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Evening star., 1950-01-17

IN recent mOntnS LOUIS mas been WORKING
beyond exhibition purposes to get back in
shape. He has been doing roadwork of fair
proportions and certain amount of gym
nasium boxing. He has gotten his weight
down to 223. He is still the best heavyweight
fighter in the world and he can still punch
But with all his many boxing exhibitions he
hasn't improved his lost speed by split
second and he is still no treat to watch. He
still looks fat and acts fat. He can move
around just fast enough to overtake hydrant.
Louis was never the fastest of heavy
Evening star., 1950-01-17
Torres, Kumoroff to Meet

Miguel Torres returns to meet
Ivan Kamaroff in a special 80
minute bout that has been added
to tomorrow nights wrestling
show at Turner's Arena, to be
headlined by a match between
Vivian Viann and Mae Weston.
Evening star., 1950-01-17
Matthias PAGES Victory

Sixteen points by Richard
Matthias led Mount Rainier B. c.
to a 42-37, basketball victory over
Bladensburg B. G. last night at
Mount Rainier.
Evening star., 1950-01-17

Ten years ago-Lefty Grove
signed his 1910 contract with
the Boston Red Sox.
Evening star., 1950-01-17
Win, Lose. or Draw
Louis Still Best, but Should Stuy Retired
By GRAkTLAND RICE

LOS ANGELES Jan. Must what plans Joe Louis has
for the rest Of 1850 is anybody guessncudng Joe
you can enter answerf Joe fights again. it will be
spectacle that only the morbid in heart would
Evening star., 1950-01-17

COrbett
moving type when 25 weighed 2o2
pounds Add years 20 pounds to this combination and
there's good why he hasn't retained this former
speed
Joe Finds 1t Difficult to Toke OFF Weight
Such able fighters Dempsey Tunney believe
thing Charles. both also
believe it would be melancholy sight So do most Of the
sport experts around Los Angeles who have Louis in
training and also in his exhibition boxing.
time, according to his friends we'll
20 pounds pal puts at 250 AS grows older he
discovers isn't easy to take off weight used to be- Flesh
and fat have of hanging with tight grip as the
years roll by
Out this way everyone to believe that will
fight again he can get in better shape He might slice off
few pounds-but where he going to find that lost
speed? Or rather how he going to lose that sowmoon
form of pursuit which the added have brought on?
The only is that there real heavyweight Of
championship caber in the world today Louis isn't and
neither Charles although
somewhat sordid lot.
Pro Tennis Lucrative Business
the best paying game for a young athlete to
adopt in the career? Boxing pro football baseball
golf, hockey basketball or tennis?
champion the few boxing might lead the list
provided be Dempsey, Tunney Louis But boxing
unless to have brains scrambled
and like the idea of walking your heels.
Certainly, for limited few, the is tennis Jack
Kramer and Pancho Gonzales rolled into Los Angeles few
days ago and they were better loaded with pieces OF eight
and gold bullion than any Spanish galleon. -'
From the best estimate round Kramer in less
than year and half has already collected 100000
and is still far from the bottom of the we'll Gonzales Mexican
kid barely 21 already banking s5oooo The Kramer
Gonzales tour far has drawn And only
three months old.
One active promoter the West Coast offered $400 for
the California rights which Bobby Riggs turned So far
Kramer has large margin Of wins Gonzales but Pancho
has registered some t9iumphs lately.
Truont Officers Don't Chose Comedies Now
Kramer big margin Is likely to make him the tour winner
which will leave him top. He will likely another
this fall Then he will have the 1850 amateur champion
plus experienced Gonzales to him through another
$4,000 trip.
only three four years that truant officers
chasing Gonzales for playing hockey have time
tennis AS writer expressed It, the truant officers
find Gonzales on his yacht
But there only few tennis players making this sort
Of money. Baseball from Joe D Maggios and Ted
Williams $4,000 possibly 100000 down to $5000 But there
hundreds making good living Pro football Will take
big dive this next year. $4,000 pay check will be close
the top since the draft will shut out all other bids.
Pro basketball players not doing too badly and you
might surprised to know what of the wrestlers
putting away More than most of the fghters Fake
double fake there cities that eat minus srup
Evening star., 1950-01-17

