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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Women's Market
To Conclude Sept. l

The Rural Women's Market will
have its final sale of the year on
Saturday, September l, at the Bow
man boat barn at McHenry. In
formation is also being sought as
a basis for planning the market
for next summer.
Customers this week will be
asked to register and to reveal the
number of times they have at
tended the market, what was es-
pecially nice about it, prices,
whether they would like to see the
project repeated, what days would
be most suitable, and to list if
they were summer resident, cot
tage owner, or a guest.
Questionnaires also are being
prepared for those who sell, in an
attempt to discover if they felt the
market was worth the effort, de-
tails on packaging, and what their
biggest problem was.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Charge of Assault
Is Lodged Against
Guthrie Luke ii
Alleged To Have Fired Shot
gun At Wife and Youth
Monday Evening

John Guthrie Luke H. 48, was
formally charged with assault with
intent to kill by Corporal Sam
Conrad of the State Police, follow
ing a shooting at Deep Creek Lake,
on Monday night
His wife, AS, and an 1S-year-old
youth were hospitalized in Garrett
County Memorial hospital as a re-
suit of the shooting. The youth was
identified as Kermit Wayne Wild
man, IS, of Luke.
Luke was detained in the Garrett
county Jail and was questioned
briefly Tuesday by States Attorney
S. R. Pagenhardt. Not much infor-
nation was obtained, however, as
the man was under the care of a
physician and was also a patient
in the hospital
Luke, according to Corporal Sam
Conrad, who is continuing the in
vestigation, will be given a pre-
liminary hearing later before Trial
Magistrate w. o. Bitter.
Luke repeatedly used a 410-gauge
shotgun in the shooting which oc-
cured in the yard of his lake home
just off Glendale bridge road.
Trooper Conrad, who took Luke
into custody at his home, said Luke
apparently had been shooting at
his wife. Stray pellets struck Wild
man, who repeatedly was climbing
over a fence toward the Luke
property from the property of a
neighbor, to render assistance
Mrs. Luke was struck in the back,
thighs, arms and legs, while Wild
man was struck with four pellets
above his eye, left side and arm.
Police said the shooting appar-
emily stemmed from an argument
between Luke and his wife.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
TWO GALLON MAN
Citizens Contribute
100 PintS of Blood

Citizens of Oakland and nearby
contributed one hundred pints of
blood on Monday at the regular
visit of the JohnStOwn Red Cross
bloodmobile unit. This was quite an
increase over the previous visit in
May when only seventy pints were
received, but was by no means a
record.
Previous accounts show that 109
pints were obtained in January, 80
last August, 126 last June, 125 in
February, 9Sl2 in October, 1854, and
95 in June, 1854.
Red Cross officials pointed out
that there were an unusual number
of watkins, 43 being tabulated One
hundred two persons were sched-
uled, and 60 of them kept the APP
pOintment. Nine were first time
donors. Nine persons were rejected.
Mondays visit was the occasion
for the completion of eight records
for gallon club membership, and
one for membership in the two-gal-
Ion club. D. c. MacMurray gave his
sixteenth pint of blood
Eight were qualified to enter the
gallon club, having given their
eighth pint. They included Harold
Bittinger Cecil Bittinger, James
Hoult, George Hanst Allen Naylor,
William Naylor, Fred Onderdonk,
and Mrs. Mabel E. Zimmerman.
Eleven members of the Holy
Cross house of studies on Deep
Creek Lake contributed blood this
time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
All Boys Competing
At Maryland Fair

Garrett county is being repre-
scented at the State Fair by junior
live stock judging team, a Junior
dairy team, a tractor operator, and
a fourth club booth.
The junior live stock judging
team is composed Of Thomas Stan
ton, Stewart Stanton, Grantsville;
and John Wildesen. Oak Grove.
The junior dairy Judging team is
composed of Glenn Canaan, Sunny
side; Charles Wilt. Accident; and
Donald Stanton, Grantsville.
Kenneth Green, North Glade All
club, is representing the county in
the state tractor operators con-
test. George Bishoff, who won the
state contest last year and also the
regional contest, will be on hand to
assist with the contest George will
drive the first tractor through the
course.
The Bittinger boys All club,
under leadership of Ebert Bucket
will exhibit All booth on farm
forest management, and will be on
exhibit from August 26 through
September 8.
James A. McHenry, assistant
county agent, and William Stanton,
All local leader, of Grantsville, will
accompany the group to the state
fair.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Rep. Hyde Talks To
Lake Lot Owners

