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Council held last Thursday night:
Police Women
A delegation of police women, who
were hired last fall for crossing
guard duty at the various schools in
Hagerstown for the 1928 term,
waited on the Mayor and Council
regarding their status and hours of
work. The spokesman for the group
made the following suggestions:
y That they be given the right to
issue tickets in order that they could
better control motorists at the vari-
GUS school crossings; q that their
working day of 312 hours, at the
rate of $1.00 per hour, which con-
stituted the actual time they were
on duty at the crossing each day, be
increased to 5 hours per day at $1.0O
an hour, in order that they might be
paid for the time it took them each
day to get into their uniforms and
get to their stations and then to get
back to their homes and change
again into civilian attire, and 81 that
consideration be given the police
women who wanted it, for such po-
lice duty as they could perform dur
ing the summer school vacation
period.
Both Mayor Burhans and all the
members of his Council were high in
their praise of the efficiency and
courtesy of these women and on the
motion of Councilman Jacob Vorous,
which was passed unanimously, the
Board of Public Works was request
ed to make an immediate study of
the matter and report their findings
to the Council at the next regular
meeting.
North Potomac st. 400 Block
E. !. Hajek, president of a business
college in the block, appeared before
the Council and requested that the
coming ordnance be changed in order
to permit him to erect an addition to
his building beyond the present
building line, that was set by the
city engineer and approved by the
Circuit Court in a hearing on an
other case.
Mr.. Hajek, who spoke for almost
half an hour, stated that he wanted
a friendly settlement, but during his
talk he, at one point, stated that if
he couldn't build beyond the present
building line, he would blacktop the
front yard of his premises.
Finally when he was definitely told
by the city engineer that the Coun-
Gil did not have the authority to
change any section of the compre-
| hensive zoning law, just for the
benefit of one property owner, he
stated that he would abide by the
decision and erect an addition to his
property within the present building
line, but that it would 60 up two
stories above the ground, instead of
! the one-story addition that he would
have built under his original plan.
Street Improvements
A number Of delegations waited on
the Mayor and Council regarding
badly needed street Improvements,
particularly on Devonshire and Not
tingham Roads, but action on all
these matters was postponed until
| the Mayor and Council had an oppor-
] tunity to study the auditors report
for the year 1852 and the first three
months of 1858.
The Mayor assured the delegations
that their request would be given
every consideration and he then ar
ranged with the members of his
Council to hold a special meeting for
the study of the budget and that
meeting was in session yesterday
afternoon as we were getting ready
to go to press.
Editors Note: See Around Town
With The Editor" for comments on
this meeting.
The Park Board
Mayor Burhans complimented the
members of the Park Board, of
which Paul Snyder is chairman, for
the very fine work they are doing,
particularly with the small city own
ed parkways throughout the city, all
of which have been planted in flow
ers and shrubs this year.
Mr.. Burhans stated that he had
never seen these small city owned
parkways look more beautiful
Municipal Golf Course
During the meeting the Mayor dis
cussed with his Council the posi-
bility of, at some later date, building
an entirely new municipal golf
course at some other section in the
city, or county, and placing the
present golf course on the market,
from the sale of which the new golf
course could be built.
The Mayor pointed out that he
had received a number of requests
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