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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-18
Marine Testifies
He Was Told
He'd Get No Trio!

CAMP McTUREoUs. oki-
nawa. Dec. 10 R<~A United
States Marine accused Of MUIR
der testified today he was
warned he would be hanged
without Q trial II he refused
70 sign q statement that he
tainted q fellow Negro TO "get
one OF the white boys"
Pfc. Willie Brown. jr, "a, Of
6avoyard, KY. is being tried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-18
Actress operuted On

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 10 N1.
= Actress Elizabeth Taylor
underwent an appendectomy
yesterday at cedars Of Lebanon
Hospital. Attendants said she
Is getting along fine. Miss
Taylor is the wife Of Producer
Mike Todd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-12-18
Chou to Visit Egypt

CAIRO. Dec. IS Rs-The
daily newspaper Al Ahram re-
ports Red China's Premier
Chou En-lai Is expected to visit
Egypt late in January.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
World orr Wheels

The Importance of the auomotve industry is brought to
mind forciby at this time than other period in the
for it is that most of the models being
nounced There will be much persuasive advertising published
calculated to cnch the sale of automobiles by the hun
dreds of thousands
There thought in the horse and buggy days of a
few short years ago that the automobile industry would
rocket to the size know today 1t is of the big
gest of the big industries In Garrett county alone figures
indicate that than S. million dollars spent for auto
mobiles annually, So million dollars than people
spend for food
When automobiles in their infancy, many people
feared that the industry would the economy the nation
by driving out OF business all the hardware dealers and black
smith shops But where would economy be today if
took away the automotive Dealers the filling stations tire
stores and allied businesses?
we talk about recreation aid to Garrett county We
point to Deep Greek Lake and how interest property there
has raised taxable basis But year and year out
of stabzng influences has been the automobile bust
ness and that of the tire and gasoline enterprises
They of the big in this wheel of actvi-
ty, and they are necessary to existence.
There are few spots in the continents today that
not know the automobile but the automote industry virtual
y has put the world wheels We take hats off this week
to the millions of people who associated in Job keep
ing our wheels we'll oiled and necessarily revolving
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Inducts Wesleyan
College President

Ernest Ray Jones, Oakland at
torney. as chairman of the Board
of Trustees of West Virginia Wes-
leyan college, indicted the new
president of the college into office
at appropriate ceremonies at Buck
harmon last Friday afternoon.
Indicted into office was Stanley
H. Martin, who succeeded DR. Will
liam j. Scarborough, who recently
resigned to become president Of
Baker university at Baldwin, Kan
Sas.
Mr.. Martin comes from Nash
vile, Tenn, and was formerly with
the General Board of Education
of the Methodist church.
Attending the induction cere-
monies were Mrs. Jones, Rev. and
Mrs. w. S. Patterson, and two local
students at the college, Sam Moore
and Geraldine Davis.
At a meeting of the Board of
Directors on Thursday the con-
tract for the construction of the
new dormitory for women was
awarded to the John l. Wander
grift company of Cumberland. The
contract price is in the neighbor-
hood of $750,000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Rotary and Lions
To Salute Teachers

In observance of American Edu-
cation Week November 10 to 16,
teachers in the southern part of
the county will be guests of the
Oakland Rotary and Lions clubs
at their regular meetings sched-
uled during that week.
The Oakland-Mt Lake Park
Lions club will meet Monday, No
vembcr H. and will have as its
guests teachers from Center street,
Annex, Kitzmiller. Crellin, Loeb
Lynn Red House, Swan Meadow,
SWanton, Deer Park and North
Glade. The Rotary club will have
as its guests ON Friday evening,
November IS, all members of the
Southern High school faculty.
Efforts are being made to secure
as speaker for both programs a
member of the State Department
Of Education. Special music is to
be provided by visiting teachers.
Officers of the two organizations
were endeavoring TO have these
programs between the teachers
and local service clubs to become
annual events.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Deputy Sheriff Has
Resigned Position

Raymond Thomas, who has been
serving as deputy sheriff since the
latter part of June, has resigned
his position, effective Saturday,
November /.
Mr.. Thomas was named deputy
by James E. Frantz at the time he
was appointed sheriff by Cover
nor Theodore r. Mckeldin. Mr.
Frantz was named to succeed Mr..
Fisher who resigned to accept an
appointment as county assessor.
Mr. Thomas, former resident
of Friendsville, had been residing
lin Cleveland, O., for several years
where he was employed as a
welder. He and his family plan to
move to Friendsville.
Mr. Frantz said he had a person
in mind for deputy but that there
would be no definite statement as
to a successor for Mr.. Thomas this
week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Conservation Supervisors
TO Be Elected Nov. 18

