The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 3

People Mondoy. Ocfoby 27. 1975 THE Brewbafcer's takin' core of on the railroad By MAURV MACHT William M. Brewbaker Jr. is one railroad man who says he's glad the diesels replaced steam locomotives.

As a man who has spent Us life around railroad yards and his adult life working as a locomotive mechanic and supervisor, he should know. "I'm one person who never missed the steam locomotive," he gays "It was dirty work, hard work. You'd wear new overalls to work and by dinnertime it looked like you had 'em on for six months." For the pas! 10 years, Brewbaker has been general foreman of the locomotive shops and car foreman for the Chessie system in Hagerstown. Chessie absorbed the Maryland line several years ago. It's Brewbaker's job to see that all the engines and railroad cars in Hagerstown are in good working order.

It's a big job, with many responsibilities, stemming from the large surroundings of the round house located between Burhans Boulevard and W. Washington Street In the city's west end, Brewbaker, 54, Is a tall, husky man, not afraid to voice opinions and full of railroad yarns and codes to live by. What he's learned in 35 years working for the railroad, he says, in great part had been passed to him by his father, William M. Brewbaker whom he says is "Uie best railroad man I ever saw," The senior Brewbaker worked locally for the railroads for 42 years before retiring In 1865. He since has been a Judge of the Orphans Court.

For years be held the general foreman's job the son now holds. The round bouse was built to contain the gigantic 150,000 pound diesel engines which the mechanics repair. The men, in work boots, hard-hats and engineer coveralls, are dwarfed by the elephantine machines. Brewbaker says the work is hazardous and highly specialized. The men to be constantly tlert for moving locomotives.

They have to be aware of the massive electric voltage In the diesel engines. A good railroad mechanic, Brewbaker says, takes years to. develop. At least four years of apprenticeship and then four years for a man to be "on his own" are required before he becomes master at his craft. Mechanics live by the thought, "That it just takes a little longer to do the impossible," be says.

Most of the mechanics have worked at the yards for many years. They seem to bear out his adage that "When you get a drink of Western Maryland water, you're destined to die there." Nevertheless, over the years Brewbaker has seen the work force at Western Maryland drop from 800 employes in the locomotive and car shops to 200 employes. The loss has had some effect on employe morale, he says. "When I first came, everybody worked like a family. We all felt no railroad could do anything as well as the Western Maryland." The decline of the railroad's influence has been felt in Brewbaker's family.

His son won't continue the tradition of working in the yards. And his three daughters from 25 years of marriage to Anna Margaret Stoner Brewbaker aren't likely to follow their father. When he steps down from the railroads, Brewbaker says he'll be leaving more than a job. "1 grew up on railroad men's laps. 1 brought my father his lunch to the yard when I was 12.

Everything revolved around (he railroad. I didn't even know there were other industries. "I come from a railroad family. My wife's people are railroad people. My father-in-law worked here for 42 years.

Her grandfather worked here 40 years. My father worked here 42 years and I've worked 35 years. That's 159 years of railroad service in the family." Bill Iht railroad tor 35 ARNOLD PLATOU The City of Hagerstown appears to hold all the cards on annexation. If dealt properly, the city can use the stfll-to-be adopted area Water and Sewer Plan and its own sewer-annexation policy to add substantial acreage to its bounds. But its ace is the health problem that faces many county areas now served only by septic tanks.

County health officials say those areas must ultimately be hooked onto public sewer lines. And, area officials have concluded, only lines leading from the Hagerstown sewage treatment plant can feasibly serve the suburban areas north and east of the city. According to Barry Teach, executive director of the county Planning and Zoning Commission, the Fountain Head development will receive the new sewer extensions first. Construction is currently scheduled lo begin there within the next two to City may use sewer lines to add to its acreage three years, he said. Developments in a a a a a Lear Williamsport and areas east of the city along Maryland 64 and Robinwood Drive would see the first of the construction work within four to six years, he said.