Rep. Dewitt S. Hyde CR. Md
urged the Deep Greek Property
lOwncrs Association "to let the
world know of Garrett County's
advantage" for the vacatiOnist or
the industrialist seeking new plant
sites. Hyde, in talking at the AS
sociation's meeting on Sunday said
the county's climate and natural
| beauty in addition to its loW-cost
electricity, nearness to natural gas
and coal sources, excellent rail and
highway connections to the east and
west make it an ideal location for
both the tourist and new industry
The Maryland congressman noted
that Garrett County is one of the
50 US. counties specially selected
for experimental work in rural de-
velopment Recent surveys have
spotlighted the county's assets both
for attracting new industry and the
prospects for Self-development of
industrial projects. He also said,
Garrett, Allegany and Washing
| ton counties can very well become
tourists heaven in summer and
winter" He urged the counties to
capitalize on their natural beauty
and to publicize their attractive
ness.
The remarks were made during
the course of speech in which
Hyde pointed out that the future of
Western Maryland depends ON the
| development of sound conservation
policies. He called for picking up
the goal of Theodore Roosevelt
and Clifford Pinchott which was
conservation through wise use"
The real aim of conservation, he
said, is to balance between mans
use of his natural capital and the
constant replenishment of that
capital" He pointed to the CO.
operative efforts of local residents
and soil conservation officials in
working out land and water saving
programs under the Federal gov
ernment's soil and watershed pro-
grams.
Hyde noted that dirty rivers"
are a hindrance to community prog
ress and we'll being. He called on
his listeners to support pollution
abatement programs. He said he
hoped to meet governors of Mary
land, West Virginia, and Pennsyl-
vania and one of the Commission
ers from the District of Columbia
next month at the conference of
Southern Governors in White Sui
phur Springs to work out plans for
granting real authority to the Inter
state Commission on the Potomac to
implement pollution control meas
uroS
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Johana Harris Will
Present Special Piano
Concert Friday Eve

People of this region will have
the opportunity to hear johanna
Harris, Americas most gifted wom-
an pianist. in the Southern High
school, Oakland, on Friday evening,
at O'Clock, daylight time. Advance
ticket sale indicates that Mrs. Har-
ris will have large audience com
prised of people from number of
communities of the tri-state area.
Part one of Mrs. Harris program
will be devoted to Mozart, Bee
thoven, Schumann, and Chopin
The major portion of part two will
be selections from the piano works
of Debussy and Roy Harris, the lat
ter her famous compOser-husband
Mr. Harris will be unable to attend
as he is currently composing a
large work for chorus and orches-
ira in California.
Following the selections from
Roy Harris she will play two pieces
by Bessie Ward Hinebaugh for
flute and piano Miss Hinebaugh
will play the flute Miss Hinebaugh
is a native of Oakland, who after
many years on the concert stage,
is now teaching in Pittsburgh. She
has composed both for voice and
instrument. Mrs. Harris will close
her program with folk ballad,
The Glades of Garrett by Felix
G. Robinson.
The Baldwin Piano company
through its Pittsburgh store, will
install concert grand for the oc-
casion. F. Roy Yoke, past supreme
governor of the Loyal Order of
Moose, will introduce Mrs. Harris.
The performance is being held
under the sponsorship of the Moose
lodge.
Tickets are on sale at the Eng
lander and Oakland pharmacies
and can also be procured at the
box office in the high school build
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Bittinger Pastor
Dies in Pittsburgh

