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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14

Speaking in Columbus, Ohio,
September 8. Adlai Stevenson
said that the farm crisis was
threatening to wipe out the
family farmer" His costs have
been rising-machinery, feed,
fertilizer and housekeeping
but his income has fallen
steadily despite small i'm
provement this year as a result
Of the soil bank payments. "He
has a feeling that maybe.
as the Republicans say. he had
better give up the way of life
he knows and loves
In an election campaign one
hardly expects from candidates
a balanced appraisal of any
situation. For that one should
consult disinterested experts.
In May, DR.. Karl Brandt, Asso-
ciate Director of the Food Re-
search Institute of Stanford
University and president Of the
American Farm Products Asso-
citation. delivered an address on
The Real Issues in Agricul-
ture.' before the United States
Chamber of Commerce, that
contained facts and sense.
To make sense from facts
one must define ones terms.
Who is that family farmer"
who is threatened by being
wiped out?
a family farmer" owns and
lives on farm, worked largely
BY himself and his family.
Contrary TO the impression
created by Mr.. Stevenson, the
overwhelming majority Of
American farms are such units.
producing. also, the great bulk
Of American food and fiber.
But the way of life Of those
who succeed in making incomes
comparable to urban ones is
radically different from that
idealized by Grandma Moses.
Successful family farmers in
this generation have had to
learn a way of life utterly diff
terent from that of their
fathers.
What is a small farm? II
measured by what one family
can work. it may be a 5000
acre ranch. or so acres or less,
intensively cultivated for fruit
or vegetables, or poultry fac
tory OF negligible acreage pro-
ducing 10000 broilers al a time
with one man. The average"
family unit has expanded from
rlts acres IN 1880 70 242 in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-14
State Cancer Unit Head

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
sept. IA tSpeciaD The Rev.
David H. Burr has been elected
president of the local unit of the
american Cancer Society's Vir-
Iginia Division.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Waiting Through Fog :. &.

Not everybody wade through fog-the fog of lies
and suspicion But feel the twenty-five grand jurors did
excellent job of doing this week There have been all
kinds Of broadcast throughout the county in the past
several months regard various expenditures of the
county roads department. In particular these had to
do with the County Roads SO when the grand jury
confronted with of these they just decided
go to the county roads garage and do nvest
eating of their
They did just that and they impressed with the
job that had been accomplished that they included special
commentator in their report commencing the County Com
missioners and the County Roads engineer They further
stated that they impressed with the modern way in
which the records kept and did not fail to point
that these records open for inspection at any time to
interested taxpayers that any person concerned
he would be able find the facts and not be compelled to
swallow the unfounded that being purposely
spread at every opportunity.
is certainly gratifying know that representative
group Of twenty-five of the county would make the eff
fort dig into the records and up with facts and fig
that cannot be reued They realized that the roads
department had done excellent job in providing all
garage that would for all equipment of the depart
They realized that account in appepie
And they said uncertain their report
to the people
So would like to commend these twenty-five grand
jurors for commencing the work of the County Commits
sioners and the County Roads engineer
Their report certainly should put end this cam
pagn of malicious gossip that is being waged by
four individuals.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Seeks Bids for Tar,
Dynamite, And Fuel

The County Roads Board of the
county is seeking bids on asphalt,
diesel fuel and dynamite. Bids are
to be received at the Roads office
on Monday, April 2
The Roads office has need of
$4,000 gallons Of diesel fuel, and
100000 gallons of premium grade
gasoline, to be delivered in bulk
to storage tanks as ordered during
a one-year period starting April l.
Also needed are 10000 gallons of
emulsified asphalt, to be delivered
to Oakland or Grantsville in inSu-
lated cars or transport trucks; $780,
coo gallons of road tar The dyna-
mite required is $4,000 pounds, and
in addition 10000 electric blasting
caps. In the case of the dynamite
the supplicr will be required to
furnish without cost the services
of factory representative to spot
for we'll drilling load and fire the
same, supplying necessary large
stick powder to the job site when
needed to avoid storage.
Details of the three request for
bids are found in the advertise
ments appearing III todays issue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Swartzentruber Has
Reply on Back Taxes