1See BASKETBALL, Page A-20.)
Evening star., 1950-01-17

but his feet he Corbett Conn Dempsey Joe
moving type when he 25 weighed 2o2
pounds Add and 20 pounds to this combination and
good why hasn't retained this former
speed
Evening star., 1950-01-17

(see sCALLION. Page A-2o)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
AAonpY Nem Heo4 .

apparently the only people who de-
temned time celebration of the New Year.
if it kills them Sometimes it does.
chldrens book research tells of custom of procamng
the arrival of the New Year spirit of revery
be almost universal Among Chinese New Years Day considered
the festival day of the year But Chinese oudone by
Japanese who dress up brand clothes and about the
streets beamng at and bowling and wishing
feet strangers Happy New Year"
Throughout Persia, the Nervous, Festival of the New
Year has always been celebrated with extraordinary rejoicing
The Ancient Mayans $500 Be to 1870 ADJ however,
cned to take grim view of the occasion They tasted and
prayed for days before the New Year made sacrifices and
blood offerings the image of the god the Old Year On New
Years Day. they cleaned house big destroying plates
beds and clothing that of the evil of the Old Year
might remain
Modern living doesn't require this Blood sacrifices passed
with the coming of Christ and don't have throw
tera things all the evil of the Old Year What need
better attitude toward fellow throughout the world
and a reciprocal feeling their part
Merchants busy taking inventory of their stock and
recalling their mistakes of the year They will make plans
improve their material condition All of take stock of
moral and spiritual values and make plans strengthen the
points where weak Only in that will the New Year
bring forth satisfaction and within ourselves and possibly
within the hearts of all other peoples of the world
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Suggests New Head
of Roads Commission

Governor Lane has relieved" Rob,
ert NJ Reindollar as chairman of the
State Roads Commission and recon-
mended that the veteran career man
be employed as consultant to the
commission.
He named Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Joseph D. Buscher to fill the
post. At the same time it was learned
that Republican Governor-elect Theo-
dore X. McKeldin plans to appoint
Russell H. Mccain, Frederick, present
minority member of the commission
to the craftsmanship shortly after he
takes office on January 10.
Under law members of the COM
mission serve at the pleasure of the
Governor. One must come from the
Eastern Shore, another from Western
Maryland and the third from Balti-
more. At least one member must be-
long to the major party opposite the
one with which the governor is affili-
ated.
The retiring chairman has been as
ISOLATED with the States highway
building activities since 1908.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Kitzmiller Man Dies
In Car Truck Crash

Arthur Roland Davis, SO, of Kitz-
miller, was killed Sunday III an auto
mobile-truck collision on route 40, near
Hancock.
Davis had been employed as coal
miner until he left Kitzmiller -four
weeks ago to seek employment in
Baltimore. He was enroute home for
the Christmas holidays when the fatal
mishap occurred.
A brother, Robert Thomas Davis
Jr., %, Baltimore, was driving the car
when it crashed against the rear of d
tractor trailer He suffered minor in
juries.
Born June 6, 1912, in Kitzmiller, Mr.
Davis was a son of Robert Thomas and
Bertha Ellen Simon Davis, of Kitz-
miller. He held membership i'm Local
No. 2204 United Mine Workers OF
America.
In addition to mis- widow, brother
and parents, he is survived by two
daughters, Kathryn and Sharon Da-
Wis; five sisters, Mrs. Louise Banning
Mrs. Lucy McClung, Mrs. Mildred
Sharpless and Mrs. Merle Green, all
of Kitzmiller; and Mrs. Edith Reel
Elk Garden; and three brothers, Don
aid and Charles Davis, of Kitzmiller
and Paul Davis, Akron, Ohio.
Funeral services were held Wednes-
day afternoon from the Assembly of
God church in Kitzmiller with burial
in the Nethken Hill cemetery at Elk
Garden.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Governor To Hold
Line On Tax Rate

Governor McKeldin said he
would recommend no increase in State
taxes to the Legislature which con-
venes next week.
He said his administration will be
able to "hold the line" for the fiscal
year of June 30, 1851, to June 20.
1852, against raising taxes and
against granting the bulk of the $14,-
100000 in increase budget requests.
He said there would be a great
pairing down in the vast program for
future capital expenditures for new
construction envisioned by the Lane
administration, including the mental
hospitals and the roads. Some of this
cutting down would be necessitated
by war shortage of materials, he said.
The States vast network of par
TALLY completed new roads Cannot be
carried out as planned" he declared.
Mr.. MeKeldin said that as an aid
to holding down expenditures during
his administration and to eliminate
duplication and overlapping in the
work of state departments, he soon
would appoint a survey commission
of civilians skilled in such matters, to
study the structure of the State gov
eminent and the processes of arriving
at the budget. He protested against
the present system by which the Gov
ernor and the budget director alone
are responsible for devising the
budget.
Mr.. McKeldin announced he planned
to appoint Nathan l.. Smith, present
chief engineer of Baltimore county,
as State engineer, a post held until
recently by John B. Funk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Fish Regulations
Affect This County

