 60 for short drive on Sunday
and is rapidly becoming his old
CHEEKY self again, ready to hear a
good story and also to tell one.
Merrill, who as you know is one of
the charter members of the famed
Mutual Admiration Society,"" is
looking forward to the day when he
will be well enough to meet every
week again with his fellow charter
members.
In their "all-seeing WISDOM" the
Board of Street Commissioners have
seen fit to limit parking in front of
the Post Office to five minutes. So
unless you want to run the risk of
getting a ticket, l advise you not to
take your car to the Post Office un-
less you just want to run in and
drop a letter in the letter-drop, for
with the Christmas rush on people
swarming into the Post Office to
mail packages, get stamps for
Christmas mailing and to get money
orders, etc-it's a physical impos-
sibility for any of them to transact
their business within the prescribed
five minutes. AS a matter of fact,
l checked myself, both on Saturday
morning and Monday, and it took
the average person going into the
Post Office (excepting those who
were just going in to mail letter.
from ten to fifteen minutes to get
through.
We have an efficient postal staff in
Hagerstown, but if the Board of
Street Commissioners think they can
wait on the customers and answer
the innumerable questions they are
asking around this time of year in
that limited time, they are making
a sad mistake, and even though the
request for better handling of auto
mobile traffic in front of the Post
himself, it seems to me that the
members of the Board of Street
Commissioners should have realized
that it's a physical impossibility to
enforce their five-minute limit, I'M
less they are prepared to have a
policeman stationed in front of the
Post Office all day long and insist that
he give tickets to practically every
car that pulls up in front of the
Post Office.
And while I'm on this question of
the Board of Street Commissioners,
/ wonder how many of them are
aware of the fact that pedestrians
walking up North Potomac Street are
liable to get killed every time they
try to cross Franklin Street. With
the one-way traffic, there are now no
lights excepting those facing the
traffic coming down North Potomac
Street and facing the traffic coming
up East Franklin, and if you are
standing at the Myers Grocery Store
corner, you have no way of telling
when the lights are red or green, and
you must take your chance of trying
to follow the traffic.
My congratulations to police of
ficers Albert Lowry and Joseph
Plume for the fine job they did in
nabbing the two men suspected Of
holding up the night clerk at the
Hotel Dagmar. Dut to the smart
work of these two officers, both men
were behind bars within sixteen
minutes after the robbery was COM
mitted, although they had made a
clean getaway from the scene Of
the robbery.
]. Earl Steinhauer, plant opera
tons manager at Fairchild's who was
the guest speaker at the November