The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-20

ison, Jr., Gene Raney and maybe
several others, can show me the
courtesy of inviting me to their par
ty and at the same time make sure
/ won't be there
They schedule their parties for
Wednesdays, the one day of the
week that they know 1 can't pos
sibly go, since that is the day print
the paper.
P.S-So there you have it, folks,
if you want to get rid of Douglas,
stage your parties on Wednesdays.
l am sure that Mrs. Lauren Ridge
and the members of her family will
remember for long time the won
derful courtesy shown them by the
Governor of Maryland, William
Preston Lane, Jr., who made a spe-
cial trip by air from Annapolis to
attend the funeral of her late hus-
band, Trooper First Class Lauren
M. Ridge, on Monday, and sat with
the immediate members of the fam
lily during the service
attended a special meeting of the
Board of Public Works, held at the
City Hall on Saturday morning, to
hear the request of representatives
of the medical profession that they
be given special parking privileges
while calling on patients (see report
of the meeting elsewhere on this
page).
l attended the meeting expecting
to find that quite number of doctors
had been given parking violation
tickets, but was amazed to find that
from April 1, 1949 (the day the
present administration took office)
through July ID, 1850, doctors had
only received a total of 35 tickets
out of 7,480 issued.
Under those circumstances it was
obvious, from the moment the figures
were read, that there wasn't any
need to give carte blanche parking
privileges to doctors, and certainly
bore out the statement of Police
Commissioner Ellinger and Police
Captain Brown that officers of the
Police Department had always shown
every courtesy and consideration to
members of the medical profession
who are forced, on occasion, to park
in restricted zones in order to reach
their patients quickly.
Mrs. Douglas and myself were the
guests of Bob Tenney at a party
given at the Conococheague Sports
mems Club on Sunday afternoon
where we had royal time.
Around 800 o'clock in the evening
we sat down to delicious buffet
supper prepared and served by a
group of wives of the members, the
highlights of which were delicious
crab cakes and steamed crabs, with
all the trimmings.
The Club, which is ideally situated
on high knoll halfway between
Miller's Saw Mill and the Shepherds
town Bridge, provides magnificent
view of the surrounding country.
While we were there saw the site
of the kids one-acre fishing pond,
that it is expected will be in opera
ton for next years fishing, and I
also inspected the clubs new electric
automatic clay bird trap and watched
the shoot that was going on. The
club hopes, in the near future, to
have a second trap installed and
when that is done they will be eli
gible to handle championship shoot
: ing matches.
When I attend the luncheon meet
ings of the Board of Directors of the
Hagerstown Chamber of Commerce,
that are held twice monthly, I am
always impressed with the earnest
way in which they go about the
business that comes before them and
their honest endeavor to do every
thing that they can for Hagerstown
and Washington County.
This was particularly noticeable
at Mondays meeting when, despite
the hot, humid weather, there was
full attendance of the board at a
meeting that lasted for an hour and
half.
If you attended some of these
meetings you would no doubt be
surprised to find that the Chamber
of Commerce gives full considera-
ton to any matter brought to its
attention, no matter how trivial it
might seem. Here is one illustration:
Some weeks ago the president of
the Chamber, Arley Sica, received
a complaint regarding the peddling
of fruit, flowers and other merchan-
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