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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27

Last week the board of directors
of the Washington County Hospital
and the Mayor and Council formally
approved the contract under which
the City Light Plant is to furnish
steam TO be used by the hospital for
heating, laundry, sterilizing and
other purposes, with the understand
ing that none Of the steam so sup
piled will be resold by the hospital.
The following are the essential
clauses Of the contract approved
That the primary function of the
Municipal Light Plant is to generate
and sell electric power, and that IL is
the primary obligation of the city
to assure efficient and unimpaired
operation of the Plant
That consistent with that primary
function and obligation, the city will
supply steam from its Light Plant to
the hospital, public institution, in
order to cooperate in the hospitals
proper detectives Of economy and
convenience.
The hospital will, at its own cost,
install all the equipment needed for
the supplying Of steam, IL being
agreed and understood that should
the city for any reason terminate the
contract at any time within ten years
from the date Of the agreement, all
equipment so installed shall continue
to be the property of the hospital.
The hospital also agrees to furnish
all engineering, designing and SINH
lar services and will satisfy all
claims for damage arising from the
construction Of the facilities and
will indemnify and save harmless
the city from all claims for loss or
damage mot caused by the city's
negligence) which may arise from
said construction.
The city, upon completion Of the
installation of the system, as requir-
ed by the hospital, will furnish steam
in accordance with the following
specifications:
The city will bill the hospital
monthly for the amount Of steam
used, at the rate of IS cents per
thousand pounds, subject to the fol-
lowing rate modification clause:
The rate Of SITS shall be increased
or decreased at the rate of 5000 for
each $005 or fraction thereof bv
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27

which the average cost of coal re-
ceived at the Light Plant is respec-
lively greater or less than $3.50 per
net ton.
The city will furnish, at It's sole
cost and expense after service is
commenced under this agreement,
all personnel necessary 10 operate,
maintain and replace as necessary
the supply system as located in the
city light plant, but shall have no
obligation to maintain any part of
the system outside Of the city light
plant.
The obligation Of the city to fur
nish steam as specified herein shall
apply upon the completion of the
steam system, and shall continue for
a period Of ten years from that date,
and from year to year thereafter,
until either party desiring 10 cancel
same shall give the other party II
months written notice prior to such
termination, subject also to earlier
termination under the following
conditions
The hospital may cancel this
agreeemnt at any time upon first Civ
ing written notice Of not less than
six months to the city
The city may cancel this agree
ment on written notice to hospital
Of not less than twelve months II it
shall be determined;
That the city intends to discon-
tinue operation Of the light plant for
its primary purpose Of generating
electric power, or
That supplying Of steam as CON
tenplated by this agreement shall
be found destructive to the light
plants primary function Of general
ing and selling electric power, such
finding TO be expressed and con
firmed in written report signed by
three competent engineers, one Of
whom shall be designated by the
city, one by the hospital and the
third by agreement between the de
signees first described, and copy Of
such report shall accompany the
cancellation notice the city may
elect to give under this sub-para-
graph, it being agreed that the hos
pital will appoint an engineer, for
the purpose aforesaid, within ten
days after being requested by the
city 50 to do.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Marriage Licenses

The following from HagerstOwn
and Washington County applied for
marriage licenses during the past
week:
Edward L. Comrades, 81, Balti-
more; Leatrice B. Jones, 20, Will
Transport.
Eugene w. Campbell, 81, Hagers-
town; Margaret E. Lewis, %, Hag-
erstown.
Ralph A. Shieler, 80, st. Louis
Mo-; Agatha L. Wilkes, 30, Hagers-
town.
George H. Fischer, 10, Williams
port; Ellamae Fabler, 10, Pinesburg
James D. Braithwaite, 81, Hag-
erstown; Vivian L. Cage, 10, Hagers-
town.
Chester L. Fox, 81, Hagerstown;
Marian G. Rockwell, 20, Martins
burg, W. Va.
Noah Leo Mullendore, 10, Trego;
Ruth Naomi Cunningham, 10, Boons-
boro
Carl D. Spickler, 81, Mason and
Dixon, Pa; Reba M. DeLawter, 19
Williamsport.
Marvin E. Hollinger, 20, Hagers-
town; Arbutus M. Able, 10, st. In
gate, Mich.
Charles H. Ridgley, Jr., 81,
Chambersburg, Pa; Janice v. Keck-
Ter, rs, Funkstown.
Page T. Otto, %, Sharpsburg; Bet
ty j. Sprecher, 81, Hagerstown.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Farm Tour Will Be
Held On August Is
Covering Farms In West Vir-
ginia Near Martinsburg - Lat
est Farm Practices To Be Dem
onstrated.

