The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-11-06
TABLELAND ASSOCIATION
HOLDS CONFERENCE HERE
Executive Board COnfers With
Pittsburgh Representatives on
Development of Counties
TO BUILD UP MEMBERSHIP

The Executive Board of the recent
ly created Allegheny Tableland Asso-
citation met with representatives from
the Pittsburgh Chamber of Com
Imerce and the Pittsburgh Metropoli-
tan Commission yesterday afternoon
at the William-James hotel, Oakland,
and worked out preliminary plans for
joint cooperation of various organiza-
tions looking to the future develop
ment of the mountain region.
The tentative plan proposes an
organization within this region that
will work with the agricultural pro-
gram in assisting farmers to sell
their surplus products on the Pitts
burgh market; second, with the CO.
operation of Pittsburgh interests, the
tableland association will advertise
the entire region and plan for events
next summer in order to attract
thousands of tourists to all points of
interest within the eight counties
composing the Allegheny Tableland
Region. These counties are: Fayette
and Somerset in Pennsylvania; Gar
rett in Maryland; Mineral, Grant,
Tucker, Preston and Monongalia in
West Virginia.
The meeting was the outgrowth OF
the farm-city conference at Mt. Lake
Park August 80 and the inter-county
conference at Addison, Pa, October
Is. The plan calls for long time
program not based upon immediate
results, and means patience, hard
work, faith and tenacity of purpose.
Helping in this effort are the Agri-
cultural Extension Services of three
states; the State Department OF Agri-
culture at Charleston, w. Va; the
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce and
the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Commits
sion with the Bureau of Economics OF
the University of Pittsburgh.
In the Pittsburgh metropolitan area
as recently mapped there are 2,7OO,-
| 600 people. At least one million OF
these are travelling places six months
in the year. The Allegheny Table
land Association is aiming to bring a
big part of these million people to
these mountains.
at can be done", and is going to
be done, was the sentiment expressed
at the meeting yesterday. In order
| to do it some action must take place
within the tableland area. This, the
committee says, will not happen by
wishing it to happen, but will result
quickly enough by the one hundred
percent cooperation Of every orga-
nization,, club, society, and business
firm within the area. 1t is necessary
to build up an association of large
membership and the Executive Board
Yesterday made plans to begin
membership drive at once and lasting
one month. The campaign for men,
bership will begin at the home OF the
President of the Association, Mr.. l..
F. Everhart, of Terra Alta, and meet
ings will follow in every one OF the
eight counties for a period of
month.
At the meeting in the William
James hotel yesterday were: Presl-
dent, L. F. Everhart, Terra Alta;
secretary-treasurer, Bushrod "Jack"
Grimes, Mt. Lake Park; vice-presi-
dents, Delbert Davis, Oakland; Mrs.
]. O. Lantz, Hartmonsville, W. Va;
L. o. Winters, Gormania, w. Va;
Mrs. Bessie L. Stemple, Aurora, W.
Va; ]. B. Watson, Confluence, Pa; b.
F. McNutt, Somerfield, Pa. composing
the Executive committee. From
Pittsburgh came Joseph T. Miller,
chairman of the Pittsburgh Metro
politan Commission; Frank H. Shat
fer of the Pittsburgh Chamber of
Commerce; James Shuman OF the
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Fro m
Charleston, w. Va, came Ross W.
Johnston of the Department of Agri-
culture; F. J. Reed, County Agent of
Preston county, and Russell R. Gist,
from the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice of West Virginia University. The
next meeting of the Executive Board
will be at the William-James hotel on
Wednesday, December IT.
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