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

The Junior Chamber of Com
merce is putting on a Bicycle Safety
Week Campaign the week of May
16, the highlight of which will be
the Bicycle Safety Parade on Tues
day, May IT, In the event of rain
the parade will be held on Wednes-
day, May Is.
The parade will have four divi-
sions-comic and elaborate divisions
for youngsters up to and including
ten years of age, and comic and
elaborate divisions for youngsters
eleven years of age and over. The
parade will form at Prospect and
West Washington Street at 600 p. m.
and will begin moving at ZOO p. M,
the route being down West Wash
ington Street to the Public Square,
where the judges stand will be To-
Gated Parading before the judges
stand, the contestants will be judged
on the basis of originality, as well
as their ability to adapt their cos
tunes and decorations to their BIZ
cycles.
The judges are: Chief of Police
Max Richard; Earl H. Howard,
manager of the local AAA office;
and Arley Sica, manager of the Ho-
tel Alexander and for many years
a judge for the Alsatia Mummers'
Parade.
Following the judging the parade
will proceed to the South Potomac
Junior High School where a pro-
gram of entertainment, movies and
refreshments has been arranged. At
the conclusion of this program the
parade prizes will be presented,
these prizes having been donated by
the following firms: PoffenbergeF
Tire Co., Hollanders, Sans Cycle
Shop, Sears Roebuck Co., Montgom-
cry Ward Co., Macs Cycle Shop,
Delphey's, Domenici Tire Co., Good
year lire Co., Goodrich Tire Co.
and Semler-McFadden's Prizes are
now on display in the window of the
Gas Company in the Public Square.
Another feature of the week will
be the first Annual Bicycle Field
Meet which will be held at the Mu-
nicipal Stadium on Saturday morn
ing, May 81, beginning at 900
o'clock. The events for the meet
will include bicycle races, safety
tests and turtle race for girls, with
the winners in each class receiving
gold or silver medals.
Other events scheduled during the
week are: May is, Proclamation
Day; May 10, Bicycle Safety On
The Air; and May 20, Bicycle Safety
In The Schools.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
County School Safety Patrols To Take
Part In Big Parade In Washington May IA
700 Boys And Girls From Hagerstown And Washington Coun
ty Together With Their Bands To Take Part In 18th Annual
School Safety Patrol Parade In Nations Capital.

Prizes will be awarded for the
best bands, floats, drill teams, drum
majors, majorettes, and the unit
travelling the farthest to attend the
event. Prominent among the
marchers will be the Honor Medal
Division, composed of those young
sters who have actually been in
strumental in saving a schoolmate's
life.
Earl H. Howard, manager of the
local Office of the Automobile Club
of Maryland, has announced that
625 patrol boys and girls from Ha-
gerstown and Washington County
will attend the parade, and that fol-
lowing the ceremonies the young
sters will make a sightseeing tour
of the capital and then spend sew
eral hours visiting the Washington
Zoo. Our local delegation will be
accompanied by the Maryland State
Police, members of the Hagerstown
Police Department, teachers from
the schools of Hagerstown and the
County, representatives from the
AAA advisory board, and the Red
Cross First Aid car.
The job of preparing for Wash
ington County's participation in the
big parade was no easy one, and a
great deal of credit goes to all those
connected with it. The bulk of the
work was done by Mr.. Howard, of
the local AAA Club; John Dunn,
president of the AAA advisory
board, and Roger Charlton, a mem
Der of the board, while the expenses
for the trip, which included the hir-
ing of 10 buses to transport the
children to Washington and back,
was taken care of by the various
service clubs, lodges, legion posts,
trucking associations and other or
CARNATIONS interested in public
safety.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

be changed again, to either eight or
nine cents.
After the question of admission
prices was settled in such a happy
manner, the Council then voted to
turn the operation of the swimming
pool over to the Park Board =
where it belongs.
j. Another action of the Mayor and
Council was to agree to the request
of the Park Board that a plot of
land adjacent to the Hager Park be
leased from the Wakenight Motor
Company for one year without
charge, the lease to contain a pros
vision that at the end of the year the
City will have the option to pur-
chase it as a permanent part of the
park for the sum of $4,000.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
Salvation Army
Board Has Meeting