Farmers from this area are now
making plans to attend the fifth an
nual Four-State Farm Tour to be
held August 10 near Martinsburg,
w. Va.
With full-day program arranged
by the Farmers Committee-which
includes County Agent Mark Miller,
Herman Stockslager and Fred c.
Downey from this area-the 1850
Tour is to be on the adjoining farms
of Marion Welsh, John Welsh and
Don Folk. These farms are east of
Martinsburg.
Because of the large crowds at
previous Farm Tours, arrangements
have been made to park all cars in
an area between the farms. There
will be no need for moving the cars
from one location to another once
the Tour gets underway.
Among the features of the August
Is Tour will be the filling of trench
silo with grass, field harvester dust
ing to control japanese beetles and
corn borers, grain drying, pasture
irrigation, power take-off manure
spreaders, stonepickers, various
types of tillers for stubble land
preparation, and several pieces of
home made equipment.
Farm Tour officials expect a very
large turnout of farmers from
Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and Maryland. All machinery
and practices included in this years
Tour were chosen by the farmers as
the things they would like to see
demonstrated. BY this means, they
can judge the value of the various
pieces of equipment and practices for
their own farms.
County agents, university extern
sion personnel, and the Farm Depart
ment of The Potomac Edison System
are working with farmers in develop
ing the 1850 Tour.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
You Can Get Free
Two lima Pictures

The Hagerstown United States
Marine Recruiting Office has on hand
a number of free copies Of the his
toric flag raising at Two Jima, that
can be obtained by simply sending
a post card to the United States Ma
rine Recruiting Sergeant, Post Of
flee Building, Hagerstown, Nd.
These pictures are embossed in
full color, size 8 x IL, and are suit
able for framing. The supply is
limited and all requests will be hon
ored on first come, first served
basis. A limitation of one copy per
person, or address, will be strictly
enforced.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Bookrnobile Route
For Tomorrow

Listed below is the Washington
County Free Library bookmobile
route for tomorrow friday. There
will be no bookmobile service from
Saturday, July 20, through Monday,
August 4
The full service, however, will be
resumed on Tuesday, August 8, and
the schedule for that week will be
published in next weeks issue.
Friday, July 20
$50 1905 Hopewell Road, from
Williamsport Pike TO Route 40,
at Earl Herbert's mailbox.
1O;45-ll;05-T aylor's Landing at
1 Eichelberger's store.
11:20-11:35- Mondell
11:50-12:05- Burnside Bridge Road
at o. T. Rohrer's house.
2:00-2:30 Route 40 west at Sellers
Cabins.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27

20 at Washington, D. G. Her com
mission was dated back to April rs,
1850.
The Oath of office was admins
tered by Lieutenant Commander
Pembroke, who upon completing
same, congratulated Ensign Bower
on having the honor and distinction
of being the first registered nurse to
be commissioned in the Navy Nurs-
ing Corps in this area, which consists
of Maryland, the District of Column
bia and North Carolina, since the
present war crisis.
Immediately after taking her
Oath, Ensign Bower was given or
ders to report to the Naval Hospital,
at New Port, Il. l., where she will
take her indoctrination training for
a period of six weeks, after which
she will be stationed at that naveh
base for period of one year.
Ensign Bower is a graduate of st.
Mary's High School, Hagerstown,
graduating with the class of 1916,
and of the University of Maryland
Nursing School, at the University
Hospital, Baltimore, graduating with
the class of 1949. Prior to receiving
her commission in the United States
Navy, she practiced as Pediatric and
Operating Room nurse at the Uni
versity Hospital
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
STATE FIREMEN NAME
LOCAL MEN ON COMMITTEES

At meeting of the executive
committee of the Maryland State
Firemen's Association held in Balti-
more last week, the following Ha-
gerstown men were elected to va
'rious committees:
George R. Lindsay was named as
member of the exhibit committee;
c. William Ecton, Sra to the fire
chiefs committee; John Devine to
the topics and statistics committee;
George Basore to the legislative COM
mittee; and Ralph Bowman to the
fire service booster committee.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
News Of County
Honernakers' Clubs
FUTURE MEETINGS

