The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1952-08-07

From all accounts, tGnlghtS meet
ing of the Mayor and Council will
be full of action.
Scheduled to come up are:
A protest against the present ban
on parking on Summit Avenue and
North Jonathan Street, from An
tietam to Church Streets, between
the hours of $50 and $3.50 a, m. and
$3.50 and $50 p. m, except on Sun
days and holidays. The present reg
ulation is for a 60-day trial period.
An appeal by Arthur W. Sheetz
against a decision of city engineer
Claude Williams, who denied a per-
NIT to cut a second driveway in the
front of Sheetz's property on North
Potomac Street, where a service
building is being built, so that there
would be an entrance and exit drive
way to the property.
Former city attorney Francis H.
Urner is scheduled to speak on be-
half of those protesting the parking
ban and also on behalf of Mr..
Sheetz.
The Mayor and Council held spe-
cial meeting on Monday night, dur
ing which they:
Extended the present Rent Con-
troll Law until September 80, 1858.
The law would have expired Sep
TENDER 80, 1852. The action was
necessary since Congress voted to
end the National Rent Control or
der, except in cases where communi-
ties voted to keep it in effect.
Requested the Board of Public
Works to act at once on plan, sug-
gested some time ago by Council
man Luther Broom, to employ wom-
en-, on a part-time basis, to direct
traffic at schools--a job that has
heretofore been handled by regular
police officers. Councilman Broom,
in making the motion, stated that
the Mayor and Council had provid-
ed money in the Police Departments
1852 budget for this purpose.
Voted to appoint John w. Hall as
fire chief, to succeed the late Max
Hoover, effective August 10. In or
der to protect Mr.. Halls civil serv-
ice status, which he earned as a
full-time paid driver for the Hook
and Ladder Fire Company (the Of
flee of fire chief is not listed in the
Classified Service of the City Chart
err, the Council adopted a resolution
authorizing the personnel director
to make an official entry in the rec
ords, that Mr. Hall is on authorized
leave of absence from his present
position for such period as he serves
as fire chief
The argument as to whether the
Chronic Disease Hospital for Wash
ington County is to be built on the
posed site off Cannon Avenue, near
the Washington County Hospital, is
still far from settled.
A public meeting was scheduled to
be held on Monday but, at the last
minute Governor McKeldin decided
it would be better to first hold 6
meeting of those concerned in the
argument and then, if they coulo
come to a decision regarding site
the views of the taxpayers would be
heard on the chosen site before any
definite action was taken.
This meeting was held on Monday
at which both proponents of the Bel
levue site and the Cannon Avenue
site had their "day in court" after
which Governor McKeldin made ar
inspection of both sites and then left
for Annapolis. 1t is understood he
will shortly confer with the State
Department of Health, after which
it will be announced which site ha:
been selected.
Here is how the matter now stands
The State has appropriated the
sum of three million dollars for the
building of chronic disease hospita
in Washington County.
The Board of County Commission
ers has offered the State deed tt
the Bellevue Home site, for the hos
pital, at no cost to the state.
The State Board of Health want:
to build the hospital on the Cannon
Avenue site, in order, according tx
DR.. Riley, head of the Department
that the proposed hospital could be
better and more economically oper
ated if built close to the county hos
pital, and also because, in DR.. Riley
own words, 'It would result in Ha
gerstown having one of the fines
Medical Centers on the Eastern Sea
board"