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The present Mayor and Council
held their last regular meeting at
the City Hall last Thursday night,
as the new Mayor and Council will
take office April l.
The meeting ended on a very hap
py note, with Mayor Herman L.
Mills praising the Council for their
sincere and conscientious efforts and
also for their sincerity in the differ
ences of opinion that arose from
time to time He was followed by
Councilman Luther Broom and j..
Frank Elliott (neither of whom are
seeking reelection who were also
highly complimentary of the Mayor
and their fellow Councilmen.
On the motion of Mr. Elliott, the
Council voted unanimously to at
tend the first regular meeting of the
new Council which will be held on
Thursday, April 2, to welcome them
into office. This fine gesture is some
thing new in history of Hagerstown's
+ City Administration.
On the motion of Mr.. Broom, the
Rev Earl E. Redding, pastor of
/ Grace United Brethren Church, who
! gave the Invocation at the opening
of the meeting, then created another
first in City Administration affairs,
when he also closed the meeting
with Prayer.
! Following the meeting, at which
only routine matters were taken up,
/ the Mayor and Council met with
Hubert Schindel, chairman of the
Finding Commission, that has
been studying the question of a mod
ern garbage disposal plant for Ha
gerstown who, with Don Croft, SUI
perintendent of the City Sewage
| Plant, and Claude Williams, city en-
/ gineer, gave a detailed report on the
/ various garbage disposal processes
that are available, with particular
emphasis on the Frazer Eweson
Composing Process, which both Mr..
Williams and Mr.. Croft highly rec
commended.
The report showed that this pro-
cess, which is in actual operation at
Bay Shore plant in Long Island,
was visited by Mr.. Croft, Mr.. Will
liams, Lionel Sellman, of the Vogel-
Ritz Company, and Mr.. Snyder, of
the State Health Department, all of
whom were high in its praise.
During the discussion it was point
ed out that this modern system can
! be put into operation right here in
Hagerstown within four months af-
ter a contract is signed, at a cost of
slightly less than 100000, which in
cludes not only the construction of
the building, but also the necessary
equipment, as well as the labor and
/ operating cost for one year, and it
is estimated that the finished Com
post-in other words a fertilizer
made from the garbage-will pro-
duce a net revenue to the City of
close to $40, 1000 a year. This annual
revenue is based on the plant pro-
ducing 1850 tons of Compost, that
the Frazer-E weson Company would
be willing to buy at the price of
$500 per ton.
During the discussion, it was
brought out that the State Health
Department, who had notified the
Mayor and Council that a change in
their present garbage disposal sys-
/ tenn would have to be inaugurated
by March Is, would be almost GER
tain to extend that date, providing
the contract for a satisfactory plant
was entered into before the dead
line.
The Mayor and Council then voted
to ask Mr.. Frazer, who is a member
of the Kaiser Frazer Corporation, to
come to Hagerstown this week to
meet with the Mayor and Council
and discuss the possibility of an
early arrangement for the building
of such plant here. He is expected
to meet with the Mayor and Council
! this afternoon.
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