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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
To Assist In Filing
Annual Tax Returns

Arrangements have been made to
assign deputy collectors of internal
revenue to various sections and COM
munities throughout the area for the
purpose of assisting taxpayers in
filing income tax returns for the cal
endar year 1916 and estimated re-
turns for the year 1947.
The places to be visited in this area
and the dates are as follows:
Oakland, room 8, postoffice, Febru-
AIRY 10, II and II.
Kempton, school house, February Is.
Grantsville, postoffice, February H.
Crellin, Stanley Coal CO., February
IA.
Frostburg, postoffice, February 5,
6, and 7.
Westernport, postoffice, February
26 and 27.
Luke, Devon clubroom, February IS,
10, 20 and 81.
Homecoming postoffice, February 3.
Barton, First National Bank, Feb
ruary 3.
Kitzmiller, town council room, Feb
ruary "a and 25.
Cumberland, postoffice, January 16
through March Is.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Council To Meet
With Bus Officials

The Mayor and City Council will
meet on Thursday evening with Of
ficials Of the Reynolds and Osgood
bus companies in regard to the space
needed for the buses in front of the
Sturgiss Pharmacy, and the price
they will pay in lieu of the parking
meters which would be placed there
if the bus companies did not use the
space.
The council at this time will also
appoint clerks who will be in charge
of the city registration on Monday,
January 81.
Clerk Arthur Lawton reported
yesterday that both town reservoirs
were full and overlooking and that
the water situation was now 100 per-
cent. One pump has been cut off.
He also reported receipts of SOL
rs from parking meters for past week,
making S493.37 since December 16.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Named On State
Farm Bureau Group

William Winterberg, Grantsville,
president of the Garrett County Farm
Bureau, was named a member of the
Executive committee at the business
meeting of the Maryland Farm Bu-
rcau, held in Baltimore last week.
He is also member of the Board
of Directors by virtue of being county
president.
During the convention IA broad
casts were made by three Baltimore
stations and of the 81 farm people
who participated in these programs
there was Ina Claire Jenkins, Oakland
High student, and All member here
The Farm Bureau went on record
favorng compulsory arbitration of
disputes in public utilities and key in
dustries; outlawing Of the closed shop
and lockouts; making unions live up
to contracts, as individuals and in
dustry must; stopping intimidation,
coercion and violence, and putting
labor unions under the Sherman anti
trust law.
Around 5000 farmers from all
parts of the state were at the con-
vention during the various sessions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
WORK ON LAKE SUMMER RESORT
EXPECTED TO START THIS SUMMER
Management Corporation Confirms Reports OF To
Million Dollar Project For Deep Creek Lake Area

Confirmation of the news about the
seven to ten million dollar resort pro-
ject to be located at Deep Greek Lake,
was given Saturday by r. H. Clarke,
executive vice president of the Ken
stro-Clarke Management Corporation.
Mr.. Clarke and George L. White,
both of New Haven, Conn, were here
over the weekend working out
further details.
In confirming the report, Mr.,
Clarke made it a point to stress that
his corporation had no desire to
change in any way the desires or
wishes of the people of the county in
regard to the local option liquor laws
or any other regulations, and that his
group would need the continued CO.
operation and moral support of the
citizens as the work progressed
Mr. Clarke said architects draw
ings for the 500-room hotel and all
other buildings to be located within
the 1000 acre Marsh Hill tract are
now being prepared by Kenneth
Franzheim, nationally known archi-
tect from Washington, New York and
Houston.
Mr.. White, Connecticut building
contractor, who will be in charge of
construction, said he expected work
on the project to begin at least by
July, providing materials were avail
able. He stated that it would require
two to three years to complete the
job.
Certain details of the announce
ment last week were confirmed by
Mr.. Clarks who said that more than,
1000 acres of land in the Marsh Hill
section had been acquired on a 90
year lease which would be sufficient
for the resort. The tract contains
about one and one-half miles of shore
line.
A Maryland corporation now is be-
ing formed for ownership and fl
nancial backing, with the management
under the direction of the Connecticut
corporation.
Marsh Hill is located across the
lake from McComas Beach and
stretches from the breast of the dam
toward McHenry and the Deep Greek
bridge, but does not connect with the
McHen1y inlet 1t is bounded on the
north by the Hoyes Run road and on
the west by the Youghiogheny River
valley. The approach will be from
Hoyes Run road where it will be
necessary to construct about three
miles of road.
Planned on Huge Scale
Planned on a huge scale, the resort
will include hotel of from 500 to 800
Continued on Page Two)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
March of Dimes
Campaign To Open
Today in County
DIR. E. |. Baumgartner, County
Chairman, Names Assistants
In Various Communities

