The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-04-09
Around Town With
The Editor


Before he left on Tuesday after
noon, the Mayor told me that the
meeting with the representative of
the Frazer Products Company, who
have the contract for the garbage
compost plant, will arrive in Hagers-
town sometime on Monday afternoon
and he has, therefore, called a spec
ial meeting of the Mayor and Coun-
Gil for Monday night at 1870 o'clock.
With the contract signed, the only
question now to be decided is where
the plant will be located. This, of
course, is an urgent matter since the
State Health Department must have
definite assurance as to when the ac-
tual construction is to begin, since
they have ruled that the present sys-
tenn of disposing of the garbage must
be changed.
Living up to my reputation of oc-
casionally inserting little humor
into the meetings of the City Coun-
Gil practice 1 have also followed
in some of the meetings of the Board
of County Commissioners brought
up. at last weeks meeting of the
new Mayor and Council, the question
of my disappointment as an honor
airy member of the Council without
portfolio and without pay, to which
I was originally appointed by Mayor
Mills administration.
In bringing up the subject, l ask
ed Mayor Burhans whether he wish
ed to take care of the matter when
he opened his "Green Bag" or
whether he wished the Council to
dispose of it at the meeting? The
Mayor, who paid me little compl-
ment and then ruined" it by refer
ring to me as a 'scalliwag," said that
he thought it was a matter for the
Council to decide upon and, since
Roy Knight was the only member of
the former administration now on
the Council, he asked him to speak
on the matter.
Roy said ,that he thought it would
be a good idea to keep me as an hon
orary member. but l was not quite
sure whether he said Honorary or
"Ornery" He then made the mo-
ton for my appointment, which
was seconded by Jake" Vorous,
Councilman from my Ward, and car
ried unanimously.
commented last week on a sug
gestion that has been made, that the
Little League play some of their
games under the lights, and l urged
all of you who were interested to
attend a meeting of the League that
was held on Tuesday night at the
YMCA.
Today, l am glad to be able to re
port to you that not only was the
meeting we'll attended, with several
parents present, but also that it was
decided, after a fine discussion that
lasted well over an hour and in which
nearly everyone present took part,
that the Commissioner of the League
appoint a committee to go further
into the question and report back to
the league members from time to
time.
1t was brought out at the meeting
that the main purpose of considering
playing under the lights was to en-
able more teams to be enrolled, thus
giving more kids chance to play
ball. The matter of getting another
field to accommodate more teams
was also discussed and the feeling
was that would be fine, if a suitable
field could be found and if enough
volunteer adult help was forthcom-
ing to maintain it.
Finally, it was announced that
even if a decision is reached to in
stall lights, they will not be used
this year.
I want to congratulate the officers
and members of the Little League
for the fair way they discussed this
very important matter and also for
allowing me to take part in their
discussion.
Z I have always prided myself on
my spelling, but when I received a
phone call on Tuesday afternoon ask
ing me how to spell "In-Sul brick,
I was completely stumped, for not
only was I unable to spell it, but
didn't even know what it meant, and
| couldn't find it in any dictionary
However, through the courtesy OF
the ]. B. Ferguson Company, / was
able to call the party back and give
them the spelling, as you see it above
/ also learned that In-Sul brick is
an insulated board marked off to re-
semble brick and is used in remod.