Three supervisors of the Garrett
Soil Conservation district are to
be named at an election scheduled
for November Is.
Candidates nominated include
LenWood Bittinger, Mt. Lake Park;
Arthur Fitzwater, Swanton; Stan
ton Friend, Friendsville;; Dorsey
Guard, Friendsville; Glen O'Brien,
Swanton; Harry L. Porter, Oak
land; Herbert Wildesen, German.
An eligible voter is defined in
the Soil Conservation district act
as a person who occupies farm
land in the district either as owner,
lessee, renter or tenant. Ballots
may be cast Monday through Fri
day before and including Novem-
Der IS, from $50 to II noon and
from | to 4:30 p. M, at the County
Agents office in Oakland Ballots
may also be returned by mail as
directed in the letter accompany
ing the ballots which are being
distributed in the soil conserva-
ton district.
The election committee includes
Harry w. Hummel, Grantsville;
Foster Yost, Accident; and John
H. Carter, Oakland
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Unity Finance Co.
Will Open Office

Unity Finance company is open
ing an office in Oakland starting
Friday, November l. 1t will be
located at % Alder street, where
remodeling has been in the pro
cess for the past several weeks.
The room was formerly occupied
by the Family Shoe store.
The company will have Claude
E. Barrick, native of Keyser, w.
Va, as its manager, and Mrs Wan
ola H. Grub, of Oakland, will be
the cashier. Mrs. Grub is the
former Miss Wanda Ramsey, a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil
Ramsey, of near Oakland.
The company will make loans
under the Maryland Small Loan
law in the amounts from $25 to
$500
Home office Of the company is
New MartinSville, w. Va The Oak
land office will be the ninth one
to be set up. Other offices are To-
Gated in West Virginia, Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA. The local office will
be the first one to be established
in Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
New Fishing Regulations
To Be Explained

A report on the meeting of the
Game and Inland Fishing Com
mission at Hagerstown recently
will be heard at a meeting of the
Garrett County Conservation as
ISOLATION next Tuesday evening,
November 5, at s o'clock, at the
Oakland Fire hall
Carroll Miller, president, said a
number of changes had been made
in the fishing regulations and said
these would be explained and dis
cussed. All persons interested are
invited to attend the meeting.
Other officers named at the Oc-
tober meeting were Helmuth
Heise, vice-president; Harland
Bittinger secretary-treasurer; and
Ray Cogley and Joseph Kahl,
directors Mr. Miller remarked
that the hunting season was now
with us and cautioned people to
be careful in order to be safe
not sorry"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
County Has Over
Inch Snow Sunday

Garrett county had its first real
snow of the year on Sunday. Be-
tween one and one-half and two
inches of snow fell during the day.
This was not the first snow of the
season, some having fallen on Oc-
tober IL in the Bittinger area, but
it was the first of the year that
could be measured.
Enough snow remained on the
roads to make them icy and haz-
ardous through the following day.
Monday remained cold and cloudy,
but Tuesday was clear and warmer.
There was a slight rainfall on
Wednesday which continued
through Wednesday night, but TO-
day appeared clear and warmer.
An inch or more of rain fell last
Wednesday night and Thursday.
None of it seems to be getting into
the deep wells of the town, how
ever. 1t was reported this week
that the town hadn't been able to
obtain any surplus water much
above the fire reserve in the two
reservoirs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Garrett One OF Five
Counties OF State
Brucellosis Free

