The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-12-24
PARK EXTENSION PLANS
DISCUSSED AT MEETING
If Given Adequate Local Sup
port, Extension Divisions Of
Two States Will Cooperate
COMMITTEE is APPOINTED

If a definite program for the
Mountain Lake Park Extension
Institute is outlined, if a budget
for the operation of the Exten-
sion Institute is set up, and if
the plan to make Mountain Lake
Park a center for agricultural
extension activities is given
proper and adequate local sup
port, then both Maryland and West
Virginia Agricultural Extension De-
partments will pledge full cooperation
to the protest.
Such was the outcome of the semi
public meeting held last Friday af-
ternoon in the court room at Oakland,
when citizens of the county met with
DR.. T. B. Simons, Maryland Exten-
sion director, and Nat T. Frame, West
Virginia Extension director, to dis
cuss the probability of an extension
program at the Park.
After the situation had been ex-
planned by Delbert Davis, chairman of
the meeting, and Rev. I. S. Middaugh
had expressed his views, DR.. Frame,
of West Virginia, stated his position
in the matter as being extremely fav-
orable from West Virginia point of
view.
"The counties of the tableland area
in West Virginia are too far from
Jackson's Mill to take any active part
in the program there" Mr.. Frame
said, "and Mountain Lake Park would
be a centralized point for them. If
this program is carried out it will be
possible to send Miss Sara B. Huff,
extension worker in music, to the
Park almost immediately"
Miss Huff's work in Garrett county
in preparation for the Allegheny Ia
bleland Music Festival at Somerset,
Pa, this fall, is well known, and a
successful musical program for the
Park this summer would almost be as
sured with Miss Huff here as director,
members of the committee believe. =
In explaining his position, DR.. Sy-
mons, Maryland Extension director,
said he favored anything which tended
to benefit the rural people, as that
was the purpose of his work. eff we
can be sure that this proposed pro-
gram at the Park will help the coun-
try people, if it will tend to develop
and educate them, then I will GER
tainly cooperate to the fullest. How
ever, we must have proper and ade-
quate local support of the PROPOSE
tion."
The elimination of the meeting was
the decision to appoint committee,
the members of which would be chos-
en- from the Maryland Extension SER
vice, the West Virginia Extension SER
vice, the Allegheny Tableland Asso-
citation, the Mountain Lake Park AS
ISOLATION, the director of the program,
Rev. 1. S. Middaugh, the mayor of
Mountain Lake Park, the Oakland Ro-
tary Club, the Pomona Grange and a
few others. This committee would
have in charge the raising of bud
get, the arrangement of definite pro-
gram to be carried on in conjunction
with the program usually carried on
by the Mountain Lake Park Associa-
ton, and would administer the funds
of the Extension Institute.
A number, of petitions which had
been prepared by members of the Ro-
tary Club, Oakland citizens and the
members of Pomona Grange, were
read at the meeting: Various sections
of the county were represented in the
discussion. More than fifty repre-
sentative men and women were in at.
tendance at the meeting.
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