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Evening star., 1959-12-27
FOUND

DOG, cocker spaniel, blond: found in
9ueenstown-Hy -Hyattsville area; beauti-
tul, purebred. Owner call WA. 1859.
DOG. part collie, sable and white
Owner call XII. 9-3959.
DOG. mixed black, female; vic. Oronoco
81. Owner call XII. 9-3959.
DOG, poodle. standard, black and
white; vic, Quaker lane. Owner call
DOG. setter. male puppy, tri-color; vic.
8. Wash. st. Owner call XII. 9-3959.
DOG. male, long haired, white, brown
patches. DI. 7-1029.
nOG. tan or beige; young, well fed
Germ. shepherd type; vic of Kalmia
and 18th st. NV. RA. 3-2O7o.
EYEGLASSES, tortoise-shell rim. pink
tinted: vic. 18th and Underwood SITS
NV, Dec. "a. ia. 9-9O11.
GLOVE. mans. pigskin, gray. right.
hand glove; front Fan & Bills
restaurant. DE. 2-7555.
HOUND PUPPY. very good looking
male. white and brown with greer
collar; vic. of 5000 10th ST. Thurs.
Say. Owner or interested person.
Evening star., 1959-12-27
THE TENSE PACIFIC
Elite U.S.. Units Alert
For Limited Action
BY RICHARD FRYKLUND
Star stan Writer

The United States Pacific Command is the Command of
Superaves the largest and the
full most VERSATILE and mobile unified force in military
history
Yet what mpresses looking at it closely the
Evening star., 1959-12-27

Published Dolly and Sunday
al 223 Virsinio Ave Sc.
Sseond-eIoSs Possess Paid
al Washington. D {.
Evening star., 1959-12-27

This is the first OF O series Of six
ortieles on the Communist threot in
the Poetic and how we ore pre-
pored 10 meet il. Mr.. FrYkIund hos
just returned from o tour Of the For
Eost which included inspection Of
Americon and allied installations
ond consultations with military and
civilian Officials.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Christmas Tree Growers
To Meet Friday Evening

The annual meeting of the Mary
land Christmas Tree Growers as
ISOLATION will be held at the fire
hall in Oakland on Friday, May
Is, beginning at o'clock.
William S. Peters, president of
the national Capitol association,
will discuss a new marketing or
ganizauon being formed in the
District of Columbia area, followed
by question and answer period.
Some colored slides showing local
management and harvesting oper-
atoms will be shown.
The new law relating to trans
portation of Christmas trees will
be explained. Officers will be
elected. The nominating commit
tee has suggested A. M. Sowder as
president; r. Thomas Thayer, Jr.,
as vice-president; John Cotton as
secretary-treasurer; and r. K. Nc
Donald and Leslie Moon as di-
rectors. SoWder, vice-president, is
extension forester for the u. S. De-
partment of Agriculture. Thayer
said there are now some forty men,
bers in the Maryland association
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
The TEUO BeE'IinS 800

East and West Berlin separated only by a barbed
wire fence constantly patroed by guncarryng Communist
police This curtain directly through the middle Of
what used to be big city, dividing it into two distinct
The two sections side by sde the worlds most
dramatic comparison between capitalism and total socialism
1t shows the world also why the free world must keep
West Berlin free and open to the eyes of the universe
A West German worker stand in his apartment a
few blocks the dividing line and study the desoaton
poverty of the Communist An East German worker
living under Communism climb through rubbe to the
ing prosperous city of West Berlin And when he does
he doesn't wonder about the Communist propaganda
against capitalism. He knows that it is false.
Millions of people behind the iron curtain have heard
about this contrast Millions of Europeans know about it. And
the main why Soviet dictator Khrushchev wants
to first neutraze West Berlin then wipe off the
The contrast of East and West Berlin how is
the Communist plan for world domination.
Anyone except the most sghtless warped Communist,
know that West Berlin must be viewed ver1tabe
garden spot rising of the deoe stagnant desert that
Communism has made of it $4,000 square miles and the
shattered forgotten cities of East Germany West Germany
mighty thorn in Khrushchevs side. The thorn goes
deeper into his hide every day.
West Berlin using the free enterprise capt.
tasc SYSTEM has been reborn and rebuilt Standard of v
ing in high everybody is busy The upward That's
why Khrushchev wants Allied troops to vacate Berlin and
leave it "open city, And that's why the Allies must
stand firm agan Communist pressure The permanency of
the free world is at stake.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Gets Contract To
Repair Jail Roof

