The globe-independent., 1949-09-08
Around Town Y
The Editor

Inc EAQ1IOE
If you want to know what to do
with your Globe-Independent after
you are through reading it, drop by
my Office sometime and I'll show
you.
There is nothing new to report
on the proposed $1,5O0,0OO bond is
sue for the city, on which the voters
will be asked to pass at a special
election in November AS I stated
in this column last week, it would
seem only fair that the voters would
be given complete financial state
ment so that they will know exact
ly what they are voting for, but up
to this time l have not seen one.
Mayor Herman L. Mills address
ed the membership of the Kiwanis
Club last Thursday (his address be
ing one of the series he has been Civ
ing before the Service Clubs) and
he again repeated that it would
either have to be a million and a half
bond issue, or, as an alternative, a
considerable increase in the present
tax rate. But the membership was
given no details as to the spending
of the present administration, or of
the revenue received and expected
II you want to know what to do
with worn-out pajamas, Jimmy
Black can give you a tip. l saw
him washing the windows of his
store last week, and he was using
the incest pair of striped pajama
pants / ever saw.
There is absolutely nothing new
to report regarding the status of the
Hagerstown Owls The only thing
known is Mr.. Sterling's own state
ment that he would not be able to
bring the ball club back to Hagers-
town next year.
There are, of course, literally doz-
ems of rumors flying around, but I
doubt if anything definite will be
known before the annual meeting of
the board of directors of the Inter
state League, which will probably be
held in November, for of course, any
move Mr.. Sterling wants to make
will have to be okayed by the League
before it can become official. And
it might even be that the official an
noneement regarding the DISPOSE
ton of the Hagerstown Club will
not be made until the February 1850
meeting of the league directors.
AS far as group of Hagerstown
men buying the ball club, l can on
ly tell you that representative of
such group did talk at some length
with Mr.. Sterling, but his price for
the franchise was $4,000 and that
was more than the group cared to
pay.
The Mayor and Council held their
regular meeting on Thursday night,
and that meeting will go down as
the shortest ever held by any ad-
ministration. Only one minor piece
of business was taken up, and few
minutes after the meeting was call
ed to- order, it adjourned.
Apparently all the current bust
ness of the Mayor and Council was
disposed of at the executive meet
ing held on August 20, and the open
meeting which followed.
/ don't know how many of you
read President Barkley's ad-
dress at the Democratic national
committee meeting recently, but to
those of you who missed it l do
want to pass along this little story
that he told The President
was being ribbed about his many
visits to St. Louis, Mo-, when he
came up with this one:
Two little boys were playing in
the backyard. and one youngster
said to the other: Pm five-how
old are you?" The second boy said
that he wasn't sure whether he was
four or five, so his little friend ask
ed him if he was fond of girls, and
when he replied that he was not,
the first kid promptly told him
Then you're only four"