Tuesday, August |, 600 p. m. =
The Huyetts Club will hold their
picnic in the North Pavilion at the
City Park.
Wednesday, August 2, 900 p. m.
The townsville Club will hold its
picnic at Hager Park.
Wednesday, August a. The Coun-
ty Homemaker Theatre and Picnic
Party will be held at Braddock
Heights. A bus will leave for Brad
dock Heights from the Blue Ridge
Terminal at 500 p. m.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
TWO LOCAL MINISTER'S
AT CHURCH CONFERENCE

Rev. DR.. T. Berry Plummer, pastor
Of St. Paul's Evangelical United
Brethren Church, and Rev. James
E. Ault, pastor of the First Brethren
Church, recently spent week at
tending the ministers conference at
Union Theological Seminary, New
York.
One hundred and fifty ministers,
from all parts Of the country, were
IN attendance, and the Reverend
Doctors George A Buttrick and Mar
tin Niemoller were among the lee
turers.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
More improvements
On u. S. Route 40
Contract Let For Improving
Half-Mile Between St. PauI's
Church And Shady Bower At
Cost OF $74,221.

Cost OF $74,221.
The State Roads Commission has
awarded the Bester-Long Company
a S74,22l contract to improve a half
mile of u. S. Route 40 between Ha-
gerstown and Clear Spring. The
work will include reducing one
dangerous vertical cuvre in this sec
ton and resurfacing the highway
for the entire half-mile.
The section to be improved begins
at st. Paul's Church and extends to
Shady Bower.
The Bester-Long firm is currently
improving another section of the
same road under a $174,40 contract
awarded last November and on
which work was started April 4th.
This job included modification OF
several vertical curves, installation
of drainage structures and resurfac-
ing Of 1.89 miles of Route 40 from
the western limits Of Hagerstown
toward Huyett's Crossroads.
Farther west on Route 40 one OF
the biggest road projects in the State
- relocation of seven miles of the
highway over Sideling Hill Noun
tain-has been in progress since last
August. This job is being done by
the M. J. Grove Lime Company, OF
Lime Kiln, Md, whose bid Of $1,000
2l2 was lowest of five firms who
competed for the contract
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
News In Brief
Get Cancer Funds

The Federal Security Agency has
announced the ALLEGATION of $80,365
to Johns Hopkins Medical School and
the University Of Maryland to aid
these institutions to carry on the
fight against cancer. The grants to
the University of Maryland totaled
$15,209.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Lacy Leaves 2os,ooo Estate

State Comptroller James J. Lacy,
who died of heart attack July /,
left an estate estimated at about
100000, according to appraisals
filed with the Register of Wills in
Baltimore. Lacy left no win, SO the
estate goes to his next OF kin, one
third to his widow and the other
two-thirds to his four children.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Boy Scouts Camp Is
Filled To Capacity