Some of the regulations adopted by
the Game and Inland Fish commission
of Maryland in November, are of in
terest to Garrett county residents.
In conformance with Section 5 of
Chapter 200, Acts of 1919, the Game
and Inland Fish commission through
its discretionary powers provided in
the act, declared that regulations 6
and 10, adopted January 6, 1850, gov
erning fishing in Deep Creek Lake are
thereby rescinded."
According to Lloyd Cook, game
warden, the regulations had to do with
opening of Deep Greek Lake in the
McHenry inlet to fishing, and with
prohibiting fishing of any kind in the
lake until July l.
The lake will now be open for fish
ing of any type in season, except that
the lake is closed during May and
June. Bass fishing begins July !.
Trout fishing opens April Is and fish
ing for trout in the lake is permitted
until April 30.
Another regulation passed stipulat-
ed that there shall be no closed season
on the following species of fish in non
tidal waters; but the crcel and size
limits as specified shall prevail; crap
pies, 10, suckers, Is, any size; cells
and carp, no limit and any size; white
and yellow perch, Is limit and
inches; sunfsh Of all species including
bluegill, rock bass, no limit and any
size; striped bass, 10 limit and II
inches in size; fallfsh, no crecl limit
and s inches in length; gudgeon, nc
creel limit and any size except in the
waters of Deep Greek Lake where all
fishing is prohibited during May and
June.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
II Below Zero Is
Low Mark For Year

Oakland registered seasons
record of II below zero on Wednes-
day morning as sub-zero cold hit the
entire area. The cold spell followed
another storm where two or three
inches of snow fell the day after
Christmas.
By Thursday morning it was get
ting warmer-but only slightly. The
reading this morning was 10 below
zero. Some thermometers on Wednes-
day recorded as low as 20 but the
official reading was taken from the
Weber government station south of
town.
There was some ice on the high
ways but the state roads were mostly
clear. ley spots were being cindered
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Bachelor Ends Life
On Christmas Day

A siXty-one year old bachelor of
the Chestnut Grove section of the
county was termed a Christmas after
noon suicide by Dr. f. l. Baumgartner,
deputy state medical examiner.
The man was John Harrison
Paugh, who had resided with a man
by name of Hartman Elliott Elliott
made his way on foot to the Blooming
ton road and got ride to Oakland
where he notified Sheriff Paul w.
Fisher of the tragedy.
Due to the weather conditions, DR..
Baumgartner, Fisher and the deputy
sheriff, Ed. j. Frantz, made the trip
to the mans home by Jeep, with
chains on all four wheels.
Fisher said they found the man on
cot where he had fallen after ap-
parently raising a % calibre pistol
to his head and firing. The shot enter
ed above the right ear. Fisher said
Elliott told him that he was out on
the porch when he heard Paugh say,
"Im going to shoot myself. Here she
goes" There were powder burns on
the mans face, indicating the pistol
had been fired at close range.
Elliott and Paugh had lived there
since 1916.
Paugh was born at Swanton, June
Is, 1889. Surviving are three half
brothers, Gerald S. Paugh, Claude H.
Paugh, both of Swanton; Oliver S.
Paugh, Power, w. Va; and one half
sister, Mrs. Rebecca Sliger, Crellin.
Funeral services will be conducted
on Friday morning at 10 o'clock
from the Mt. Zion church, with Rev.
Philip DeMuth, Bloomington, offici-
ating. Interment will be the Mt. Zion
cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Ryan Decides To
Drop Recount Move

