The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-07-14

IL you re walking uoWn west w ash
ington Street with blunt pencil IN
your pocket, all you have to do is
to stop in the doorway of Hays
Store. where Ford Bryan and Leist-
er Mobley, Jr., have set up a pencil
sharpener in the doorway for your
convenience.
Now all they need to do is to also
set up on the stand little box OF
leads for mechanical pencils.
1t certainly is unusual, to say the
least, that the announcement that
Mel Henry, backfeld coach at Vir-
ginia Tech and former football
coach at Fort Hill High School in
Cumberland, came from the Tech
athletic director, via the Associated
Press.
The Virginia announcement was
particularly unfair to Eddie Senior,
athletic director and football
coach at the High School for many
years. since it gave too many the
impression that Eddie had been fired.
AS a matter of fact, Senior (Who
will retain his post of athletic di-
rector at Hagerstown High has
wanted to resign as head coach for
some time-I know that he express
ed the desire to step down as head
coach when his son joined the var
sity squad.
When the school authorities off
cred Henry the job, they certainly
slipped up when they didn't make
absolutely certain that there would
be at least simultaneous announce
ments by the athletic directors of the
two schools.
The new members of the police
force are going through an extern
sive training course being put on
jointly by the FBI, States Attorney
Martin Ingram and the senior mem
bers of the local force. While the
course is primarily for the rookie
police officers, several of the older
men on the force are taking in the
school as a refresher course.
1t was sure good at the double
header at the stadium on Monday
night to hear the enthusiasm of the
fans, who like the rest of us, are
tickled pink with the new fighting
spirit of the Owls. Whenever a
rally got under way, that old clap
ping of hands and stamping of feet
rhythm got going. until the stands
really shook
was sure sorry that both the
policemen's and the retailers pic
MICS were scheduled for yesterday.
Normally it would have been pos
sible for me to take in both of
them, but unfortunately my paper
is printed on Wednesdays, which
means that I'm tied up from early
in the morning until around five
o'clock in the attention.
Since | am member of the Re-
tailers' Bureau, l of course had to
attend their picnic, even though it
was late when l got there. So my
apologies to my good friends on the
force for not being able to be with
them
P.S. If the policemen had too
much chicken left over, they can
drop a plate of it around to my Of
fee any time during the day and l
will enjoy it for supper.
If anybody knows of a house to
rent, Mr.. Murphy, the new mana
ger of McCrory's, would sure like
to hear about it, as he wants to
bring his family to Hagerstown and
get them settled before the children
start to school in September.
The girls of the Black-Eyed Sus-
an Chapter of the National Secre-
taries Association announced sew
eral weeks ago that they were CIV
ing away, as special prize, a fine
country ham. But they kept post
poning the naming of the prize
winner until Harold Hoffman and
myself, anticipating some real coun-
try ham and eggs, got SO insistent
that Margaret Greene (Harold's
secretary and president of the Chap
ter) finally was forced on Monday
night to announce the prize win
ner-that's right, you guessed it,
Harold and myself were left out in
the cold.
There is still dearth of news of
folks ''around town" Last week
all anybody wanted to talk about
was the hot weather, and this week
their sole tonic of conversation is