Rev. James NJ. Allan. aged 80,
pastor of the Bittinger Lutheran
parish died Monday morning, Au-
gust 81. in the Veterans hospital in
Pittsburgh Pa He had been in fail
ing health for the past six months
Rev. Allan was born August 8,
1924, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James
A. Allan, of Beaver, Pa He was
graduated from Beaver High school
and Gettysburg college
He enlisted in the us. Army dur
ing World War II and received the
Purple Heart medal for wounds
suffered in action in the Battle of
the Bulge in Europe.
Returning from the service Rev.
Allan entered Gettysburg Lutheran
Theological Seminary and served
as president of his class. He was
ordained a minister of the Luther
an church in 1949 During his semi
nary years he was married to the
former Miss Evelyn Hagerty, of
Monaco, Pa
Rev. Allan served his first pas
torate at Holy Trinity Lutheran
church at Elkins, w. Va. He went
to Bittinger in October 1858 and
served there until his death.
Surviving besides his widow and
parents are two daughters, Kath-
crime, 5, and Cynthia, 2; and sis
ter, Mrs. Barbara r. Berry, of Al
buquerque. N. M.
Funeral services are being con-
Quoted this afternoon at 2 o'clock
from Grace Lutheran church in
Rochester, Pa, with Rev. George c.
Weirick, president of the West Vir-
ginia Synod, and Rev. H. j. Schmid,
pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran
church of Glenshaw, officiating.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Summer Camps Close

Camps Minnetoska and White
thorn, near Hutton, closed for the
season last Friday, August "a. There
were over one hundred campers en-
rolled there and the management
considered the season a successful
one.
The camps will open next year
the last week in June.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Seals Provide Outing

Two children from this county
have enjoyed six weeks of camp
life through the sale of Easter
Seals, it was revealed this week
James Kisner, aged 10, of Sand
Flat, and Ethel Mae Heady, age IA,
of Grantsville, returned last week
from Camp Greentop, Lantz, Md
This is summer camp for under
privileged children who have some
physical defect Both of these chill
dren have been followed in the To-
cal health department clinics.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Catches Large Fish

Edward j. Wisbar, of Duquesne,
Pa, a summer resident of Deep
Creek Lake, succeeded in landing
one of the largest fish of the season
on Sunday in the Red Run area.
Wisbar caught a small mouth
bass PA inches long and weighing
four and one-half pounds. The fish
was shared with fly rod and a
minnow for bait
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30

Mrs. Wall will succeed Mrs Den
mis- Perry who resigned recently
when her husband was unexpected
ly drafted into the army. Mrs. Per-
ry had been appointed as English
and Social Studies teacher at
Southern.
Mrs. Wall, her replacement, is a
graduate of Columbia college, Co
lumbia, S. c. She has had two
years teaching experience and a
number of years in the business
world. For the past six years she
has served as a secretary in the
editorial department of Life and
Fortune magazines Mrs. Wall just
completed two years of teaching in
the public schools at Elliot, S. c.
Rev. kinard Resigns
The Board of Education accepted
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Seize 1OO-Gallon
Still at Bear Hill

State and Federal agents last
Thursday night raided 100-gallon
pot-type still located in a wooded
area two miles east of Bittinger, in
the Bear Hill section of the county
Arraigned Friday morning on
moonshining charges was Leroy
Wilt, 38, who gave his address as
Somerset, Pa. He was charged with
the manufacture of illicit whisky
possession of equipment for the
manufacture of illicit whisky and
two other charges.
Trial Magistrate w. o. Bitter OF
Oakland fixed bond at $4,000 and
set September 6 for trial. Wilt fur
nished bond the same day.
Charles McLane, agent of the
Maryland Alcoholic Beverages Tax
Enforcement unit, and S. r. Pagen-
hardt, states attorney, said there
we're fifty gallons of moonshine or
white whisky at the site.
They also said 100 gallons of
wheat and rye mash we're set out
and there were q barrels there
for use as fermenters. Only eight
we're in operation. The still was
demolished.
Assisting McLane in the raid
were Constable Carl Glotfelty of
Grantsville, and federal officers.
A truck confiscated under federal
law was turned over to the Federal
Alcoholic Beverages Tax Enforce
ment unit.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Bond Plans Activities

The Mt. City Band has planned
several activities for the ensuing
week. The members will attend the
Preston County Fair on Friday
night and Monday morning and
participate in parades On Sunday
they have planned their annual pic
mic at Red Run Lodge and will
present a program at $3.50 p. m.
Next Friday the group will go
to Davis to participate in fire
mems celebration.
The band won a $50 prize at the
Parsons centennial celebration last
week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Long Week End Possible

A long weekend was made posi-!
BILE for large number of workers
as the result of a proclamation by
Governor Theodore r. McKeldin
making Saturday, September 1, a
legal holiday in addition to the
usual holiday for Labor Day, Mon
day, September 3.
Both the First National Bank and
the Garrett National Bank in Oak
land will be closed for both days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Carrier Gets Award