Milo Brewer, Bittinger contrac-
tor, submitted the low bid for re-
roofing the county jail, and was
awarded the contract at the meet
ing of the Board of County Com
missioners this week. The amount
was S2,296.4O There were two other
bidders, both higher.
The contract calls, in addition
to the re-roofing, replacing of bad
3heathing and rafters, pointing up
stone work, rebuilding chimneys
where needed. In the one area
slate roof shingles will be removed
and replaced with 275 Id. asphalt
tapered strip shingles or equiva-
lent. In the section of the roof that
is built up area is to be recovered
with a three-ply cold process type
built up roofing with top coating
to be at least three gallons per
square. Skylight frames and sash
are to be renewed. Cutters are to
be renewed including stub rafters
and sheathing. Present Hastings
are to be removed and replaced
with 1907. copper of sufficient
width to be well imbedded into
mortar joints.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
90 Persons Attend
Democratic Dinner

Some sixty persons attended the
spring dinner meeting of the
Democratic Women's club of the
county held Monday at the Mt.
Lake Park hotel.
DR.. Clarence d. Long, professor
of economics, Johns Hopkins uni
versity, spoke on the relationship
between government and politics,
Capitalization of government and
governmental service He said that
war caused the size of government
to expand. while we are not at
war we are not at peace. Hence
the size of government and its
services to the people continue to
expand"
Also discussed were lobbyists
and bureaucrats, the two party
system, the amount of money ex-
pended in primary compaigns and
the apparent apathy existing
with many voters in not exercis-
ing their right to franchise. But
he concluded In spite of many
differences in our politics and
governmental spending we still
have the greatest and the best
government in the world"
Among those attending we're
Senator B. l. Gender, Delegates
Ebert Bucket and Leslie Savage,
and County Commissioners Elra
Garletts and Carl Schell. Charles
Briner sang, accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Russell II. Brown.
Mrs. E. |. Baumgartncr presided.
Invocation was given by Miss
Mary Catherine Gender.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Receives Awards

A Superior Cadet Ribbon fo~
outstanding student in each aca-
demic class at Western MarylanG
college, Westminster, Cadet Maste
Sergeant Joseph F. Bender, o.
Grantsville, at the ROTC presi
dents parade held there Tuesday.
A Daughters of the American
Revolution Leadership and Citi-
zenship award was also made to
Cadet Sergeant First Class Doug
las E. Smith, of Oakland.
Each year certain members OF
the junior class are tentatively de-
signated as distinguished military
students, those who are of the
calibre to warrant consideration
for commission as officers in the
regular army. This year Cade
Sergeants Bender and Smith were
two of those to receive this desig-
nation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Farm Pond Claims
Life of Young Man

Charles McCrobie, 81, of indie
pendence, w. Va, was drowned
Monday afternoon while SWIM
ming in a farm pond with two
friends.
Harold Woodall and Francis Ar
mentrout said their companion
went under before they could get
to him. They were swimming at
the Ernest Price farm near Glades-
vile, Preston county Microbes
body was recovered an hour and
fifteen minutes later by Westover
Volunteer firemen.
Coroner Frank w. Pritt ruled
that death was accidental Nc
Crobie apparently suffered cramps
when he jumped into the cold
water. The youth was son of
Mrs. Edna McCrobie, route /, In
dependence.
The youth was born in Grants
vile January 2, 1885, He is sur
vived by his mother, five sisters
and three brothers, Chester, Shir-
ley, Nancy and Jackson McCrobie,
all. at home; Mrs. Harry Grimes,
Morgantown; Leroy McCrobie,
Gormania, w. Va; Wilma Nc
Crobie, Pruntytown, w. Va; and
Eleanor McCrobie, MorgantoWn.
Also surviving are his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Nevada Wright,
Gormania; and his maternal grand
mother, Mrs. Charles F. Miller,
Oakland.
Funeral services are being con-
Quoted this afternoon at 2 o'clock
from the Leighton Funeral home
with Rev. Irwin Steiding, pastor of
the Sand Flat Assembly Of God
church, officiating. Interment will
be in the Gornter cemetery, south
of Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Record Tree Planting
Program Completed

