The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-06-08
Around Town With
The Editor

and banquets at different times, but |
/ can honestly say that / have never
enjoyed one more than | did the |
spaghetti supper which the eight |
editors of The Washington School |
weekly newspaper, The Scarlet and
Gray, which / have been privileged /
to publish for them in my paper for !
the past six months, gave in my hon /
or at the Terrace Restaurant on Mon
day night While / felt that | did |
not deserve any special thanks for !,
what / had done in trying to help |
these young people get some expert /
ence in newspaper work, neverthe- |
less, | was very highly honored at |
their thoughtfulness, and when at
the end of the very pleasant evening, !
they presented me with a can of my
favorite tobacco and a beautiful
curved-stem pipe, l was, for once,
just about speechless.
/ will watch with interest the flu
ture of these young folks as they
enter high school this fall, and as
said in their last issue last week -
] hope all their dreams come true.
Other guests at the coy little
party were Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Bookbinder - Mr. Bookbinder was
largely responsible for getting the
Scarlet and Gray" started-and Mrs.
Douglas
/ was forced, for the first time in
many months, to miss a special meet
ing of the Mayor and Council on
Monday night, but / am informed
that most of the meeting was taken
up with two main items-plans for
expanding the sewer plant and the
question of laying 3,340-foot water
main outside the city limits, just off
the Middleburg Pike, in order that
an 18-hole golf course might be built
and operated by Lee Slime.
After a long discussion the Mayor
and Council voted to employ the
services of consulting engineer Rob
ert T. REGISTER, Baltimore, for fee
of $4,000, to do the planning for
three-year expansion program of the
city sewerage disposal plant at a cost
in the neighborhood of $240,000
The question of laying the water
main to the proposed golf course also
came in for quite bit of discussion,
but the matter was finally tabled
pending a meeting with Mr.. Slime,
who was unable to be present at
Monday nights meeting, although
his wife represented him.
A few days ago | was present at
very fine dinner served by Mayor
Mills at his farm, along the Cave
town Pike, the dinner being get
together of the Mayor and Council
and the press and radio.
While no definite plans were ar
rived at as to how the city fathers
and the press and radio could best
work together, it did give those pres
aent an opportunity to let their hair
down and get some of their gripes
out of their systems, and out of the
meeting could come better under
standing of the problems of the
press and radio, as we'll as the Mayor
and Council, in handling news con-
corning the city administration.
At the regular meeting of the
Mayor and Council held last Thurs
day night, City Attorney Francis
Urner presented tentative, suggested
plans whereby the city might pro-
vide steam to heat the Washington
County Hospital when the large
building is completed. After a con-
siderable discussion it was decided
to postpone any action on this i'm
portant matter until a later date,
when a special meeting will be
called for the purpose Of going into
the matter further The Council in
voting for postponement of any
further discussion, specifically asked
that when the special meeting is
called, the superintendent of the
light plant, the engineers engaged
by the board of trustees of the hos
pital to work on the plan, and the
trustees themselves, be present.
I think the idea of the city sup
plying steam-provided they do it at
actual COSTS good one, but I also
think that the plan of the Council
to go into every phase of the matter
before committing themselves is also
a good one, particularly as it will be
close to two years before the new
hospital is completed