In regard to a recommendation
of the Grand Jury that the County
Commissioners should make an inn
mediate settlement with j. Ed
ward Helbig, former county treas
urer. for uncollected taxes, an
answer to this question was given
this morning by H. D. SWartzen-
truber, president of the Commits
sioners, declaring that this has been
in process of settlement since last
fall, and that on January II, 1856,
S. R. Pagenhardt, states attorney,
was before the Board and offered
settlement which was rejected by
Commissioner Erwin Roth. Further
negotiations resulted in meeting
this morning and settlement has
been accepted by a majority of the
Board.
Mr.. Swartzentruber said in adj
dition he felt that the person who
presented the complaint to the
Grand Jury did not know the facts
in the case, and should have made
himself more familiar with the
facts before attempting to take ac-
ton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Flood Project Into
Final Negotiations

The Little Youghiogheny River
flood project, sponsored jointly by
the Mayor and Town Council of
Oakland and the County Commits
sioners is into final negotiations,
according to copy of letter re-
ccivcd this week from us. Scna-
tor J Glenn Bcall.
Word on various negotiations was
received by Senator Beall from the
administrator of the Soil ConServa-
ton service.
The Administrator said
"Application for watershed plan
ming assistance for the Little
Youghiogheny Watershed made by
the U. S Department of Agricul-
ture was approved April Is, 1855
Soon after the Soil Conserva-
ton Service and Forest Service
made technical assistance avail
able to local organizations to aid in
preparation of watershed work
plan The tentative watershed work
plan was submitted by E. NJ. Davis,
state conservationist, February 5.
1856.
1T was necessary to request adj
ditional information i'm support of
the cost sharing proposal Addi-
tional information was submitted
February Is and we have com
pletcd our review of the project
proposal
We have advised the State Con-
servationist March that the cost
sharing proposal contained in the
tentative watershed work plan now
appears to provide a reasonable
basis for final negotiations with
the sponsoring local organizations.
Tentative plans have been re-
viewed for technical adequacy and
have been returned for final ne
gotiations with the local organiza-
tons. AS soon as final watershed
work plan is completed and agreed
upon by the local organizations it
will be reviewed by other Federal
agencies as required by the Act
and transmitted to the Secretary
of Agriculture to Congress through
the president"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Minstrel Practices
Iron Out Wrinkles

After several weeks of rchear-
sails the minstrel show of the Oak
land-Mt. Lake Park Lions club APP
pears to be getting all the wrinkles
ironed out.
The minstrel will be presented
Thursday and Friday nights, March
% and %, at the Southern High
school gymnasium. Individual seats
on the floor of the gym will en-
able all to see the show without
sitting on the bleachers, it was
stated.
The end men have number of
new jokes this year and several
novelties on the program are be-
ing prepared. There is a dance
routine by Our Girls and several
Lions club members arc showing
versatility with musical instruments
in addition to their singing. Deb
Gnegy and his crew will have the
stage in place for the Sunday after
noon rehearsal when the members
will get full work out
Mrs. Ruth Brown and Miss Bar
bara Colabrese are directing the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Spring Trend Halted

The trend toward spring was
halted this week with three days
given over to snow and ice.
Approximately four inches of
snow fell on Monday and Tuesday
but rain on Wednesday caused
most of it to disappear However
the weather again turned colder
following the rain, and light snow
was falling this morning. Snow
plows we're put to work on Tues
day.
A resume of the weeks weather
showed last Thursday night stormy
with Friday daWning clear and
cold. Saturday was clear and warm
er with Sunday also warm but ac-
companied by rain later in the day,
and the rain then turning to snow.
Snow and rain continued on Mon
day with some sleet in the noun
famous sections. Snow fell on
Tuesday but melting occurred.
There was rain on Wednesday fol-
lowed by clearing skies, then rising
winds and turning much colder.
The winds blew down a tree on
the property of DR.. f. l. Baum
gartner, the tree striking portion
of the porch and pulling down a
number of wires in its fall
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Southern Loses To
Valley By 4 Points