A dinner meeting of the advisory
board of the Salvation Army was
held last week at the Corps Head
quarters, 324 w Washington ST.,
with the chairman, S. Mitchell Fock-
Ter, presiding.
Three new members of the board
were welcomed at the meeting -
Miss Madaline Dermody, Rev. Wal
ter B. Mckinley and DR.. H. L. Porter
field, and the chairman presented
them with Advisory Board Plaques.
During the business session the con-
struction of the new building and
other routine matters were discus
sed.
The dinner was prepared and serv-
ed by the Home League, the mis-
sionary organization of the Saliva
ton Army.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
Many In State Get
Old Age Benefits

Almost fourteen per cent of all
persons aged 65 years and over in
the State of Maryland were receiv-
ing Federal old age and survivors
insurance benefits at the close of the
last fiscal year.
William J. Lanahan, manager of
the Hagerstown field office of the
Social Security Administration said
that these aged persons represented
retired individuals and their wives,
as well as persons receiving aged
widows and dependent parents ben
efits under the Federal old age and
survivors insurance system.
Leading the states in percentage
of residents beneftting under the
Federal social insurance program
were Connecticut and Rhode Island
where twenty aged persons out of
every hundred were being paid ben
efits. At the other extreme, fewer
than five per hundred aged persons
were on the benefit rolls in Missi-
ssippi
This wide range in the beneficiary
rate, Mr.. Lanahan explained, large
ly reflects State differences in the
proportion of employment covered
under the program. Approximately
81 per cent of all gainfully employ
ed persons in Maryland are covered
by the Federal old age and surviv-
ors insurance system.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

DIR. Clarence w. Crawford
Education, will be held tonight
Thursday at 7:45 in the auditori-
UNI of st. Johns Lutheran Church,
South Potomac Street. The guest
speaker will be DR., Clarence w.
Crawford, pastor of the Calvary
Baptist Church, Washington, D, c.
Doctor Crawford, after serving
pastorates in Philadelphia and Rich
mond, Va, was called to the impor-
tant pulpit of Calvary Baptist
Church in Washington, D. c., in
1912 AS one of the youngest min
listers in his denomination to be in
such an important parish, he has
served in the nations capital with
great distinction
Doctor Crawford is a graduate of
Bucknell University and Grocer
Theological Seminary. He has had
a particularly significant ministry
among young people and has writes
two books, Seekers of Life" and
"The Devotional Life of Young
People"
Doctor Crawford has been in much
demand as speaker at ministers
conventions and INSTRUMENTATION
al services, and Washington County
is honored to have him included in
the current series of Easter to Pen
tecost services.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

The nations capital will be in
vaded by an army of youngsters on
May IA, when more than 10000 boys
and girls of the School Safety Pa
trolls from all over the country
march down historic Constitution
Avenue in their 18th Annual Pa
rade. More than 5000 will be from
Maryland, and some 700 of these will
be from Washington County.
Floats, smartly uniformed bands
and drill teams will highlight the
marching event, which is sponsored
each year by the American Automo-
bile Association to honor the work
of the Patrol in protecting the lives
of fellow students from traffic haz-
ards. Attendance this year is ex-
pected to break all records in the
history of the celebration.
1t is expected that patrol MEM
bers from at least sixteen states
will participate in the event, and
the states will include Florida,
Georgia, Rhode Island, Virginia,
Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Connec-
ticut, Delaware, Massachusetts and
the District of Columbia.
The youngsters will parade be-
fore reviewing stand, on which
will be seated high-ranking govern
ment officials and other guests. AS
in the past, the bands will be
among the outstanding features Of
the parade, with prancing drum ma.
jors and pretty majorettes leading
units of brightly uniformed young.
sters. A total of 18 bands, with
more than 800 pieces, are expected
to join the march. The Maryland
bands to be represented are: Ha
gerstown High School, Boonsborc
High School, Frederick High Schoo
and several from the Eastern Shore
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

1t will be interesting to see if the
lease on the stadium can be broken.
(See story under News of City
Hall")
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
Predicts Big Population Growth

Expansion of the Hagerstown
Sewage Plant to handle population
needs rs percent greater than the
present level of an estimated 10000
in Hagerstown will be necessary by
the year 1860, it was predicted at a
recent conference of Water and
Sewerage department representa-
tives from Maryland and Delaware
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
1907 ,s35,46I On Deposit

Maryland State banks held to-
tai of $8O7, 1886, 46l on deposit as Of
March 81, the Senate Banking Com
mission has reported The figure
was $27, 023, 257 less than the total re-
ported on December 81, 1913.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12
Around Town With
The Editor