Evers o. Bosley, rural mail car
rier working out of the Gormania
post office has been presented with
a safe driving award for twenty
five years of safe driving on his
route. During that time, he carried
the mail regularly over many miles
of rural roads through the southern
part of Garrett County and never
had an accident or a mishap.
The presentation was made by
Postmasted A. H. Elrick at the Cor
mania post office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Attends PIoy In Group

The Mt. Lions club of Aurora,
Eglon and Horse Shoe Run held
an outdoor covered dish dinner last
Thursday. August %, after which
the group motored to Deep Greek
Lake to see the play, Bell, Book
and Candle presented by mem
bers of the Summer Playhouse.
Thirty-two attended.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Resignation of
Hospital Head
Is Accepted
Bickering Among Medical
Stuff, Employees, Miss
Sharpe Comes To Head

Continuous friction at the Gar
rett County Memorial hospital be-
tween members of the medical
staff, the employees, and the super
intendent, eliminated this week in
the resignation of Miss Irene
Sharpe, as hospital superintendent
Miss Sharpe's resignation had
been sought several months ago
which she refused to do without
hearing, and in a meeting of the
Board of Directors at that time
motion to seek her resignation was
rescinded
Miss Sharpe sent two resigna-
tons this week, one dated August
81, and one August "a The one of
August "a was sent after II. ID.
Swartzentruber, Chairman of the
Hospital Board, asked her to re-
consider the effective date and
move it from September 6 to the
first of January.
Decision to accept the resignation
was made by a 7 to 3 vote at a
special meeting of the Board on
Tuesday, August %.
The first resignation had the fol-
lowing to say:
Kindly accept my resignation as
of September 6. After last night |
could not live with myself if l
should stay on here. | have no re-
spect for the people who have
brought unjust accusations against
me, and for the people who have
deliberately lied to cause me to re-
sign have no intention of aC-
knoWledging any guilt whatsoever
i'll resigning my position.
Il have given the hospital the
very best l had to give and am
satisfied with what | have accom-
plished here The patients all seem
ed satisfied and as they are the
ones to be considered, l have no
regrets.
q still think I did right in chal-
longing DR.. Lusby and any of the
other doctors regarding their atti-
tude toward welfare cases of Gar
rett county"
The second resignation had the
following to say:
After the Board meeting of
August goth, and reviewing the ac-
cusations of the two medical staff
members, who are on the Board of
Governors of the Garrett County
/ Memorial hospital and who have
! brought charges of mismanagemeu
| against me, and which | emphati-
| cally deny, | am asking to be re-
/ lieved of my duties here If you
find that l am not fulfilling my
duties here in any way, | should
like to be relieved on or before
January l, 1857"
In discussing her resignation Miss
Sharpe pointed out that there had
been friction among members of
the medical staff even before she
arrived in Oakland to assume her
position April Is, 1852 She further
declared that the trouble had come
to head this past February when
she declared Dr. Lusby had refused
to cooperate in seeing a Welfare
patient.
Mrs. E. z. Tower, member of
the Board, said she did not feel
that the Board should have ac-
cepted her resignation. She felt
that Miss Sharpe should be re-
Continued On Page Eight
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Church Re-Dedicuted

The Mt. Zion Methodist church,
the oldest church in Garrett county,
was rededicatcd at appropriate
on Sunday August 49,
The church was recently repaired
and remodeIed
A brief history of the church was
given by Herbert Barnard at 11:3o
a. m. with a free lunch served to
all those present at u o'clock. In
the afternoon rededication services
were in charge of Rev. Vernon Cut
Romney
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30
Teacher Vacancies Filled:
10 Open orr Tuesday

Mrs. Lillian Wall, of Elkins, w.
Va, has been appointed to the last
teacher vacancy in the county, and
all schools are ready for the open
ing day next Tuesday, September
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-08-30

Interment will be in Sylvania Hills,
Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-10-07
Something New
In Glass Houses