A report on the brucclosis
eradication program in Maryland
shows that Garrett county is one
of five counties in the state that
has been certified as a disease free
area. The certificaticn was cffec-
tive October l.
Other counties certified arc Wi
Comico, Somerset and Caroline.
Dorchester county testing has been
completed and is ready for certi-
fication while three counties, Tai
bot Queen Anne and Kent, each
has one herd to be tested
The report, presented to the
State Board of Agriculture by Ed
ward Hotter, agriculture commit
tee chairman, declared that the
brucellosis eradication program
had been an important phase of
the animal disease control pro-
gram by the Live Stock Sanitary
service under the jurisdiction of
the Maryland State Board of Agri-
culture
The Live Stock Sanitary service
staff has worked closely with the
State Veterinary association, the
State Brucellosis committee, the
farm organizations of Maryland,
and others interested in the eradi-
cation of the disease.
Both State and Federal funds
have been available for payment of
indemnitieS for animals slaugh-
tered in the program. lin addition,
Federal funds were made avail
able for the drawing of blood
samples.
The report showed that calf
hood vaccination with strain 10
has been encouraged for many
years. Approximately $4,000 calves
were vaccinated each year for the
past several years. In 1861 there
were 1887 calves vaccinated or a
10 percent increase from the year
before. The report showed the
calfhood vaccination program had
helped to reduce losses from Bru-
cellosis and assist in the eradica-
ton program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Automotive Section
Included in Today's
Republican Issue

Included in today's issue of The
Republican is a siXteen-page tab
loid automotive section. Local au-
tomotive dealers are showing
many new models this week, and
other dealers are scheduled for
showings next week.
Listed in the automotive section
are the dealers for Oldsmobile,
Plymouth, Dodge, Pontiac, Stude-
baker, Ford, Buick, Chevrolet,
Jeep, International Trucks, Imperi-
al, Mercury and Chrysler, and also
news stories and pictures about
the new models.
The sixteen-page tabloid section
is in addition to twelve pages OF
the regular issue, equivalent to a
full size 20-page edition.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Flu Epidemic Has
Reached Its Peak
In County Schools

While the flu epidemic seems to
have reached its peak earlier in
the week and near normal attend
ance is taking place in the high
schools, number of elementary
schools still are suffering from a
high rate of absenteeism, it was
announced by Willard L. Hawkins,
county superintendent of schools.
He said the schools probably hit
the hardest in the county were
Kitzmiller, Yoder and Swan Mead
oW where in these schools the
attendance for several days
dropped to less than so percent of
normal.
Hawkins said absenteeism among
teachers has been unusually high,
cutting into the efficiency level at
which schools can operate.
He said that county school Of
ficials hope that by next week the
epidemic will have passed and that
schools can resume normal opera
tons.
He added that no thought was
given to the closing of the schools
due to the epidemic of flu as such
was not recommended by the State
Health department.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31

Garrett county can almost reach
out and touch the richest man in
the nation. One of his second cou-
sins is lifelong resident here.
Fortune Magazine this month
identified j. Paul Getty, an Amer
lean Gilman now living in Paris, as
the nations richest man. 1t said he
was worth 700 million to billion
dollars.
Getty heads list of rs Ameri-
cans whose wealth Fortune esti-
mates at over rs million apiece.
Mr.. Getty gets into the local pic
ture because he happens to be a
second cousin of Mrs. Joseph +.
Fahey, of Grantsville. Mrs Fahey
said this week he visited in Grants
vile in 1945 and that she hears
from him occasionally, but that is
the extent of the association. He
published a book about the Getty
family a number of years ago.
She said that her father and the
father of j. Paul Getty grew up
together. that Paul's father went
west and struck oil, and that her
father came east and didn't. She
recalled this week that at the time
of his visit to Grantsville he adj
mired Mrs. Fahey's house, the Cas-
selman hotel property She said
she indicated jokingly at the time
IL it was in need of repair and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
All Achievement
Night Is Planned

Garrett County All Achievement
Night will be held November 8th,
at the Accident Fire hall from 8
to II p. M During the evening
county members will be recog-
nized for outstanding All work
during the year. An informal Get
together Time" will start the pro-
gram, which will be followed by
square dancing. Presentation of
awards will begin at $50 p. m.
with Miss Johanna Magaha, as
sistant home demonstration agent,
in charge of girls awards; and
James A. McHenry, associate
county agent, presenting the
awards to the boys. Square dane
ing will conclude the evenings ac-
tivities. All All members, parents,
and friends are welcome to attend
this annual All event.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Used Clothing Drive
Declared Huge Success

Cub scouts of Oakland reported
this morning that residents went
all out" to provide them with a
generous amount of used clothing
last night to start off the Junior
Womans Civic club Clothes
Closet" project in the Oakland
schools.
Included in the donations were
two dozen pairs of shoes, all in
good condition, dresses, sweaters,
undertaking, socks, coats, jack
cts, boots, hats, shirts, trousers
and large box of baby clothing.
Frank MCDANIEL, cubmaster, said
the cubs and the Civic club would
be very grateful for all the contri-
buttons.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Three Members OF
Family Are Injured