Garrett County's Annual March of
Dimes Campaign for the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
opens today and will continue through
January 80, it was announced by Dr..
E. |. Baumgartner, county chairman.
He will be assisted in the drive by the
following community chairmen:
B. o. Aiken, Accident; Mrs. Carroll
Pattison, Bloomington; Miss Josie
Iden, Crellin; Mrs. E. C. Clatterbuck,
Deer Park; w. J. Glenn, Friendsville;
Marshall Brown, Grantsville; Mrs.
Peter Scrip, Kempton; L. C. Hutson,
Kitzmiller; Mrs. Edgar Smith, Loeb
Lynn; Mason Calls, Mt. Lake Park;
Mrs. Mary J. Harvey, Swanton. Coin
containers for contributions to aid in
the fight against infantile paralysis
have been placed in business places
throughout the county by the various
community chairmen.
AS in the past, fifty percent Of all
funds raised during the drive will re-
main in the county for local use in
caring for polio cases. During the past
year, Dr.. Baumgal tnel stated, the
local chapter has expended $113.4O
for shoe repairs, $3244 for new shoes
and $710.50 for hospital treatment of
patients. Those hospitalized were
Robert Tarrant, of Kempton, and
Nina Davis, of Bloomington. The hos
pital treatment of a polio case is eX-
pensive, he pointed out, because it is
protracted and special pieces of APP
paratus are often necessary. AS a con-
sequence such care is often beyond
the financial means of the average
individual. 1t is the policy of the Ma
tional Foundation for Infantile Para
lysis to render whatever aid is neces-
sary to every polio case regardless of
age, race, creed or color.
To aid in the fund raising dances
will be held in the county. The Oak
land Democratic club will sponsor a
dance at the Manhattan hotel in Oak
land on January 80. The Kitzmiller
P-T.A will have a dance at Kitz-
miller High school on January 20. The
date of the dance of Grantsville will
be announced later.
Through the cooperation of B. |.
Gender there will be theatre col
lection in his theatres in Oakland,
Fricndsville and Grantsville. The
management of the Maryland Theatre
at Kitzmiller will also sponsor col
lection.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Sportsmen's Club
Refutes Charges
OF Cumberland Writer

An article blaming the Youghio-
gheny Rod and Gun club for influence
ing farmers to post their farms
against out of county hunters, which
appeared in the Cumberland Sunday
Times under a column edited by Ross
W. Prysock, was refuted this week by
members of the Garrett county or
ganization.
Prysock's article occupied almost a
column and he charged the Rod and
Gun club with systematically calling
on land owners and raising a bug-a-
boo" and declared some of the land
owners said they were "afraid not to
comply with orders of those who are
trying to close the territory because
if they do, there will be damage done
to their property"
He also charged that the club was
making the situation just as bad in
regard to fishing and that no angler
would be able to fish unless he re-
manned in the water, away from the
property borderland.
In his REPUTATION E. w. Adams,
president, denied posting any land
against fishing and said all posting
against hunting applied to Garrett
county residents as we'll as others who
did not seek permission of the land
owner.
He retold of out of county sports
men not only cutting wire fences but
shooting cattle, horses and tame
game within limits of farmers houses
and barns which he declared no
true sportsman would be guilty of
either from Garrett or any other
county.
He declared the club had in no way
applied any pressure on farmers and
land owners to post their land.
Mr.. Adams said the club was en-
phatic in it's opposition to the $3.50
statewide hunting license and would
do all possible to suppress the bill.
In regard to furnishing farmers tres
pass signs and promising farmers the
club would prosecute violations, Mr..
Adams said if the $3.50 statewide
license became law the club would
sponsor and pay for twenty thousand
no trespassing signs for 1947.
He asserted the main object of or
ganizing the club was to protect the
farmer, land owner and game of this
county and not to prevent any sports
man from any county or state from
hunting or fishing. The club has a
membership of 500, fifty percent of
that number being farmers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Rotary Club Plans
For Another Series
Of Public Forums