In For Second Week-DlVeFsI
fed Program Supervised BY
Well Trained Staff.
The second week at the Sinoquipe
Scout Reservation, the Washington
Area Councils Boy Scout Camp at
Fort Littleton, was filled TO capacity
with 1876 Scouts and leaders. This
is the largest registration of boys in
the history of the Camp. Scouts and
leaders leaving the reservation have
praised the food and the programs
contribution to the enjoyment Of
their stay.
The camp is equipped with mod
ern dining hall, a well equipped in
Urinary and craft lodge. It has a
well trained staff, with Robert Bruce
as camp director, Sterling Carter of
Williamsport as craft lodge director,
Roscoe Speilman of Williamsport as
waterfront director, with Don and
Dick Davis of Hagerstown as water
front assistants. The program divi-
sion is directed by John Porter, with
Harvey M Miller, Jr as assistant
director Working under them in
charge of various Scout crafts, are:
Tom Spofford, Hagerstown; George
Reisner, McConnellsburg; Bob Flory,
Waynesboro; and Sprecher Hurd,
Williamsport. Tom Snavely is camp
clerk, AL Working is provisional
Scoutmaster in charge of Scouts who
come to camp without their own
leader, and Bob Davis is Steward,
assisted by Ronald Defelice. All
four are from Hagerstown.
The camp is fortunate in having
Mrs. Carrie M. Daley of Hagerstown
and Mrs. Anna NJ Lowman of
Funkstown, as cooks. Jack Kramer
of Blue Ridge Summit is in charge
of the Health Lodge.
Activities for the past week in
cluded waterfront meet, won by
Troop II of Williamsport, who were
living in Kit Carson Camp Site.
Novelties in the program were
Turtle Derby" won by turtle
owned by one of the Staff members,
and a. Frog Jump" won by the Del
aware Camp Site.
A series of softball games were
played in the camp sites, and an ALL
Star team, made up of Scouts, won
over the Staff, 13 to IL.
Those who were tapped out for
membership in the Order of the Ar
row, National Honorary Camp So
ciety of the Boy Scouts of America,
were: Tommy Barber and Douglas
Fleming of Troop 2, Hagerstown;
Tom Snavely of Ship 16, Hagers-
town; George Lemen and Billy Turn
er of Troop II, Williamsport; Carroll
Keller of Troop l, Hagerstown; Ray
mond Rickett of Post 2, Hagers-
town; Sonny Kendall of Troop Is,
Greencastle; Frank Book of Troop
10, Blue Ridge Summit; and Robert
Minnick of Troop 7, Waynesboro.
DR.. R. S. Baylor of Waynesboro
was in camp this past week end for
the medical re-examination, as they
checked in.
Friends and parents of Scouts in
the Council are cordially invited to
visit camp during visiting hours,
which are from to S p. m. each
Sunday.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Named state Department Aide

President Truman recently named
Carlisle H. Humelsine, native Of
Hagerstown, as an assistant Secre-
tary of State. Hunelsine will sue
coed John E. Peurifoy, who has been
appointed Ambassador to Greece.
The Marylander will have the rank
of Deputy Under-Secretary for Adj
ministration.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Educator Sees Big Jump In
State School Enrolment

Enrolment in Maryland's elemen-
tary schools viii increase by 1880
during the next seven years, DR..
Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State Super
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Mayor And Council Approve Contract
For Supplying Steam To Heat Hospital

Hospital Board Also Approves II - All Installation Costs To
Be Borne By Hospital Steam VIII Cost Hospital Seventy
Five Cents Per thousand Pounds Contract Has Escape
Clause For Both Parties.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27

intendent Of Schools, has predicted.
He said, however, that in spite of
yearly increases, each class win be
limited to 30 students by next year.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Baltimore Hospital Dedicated

Lutheran General Hospital of
Maryland was dedicated recently.
with Governor Lane among the
dignitaries at the ceremony. The
222-bed institution formerly was
West Baltimore General Hospital.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-07-27
Commissioned In
Navy Nursing Corps

Miss Joan Bower Becomes First
Nurse In This Area To Receive
Commission Since Present War
Crisis.
Miss Joan E. Bower, R.N., daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. w K Bower,
100 N. Mulberry Street, was COM
missioned an Ensign in the United
States Navy Nursing Corps on July
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-01-07
Mrs. Roosevelt
Retains NAACP
Board Membership

NEW YORK, Dec. 29 - Revers-
ing an earlier decision to resign
from the board of directors Of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People be-
cause Of the pressure Of her duties
at the United Nations, Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt has consented to COM
plete her present term as a board
member, Roy wilkins, acting
NAACP secretary announced today.
In a letter to Arthur B. Spingarn,
NAACP president, Mrs. Roosevelt
wrote, under date OF December 20:
II am very glad to stay on for q
year" Her three-year term expires
on December 81, 1850. Mrs. Rbose-
welt has been a member Of the board
since 1915.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-01-07
Japan Troops Give
So, $50 To UNCF