Edward J. Ryan, Allegany county
attorney, announced Saturday that as
result of the dropping Of request
for recount by Washington coun-
ty Republican candidate for county
commissioner, he will also cancel his
petition for a recount in the Judge
ship race for the Fourth Judicial
Circuit.
Associate Judge Morgan c. Harris,
Cumberland, defeated Ryan by about
800 votes in the general election in
November. Ryan had based his case
on the outcome of request by Amos
Reeder, Hagerstown, for a recount.
Ryan declared "Snce the two
judges of the circuit ruled there was
not sufficient evidence to warrant a
recount in the Reeder case, hence no
further action is planned by me-"
Ryan, however, IS attorney for B.
|. Gender, in the move to unseat
Senator Neil c. Fraley when the
Legislature convenes in January.
Fraley won reelection by a Re
vote margin over Gender, Oakland
Democrat, who served in the Senate
from 1943 to 1947. Ryan said they
would base the claim to the Senate
seat ION grounds of error in counting
the ballots" He said the question of
fraud was not being considered.
The matter will be brought to the
attention of the Senate when Fraley
stands to receive his oath of office,
and will be turned over to the Elec-
lions committee. Testimony in regard
to certain alleged irregularities sup
posed to have taken place during the
counting of the ballots was heard last
week before Magistrate H. A. Lora-
ditch and will be forwarded to the
Senate for possible action by the
Elections committee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Former Vet Re-enlists

Enlistment of Glen Francis Stahl,
age 20, Crellin, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus T. Stahl, Crellin, on December
81, at the Martinsburg headquarters,
it was announced by T/Sgt. George
f. Kirby, recruiter. Mr.. Stahl enlisted
for years, unassigned, as private,
Corps of Military Police.
Following processing at Fort
George G. Meade, Private Stahl will
be assigned for duty. Pvt. Stahl
served in the Army and was dis
charged in March of this year. He
was member of the infantry and
was stationed in Japan as Private
First Glass. He attended schools in
Crellin and Oakland and prior to his
re-enlistment he was employed as a
timberman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Accident Team Wins
Over Friendsville

Accident High school defeated
Fricndsville High in a county league
contest at Accident last Thursday
night 81 to SO.
Paul Hone spanked the winners
with nine field goals and % points.
Bud Savage was the defensive star.
Quarter scores were lilo, 1928 and
4427. Gene Frazee played best for
Friendsville.
Scoring for Accident were Hamil-
ton, Ia; Edgar, 5; b. Fratz, 8; Saw
age, 5; Harmon, 2. w. Fratz and
Brobst were non-scoring. Scoring for
Friendsville were Wright, 5; Frazec,
8; McCrobie, 6; HENDERSON, 8; Cas-
teel, 2; Thompson, 2; Friend, /. Non
scoring were K. Smcarman, Dewitt
and J. Smearman.
Friendsville High school girls de-
featcd Accident girls in the opening
game, 25-13. Betty Capel paced the
winners with II points while Carolc
Dauphin led Accident with seven tai
lies
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Oakland Boy Scout
Troop To Re-register

Twenty-three boys will be regis
tered with Oakland Troop No. 81,
Boy Scouts of America, for the year
1851, it was announced this week by
the Scout Troop committee.
The Oakland troop was instituted
in 1924 and is entering upon its 2Sth
consecutive year of activity.
Those to be registered for 1851 in
clude Bruce Swift, Dixon Mace, David
Mace, James Pike, Richard Criss,
Thomas Sheehe, Dale Evans, Donald
Evans, Billy Sanders, Thomas Turney,
Samuel Savage, Thomas Nally, Don
Savage, Wayne Graham, Billy Moore,
Sammy Moore, George Hanst, John
Hanst, Billy Schaeffer, Douglas Smith,
Steve Wainer, James Sebold and
Roland Schoch.
Ralph NJ. Fauber, scoutmaster, said
possibly one or two other names
would be added to the list before it
is sent to Potomac Council headquar-
tiers at Cumberland 1t is necessary
that scout troops be registered each
year in order to insure continued &C
tivity.
Members of the troop committee
include S. T. Naylor, Herbert C.
Leighton, George Hanst and Bernard
!. Gender, ST.. For the past few years
the troop has been sponsored by the
Oakland-M Mt Lake Park Lions club.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Hutton Resigns AS
Assistant Agent

