The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-12-08
Around Town With
The Editor


only to me, but to thousands of
other people of Hagerstown and
Washington County, is the news
that Gene Raney has purchased out
right the Hagerstown baseball fran
chise in the Interstate League, and
l for one pledge him my support to
the utmost limits.
1t has been my good fortune to
know Gene ever since l came to
Hagerstown - in fact, as you will
well remember, for quite time
there were rumors that he actually
owned the paper and that l just
worked for him (and there were
plenty of times when I was building
the paper up that l wished that
were true), and during all these
years | have always found him
ready and willing to do more than
his share for anything that would
help Hagerstown and Washington
County.
Often in our talks he has made
the remark, "Why shouldn't l help
Hagerstown and Washington Coun-
ty-they certainly have been good
to me-" and l just feel in my bones
that the real reason why he jumped
into this new enterprise was because
he honestly felt that the fans of
Washington County wanted organ
lied baseball to continue, and he
wanted to do his part to bring that
about
There was quite a storm of pro-
test after the Mayor and Council
ordered the comfort station by the
Court House closed, but to the cred
it Of the administration, they not
only corrected their mistake by or
dering it opened again and properly
supervised and cleaned up, but they
also admitted that they were wrong
in closing it in the first place.
Another storm OF protest mas come
about through the Mayor and Coun-
ellis decision to put parking meters
on the city market lot Immediately,
without first giving the business men
and the people who use the park
ing lot an opportunity to express
themselves.
Even if the Mayor and Council are
convinced that the only thing to do
is to do away with free parking on
the lot and make everybody pay
who uses it, it seems to me that
they would have been we'll advised
to postpone actually setting up the
meters until the Christmas holidays
were over. Parking space in down
town is hard enough to find at any
time, but it is doubly so during the
Christmas shopping season, and if
they have not done so already, l
sincerely hope that orders will be
given to hold up the actual placing
of the meters until after the first of
the year, at least.
From what l heard as l was pass
ing through the ladies' ready-to-
wear department at Eyerlys the
other day on my way to the adver-
Using department. I should say that
the store has the markings of a very
fine Glee Club.
Massey Roe and his good wife
(let me tell you Massey's quite a
cook prepared over 100 individual
little fruit cakes, wrapped in red
cellophane and tied with red rib
bon, which were presented to every
member of the Lions Club at their
weekly luncheon on Tuesday. Joe
Mullendore, with whom l share an
office, had hard time hanging on
to his when he came back from the
luncheon and showed it to me.
P.S. Maybe, Massey, you've got
one left.
The much publicized slot machine
cases were disposed of in Circuit
Court Tuesday. All the clubs raid
ed were found guilty, and fines of
5000 and costs were levied against
all of them, with the exception of
the two colored clubs, each of which
was fined 500 and costs. The slot
machines, of course were ordered
confscated.