Three members of Garrett
county family were admitted TO
Sacred Heart hospital in Cumber-
land early Sunday morning after
sustaining injuries in an automo-
bile accident.
Hospital attendants said that
Mrs. Gladys Warwick, Sc, and her
daughters, Wanda, Is, and Leota,
II, were i'll good" condition.
Mrs. Warwick, who apparently
was driving the car when it
skidded off the highway while
travelling on the New Germany
road, suffered multiple abrasions
of the face, a laceration of the face
and injuries to her right shoulder.
Miss Leota Warwick sustained
Commissions and abrasions of the
scalp and legs and a laceration of
the chin. Miss Wanda Warwick,
apparently the most seriously hurt,
suffered a cracked vertebrae near
the neck, Commissions and abrasions.
She was placed in traction at the
hospital.
The father and husband, Wilson
Warwick, 38, was treated for facial
cuts and abrasions at the hospital.
He is district employee of the
State Department of Forests and
Parks.
The family lives at Big Run in
the New Germany-Savage River
state forest area.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Farm Bureau Elects
Officers Directors

The Garrett County Farm Bureau
members reelected Elra Garletts
president and Ross Grove, vice
president at the annual meeting
of the group last Friday evening
at Southern High school. Some
375 persons attended.
Named to the Board of Directors
were Hobart BiShoff, Leslie Guard,
Robert o. Glotfelty, Arthur G..
Fitzwater, and A. O. Riley. Dele.
gates to the state convention were
also named and included G. Emer-
son Bishoff, o. c. Glotfelty, Will
liam Umbel, John Beachy and Paul
WEIGH.
The Associated women of the
Farm Bureau elected the following
directors: Mrs. Charles Wilt, Acct
dent; Mrs. Claude Bishoff, Friends
vile; Mrs. Morris Beachy, Grants
vile; Mrs. H. G. Gortner, Oakland
Red House; Mrs. Harland Beck
man, Swanton-Deer Park. Women
delegates are Mrs. Kenneth Bucket,
Mrs. Willie Warwick, with Mrs.
Harold Bittinger and Mrs. Glenn
burst as alternates.
DIR. Paul E. Nystrom, director of
the Extension service, University
of Maryland, was the principal
speaker.
The State Farm Bureau was re-
presented by Randall Spoerlein,
New Windsor. Alfred Broadwater
gave humorous monalog, Mrs.
Clark Schloesnagle led group sing
ing and f. Hobart Bishoff gave
the invocation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Southern To Meet
Terra Alta Friday

Southern Highlanders will meet
Terra Alta High school tomorrow
evening, Friday, November l, at
KingWood in a night contest,
This will be the second time this
year for a night game at Kingwood,
having played Kingwood High
school there Saturday, October 10.
The Keyser High football game,
originally scheduled for Friday,
october IS, and later postponed
until Monday. October %, has been
re-schcdulcd for next Wednesday
afternoon. November 6. at Keyser.
This game was postponed because
of the flu epidemic in the Keyser
schools.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Annual School Tour
Set For November Il

The second annual all-day pill
grimage of county schools will take
place Thursday, November Ia, it
was announced by Willard L. Haw-
kins, county superintendent of
schools.
The pilgrimage will be in keep
ing with numerous special pro-
grams in the schools during the
week of November 10 to Is, Ameri-
can Education Week.
He said the pilgrimage was be-
ing held as the result of popular
! demand, as many parents who
made the tour of some of the coun-
ty schools last year are interested
in visiting other schools this year.
Parent groups will be made up
at $50 a M, that day, at the An
mex in Oakland. at FriendSville,
Accident, Kitzmil1er, Bloomington,
Grantsville and Northern. All par
ents of children in county schools
are invited to join the tour and
may report to any one of the CEN
tiers listed. Parents then may de-
eide where they want to go and
may visit as many different schools
as time permits.
Cafeteria lunches will be served
at the Center street, Annex,
Friendsville, Accident, Kitzmiller,
lGrantsville, Southern, Northern,
Red House and Loeb Lynn schools
for 35 cents each.
Mr.. Hawkins pointed out that in
addition to improvements to schools
made prior to the first annual tour
that parents would be able to see
the complete renovation and many
improvements made to the Yoder,
Bloomington and Crellin schools
this past summer They also will
be able to see the exterior painting
jobs to both high schools, and al
though incomplete, the new school
on route 40 The new school on
bennett road, Oakland, will not be
open to public inspection, Mr..
Hawkins said, as this would inter
fere with workmen trying to COM
plete the building by Thanksgiving.
A special open house and dedi-
cation program is planned, how
ever, for the bennett Road school
soon after it is opened for classes.
Mr.. Hawkins said every effort
would be made to interest many
parents in joining the countrywide
school tour. He emphasized that
all parents and school patrons
would be welcome.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31

