The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-04-28
News Of
City Hall

mere III Ditel is Widt IdppeAeu at
last Wednesday nights special meet
ing of the Mayor and Council.
A donation of $500 to the Cum
berland Valley Choristers, an or
ganization of singers from Hagers-
town, Waynesboro and Chambers
burg, was authorized The Choir
listers annually present an Orotorio
in Hagerstown, and the City has all
ways been one of the Patrons.
| A request from the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce for a donation
from the City of $2150O for the an
nual Paint Up-Clean Up Campaign,
came in for quite bit of discussion,
and it was finally decided to table
the request until the regular meet
ing in May, so that more information
could be obtained.
Since the meeting the City En-
gineer and Street Superintendent,
Jack Abbott, Jr., stated that he can
provide the money from the Street
Cleaning Budget for 1949, and that
probobly will be the solution, but
it will have to be approved by the
Mayor and Council, and it will prob
ably be settled at the next meeting.
The question of several traffic
bottlenecks in the City were dis
cussed, and the City Engineer was
instructed to. investigate each one
and report back to the Mayor and
Council as soon as possible.
The perennial parking problem on
the Market House lot was again
brought to the attention of the Coun-
Gil by Mayor Mills, and Traffic Of
ficer Kiser was instructed to make a
survey of the situation and report
back to the Mayor and Council at the
next meeting,
At the suggestion of Councilman
Luther Broom, the City Clerk was
instructed to request tire heads Of
all departments to be present at
the regular Council meetings. each
month, SO that when questions re-
garding their departments came up
they would be on hand to give the
necessary information, instead, as
has been the case in the past, of hav.
ing to postpone action on certain
matters until the head of the de-
partment concerned could be con
tacted.
Mayor Mills again warnd the
Council of the necessity of economy
and limited that the financial situa-
ton was not as bright as it might
be. He told the Council that with
in the next few weeks the Audit
Department would have complete
financial statement ready, SO that
the members of the Council can get
! an exact picture of the financial sit
uation as it stands to date.
The swimming pool, which has
been operating in the red for some
time, was also the subject of a
spirited discussion, but suggestion
that the pool be leased to a COM
mercial operator was quickly turn
ed down, and the Council decided
to see what could be done to reduce
the operating expenses during the
coming summer.
Another special meeting of the
Mayor and Council was held on
Monday night, and the only bust
ness transacted was the decision to
install curbs on three proposed new
streets in the vicinity of an apart
ment house development near North
ern Avenue, in exchange for a right
of way that will permit the straigh-
/ tening out of Northern Avenue in
order to do away with some haz-
ardous curves. The relocation OF
i Northern Avenue will permit the
extension of The Terrace and Oak
I Hill Avenue, but of course it is
doubtful whether any work will be
done until such time as the Long
Meadows Apartment organization,
which intends to build the new
apartment house development, gets
ready to go into action.
/ The meeting of the Board of Pub
lie Works, postponed from Tuesday
night due to the famous race,
will be held tomorrow night at the
usual time.