Juthe,n High Schools High
landers lost TO Valley High School
of Homecoming by four-point mar
gin in the district tournament play
offs at Cumberland last Friday
night 1t marked Valleys third
win over the Garrett county quint
this season, earlier scores being 60
to 81 and S. to SO.
Robert "Cokey" Robertson, cap
tain of the Black Nights, scored
the first goal of the game and after
John Ruff tied it up at 2-all Fred
ColaW's basket gave the Oakland
quint a lead it never rclinquished
until Robcrtson's fielder 1925 be-
fore the third quarter ended sent
Valley in front at 1884. The closest
the Highlanders got after that was
when they trailed at 51-50. In the
closing minutes of play with Coach
John Myers team leading 54-52,
Ronald Young upped the lead to
four points by sinking two foul
shots Fred ColaW made a fielder
for Southern and two free throws
by Robertson concluded the scor-
ing.
Robertson and Ruff tied for high
scoring honors with p points each.
The Valley captain dumped in
eight shots from the field and a
out of fouls at the 15-foot mark,
Ruff had nine field goals and 4
of 7 fouls. Fred ColaW garnered 16
points for the Highlandcrs while
Young had IS, George Lauder IL,
and Johnny johnson 10 for the
winners. Bill Sanders collected 10
for Southern.
Southern High led 1873 at the
quarter, 26-12 at intermission but
Valley was on top 44-38 when the
third period ended.
Valley held a 20-l9 edge in field
goals and a tWo-point edge at the
foul line where it hoped Is of "a
throws. Oakland made good 16 of
26 attempts.
Others scoring for Southern
were T. Colaw 4, Brohawn 2. Non
scoring were Knots, Shirley and
Lee. Toby CoIaw fouled out with
IL minutes remaining i'll the last
period.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Minimum Interest
Noted In Election

Mayor, COuncilmen and city
Treasurer for the town of Oakland
we're elected Monday without OPP
position.
They were Russell L. Smith for
mayor, who received lab votes;
Robert NJ Maroney, Harry L.
Stemple and Clayton o. Winters,
for councilmen with 1886 1923 and
141 votes respectively, and Beryl-
dine F. Stanton for treasurer with
140 votes.
For Mayor, Joseph limbaugh
received six WRITTEN votes while
Grover Stemple received / and
Robert Sebold l. Write-in votes for
city council included Maurice
Brookhart, 2; Robert Stanton, /;
Bern Nally, l; James Adams, l.;
Fred Burgwald 1.
One hundred sixty votes were
cast in the election which indicated
minimum of interest in the af-
fair.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Deadline Nears For
Art Contest Entries

The dcadlinc for placing entries
in the annual art contest sponsored
by the Garrett branch of the
American Association of Universe
t. Women, will be Saturday, March
II, it was announced this week by
Mrs. Leo Helbig, art chairman.
Persons 10 to IS years of age are
eligible to compete.
Three prizes are to be awarded
by the local AAUW, S. for first
prize, $3.50 each for second prize
and third prize.
Exhibits of the winners will be
sent to the state AAUW conVen-
ton in Annapolis where they will
be Judged along with other entries
from throughout the state During
the past several years quite a few
local persons have entered the
contest and several local entrants
have been awarded honorS at the
state meeting.
Judging in the local contest will
be done by Mrs. Stanley p. Smith,
Mrs. Bernard Hcrod and Aza c.
Stanton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Reports Heart Fund

A total of S11.47311 has been
raised in the Heart Fund drive by
the Allegany-Garrett Heart as
sociation, according to a report
completed Tuesday night
Daniel Hershbergcr, chairman of
the Grantsville drive in the county
reported collections totaling $4O2-
.42. Earl L. Zcpp, chairman of the
Oakland drive, returned a total of
S600.72. Zcpp said his figures do
not include the plastic heart con-
taincrs and a few scattered re-
turns which will still come in. The
Garrett county total was S1,0O314
The directors agreed to call the
annual meeting early in May at a
central point in the Grantsville
area, at which time officers and di-
rectors will be elected
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Treacy to Manage
Tydings Campaign