The spring reforestation pro-
gram, which involved the planting
of some 1,380,000 tree seedlings in
Garrett county, has been success
fully completed. OF the total, ap-
proximately $4,000 were planted
by machine. According to r. Thorn
as Thayer, assistant district for
ester, this is the largest number
of evergreen seedlings planted by
landowners in the county in any
one year.
The trees which will be used for
timber production, game protec-
ton, watershed cover, or thinned
for Christmas trees, we're secured
from the nursery of the Depart
ment of Forests and Parks, near
Baltimore, or purchased from
other sources.
The majority of the seedlings
distributed by the department will
be allowed to stand for timber
production or watershed cover
Thayer said that over 200 county
landowners received the trees
which are normally planted at the
rate of 1000 per acre.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Former Member Of
House Dies Suddenly

Jesse J. Ashby, Jr., aged SO,
former member of the House of
Delegates and public official for
many years, died suddenly Monday
morning, May IL, at his home on
Pennington street, Oakland. He was
preparing to do some painting of
his garage when stricken.
Mr.. Ashby served as member
of the House of Delegates from
1854 to 1858 but was not candidate
for reelection He had served con-
tinuously in public office since
1882.
He began his service with the
county as a deputy sheriff, later
serving four years as sheriff. Mr.
Ashby also served as treasurer of
the county for twelve years and
clerk to the County Commissioners
for IL years.
A member of st. Paul's Metho-
dist church, Oakland, Mr.. Ashby
served as trustee and was a men,
Der of the church choir for 20
years He also was a member of
Oakland Lodge No. 1872, A., F. and
A. NJ; Scottish Rite bodies of
Cumberland; Shrine Club, Cum
berland; Oakland Lodge No. 113,
Knights of Pythias, and Camp II,
Woodmen of the World, of Oak
land.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Myrtle Frazee Ashby; a son,
Dr. Harold c. Ashby, Oakland
optometrist; daughter, Mrs.
Eloise Andrus, Annapolis; a foster
daughter, Miss Crystal Elliott, New
York City; two brothers, Dorsey
Ashby, Aurora, w. Va; Thomas
Ashby, Brooknell, Va; a sister,
Mrs. Scott w. Shirer, Oakland and
four grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at 2;30 o.
clock from st. Paul's Methodist
church, Oakland, with the Rev.
Charles Goodwin, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Oakland Genie
terry with members of the Masonic
lodge having final rites at the
grave.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14

l.. Hawkins, county superintendent
of schools here.
He will deliver his address to
graduates of Southern High school
at commencement exercises at the
school on Monday evening, June l,
and will then give the address at
Northern High Commencement on
the following evening, Tuesday,
June 2.
The program for both affairs is
now being arranged by the two
principals, Paul Muha for North
ern; w. Kenneth Johns, for South
ern.
Mr.. Schmidt has been connected
with the school system since 1914
Principal of Oxon Hill High school
he became director of instructors
and was assistant superintendent
from 1913 to 1851. Prior to COM
ing to Maryland he taught social
studies in the junior high school
in Manor, Pa, later becoming
principal and then supervising
principal of the borough public
schools.
A native of Frederick he re-
ceived degrees from Franklin and
Marshall college, Teachers college,
Columbia university; University of
Pittsburgh, George Washington
university and the University of
Maryland.
He is a life member of the Ma
tional Education association and
Maryland Congress of Parents and
Teachers, and also belongs to
numerous community organiza-
tions around College Park. He was
a deacon and elder of the First
Reformed church in Manor and
has served as Elder in Grace Re-
formed church, Washington.
Because of his participation in
the educational field Mr.. Schmidt
was delegate to the White House
Conference on Education in 1855.
He also is member Of other edu-
cational groups. He is married and
has one son.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
DR.. Calandrella Is
Reelected Head of
Board of Education

At a meeting of the Board of
Education on Tuesday, DR.. Ralph
Calandrella, of Kitzmiller, was re-
elected president. Maurice Brook
hart was reelected vice-president.
George Edwards became associate
member, and willard L. Hawkins
was named secretary-treasurer.
Members of the board spent
most of the day in meeting with
county P.-T.A. presidents in an
effort to provide information lead,
ing to a better understanding be-
tween board members and P.-T.A
leaders concerning all phases of
the county school system.
Mr.. Hawkins said some items dis
cussed dealt with matters of budg-
ct, finance, teacher recruitment
and replacement, the educational
and building programs both pres
ent and future, equipment needs,
federal education defense act,
method used for purchasing ma
terials, insurance costs, profession
al meetings, proposed summer
school program, and other issues.
Discuss Salaries
Members also met with the
County Commissioners and com
mittee of representatives from the
county teachers association to dis
cuss salaries for the coming year.
1t was emphasized it was next to
impossible to interest graduates of
Maryland colleges in coming to
the county with its comparatively
low salary offerings. Salaries Of
fered in Weather counties were
making it difficult to recruit re-
placements, Mr. Hawkins reported.
He added however that the turn
over to date was small.
The Commissioners made no
definite commitment, stating that
the present county budget could
not now or in the future take on
any new obligations without in
Continued on Page Severn
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Loor Auxiliary To Meet