The Oakland Rotary Club is spon-
soring another Institute of Internal
tional Understanding similar to the
institutes which have been held in the
city the past few years. The meetings
this year will be held in the Assembly
Room of St. Pauls Methodist
Church and will consist of four week
ly meetings beginning on Monday
evenings concluding with the meet
ing ON March Bird.
-Four Outstanding speakers in inter-
national affairs will be presented,
speaking on the general theme, as
Cooperation Possible?" Professor
Felix's Gross, Of New York City, visit
ing professor of the graduate school
of Arts and Science of New York
University, and Professor of Political
Science and Director Of the institute
of international Relations at the Uni
Versity of Wyoming, will be the first
HpCGlACl 6tl lIlC OJtlIlHS VI luc series.
His subject will be, Getting To-
gether in Europe" He is the author
of a number of books on labor and
international affairs and has contri-
buted number of articles to various
American, English, Polish, CzechO-
slavakian, German and Mexican
magazines.
These Institutes will be in the ma
ture of an address, to be followed by
a public forum at which there will be
the opportunity for people in the au-
dience to ask questions. These speak
ers will also appear at the High
School and address a meeting of the
students there.
The Rev. Denver C. Pickens is
chairman of the local Rotary Clubs
Committee on International Under
standing, with other members of the
committee being Dr.. E. !. Baumgart-
ner, O. Z. eraser, Ralph E. Weber
and Mason Glotfelty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
National Contest
Open To Students
of Garrett County

The high schools throughout the
county have been invited by Garrett
Lodge No. 113, Knights of Pythias, to
participate in a national public speak
sponsored and directed by the Su-
preme Lodge, Knights of Pythias and
is open to all boys and girls in high
school who were born on or after
September /, 1923. The subject for
the contest is Juvenile Delinquency,
Its Cause and Cure" Each high school
may enter one contestant. The first
elimination contest will be held on or
before March 81, between participants
from Garrett and Allegany counties.
The winner of this contest will COM
pete in statewide contest on or be-
fore April 30. The winner of the
fore May 81 in a sectional contest
against neighboring state winners.
llt NIlIIIGio VI lllt SSNliOIlcll NOIIlCotS
will meet in Washington, d. c., on or
before June 80 to determine the reg
ional winner. The four regional Win
ners will meet in a final contest at
Beaumont, Texas, on Thursday, Aug
ust IA, to decide the national winner.
Each final contestant will be award
ed one of the four scholarships listed:
First prize, $3.50; second, $500; third,
$500, and fourth prize, 100000
Garrett Lodge, in order to stimu-
late further interest in this project,
will hold preliminary contest.
Awards of $40 and S. will be paid
to first and second place county Win
ners. The lodge plans further to pay
the expenses of all county participants
to all contests until such participants
have won or have been eliminated.
Cash prizes will be awarded to win
ners at each level of competition
throughout the contest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16

Mr. Sincell was born July II, 1869,
in Frederick, a son of the late Charles
H. and Leah Richardson Sincell. He
moved to Oakland early in life and
during his young manhood was en-
ployed in newspaper offices in Pres
ton county, both at Terra Alta and at
Kingwood. Later he was employed by
Capt. James A. Hayden, founder
and owner of The Republican at that
time.
He purchased The Republican and
issued his first newspaper on his Dist
birthday, July II, 1890. Since that
time and up until his illness he was
prominent in community and county
activities and supported and helped to
promote many projects for the COM
munity and county welfare.
He was considered an authority in
the county on election procedure and
for a number of years was secretary
to the board Of election supervisors.
He was elected upon several occasions
as member of the Republican State
Central committee. He was a men,
Der of the Lutheran church and until
his later years was active in church
work, having been superintendent Of
st. Marks Lutheran Sunday school
for many years and Sunday school
Continued on Page Eight)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
81 Percent of 1916
Taxes Are Collected

Over 81 percent of the county's
taxes for 1916 were collected last
year, in addition to other taxes due
since 1912, it was revealed from
report of j. Edward Helbig, who
was county treasurer until the first
of the year. The report was presented
to the board of County Commissioners.
Taxes to be collected during 1916
amounted to $29S,06987, and the
amount collected was 1912, 1914,
leaving a balance of $25,914.73, or
less than nine percent of the total.
Uncollected taxes from 1943 to the
present time amount to $37, 445.96,
with the years divided as follows:
1913, $65O.93; 1914, $4,047.26; 1915,
$6,833 .04; 1916, $25,914.73.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Hearing Is Held
On Application
For Bus Service