William o. Treacy, local at
torney, will manage the Willard Z.
Tydings Garrett County campaign,
il was announced this morning.
Tydings is seeking to regain his
seat in the US. Senate and is OPP
posed by George P. Mahoncy in
the May Primary
Treacy announced that Joseph
d. Tydings. son of the former Sena-
tor, who is himself now a member
of the House of Delegates repre-
senting Hartford County, will be
in Garrett County this weekend 10
initiate the Tydings effort here.
Young Tydings is also the immedi-
ate past-prcsident of the Maryland
Young Democrats and spoke to the
local Democrat club last fall in
Oakland.
Also, it was learned that Mil
lard E. Tydings will be in Garrett
County on Monday, April 2, for a
two-day visit.
Mr. Treacy is presently the mi
nority member of the Board Of
Election Supervisors, and is active
in Democrat affairs locally. He was
a candidate for States Attorney in
1854 in which contest he polled the
highest vote received by a Demo-
crat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
3,4OO Taxpayers
Get Tax Discount

Some 34OO taxpayers took adj
vantage of the five percent dis
count period during January and
February, renting S33S.183.35 in
county taxes, it was learned from
Joseph H. Welch, county treasur-
er, this week. The taxpayers saved
themselves S16,738.32 IT. discounts.
Total collections for the two
month period represent So percent
of the total taxes Of the 1856 levy
and is slightly higher than the col
lections of the percent discount
period Of last year Uncollected
taxes for 1855 amount to S59954.14,
all of which must be RENTED on
or before May /. 1856, according
to the law which is published else
where in this issue.
Four percent discount will be al
lowed on taxes paid during March
and April, and three percent dis
count on taxes paid during May
and June. No discount is allowed
after June 3d.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Possible Teacher
Needs Discussed

The possible teacher needs and
recruitment for the coming school
year were discussed at the last
meeting of the Board of Education
on Tuesday in The Court House.
Willard l.. Hawkins, county SUI
perintendent of schools, reported
that a small turnover was antici
pateG and that there would be no
problem filling elementary vacan-
cies. He felt the job of replacing
high school teachers may be diff
cult as very few applications for
positions we're being received, due
to higher salary scale now in effect
in West Virginia He said colleges
and universities training teachers
had been contacted and visits
would be made to interview can
didates after April l.
Talk With Commissioners
The School board and attorney
held a joint meeting with the
Board of County Commissioners
and attorney to discuss provisions
of the recent enabling act provid-
ing for issuance of bonds to finance
the building of two elementary
schools from money to be derived
from the increase in the incentive
fund payments.
The enabling act divests all au-
thority in the matter from the
School board and places it in the
hands of the commissioners. Mem
bers of both boards indicated the
matter was a complete surprise to
them.
a cooperative plar was worked
out whereby no delay would be
caused in moving forward with
the building program as planned.
Authorization was given to en-
ploy the architectural firm of Ait
man and Altman of UEiontoWn and
to negotiate for a suitable site on
Route 40 for the school to be To-
Gated in that area. The School
board announced it hoped to have
both building plans ready for bid
Continued on Page Seven
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Club To Contribute
To Lundscopine Project

The Garrett County chapter of
the Business and Professional
Women's club voted to contribute
again this year to the landscaping
project at the Garrett County Me
mortal hospital.
This has been project Of the
club since the opening of the hos
pital and a yearly contribution has
been made. The amount contrib
uted thus far is in excess of 49,
500 This years contribution will
amount to 5000. The money may
be used for flower beds or the
placing of benches along the walk
At the regular meeting of the
club at the William-James hotel
last Thursday evening, report
was given on the card party held
recently to raise funds for COM
munity projects. Miss Mary Louise
Helbig, president, presided at the
business meeting after which an
Irish program was arranged by Mrs.
Eva Ream, program coordinator.
Miss Emma Caulk gave reading,
The Life of Saint Patrick" Irish
games were played and the group
joined in singing Irish songs
AT the April meeting the club
will make definite plans for launch
ing the advance ticket sale for the
summer theatre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Pickerel Stocked
In Deep Creek Lake