Paul NJ Hutton, native of Knox
vile, Tenn, has rendered his resig-
nation as assistant county farm agent
for this county, it has been an
nounced. The resignation will take eff
feet January Is. Mr.. Hutton will re-
turn to Tennessee to do club work in
his home county No successor has
been named by the Maryland Exten-
sion Service which has charge of
such matters.
Mr.. Hutton came to Garrett county
last January to succeed John Lough
who resigned to accept a position as
district agricultural agent for the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
During the past year Mr.. Hutton
as assistant county farm agent, has
been in charge of All club work for
boys. There are eighteen regular boys
All clubs in the county and four
countrywide clubs for special activi-
ties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
.SELBY IS AWARDED
.FOUR-YEAR Term
ON ASSAULT COUNT
Frazee and Selby Also Given
Stiff Sentence in Cattle
Rustling Conviction

In move to wipe out cattle rust
ling and "gangsterism" in this coun-
ty before it gets strong foothold,
Associate Judge George Henderson
melted out stiff sentences this morn
ing in the Garrett County Circuit
court against Claude Selby and Err
nest Ray Frazeee, of the Friendsville
area.
Selby was sentenced to serve four
years in the Maryland House of Cor
rection on charge of assault with
intent to disable, MAIN, disfgure and
commit common assault on the per-
son of Theodore Thoerig, game war
den. Thoerig was shot in the Shout
der on October %, while investi-
eating report of shooting in the
vicinity of Friendsville.
On charge of larceny of steer
from the John Beachy farm in North
Glade, Selby was sentenced two years
in the House of Correction, the SEN
tence to run cOncurrently with his
four-year sentence.
On the same charge of larceny En-
nest Ray Frazee was sentenced to
serve Is months in the Maryland
State Reformatory for Males.
In addition to the sentences, Selby
was to have suspended sentence of
seven years on the larceny charge,
during which time he was ordered
not to hunt or fish, to use or own a
gun, and during this time to be under
the supervision of the State of Mary
land
In Frazee's case, Judge Henderson
declared that in a number of cases
where a young man was involved, it
was possible to give a suspended
sentence but not in this particular in
stance. He pointed out a budding
gangsterism" in the Friendsville
area which he declared he meant to
nip in the bud" and not let it reach
the extent that it had reached in some
counties in Pennsylvania, particularly
in regard to cattle rustling. He said
he had gotten the impression that
Frazee had felt he could get away
with anything and if caught could
get suspended sentence through
pleas of friends and neighbors.
Judge Henderson further told Sell
by that the jury had recommended
leniency, not because of his actions,
but because he had wife and child.
But pointed out that Selby had been
no particular help to his family, that
the government, through army allot-
ment, had been the means of keeping
them supplied with sustenance. Judge
Henderson also declared he had felt
that Selby had been leading other
boys astray in the Friendsville area.
In concluding his remarks Judge
Henderson said he believed there were
others behind the case and expressed
the hope that the States Attorney
would continue his investigation and
bring others to justice. He was de-
termined, he said, that this outbreak
of cattle rustling would not be passed
over lightly in this area.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Seal Sale Goal
May Be Reached

William H. Staub, president of the
Maryland tuberculosis association
announced that over 211,602 had
been raised in Maryland since the be-
ginning of the Seal Sale campaign in
November This figure represents over
sixty-percent 1900 of the state goal
and is $7,721.51 more than was raised
during the same period last year. The
figures were as of December %. The
campaign closed Christmas day.
Because many people wait until
after the Christmas rush to answer
their Christmas Seal letters, the re-
turns to date indicate this years
goal of $342,20 will be reached" Mr..
Staub said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Masons Reflect Right

c. Melvin Right was reelected
worshipful master of Oakland Lodge
No. 1872, Ancient, Free and Accepted
Masons, at regular meeting on
Tuesday evening. Others named were
Prentice DeBerry, senior warden; Is.
Beeson Snyder, junior warden, Rob-
ert T. Hoffman, secretary; and DR..
w. w. Grant, treasurer.
Other officers are appointivc. In
stallation will take place in January.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1950-12-28
Gifts Planned
For First Baby
of 1851 at Hospital

That a number of merchants in
Oakland were planning to present
gifts to the first baby born at the
Garrett County Memorial hospital in
1851, was learned yesterday from
Charles L. Briner, secretary of the
Mt. Top Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Briner said the Chamber of
Commerce recently had recommended
the project and that several of the
merchants had agreed to cooperate.
Briner said that due to shortness of
time that the merchants who had
agreed to do this should display the
gifts in their store windows. An ap-
propriate sign is to be provided by
the C. of C.
This project is carried on in many
hospital towns as an annual event
and creates much interest.