The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-01
AROUND TOWN
WITH THE EDETOR

All subscribers in Hagerstown and
the rest of the County are receiving
this weeks issue on Wednesday, De-
cember 81, 1852, instead of January
l, 1852 because of the New Year Day
holiday.
We will be back to our normal
publication day Thursday next
week.
Congratulations to Mayor Mills on
authorizing the Police Department to
suspend the parking meter enforce
ment after 600 o'clock on Saturday
night, until some time as the MEM
berS of the Council decide what they
want to do about it.
In fairness to the Police Depart
ment, it should be stated, however,
that at a recent meeting of the Mayor
and Council, the Police Department
asked that the Council take action to.
change the parking hour limits on
Friday and Saturday nights, because
of the decision of the Hagerstown
Retailers Bureau to remain open on
Friday nights till 900 o'clock and
to close on Saturdays at 500 o'clock
The Council, however, refused to
take any action and voted to let the
present parking regulations remain
in effect for the time being. Council
man Elliott stated during the discus
sion that he had been told that quite
number of the stores would not
observe the new night store hours.
Now that it becomes obvious that
Mr.. Elliott's information was incor-
rect, l presume the Council will, at
their next regular meeting, amend
the ordinance as requested by the
Police Department
l have pulled a lot of "BonerS7 in
my time, but on Monday afternoon
came close to pulling the biggest
one of all.
Running into Rod" Mason and his
wife, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J..
Grafton Mason, who is an engineer
at the Atomic Engineer Plant at Oak
Ridge, we stopped and chatted for
a while, when Rods brother,
Rocky" who was a pilot in the
Navy Air Corps, came along also.
Completely forgetting for the mo-
ment that the two boys were bro
theirs, l started to introduce them to
each other, but I was saved the en-
barrasSment when Rod, in a nice
way let me know that they knew
each other very we'll"
In our column, News of Boys in
Service - last week, we had an item
about Robert D. Lowery, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert c. Lowery, which
stated that Robert had recently ar
rived in Germany.
The next day received phone
call from Mrs. Lowery informing me
that her boy had been in Germany
for over a year and was scheduled
to come home next month. When I
explained to her that the news story
was printed exactly as it was re-
ceived by US from the Army's Over
seas Information Center, her answer
was:
'All can say is, hope they won't
be that far behind when it comes
time to send Robert home next
MONTH
I don't think you need to worry
about that Mrs. Lowery. The prob
ability is, that whoever wrote the
story just got the wrong information
from Roberts outfit.
In reporting the Boy Scouts Court
of Honor last week, we told about
the dramatization of the Cub Scout
graduation ceremony, in which Cub
Scout Henry Shields of Pack "a, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. PAUL S. Shields,
took part
The skit showed what happens
when Cub Scout approaches his
twelfth birthday and becomes eligi-
BILE to join regular Boy Scout
Troop.
In the skit, Henry was shown as
being indicted into Troop 10 of Trim
ity Lutheran Church, but what our
reporter didn't know was, that it
was not an actual transfer, but sim
ply stunt to explain how the trans
fer is made.
Henry's father, who is chairman
of the Committee of Troop 5, spon-
sored by the Presbyterian Church,
of which I was Scoutmaster for three
years, called me on Friday to inform
me that 1 had really put him on a
spot, as he had received call after
call asking what he meant by let
ting Henry join Scout Troop of
Trinity Lutheran Church instead of