A nine-hour meeting was held
yesterday in Cumberland before
Joint board of the Interstate Com
merce Commission on the application
of Robert Lee Emery, Jr,, Martins
burg, w. Va, owner of Emery's
Motor Coach Lines, to provide both
through schedules connecting Nor
gantown, Oakland and all intermedi-
ate points directly to Cumberland.
The case was retired until tran
script of the testimony is prepared
and the joint board makes its report
to the ICC, probably in six weeks.
If the application is granted Emery
said he plans to operate new and
modern motor coaches with fares as
low as so percent less than the
present existing fares Of the Osgood
Bus Line now serving Oakland and
Morgantown.
Witnesses and petitions were pre-
scented favoring the line. Frank Cor
bin Osgood owner, testified his
coaches had been operating for nine
years with no complaints as to ser
vice and stated the route would not
support two bus lines. A Blue Ridge
representative also said the proposed
route was adequately served by Blue
Ridge Lines.
The application calls for extension
Of routes serving Elk Garden, Kitz-
miller, Deer Park, Oakland, toward
Morgantown, as we'll as service be-
tween Deer Park and Westernport
via Maryland route 1876, serving
Swanton, Bloomington and Luke.
Temporary extension of Osgood
Line operations from Deer Park to
Allegheny Front expires March l.
Among those testifying in favor of
the application We're Mayor A. G.
Hesen, H. L. Bittner, Paul Naylor,
Prentice DeBerry and Walter Daw-
son.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
County Banks Choose
Officers and Directors

Directors of the four banks in the
county were elected at annual meet
ings of stockholders, three of them
held the past Tuesday.
The Garrett National, Oakland, and
First National, Fricndsville, named
new directors to take the place of de-
ceased members, while the First
National of Oakland named an adj
ditional director. There were no
changes at the First State of Grants
vile.
Officers were reelected at the First
National Bank, Oakland, the First
State Bank, Grantsville, and the First
National, Friendsville, while officers
for the Garrett National Bank in Oak
land will not be chosen until a meeting
of the board on Friday, January "a,
L. J. Warthen, cashier, took the place
of Mrs. Cora Rumbaugh on Friends
ville's board. J. Edward Helbig was
named to the Garrett National Board
in place of H. V. Leighton. Ralph E.
Pritts was named as an additional
director of the First National, Oak
land.
First National Bank
Directors-A. D. Naylor, E. Ray
Jones, James P Treacy, R. E. Nc
Intire, Alva G. Gortner, Cecil Smith,
Ralph E. Pritts.
Officers: A. D. Naylor, president;
E. R. Jones, vice president; Cecil
Smith, cashier; George X. Littman,
assistant cashier.
Garrett National Bank
Directors-William r. Offutt, Stuart
F. Hamill, Lester C. Yutzy, H. c.
Riggs, Arthur Naylor, Floyd B. Leigh
ton, J. Edward Helbig.
Present officers: w. R. Offutt, pres
ident; H. C. Riggs, vice-president and
cashier; J. NJ. Jarboe, assistant cash
Ter; Julius B. Littman, assistant
cashier.
First State Bank
DirectorS-Dr. N. r. Davis, Stew
art Rodamer, F. w. Bender, C. o.
Bender, Frank Spoerlein, J. A. Beachy,
E. R. Jones, Harvey Gortner, William
Winterberg, D. H. Broadwater and
Joseph F. Fahey.
Officers: DR.. N. r. Davis, president;
William Winterberg, vice-president;
Joseph f. Fahey, cashier; Stewart
Rodamer, assistant cashier.
First National, Friendsville
Directors-H. j. Black, D. S. Gus
ter, Ernest N. Friend, R. E. Guard,
w. j. Glenn, L. J. Warthen, Norval
Speelman.
Officers: H. j. Black, presidents
Norval Speelman, vicc-president; l..
J. WaIthen, cashier.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Wemen's Club Meets

The subject, Can Women Hold the
Line on Jobs?" was discussed at the
regular dinner meeting of the Bust
ness and Professional Women's club
at the William-James hotel last
Thursday evening.
Talks were made by Miss Eleanor
Ray, librarian, and Mrs. f. R. Shat
fer. A group discussion was led by
Mrs. Arthur Humbertson.
Robert Smith played three select
ions upon the piano, Valse in A Flat,
by Durand; La Plus Que Lente, Valse,
by DeBussey; and Birding, by Grieg.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Ordered to Hold
Election Material