If these priorities, as outlined in the Water and Sewer Plan are approved this year by the County Commissioners most areas southwest of the city would be sewered by the county Sanitary Commission, which Is based in Williamsport. The city's second card in the deck is its own sewer- annexation policy. Though exceptions to it were granted in a few cases this summer, the city recently opted lo take a strong stand on future county requests for sewage hook-ups. City officials said thev will require annexation before a hook-up will be permitted The policy is intended to increase the city's flagging tax base and to pay, in part, for improvements made to hike the capacity of the city sewer plant. Former PG pol gets state post ANNAPOLIS (API-Bypassing the normal political patronage channels, Ciov.

Marvin Mandel has appointed the former chairman of the Prince Georges County commissioners as director of a new state agency. Although no formal announcement ol the job has been made. Francis J. Aluisi has been serving in the (23,292 post of coordinator of development and NAACP asks classroom ban on calculators COLUMBIA, Md (AP)-Arguing that black and poor children already have more than problems learning rnathmalics. tfie state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has' asked ttyH the use of band calculators be banned in most classrooms'.

"Weakness in mathematics is a major problem for children, especially black and poor children," said Leroy W. Warren vice president for field operations. "The use hand calculators and computers in lieu of manual and mental compulations is an injustice tlwt should be legislatively outlawed, except in the case of business and office machine chisses," he said. The use of calculators and computers is all-right when they are introduced after students have learned to do the calculations themselves, Warren added. "But our statistics show that white kids in the state are doing math on eight-and ninth- grade levels overall while for blacks it's third or fourth grade." The measure to restrict the use of hand calculators and computers was one of several bills endorsed by the state NAACf 5 chapter at its annual convention here.

Warren said the measure is a result of a general survey of Maryland teachers, parents and corrections officials. Among other bills endorsed by the 300 delegates Saturday was a measure designed to ease the problem of suspensions, expulsions and dropouts among blacks in Maryland public schools. "Far loo many black stu-. dents are being forced out of public schools in Maryland for subtle racial reasons," Walter W. Black slate NAACP president, said.

"Legislation should be passed requiring each school system to annually make 3 public report, school-by-school, of the composition of sex and race of those suspended, dropouts, ex- plusions and enrollments in special education and remedial classes," be Mid. construction, permits since July 1. Aluisi. who ran his own civil engineering consulting firm after his defeat for re-election in 1970. said the best thing about his slate'job is that it no power" sn he' cannot be riccused of interest in a particular projrol.

He said he asked Ihe governor if he had any state jobs available and was promised the new post even before the legislation was enacted. Aluisi closed his consulting firm in May. The new agency, which consists ol an assistant and a secretary, was established to streamline the process of obtaining building permits from various state and local agencies by setting up a single consolidated hearing. Mandel has praised the agen- cy as a means of making state government more effective and efficient. Sen.

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Three city sources said they believe the mayor'a twosded stand is a ploy to force the council to a new decision either clarifying the policy or completely changing it. They said the mayor believes the city would lose a court challenge of the policy. As it stands now, however, the city will "without a doub!" gain new territory along its eastern and southern boundaries (o Funkstown, says Alan R. Musselman, a county planner. And he says, within six years, it will be able to grab up all of the eastern property to and including Sycamore Heights near Chewsville.

But the outlines of a "political hassle" are visible over control of Fountain Head and other areas north of the city, accor- Irol of Fountain Head and other areas north of the city, accord- ing to Harold Nun-imaker. administrative engineer of the Washington County Sanitary Commission. City officials say they do not know whether annexation will be demanded in Fountain Head. But they do voice concern that the county and the city must work together to hurdle the potential health problem caused by failing septic tanks there. Jhe areawide health problem is the trump card in the city's James Rooney, county Health Department sanitarian, says he can order residents lo hook onto public lines "the moment after" their septic tanks fail.

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