It will be interesting to see if the
lease on the stadium can be broken.
(See story under News of City
Hall.")
l hope you are all reading the
"Wash Tubbs" comic strip in "The
Daily Mail" drawn by Leslie Tur-
ner.
The present series of the strip is
a dramatic presentation of the work
of alcoholics Anonymous" in my
book one of the greatest influences
for good that mankind has ever
known.
A meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Washington County
Public Health Association was held
on Tuesday afternoon at the Wash
ington County Hospital, and follow
ing the opening remarks by the
president, Gen. Joseph w. Byron,
the various departmental heads eX-
planned in detail the work they have
been doing and just exactly where
and why the public's money has
been spent.
This meeting is of far too much
Importance to be covered in a few
remarks just before we go to press,
and so 1 am holding over my edi-
torial comment on the meeting until
the next issue.
The kids of Hagerstown (particu-
larly the underprivileged young
sters) owe an everlasting debt of
gratitude to Councilman Luther w.
Broom for the fight he put up to
get the admission price for the
youngsters at the pool reduced, and
their thanks are also due the other
members of the Council who backed
up Councilman Broom in his efforts.
1t is certainly good to see the
members of the Council taking a
really active part in the affairs of
the city, and that is as it should be,
for, as l have stated in this column
many times before, it is the Coun-
Gil, and not the Mayor, whose votes
say what shall and shall not be
done in our city's government.
1t is a good thing, of course, to
go along with the administrative
head up to a point, but sometimes
it becomes necessary to differ, and
for one am glad to see that the
members of the Council are living
up to the contract they made with
the people who elected them, and
that is, to represent them to the
best of their ability.
So
While on the question of the Ma
yor and Council, am sure the mem
bers of the Council, particularly
Councilnen Elliott and Hellane, who
were in Office during Mayor Sween-
ey's administration, will be glad
when Mayor Mills much discussed
and talked about statement of the
finances of the city is forthcoming
For my part, thought that the &C.
ton taken in the last meeting of the
Mayor and Council of lacking on to
all approved measures the phrase,
eff and when funds are available"
was a new low in city government.
With only four months of the
present year gone by, we are being
led to believe that the city is in
dire financial straits, which is some
thing l just don't believe. Of
course, until Mayor Mills releases
this much publicized financial state
ment, there is nothing for us to do
but wait, but imagine it will be
well taken apart once it's released.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

Failure of husband to sew his
wife's clothes is grounds for divorce
among some African natives, ac-
cording to the Encyclopedias Brit
annica.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-05-12

Goldfish are so plentiful in some
localities that they are used for food,
according to the Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
BY the Assoeioted Press

OLEAN. N. Y, Jan. 1.-St. Bona
venture defeated Georgetown, $3.50,
tonight in a basket ball game
marked by 4S personal fouls and two
fights-one of them a free-for- all
that called for police interference.
The Bonnies grabbed the lead
after az minutes and held it
throughout, although Georgetown
moved within seven pionts a few
moments before the final gun. The
half time score was 1924.
Georgetown's John Mazziotta was
tossed out Of the proceedings mid
way in the second half after a
heated discussion with the officials.
A few minutes earlier, there had
been a brief furry Of fists among
the players, but it was quelled
quickly.
With less than two minutes to 60,
however, the brawling broke out in
earnest. The direct cause was hard
to discover, but at its height most of
the players from both teams plus a
sizable delegation of spectators were
swinging firsts with gusto. The law
finally restored order.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Hoyos Bow to st. Bonoventure
AS Police QueN Free-for-AN

Late in the game, Georgetown
moved from IA points back to the
short end of a 56-49 count, but the
effort was not enough.
Sammy Urzetta, last years lead
ing collegiate foul shooter, found
his eye to lead the scoring for St.
Bona with IS points. He made good
on all seven Of his free throws. Tom
O'Keefe paced Georgetown with IA
points and Maziotta had 10.
Georgetown defeated John Car
roll, 1888, last night in Cleveland
in the first game Of its two-game
trip.
Georgetown's next game will be
with William and Mary at Williams
burg, Va, FRIDAY night.
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Mustangs Led
ByWa|ker, Rote
To21.13V Victory
Oregon's S Van BrockIin
Nearly q Match for
Crack BockfieId Duo
(Picture on Page B-4.)
BY the Associofed Press

