The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-05-17

bringing up his son in the way he
should go and then, when for the
first time he manages to get a base
ball hit into his box, it is pretty
tough to have that son reach over
and grab it right out of his hand.
Any comments Del?
When a grown man muifs a pop
fly hit above his box at the stadium,
he ought to be made to throw it back
on the field How about it Harold?
Ask Charlie Segersten, who loves
his baseball and also loves second
guessing the manager, what hap
pened when down at the ball park
last week he tried to take advantage
of a friend who couldn't see the
scoreboard too well. It's a honey
of a story.
When the next primaries and cleo
tions roll around, Hagerstown and
the rest of Washington County will
do their voting with voting ma
chimes. instead of the cumbersome
and old fashioned paper ballots. This
will mean not only that it will be
easier for the voters to cast their
ballots, once they get used to the
machines, but that the returns will
be available hours before they were
under the old system.
Another good feature of voting
machines is, that in the course OF
time they will pay for themselves
through the saving effected in the
hiring of clerks and judges, since,
with the automatic counting voting
machines, many less clerks and
Judges will be needed. Another i'm
portant saving will be effected
through the practical cutting out of
overtime pay, which, in the last
election, was a considerable item.
The Board of County Commission
ers, at their regular weekly meeting
on Tuesday, on the motion or Com
mission Mobley, voted to purchase
95 manually operated machines from
the Automatic Voting Machine
Corporation, Jamestown, N. Y. (the
low bidder), at cost of 81 ,202 each,
or total of STA, 10000.
Commissioner Hoffman was the
only commissioner to voice obJec-
lions to the purchase at this time,
claiming that the money could be
put to better use for such things as
increased salaries for teachers,
which he stated were bound to come;
the two types of machines available
were not demonstrated long enough
to sample public opinion on which
type they preferred, and finally, be-
cause he wanted a written opinion
from the attorney to the board as
to whether the county could buy
the machines without floating bond
issue. The attorney had given g
verbal opinion that the county hac
the necessary authority.
The final vote was 3 to |, with
Commissioners Burhans, Delphey
and Mobley voting aye, Commits
sioner Hoffman voting nay, anc
Commissioner Eldridge not voting.
Anent the story l wrote in this
column last week on badly needed
city projects that were being helc
up, either because of lack of money
or lack of equipment, here are ;
few examples.
Both ends of Devonshire Road arr
paved and have sewerage connec
tions, but long stretch of the road
between the two paved sections, i
in a disgraceful position and Their
is no sewerage connections to tn,
homes built there, some of which
are in the $1,000 class.
In the neighborhood of Ridge Ave
nue. there is an apartment building
over a garage, the owner of whicl
cannot rent single apartment be
cause he cannot provide toilet ia
cilities His application for the RICH
to put in septic tank was refuse
by the Health Department for goo
and sufficient reasons, and so far tn
city has failed to put in a sewer =
although the owner is paying cit
taxes - because the location of tn
property makes it necessary, eithe
to go long way around to give sew
erage with the proper drainage lev
ell, or they must, in order to go direC
to his property, put in a pumpin
station.
In the neighborhood of the Nun
cipal Stadium there is an ope
drainage runway that, in the sun
mer months, gives off stencil tn;
has been a menace to public healt