It lets in the sun, keeps out
the rain, and you can
throw all the stones you want
IF designer R. BuckminSter Fuller has his
way you may be living in glass house
before long. His GeodeSic domes have
lot of people fascinated, including the us.
Marine Corps and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Called "GeodeSic'' because of the reVolu-
tionary method Of construction (interlock-
ing triangleS which distribute stress evenly
to all points, the domeS will soon be used
to replace countless types Of shelters on the
Marines shopping list.
Dodger President Walter O'Malley IS
thinking of using really big one to cover
the new ball park he's planning. The spheres
are weather-tight, made Of translucent glass
reinforced plastic panels marines version
has opaque plastic covert and completely
shatter-proof. O'Malley even threw rocks
at one. No breakage. IN. G. E.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-02
Ministers Indorse
Alabama Boycott

The Interdenominational Min
isterial Alliance today released a
statement expressing whole
hearted support of churches in
Montgomery, Ala, whose pastors
and members are participating
in the current bus boycott"
+ A committee also was APP
pointed by the alliance, which
met earlier this week in the
Bible Way Church, 1900 New
jersey avenue NV, to plan the
groups participation in the Day
of Prayer called for March %.
A resolution calling for moral
and financial support of the
Montgomery clereymen, sub
mitted by the Rev. William H.
Jernagin, pastor of Mount Car
mel Baptist Church and presi-
dent of the National Fraternal
Council of Churches, was ap-
proved.
Ministers named to the COM
mittee included Dr.. Jernagin. the
Revs. E. L. Harrison, L. A. Miller,
J. H. Pair, Colbert Pearson. B.
H. Whiting and Smallwood E.
Williams and Bishop W. w.
Matthews of the A. M. E. Zion
Church. retired,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-02
Alabama Case
Lawyer Slated
ToSpeuk Here

Thurgood Marshall, chief
counsel of the National AsSocia-
ton for the Advancement OF
Colored People, will speak. here
a week from Sunday.
The attorney for Autherine
Lucy, expelled University of Ala
bama coed, and Negroes ar
rested in the Montgomery tAlao
bus boycott, will talk at an
NAACP membership rally at $50
pm, March IL, at Vermont ave-
nue. Baptist Church. 1880 Ver-
mont avenue NV.
At the 1856 membership drive
rally, NAACP workers are ex-
pected to march up to Mr.. Mar
shall with lists OF 5000 new men,
bers. For more than a month,
workers have been signing up
new members of the 50-year-
old organization here under the
slogan: Bring Thurgood Five
Members"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-02

segregation leaders that it may
blunt the NAACP's drive for
public school Indignation.
Attorney General Fred S. LIE
Blanc asked the court to dissolve
the NAACP in Louisiana and ban
NAACP meetings.
He acted under terms Of a
1924 law. still untouched on the
books, requiring about every
type of organization to file an
nual membership lists with the
secretary of state. 1t was en-
acted to drive out the Ku-Klux
Khan.
This the NAACP has failed to
40 IN the last three years, the
State petition charged. Under
the law, when there are viola
tions, the attorney general is
directed Ito proceed by injunc-
ton or otherwise" to dissolve
the offending organizations.
In the first court step. Dis
trict Judge Coleman Lindsey
ordered the NAACP and II de-
fendents to show cause March
10 why a preliminary injunction
should not be issued.
The NAACP has shaken Lou
isiana twice within the last few
DAYS. First was Federal Court
decision in New Orleans knock
ing out the States 1854 laws
attempting to skirt the United
States Supreme Court ban on
public school segregation. Last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-02

Wednesday a second NAACP suit
in the New Orleans Federal
Court attacked classroom segre-
CATION in the capital city here
State Senator w. M. Rainach
chairman of the Joint Legisla-
tive Committee on Segregation,
said his group had spent nearly
a year with the Attorney General
and executive Office planning
the law suit to outlaw the
NAACP.
He termed it 'Louisiana's first
counteroffensive against the
NAACP." and suggested it would
set pattern for other Southern
States.
Senator Rainach, also presi-
dent of the newly formed Associ-
alton of Citizens Councils OF
Louisiana, said:
Many more different actions
will follow.
THE NAACP is an alien, ar
rogant, destructive force seeking
to drive a bitter wedge between
the white and Negro races in the
South. 1t should be destroyed
completely by laws and public
opinion and driven from our
midst"
In New Orleans. A. P. Tureaud,
ST., Louisiana's top NAACP at
torney, contended the law has
not been used since 1924 and few
organizations have been required
to comply.
so far as the NAACP is con-
cerned." he said, I'VE will be
compelled to defend the action.
But dissolving the NAACP in this
State will not stop the forward
movement of the people for their
civil rights"