The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
News OF
City Hall

At a special meeting OF the Mayor
and Council, held in the City Hall
yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, the
following motion was passed;
The City Attorney shall take inn
mediate steps to establish the city's
right to possession and control of
the Municipal Stadium and to ter
inmate, if possible, any leasing ar
rangement which may now be in
effect with the Hagerstown Field
Athletic Association, with the un-
derstanding that proper provision
for the use of the Stadium by the
Hagerstown Owls be fully main
tanned. Councilman Hellane cast
the only opposing vote.
At the same meeting the Coun-
Gil agreed to sell the city-owned lot
in Funkstown to the Funkstown
Volunteer Fire Co., for $500 (see
story further down in this column
At the Board of Public Works
meeting, held Tuesday night, notice
was served on the motoring public
that the police department was go
ing to crack down on speeders-in
fact the cracking down has already
started, with both motorcycle Of
ficers already having made several
arrests.
The Board also approved two in
surance policies to cover new equip
ment at the Municipal Light Plant.
Each policy was for 100000, with
one being taken out through the John
Patterson Agency, and the other
through McComas-Armstrong.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Mayor and Council held on
Thursday night, turned out to be a
regular marathon and it was close
to midnight before it was over.
Here, in brief, is what took place,
outside of the regular routine mat
tiers.
A delegation from the Washing
ton County Bar Association urged the
Mayor and Council to take action
as quickly as possible to have the
City Laws recodifed, job that
hasn't been done for nearly 26
years. And the Mayor and Coun-
Gil assured the delegation that i'm
mediate steps would be taken to get
this important project under way.
AS it stands now, attorneys, city
officials, or the general public, wish
ing to get information regarding
certain laws, have to leaf through
hundreds and hundreds of pages
of the minutes of the Mayor and
Council through the years, and even
then, when they get through, can't
be sure there hasn't been amend
ments to some of the laws, which
they have missed. When the laws
are brought up to date this .time,
they will be printed in book form and
then will be kept up to date by the
printing of a supplementary edition
every year or so.
An anti-sawduSt ordinance was
passed, and you will find it printed
in full on page 2 in this issue Cat no
cost to the city,.
A delegation from the Funkstown
Fire Company waited on the Mayor
and Council with the request that
they be permitted to buy part of the
Hagerstown owned property at the
intersection of the FunkStown Road
and West Side Avenue in Funks-
town. The section of the property
they wish to purchase has frontage
of 100 feet and depth of 100 feet
and is at present not being used by
the city. They propose to erect a
combined municipal building and
I fire hall on it.
The Funkstown Fire Company
! agreed to have the property ap-
praised by two appraisers at no cost
to the city, and the Mayor and Coun-
ell authorized them to go ahead with
the appraising and when this has
been done, a special meeting of the
Council will be called to consider
the proposed sale. Mr.. Williams,
speaking on behalf of the Fire Com
pany, pointed out the urgency of
the matter, due to the fact that the
Fire Company had been given notice
to move from its present quarters
not later than July l.
The question of the Municipal
Swimming Pool was then brought
/ up again, and thanks TO the initiative
of Councilman Luther Broom and
the backing he received from his
fellow members of the Council, the
previously ordered increase in adj
| mission Yricec for children was re-