Governor w. Preston Lane has in
structed Richard L. Davis, clerk Of
the circuit court, to impound all cleo
ton material until further notice, be-
cause of the controversy over the
seating of former governor Herbert
R. O'Conor as a member of the U. S.
Senate.
The unsuccessful contestant, d.
John Marley, had filed a protest with
the Senate, and committee is now
investigating.
Mr.. Davis said all election ballots,
etc, are held for six months anyway
before being destroyed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Weather Springlike

Weather during the week was
springlike with one morning alone
having any appearance of winter. The
temperature that morning dropped to
Is. The high Of the week was recorded
yesterday at SO. Rainfall amounted to
one-half inch yesterday and today ~
up to 10: 30.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Masonic Officers
Installed Tuesday

Officers in Oakland Lodge No. 1872
A, F. and A. Masons, were installed
and invested at the regular meeting
on Tuesday evening.
Elective officers who were in
stalled were Reaford Purbaugh, wor-
shipful master; S. Townshend Naylor,
senior warden; Clifford Phillips, jun
ior warden; Harland L. Jones, secre-
tary; and W. Cecil Smith, treasurer.
Appointive officers who were in
vested were C. Melvin Right, senior
deacon; Prentice DeBerry, junior dea-
con; Fred D. Bell, senior steward;
Neil V. Liller, tyler.
Installing officer was Scott W,
Shirer, assisted by Walter w. Daw-
son and other past masters.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
B. H. SINCELL,
VETERAN EDITOR.
BURIED MONDAY
Publisher of The Republican for
Fifty-Six Years, Died Friday
Midnight at His Home Here

Benz. H. Sincell, aged II, editor
and publisher of The Republican for
more than ffty-siX years, died about
midnight Friday night, at his home on
Second street. He had been confined
to his home since September but had
not become critically i'll until about
two weeks ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1947-01-16
Forest Wardens To Meet

District forest wardens of Garrett
county will go to Cumberland next
Monday and Tuesday for a meeting
of forest wardens and other officials
Of the district.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-30
OBEDIAH, PUT IT OUT

NEW YORK UD IT m e
song sung by a trio, ''The Three
Flames" at a ceremony marking
Fire Prevention Week: "Obediah,
Put Out That Fiah."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-30
JOHNNY-ON-THE-SPOT

MIL WAUKEE- WH When g.
year-old Donald Laabs raised his
hand in school and asked to be
excused for a few minutes, he
didn't give any reason. Donald
ran across the street and con-
firmed his suspicious that smoke
was pouring out of a flat. He
sent in an alarm from the cor
ner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-30
MAILING. SERVICE
OPENS TOMORROW
Christmas Aid Plan Also
To Have Postoffice
Branch

The Wilmington Chamber OF
Commerce tomorrow will open
its special Christmas mailing
and wrapping service in the
Woodrow Wilson hut, with a sub
station Of the post office to be
opened there to speed mailing.
The chamber service pri1nari-
/. ly deals with the wrapping OF
s. Christmas gifts for mailing and
expressing. It does not include
wrapping any gifts for personal
distribution.
John H. Farrell, chamber sec
retary, in announcing yesterday
that plans for the wrapping SER
vice had been completed, report
. ed that he had received a num-
. ber of favorable comments on
: the Christmas street lighting
that was turned on for the first
time Friday night. The lights
will remain on through the holi-
day season.
Meanwhile, plans were going
- ahead for the anticipated arrival
of Santa Claus at the ACL
station December II. Santa will
be given a ride through the city
on the hook and ladder fire
. truck.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-30
Reverses Propeners
Safely AT $4,000 Feet
And At $50 Miles Hou,

CALDWELL, N. j., Nov. 2e-
ALL four propellers of a
Douglass transport plane were
reversed simultaneously in the
first tests of ''backing up'' an
airplane in flight, a test pilot re-
ported today.
Herbert o. Fischer, chief test
pilot of the Curtiss-Wright cor
poration's propeller division
made the test at an altitude of
$4,000 feet.
The plane was flying at about
150-miles an hour when the four
propellors were reversed, rapid
ly reducing the speed of the big
aircraft Fischer said one and
two propellers previously had
been reversed, but reversing all
propellors had not been tried for
fear they would stall and the
plane crash before the engines
could be returned to normal.
The test pilot said sirnultane-
GUS reversing Of propellors, with
powerful braking effect, would