The annual meeting of the Loar
auxiliary of the Garrett County
Memorial hospital will be held
next Thursday, May Il, at 1880
p. M, in the board room at the hos
pital, it was announced.
There will be an election of Of
ficers. Mrs. Herbert Leighton, Sr.,
is chairman of the nominating com
mittee. The group is observing ma
tional hospital week.
The auxiliary is accepting dona-
tons and memberships at present.
Several booths are located in the
business section of Oakland. With
the money donated to the special
fund two TV sets have been pur-
chased for the hospital.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Style-Art Show
Will Feature PIT. A.

A style and art show will fea-
ture the final Parent-Teacher as
ISOLATION meeting for Southern
High school next Monday evening,
May 18, it was announced. Plans
were completed at an executive
board meeting this past Monday
with ten members present.
There will be a business meeting
in the school gymnasium at 7:30
followed by the program at
o'clock.
Fashions Out of This World"
will be the title The gymnasium
will be open at o'clock for view
ing of the paintings. Junior and
Senior home economics girls will
model their garments they have
made during the year. Jarlath De-
Witt will be the narrator, with
Dixon and Nancy White
as senior directors. Lois Davis
will be fashion queen.
Directing the show are Miss
Frances Patterson, Mrs. Glenn Ran
dol, Mrs. John Carter and Mrs.
Charles Meyer. There will be spe-
cial numbers of dancing and sing
ing with some 100 girls taking part.
A slate of officers will be pre-
scented by the nominating commit
tee which include Charles Briner,
Willard Elliott, vice
Mrs. Earl Wise, secre-
tary; Emil German, treasurer.
Other nominations may be made
from the floor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Bloomington High
In April Attendance

Bloomington school had the high
est percentage of attendance for
April with 979, it was announced
by John L. Fitzwater, supervisor
of pupil personnel, Bloomington
had "a pupils belonging. Accident
was among graded schools with
1858, with 235 pupils attending. Red
House, with 1877 pupils, was third
with 95.1.
Bittinger, the only one-teacher
school in the county, with q stu
dents had an attendance of 95
percent.
Highest among tWo-teacher
schools was North Glade with 81
pupils. Percentage was 971. Second
was Swanton with 63 pupils, 95.2,
while third was Yoder, with IS,
94.7. Southern high school, with
1,lO3 students, had percentage of
95.1 while Northern, with TAP stu
dents, had 941.
Enrolment by grades for April
totaled 4658. Grade 5 had the high
est number with ASS while grade
2 was second with 474.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Deer Park Firemen Out

Deer Park firemen were called
to the home of Cecil Friend, near
Deer Park, last Friday morning
about 1870 o'clock. Firemen said
the fire broke out in a partition
after the flue became overheated.
Damage was slight.
The department was called again
Friday afternoon to assist the
Forestry department subdue a
brush fire on Bloomington noun
tain.
The department is planning its
18th annual street carnival for Aug
ust to 8, inclusive. A parade will
be held August It'll. There will be
rides, concessions and refresh
ments.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Countrywide Choral
Music Festival To
Be Held On Friday