DALLAS Jan. 1.-All-America
Doak Walker and his brilliant
sophomore running mate, Kyle
Rote. carried Southern Methodist
to victory over Oregon, 21-13, in the
18th annual Cotton Bowl game to-
day before a capacity crowd OF
$4,000
These two great backs needed
all their running, passing and
punting ability to overcome the fiat,
fast passes of Norman Van Brock
lin. who engineered two sensational
last-quarter touchdowns to climax
a brilliant offensive contest.
Southern Methodist, the South
west Conference champion. punched
out touchdown S minutes and
IL seconds after the game started.
S. M. U. added another in the third
period and then after Oregon had
rallied to make the score 14-6,
scored third time to build a mar
gin that the co-champions of the
Pacific Coast Conference never
COulu overcome.
Oregon Had Tight Defense.
A tight Oregon defense limited
the driving, twisting Walker to nine
yards as his longest running gain
but the 163-pcund junior showed
himself mighty hero by passing
on a par with Van Brocklin, quick
kicking once for almost 80 yards to
the Oregon 6-inch line, and throw
ing vicious blocks whenever he gave
the ball to any one else in his back
field.
Van Brocklin, however, was not
placed in the shadows even by
Walker. He passed % yards to
Dick wilkins in the end zone for
the first of Oregon's late touch
downs, and few moments later
threw another to Darrell Robinson
for a net gain of AZ yards to set
up the second score.
Southern Methodist needed only
II plays to 60 SO yards for the open
ing touchdown with short runs and
passes opening up Oregon's vaunted
defense. Walker threw the key
block when Rote went from the
Oregon IS to the 2-yard line. Then
Doak dove to within 6 inches of the
goal and on his next effort went
over, the first and only touchdown
he made on this, his 22d birthday.
Rote Scores ON 36-Yard Run.
Play ranged inconclusively up and
down the field until, to start the
second half, Southern Methodist put
together another long march, this
time starting from its own 10, with
Rote scoring on a 36-yard run,
1See COTvTON ROINI- Pana ~
Evening star., 1949-01-02
Statistics,

was wide. 1t didn't seem too i'm
portant at the time because the
Wildcats we're holding the upper
hand and on the offensive most Of
the way.
The half ended with N. U. ahead,
1877.
CALIFORNIA; stock dropped low
when Jensen, on his first run in the
third quarter, had an ankle collapse
and was through for the rest of the
afternoon.
Far From Through.
But California was far from
through. 1t drove to midfield. 1t
gambled on fourth down. 1t had
done it and made it twice before
and N. U. took over Then came a
break. Quarterback Don Burson
was hit so hard trying to pass he
fumbled and Ray De Gong, reserve
guard, recovered on the N. U. A.
Frank Brunk, Jensen's UNDER
study, started a march with a IA
yard smash and the Bears began
to roll. They rolled to the 4-yard
(See ROSE BOWL, Page B-3J
Evening star., 1949-01-02

humans alternately prayed and
shouted, shifty Ed Tunnicliff. 1861
pound flash from Kewanee, ILL.,, took
a direct pass from center and raced
past a suddenly stricken California
eleven for 43 yards and the triumph.
Spectacular Runs Made.
That dash wrought an explosive
climax to game that started with
one record breaking run that put
the Big Nine eleven in front in
the first quarter, and just as sud-
denly saw it tied by an equally
spectacular touchdown run by
California back.
1t wrote a bitter disappointment
to a great California team which
came from behind half-time score
of 1877 and roared into the front
in the third quarter And it all
happened with little more than 2
minutes to 60.
Again the Big Nine was the cham
pion of the Rose Bowl Midwest
Coast series which began with one
sided victories by Illinois and Mich
igan last year.
This was no one-sided affair at
any stage, however. This California
team, facing a favored and admit
tedly hard-hitting team from the
rugged Big Nine, looked like the
rough, rocking teams the West used
to field. There was no humiliation
in this defeat
Bowl Record Broken.
Frank Aschenbrenner, Northwest
ern's best back today, brought the
huge throng to its feet midway in
the opening quarter when he cut
over his own right tackle, switched
back across the field and ran 73
yards for the first touchdown. 1t
broke the old Rose Bowl record run
from scrimmage of So yards, set by
Halfback Tony Uaansa, of Pitts
burgh, when Pitt lost to Southern
California ip 1880.
Northwestern kicked off, its seven
points looming large on the score
board. Gals Jack Swaner returned
it 80 yards to the Bears 80. On
the first play from scrimmage, Full
back Jackie Jensen, priced 1885,
pound ground gamer, went over his
left end, reversed the field and
travelled the full route of ST yards
for six points.
Big Truck Cullum kicked the eX-
ira point, matching the Northwest
ern conversion booted by Jim Far
rar.
Wildcats Lead at Half.
Early in the second quarter, Half
back Tom Worthington of the Wild
cats took a reverse handoff of a
punt from Johnny Miller and re-
turned it 40 yards down the side
stripes to the California 70. Miller
picked up seven, then yard; Full
back Art Murakowski bulled the ball
IL yards to the two, then rammed
the line for a touchdown.
Farrar's try for the extra point
Evening star., 1949-01-02
By Bill Fuchs

