The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-09-17
ARG2lIND TOWN
WITH THE EDITOR


A minute, statewide Air Raid
Alert Drill will be held next Tues
day, September %. The alert will
last from. 2:0l p. IN. TO 2:07 p. m.
According to the state directive re-
garding this air raid alert drill, a red
warning signal will be given, indi-
eating that the drill is on, and the
public is then requested to take all
precautions that would be taken i'm
the event of an actual air raid, de
tails Of which will be given in the
daily papers between now and Tues
day
l have, however, up to the time of
going to press, been unable to find
out from anyone what sort of a warm
ing signal will be given in Hagers-
town and Washington County.
l thought, perhaps, that the fire
alarms would go off, but am told
by John Hall, chief of the Hagers-
town Fire Department, that he has
never been requested to use the fire
alarms. Then / thought, perhaps,
that the radio stations, who are going
to run a special seven-minute pro-
gram supplied by the State Civil De
Tense Agency during the drill, would
know how the public was to be in
formed that the drill was starting,
but they too tell me that they know
nothing about it, the only thing that
they know is that they are to run
this special program.
So again, all can tell you, is to
watch the daily papers and listen to
your radios for further instructions.
Frankly, it looks to me as if Ha-
gerstown and Washington County
lag far behind the rest of the state
in this air raid protection program.
On a recent weekend trip, | no.
ticed in several cities, big signs di-
recting people to air raid shelters and
also noticed, in the exchange pa
pers get, that the public is con-
stantly being warned on what TO do.
But Hagerstown and Washington
County apparently, outside of an air
spoilers program, is taking the whole
thing very much for granted.
/ know that there is a cease fire
in Korea, but l also know that we
are dealing with am enemy that is as
tricky and as brutal as it is possible
to imagine.
was in the middle of air raid at
lacks in England in World War |;
you all know what happened in ia
pans sneak attack on Pearl Harbor;
and whether you believe it or not,
Russia would attack the United
States tomorrow if they thought they
had the least chance of getting away
with it.
Those Communists don't consider
what might happen to their people
il they bomb this country because,
as far as they are concerned, people
are just cannon fodder.
So come on Hagerstown and Wash
ington County, let's face the facts and
get busy on real Civil Defense pro-
gram, with a Prayer on our lips that
it will never be needed.
A rather bad mix-up has occurred
over the plumbing in a number of
houses, built and sold on Radcliffe
Avenue by the Hagerstown Housing
Corporation.
Some of the owners of the homes
. have appeared several times before
the Mayor and Council regarding the
laundry tubs in their easements
which, instead of being connected to
the sewer as provided for in the city
plumbing code, have been connected
to dry well under the basement.
Mayor Winslow F. Burhans. in an
effort to bring this long drawn-out
dispute to an amicable conclusion,
called meeting of interested parties
at the City Hall on Monday after
noon.
During that meeting it was brought
out that the connecting of the
laundry tubs to the dry well, instead
OF to the sewer line, was a definite
violation of the law and A. M. Mar