Seventy-three farmers and their
wives who are enrolled in the
FFBL program will be guests of
the council and the business people
of the county who contribute to-
ward the affair.
w. Dwight Slower, chairman of
the FFBL committee will preside
Herbert Glen, Clarksburg, W. Va,
will be POSTMASTER. Mrs. Clark
Schlossnagle will lead the group
singing and Rev. William Carlson,
Accident, will give the invocation.
There will be remarks by l.. Bush
Swisher, of MorgantoWn, w. Va,
project director.
Some 125 merchants and other
business people of the community
will contribute prizes to the farm
enrollees attending the dinner.
Lowell LOomis and Howard c.
Riggs will be in charge of the
awarding of prizes. Music is to be
furnished by the Music Shop.
Following the dinner and adj
dress by Mr. Davis, the county
farm family winner will be an
nounced. He will compete for re-
gional honors later this fall.
The Farming for Better Living
Council includes besides Mr..
Slower, Charles D. Williams, vice
chairman; Miss Johanna Magaha,
secretary; Nordeck Shaffcr, treas
urer, and Maurice Brookhart, j.
T. Cain, Carlton Calls, John H.
Carter, Mrs. w. W. Dewitt, Clin-
ton w. Highlander, Miss Ethel
Grove, Dorsey Guard, Mason Glot-
felty, Mrs. Kermit Glotfelty, Mrs.
George Hanst, Herbert c. Leigh
ton. Lowell Loomis, James A. Nc
Henry, S. T. Naylor, William w.
Mace, Karol Rush, w. Blair Sim
mons. B. Beeson Snyder and r.
Thomas Thayer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
Ross Speicher
Made Elder In
Brethren Church
Is One Of Four Ordained
At Convention Lost Week

Rev Ross Speicher was one of
four ministers ordained as Elders
in the Church of the Brethren at
the 91st annual convention of the
Western Pennsylvania district held
last week at Morrellville church in
JohnstoWn, Pa. The ordination
service highlighted the Wednesday
evening session of the convention.
Officiating at the ordination
service was Rev. Wilfred Staufer,
of Greensburg, Pa.
Mr. Speicher received a tempo
rary license to preach in 1945, and
received his permanent license two
years later. He is the first local
person to be ordained as elder in
the Church of the Brethren for
number of years.
The Bear Creek Church of the
Brethren at Accident was Mr.
Speichers home church. A son of
Mrs. w. A. Speicher and the late
Mr.. Speicher, he attended services
there while a youngster
His first charge was the Maple
Grove Church of the Brethren at
GrantsviIle. Subsequently he served
the Maple Glen Church of the
Brethren at Salisbury, the Mark
leysburg Church of the Brethren,
and the Fairview Church of the
Brethren. At present he is pastor
of the Hostetler church near
Meyersdale.
Mr. Speicher married the former
Helen Glotfelty and they have one
daughter, Iva Kathryn Speicher, a
senior at Northern High school
this year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1957-10-31
County Has Faint Connection
With Nations Richest lxn

that the roof leaked in spots, and
he replied, 81 admire it just the
way it is"
The tall, well-built Oxford grad
uate in economics, who was mil
lionaire in oil when he was %, said
he got rich because he was lucky.
Getty was born in Minneapolis,
the son of lawyer who moved to
California and who died in. 1880
worth many millions. His father,
too, made his money in oil.
The sons great fortune was
founded in the depression years,
buying oil company stocks from
rich people Many of these stocks
are selling today at rs to 100 times
more than what he had paid.
He said he planned to retire
when they put me six feet under"
Getty will be IS on December IS.
He is in London from Paris on a
private visit to see old friends.
Then he plans to return to his home
in Saudi Arabia He also has an es-
tate in Santa Monica, Cal. Getty
went to London alone. He is in the
midst of divorce from his fifth
wife. He said he had no plans to
marry again. He has six children.
Fortune magazine had quite a
lengthy article on the wealthy peo-
pie of the nation and listed many
of them by name.