Contributions from servicemen
with the U. s. Army Of Occupation
in Japan and Germany. totaling
$S!1SO.2O, have been received at
United Negro College Fund head
quarters here at % East Saith st.
it was announced today by William
J. Trent, Jr., executive director of
the Fund.
The gifts included a check for
sent by 1t. Gorham L. Black Jr., Of
the gath Infantry Regiment in
are interested in better tomorrow
ing letter that the amount had been
voluntarily contributed by over
$500 officers and the Regiment who
are interested in better tomorrow
for $4,000, 900 Americans todayp'
Money orders totaling $S72.20
came from the personnel of the 10th
AAA Auto WPNS Battalion (SP) in
Japan, many of whom are either
former students of the member col
leges of the United Negro College
Fund, or are prospective future en-
rollees.
A check for $1,2O7.75 came from
the soldiers assigned to the 7S71st
Training and Education Group,
Kitzeningen Training Center, Ger
many, who contributed that amount
to a United Negro College Fund
campaign conducted there in the
first weeks of this month, Oecem-
ber) by the Tuskegee Club of Europe
of which Capt, Cecil w. White of
Selma, Ala. is president. Tuskegee
Institute, Ala, is one of the 81 pri-
vate accredited colleges participant
ing in the Funds 1949 appeal for
81 AGO. needed to help meet cur
rent operating expenses. other mem
Der institutions include such we'll
known colleges and universities as
Fisk, Hampton, Lincoln and the At
lanta University group.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-01-07
Tue Been Thinking
BY CAB GALLOWAY

sorted shutttles and garbage col
lection wagons. All Of these follow
secret paths and one of them 4.
but only one . will get you to
where you want to go. You ask
directions of the quad, who looks
at you as If you had just stolen
fifty feet of track.
''Hasslebra to the bilsdegade and
change to the BMT. Go three stops
and shuttel bisseldein behooydo and
get out at 14th."
This seems clear enough, If you
speak Japanese, but you don't You
ask fellow passenger and this
starts something. Being native
New Yorker, he can't admit that he
doesn't know, either, so he makes
up directions. You follow them and
end up on the dining car of the
Florida limited when you were
heading for Brooklyn. And do you
think that the Eighth Avenue sub
way goes down Eighth Avenue?
For a few blocks, yes, but generally
it wanders all over Queens, Brook
lyn, Washington Hts, and points
unbelievable. All, it's all a mad
game and I'm stuck!
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-01-07
Pfc. Wilson Returns
From Leave

GIFG, JAPAN:-Private First
Glass Henry r. Wilson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jermiah Wilson of 1928
NV 5th CT. Miami, Florida, has re-
Gently returned, from a Today leave
which he spent at the Patterson
Club.
Private First Glass Wilson is a
member of Company D, gath Infan-
try Regiment. He entered the Army
in August, 1947 and received his
basic training at Fort Dix, New
Jersey. He departed for overseas
duty in January, 194S.
The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-01-07

Havana nossor! The delight
full aura Of remembrance which is
the part Of Havana I want to relay
to you must still take second place
to the business of getting used to
mad Manhattan again.
The island Of Manhattan, a
chunk of rock which we bought
from the Indians for "a cartwheels
worth of beads Cf memory serves
. me right, has turned into such a
confused and confusing aggregate
that I doubt we could get the In
dams to take it back for all the
beads in the glitter departments Of
Woolworth, Kress, Macy's and
Gimbels put together.
But the fascinating part of New
York for the visitor Tor for the re-
turned warrior such as the Gallo
way clam is the way the residents
have of existing. Everything is a
unique kind of a game with a set of
rules that would confound Hyde
and even Dorothy Dix, who seems
to know the answer to anything.
Take the subways, for instance.
They are one hilarious game with
the weary-eyed New Yorker on the
defensive and the systems on the
other. The average New Yorker can
always win on the subways so long
as the route is between his home
and his job. That's like putting a
penny in a gum machine. You al
most always get gum. You're bound
to win.
But in the game of subways, IL
you are going into unfamiliar terri
tory, you are at the mercy of weav-
ing under ground passages, I'M
communicative subway guards.
doors which snap shut with all the
fierceness of a crocodile on his
lunch hour, and misleading direc-
tons printed on unreliable maps.
Why this thing has slot machines
beat hollow. You can't win?
You first stand in line to get
ulIileS from the COIllI OllSl VI Tic
exchequer who resides in the dis
NAL blackness of a booth at the
entrance to the turnstiles. You gin
gerly place the dimes in the slot
and here the game starts. The dime
falls on the floor and rolls inside
the barrier. You can't retrieve it so
you select another dime. This goes
on until you are almost out OF
dimes when finally a jeweler comes
along and loans you his magnifying
glass. With this you locate the slot.
The jeweler then steadies your
hand so that you can get the dime
in, and presto, you have passed on
the the inner circle.
Once inside you have the BMT
the IRT, the Independent and as.