The largest crowd of the pro bas-
ket ball season here, 5,135 paid, saw
the Washington Capitols barely
turn back their nemesis Of the last
two seasons, the Chicago Stays, in
a $3.50 battle last night at Uline
Arena.
1t was the first meeting between
the two clubs this year. but the
Caps took to the floor, with bitter
memories of what the Chicagoans
did to their play-off aspirations in
1947-48 The Stays knocked the
Caps out in the first round of the
1947 play-offs and eliminated them
from series competition last year in
a special tie-breaking game in Chi
cago.
The Stays and Caps have been
noted for their rough. tough ball
games and last nights was no
exception. A total of so fouls was
called. "a against the Caps and &c
against Chicago. Newcomer Jack
Nichols and Bones Mckinney of the
Caps and Gene Vance and Ed
Mikan of Chicago were put out in
the fourth period with six personals
each. In addition, technical fouls
were called against Nichols and
Matt Zunic for protesting the
officiating.
Zunic Delivers in Clutch.
Zunic, the former George Wash
ington University star, was Johnny
-the-spot, tying the game at 90-90
with a tWo-hander in the last IS
seconds and adding a free shot to
give the Caps the lead. Kenny Rol-
Inns fouled Zunic as he pushed up
the tying point and in the long run
that was the game.
The lead changed hands II times
and the score was tied eight times
but the way the Caps started out ii
looked as though they were going
to suffer their first loss of the sea-
son at home.
Max Zaslofsky and Gene Gil.
mure each sank free throws ano
zaslofsky added two-pointer tc
give the Stays a 40 lead. With
the Caps putting up practically nc
fight under the basket, the Stags
stretched their lead to 1876. 81.
straight free tosses brought the
Caps up to 1912. Andy Phillip
made it 1912 for the Stays and
at this point Freddy Scolari gave
Evening star., 1949-01-02

the first and third periods and
held the favored Tar Heels under
their thumbs most of the after
noon.
Many of the customers, knowing
Oklahoma had started the Sugar
Bowl trip more or less as lark, ex
pected to see it wind up as dead
pigeon.
But the red -jerseyed Sooners, who
didn't become serious in their pre-
game preparations until few days
ago, took command in the first
quarter and led all the way.
With General Jack Mitchell run
ming their highly explosive split T
attack with superb precision, the
Oklahomans yielded only once to
the hard running Carolina backs,
including Charles Justice and his
All-America tummy ache.
Choo Choo is Able Bodied.
Bed-ridden yesterday with the
most famous tummy ache since that
which once floored Babe Ruth, the
All-America Choo Choo appeared
none the worse for wear today. He
got of several nice runs in midield
but the Oklahoma line kept him
away from the stripe that counts
and throttled his aerial thrusts.
Forward passes set up both of
Oklahoma's touchdowns, but only
one of them was thrown by an Okla
homan.
Starting on its own 37'after the
opening kickoff, North Carolina
drove down to the Sooner IS, with
Justice and Fullback Hosea Rodgers
running like demons and Choo Choo
completing passes to Bob Kennedy
and Art Weiner
But Myrle Greathouse, crack Okla
homa line backer, plucked one of
Justices passes out of the air on
the IA, and rambled u yards be-
fore he was caught by Eddie Knox
on the Tar Heels 49,
tumble Brings N. C. Score.
1t was a simple matter for the
Sooners to smash down to the one
yard line, from where Mitchell
rammed off tackle for the opening
score, although they covered five
yards of the distance twice as the
result of penalty.
Leslie (Bingo Ming, Oklahoma