The stocking of 500 chain picker
cl in Deep Greek Lake as the first
step in the new program to pro-
vide number of predator fish in
that body Of water was completed
this week, according to Sigurd
Brantingson, regional fish culturist.
The placing of the fish was con-
Quoted last week and this week
The pickercl were obtained from
the eastern part of the state.
Mr.. Brantingson said the fish
commission hoped to get two other
species placed within the next
month. They plan to stock wall eye
northern pike and striped bass,
both predators. Predators are be-
ing stocked in the lake in an effort
to decrease the population of
perch.
Mr.. BrantingSou also announced
at a recent meeting of the Garrett
County Conservation association
that 10000 small brook trout, about
five inches in length, had been
placed in the lake. These arc sur
plus fish from the Lewistown
hatchery after all trout that arc
being raised TO adult size had been
picked out This ovcrsupply of
small fish is the result of the limit
in size and number of rearing
ponds. There are not enough ponds
to raise all the fingerlings to adult
size so each year the commission
is compelled to eliminate a GER
tain number
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Power Saws Stolen


Three power saws were stolen
within the past few days, and an
is under way by
Sheriff Paul Fisher.
One saw was stolen Sunday night
from the property of Fred Glot-
fclty, north of town, while on Mon
day two saws, practically new and
valued at $500, were taken from
the DelSignore Brothers Lumber
company. at the foot of the noun
tain leading to Table Rock, east of
Red House.
As yet there have been no ar
rests.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Training Course Is Set

\ Workers Training course will
be conducted at the Sand Flat As
sembly of God church, March 20,
through March "a, at 7:3O o'clock
each evening. The series of studies
will be Into All Truth The in
structor, Rev r. Elmer Baker, of
Mount Hope w Va, is a well
known Bible teacher of The Assem-
blics of God. having taught in one
of their schools in Zion, Illinois,
for a number of years. He also has
pastored in Lansing. Mich, and St.
Louis, Mo.
All who satisfactorily complete
the course will receive a certifi-
cate issuel by the National Sunday
School Department of the As
semblies of God, whose head
quarters are in Springfield, Mo.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1956-03-15
Jurors Return
9 Indictments;
.Laud Engineer
March Term Closes 2-Duy
observation-disclosures
Roads Dept. Louded

The Grand jurors for the March
Term adjourned Tuesday afternoon
after twO-day session, having ex-
amined 16 witnesses and having re-
turned indictments in nine cases.
A special commentator was in
cluded in the jurys report for the
County Commissioners and the
County Roads engineer, praising
them for what they termed was a
we'll designed and well constructed
county garage The building when
completed will cost about $4,000
The jurors made a complete in
Spection of the garage after having
heard rumors of excessive cost and
found these rumors without any
foundation of fact.
The Jurors said in the report
they felt that the new garage
meets the needs of the Roads De-
partment adequately We further
commend the County Commission
ers for the efficient financing of
the construction of the new garage
in that same was built with no in
crease of taxes and no decrease of
road construction and mainten-
ance. 1t is our opinion that the
records of the County Roads de-
partmcnt are kept in a very mod
ern, up TO date, efficient and ac-
curate manner which are always
open for inspection by the public"
The jurors also made a number
of recommendations concerning re-
pairs to the court house and Jail
all Of which are listed in detail
The grand jury also suggested
that the public local laws of the
county relating to the County Com
missionors be reviewed 10 the end
that they might be brought into
line with present day requirements,
and further recommended that
salaries of officials of the county
be brought in line with other
counties OF The state
The complete report follows:
Oakland. Maryland
March 18th, 1856
To the Honorable. The Judges
of the Circuit Court For
Garrett County, Maryland
The Grand Jury for Garrett
County. in session for the March
Term, 1856, respectfully submits
the following report:
We were in session for two days,
beginning Monday. March 18th,
1856, and concluded our dclibera-
tons Tuesday, March 18th, 1856.
We have examined 16 witnesses
and have returned True Bills of
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