Several hundred students from
county elementary and high schools
will assembly Friday night in
Southern High school gymnasium
to present the third annual all
county choral music festival. The
program will begin at o'clock.
An an-county instrumental music
festival was held two weeks ago
at Northern High "chool.
All school members will combine
to present the first number, Born
to be Free" after which the fol-
lowing schools will give numbers:
Loeb Lynn, grades 2, and a;
Friendsville. route 40, Kitzmiller,
Red House, Grantsville, Center
street, Accident, Yoder, bennett
Road, all elementary schools. The
number by the Center street ele-
mentary, Pennsylvania Dutch"
song, by grades and a, will be
sung IN German.
The Junior high school choruseS
of both Northern and Southern
high schools will sing combined
number after which each school
will present a number. The senior
high schools will provide the final
numbers. Both schools will COM
bine for "Seventy-SiX Trombones. s"
Rorald Boiler, student at Northern,
will be soloist in the second num-
Der, Just One Day at a Time"
The Ivy Leaguers of Southern
High will sing Apple Blossom
Time" and there will be a sepa-
rate number by each school. North
ern senior chorus will sing 81 Feel
Song Coming On" while South
ern High chorus will sing Dear
Hearts and Gentle People"
Following remarks by Willard l..
Hawkins, county superintendent of
schools, the program will conclude
with the singing of Onward Chris
aan Soldiers" by all the schools
Director for the various numbers
will be Mrs. Elisabeth Thayer, for
Center street and Friendsville;
Mrs. Betty Kolb for Grantsville:
Mrs. Mary K. Eliason for Red
House, Loeb Lynn, bennett Road
and Kitzmiller; Mrs. Ruth Yoder
for Yoder; Mrs. Lucille Sines for
Northern High junior and senior:
Miss Barbara l.. Colabrese for
Southern junior high and Mrs.
Ruth c. Brown, for Southern
senior high and the combined
chorus numbers, and Mrs. Lillian
Reckner, Accident.
Accompanies will be Mrs. Helen
Buchanan, Miss Joyce Warwick,
Mrs. Eliason, Thomas Furlow, Miss
Colabrese, Miss Betty Savage, Mrs.
Sines and Mrs. Brown. Art work is
by Miss Frances Patterson and
Melvin Garland of the Southern
High art department.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Store at Crellin
Robbed on Saturday

The Delmas Sanders store at
Crellin was robbed of about $50
in merchandise last Saturday
night. The merchandise was re-
covered and two persons ques-
toned, one a juvenile, but they
denied having any connection with
the theft and we're released with
out being charged.
The merchandise was discovered
along the highway several hun
dred yards from the store.
There we're unconfirmed reports
that some robbers had been caught
in Aurora, w. Va, during the past
week, but whether or not they
we're connected with the series Of
Oakland robberies, had not been
learned.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Garage Owner
Dies Suddenly
c. E. Shorps Dead On Arri-
vol At Hospital Tues
doy Evening

Clarence Edward Sharps, aged
GO, automobile dealer in Oakland
for almost thirty years, died sud-
denly on Tuesday, following
heart attack. He was taken to the
Garrett County Memorial hospital
but was pronounced dead on ar
rival.
Deceased was born in Independ-
ence, w. Va, December 10, 1890,
a son of the late Lewis Allen and
Anna Squires Sharps. He came to
Oakland in 1880 where he owned
and operated Sharps Motor COM
pany He was member of the
Oakland Rotary club, serving
several terms as a member of the
board of directors and held the
club record for perfect attendance
for over % years. He was a men,
Der of st. Paul's Methodist church,
Oakland, and was a veteran of
World War l, and a member of
The Woodmen of the World.
Surviving are three sons, John
A. Sharps and Frederick L..
Sharps, Oakland; William E..
Sharps, Mt. Lake Park; six grand
children; two sisters, Mrs. Leona
Van Zandt, Middleton, o.; Mrs.
Theo Horchler, Newburg, w. Va.
His wife, Gertrude Shafferman
Sharps, died eight years ago.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted from the Minnich Funeral
Home, Second street, on Friday af-
ternoon at o'clock with Rev.
Charles Goodwin, pastor, officiating.
Active pallbearers are Paul Stock
man, Harvey Winters, Earl Zepp,
Bill Hesen, Prentice DeBerry and
Maurice Brookhart. Honorary pail
bearers will be Rotarians.
Interment will be in Oakland
cemetery. Friends are being re-
ceived at the funeral home today
from 2 to 4, and from to p. m.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1959-05-14
Forest Fire Burns
$50 Acres On Friday

The worst forest fire of the
spring season in Western Mary
land last Friday burned about $50
acres of timberland on Backbone
mountain before being brought
under control.
District Forester William H.
johnson led a crew of about 70
volunteer fire fighters who strug-
gled for about six and one-half
hours before bringing the blaze
under control.
One of the steepest hillsides in
the county, rocky terrain, high
winds and the dry condition of
the timber combined to make the
fire fighting extremely difficult.
Fire fighters included volunteer
Glremen from Bloomington, Kitz-
miller and Deer Park, members of
the State Roads commission main
tenance crew and a crew from the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad and
about 25 employees from the State
Department of Forests and Parks.
The blaze started along the B.
and o. railroad right Of way where
a crew was burning debris on the
17-mile grade, near Bond station
and also the Savage River dam.
The fire burned from near the
dam to state route 1876. Most of
the burned over land contained
timber, much of which was mature.