The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1951-04-12
NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK IN BRIEF

The friends and neighbors of the
Silas H. Petre family turned out in
force on April to clean up the
charred remains of two barns that
burned to the ground on their Mid
dleburg Pike farm on April 6.
Between rs and 100 men, many of
them with their own trucks, re-
moved the debris in one-day OPP
Grafton.
Said Mrs. Petre: ITS wonderful
to have neighbors like this"
The board of directors of the Ha-
gerstown Chamber of Commerce on
April 9 passed a resolution asking
that Governor McKeldin appoint a
commission to study the proposal
for a c & o Canal parkway.
Members of the board had pre-
viously discussed making formal
request to the Governor for such a
commission.
Saturday, July IA has been set as
the official date for the 1851 Soap
Box Derby over Derby Downs on
the Dual Highway. The official an
nouncement was made following a
conference of those IN charge of the
oHoi,, tbic caocop
The ever increasing use of the
Museum and it's facilities by the
community" has been termed the
most important and encouraging fact
of 1850 for the Washington County
Museum of Fine Arts.
The following streams in Wash
ington County have been stocked
with trout, some of which were
large brood brook trout, it was an
nounced by the Game and Inland
Fish Commission:
Beaver Creek, Fonoloway Creek,
Marsh Run, st. James Run, Sem
pies Run and Little Antietam Creek
The County Health Department
warned of an outbreak of ringworm
of the scalp among local school chill
dren and asked the cooperation of
parents to keep the infection from
reaching serious proportions.
The Board of Education will aban-
don all its court house offices.
Moving day is planned for some
time next month, at least before
June /.
Superintendent William M. British
said today that the School Board out
grew the court house space long ago
and that for some years half the ad-
ministrative staff has been housed
at the Vocational Center back of
Frederick Street.
Washington County Selective
Service headquarters here requested
that registrants wait until April IL
before making request for an ap-
plication to take test that may re-
suit in a draft deferment
The tests will be given to college
and university students at the Hag-
erstown Junior College in Hagers-
town on May 26, June Is or June 3d.
Building activities IN the city in
March went over the quarter of a
million dollar mark as indicated by
permits issued after February con-
struction tumbled to a five-year low
of about $4,000.
The State Reformatory of Males
may soon go into the book repair
industry, because of the increasing
price of school books, a group of
Hagerstown High School students
were JOlQ.
The problems of democracy and
social studies classes taught by Louis
Tuckerman visited the Roxbury in
Stitution.
Henry Raymond, superintendent
of the State Reformatory, said that
details are being worked out for the
book repair department, which if
successful could pay for itself
Washington County S lie C tive
Service headquarters received a call
for 80 men to be sent TO Martinsburg
for a preinduction examination on
April 80.
Draft Boards said u men will be
called from Local Board So. and 10