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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26

Mrs. Paul Welch served her
guests, Mrs. Anna Bittinger. Miss
Harriet Swartzentruber, Mr.. and
Mrs Albert Sisk with ice cream
and cake honoring, Mr.. Sisk's
birthday, Sunday evening. On Mon
day evening Mr.. Sisk's niece. Mrs.
Joni Miller, Jr., had him and Mrs.
Sisk. her parents, Glen Schrock
and Mrs. Paul WEIGH over for a
birthday celebration. The Millers
had Miss Elizabeth Miller and
Raymond CARRIER as guests on Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Emanuel Miller
spent the weekend with his neph-
ew, Edward Miller, at Grantsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Snyder and
daughter, Sylvia, we're with her
parents in Virginia for several
days.
The following visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Hubert Martin, honoring her
birthday: Mrs. Cecil Snyder and
daughter Naomi, Mrs. Atlee Hersh-
berger, Mrs. Henry Petersheim,
Virgil Martin and his mother. and
the Weese family. of Petersburg.
Sam and Lena Slabach, Mr.. and
Mrs. LeMoyne King, Mr.. and Mrs
Albert Sisk called on ElWood
Fluke, near Bayard.
Mrs. Henry Petersheim and chill
dren, the Eli Yoders, and Joni
Miller, ST., are visiting in Ohio.
Mrs. Noah Schrock and Mrs.
Joni Miller, Jr., and children, Doro-
thy and Herman, visited Ernest
Schrock and family, Tuesday.
Freeman Lichty and mother. and
others, visited Owen Swartzen-
truber, Sunday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26
Soil Stewardship
Week May 1929

Soil and water conservation are
of vital importance to you whether
you are farm or city dweller.
Effective soil stewardship affects
our food supplies, raw materials
for industry, our incomes of the
individual and the community our
water supply, the beauty of the
landscape, number and kinds of
Wildlife, and the frequency and
size of floods. These are the sea-
sons that Soil Stewardship Week
will be observed May %, to 30,
points out Edward r. Keil, Soil
Conservation Service, University
of Maryland. The week is spon-
sored by the National Association
of Soil Conservation Districts and
cooperating national church or
CARNATIONS.
To fail in our soil and water
shed stewardship is to imperil the
future by squandering the basic
resources on which man must de-
pend for all time, warns D. A.
Williams, Administrator, U. S.
Soil Conservation Service.
Congress gave legislative form
to this idea in 1885 when it passed
Public No. 46, the statement of ma
tional policy and the establishment
of the Soil Conservation Service
whose 25th anniversary we noted
in April. In the following years
State legislatures passed enabling
acts authorizing farmers to or
ganize and manage their own soil
conservation districts. While the
Legislators may not have mentioned
/ stewardship, they we're being good
stewards, William says.
Doubtless, something other than
material gain prompted members
of the local district governing
boards to organize the National
Association of Soil Conservation
Districts a few years later. The
thousands of supervisors and di-
rectors who give their unpaid serv-
ices, at considerable personal sacri-
flee, to the management of their
local district are good stewards
So are some 1,850,000 farmers and
ranchers who cooperate with their
local districts, he says.
More recently, in 1854, Congress
passed Piss, the Watershed Pro
lection and Flood Prevention Act
authorizing Federal assistance to
local governmental units on small
watersheds. Thus, it became pos
sible for stewards of the soil and
the watershed to enter partner
ship with their local, state and
Federal government to keep our
pleasant portion" land of green
pastures and still waters.
Any everyone who helps-on
farm and ranch, from the city
skyscraper, from the bank, the
school, the civic club, from the
newsroom or the radio-TV studio
each in his own way may help
maintain the precious things of
the earth and the fulness thereof,
Williams adds.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26
Plan Hymn Sing

The Mountain Lake Park Bap-
fist Church is planning an old
fashioned hymn sing for this Sun
day evening, May 90, at 1880 p. m
There will be congregational sing
ing led by the pastor, 1. Luke Wal
ter, plus special numbers by the
church choir, quartets, duets and
soloists. The Rodeheaver quartet
will be special feature at this
service and also the Lake Lynn
Four will be present. There is a
mystery quartet, organized of local
church members, that will also
sing at this occasion. The public
is invited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26
RYAN'S GLADE
All Club News

The Ryan's Glade All club OBJ
served National All Sunday on
May %, by attending the White
Chapel Methodist church as a
group. The sermon was entitled,
I'm Gods Garden" and was de-
livered by Rev. Randall D. Prince,
pastor.
Miss Charlotte Harvey read a
poem dedicated to local leaders.
Garland Steyer led the Alters in
the All pledge.
Miss Barbara E. Martin, Cheat
Lake All club president, was a
guest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26

session the delegates broke up
into discussion groups. The Friday
lunch was served at the National
Guard armory where some of the
sessions were held.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26
GORTNER

Church services on Sunday morn
ing by the Brethren The evening
service has been called off because
of the Love Feast at Eglon, con
GLIDING this weeks revival there.
A number Of persons from here
have been attending.
Mr.. and Mrs Alva Lapp and
daughter, and Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26

Experts in the fields of archery,
boating, handicrafts and fishing
gave demonstrations There was a
boy scout demonstration on camp
ing. Blair Lee III, spoke Saturday
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26

morning on open Spaces, Their
Importance to Maryland"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1960-05-26

Maryland's traffic accident death
toll jumped to 2O7 May 81
Evening star., 1960-02-14

ment between the Attorney Gen.
eral and the congressional group,
prospects for new cleanup legis-
lation appears good. Certainly the
moderate proposals do not war
rant any organized industry op-
position no matter how deeply it
feels it can "clean its own house"
The House Subcommittee
hearings on disc jockey payola
doubtless will buttress the recon-
mendations for action. Tales of
payoffs and a $4,000 Bacchana-
liza financed by Is record compa-
nieS and a radio corporation for
the DECAYS in Miami last year are
only part of the sordid picture.
In a ricochet action last Thurs
day, an NBC script censor blue
penciled a joke on a taped show
done by Jack Paar, most popular
nlght-owl comedian. The censor
thought the joke in poor taste.
Mr.. Paar, in tears, walked out of
the show in a huff and vowed he
would not return.
Evening star., 1960-02-14
May Be Amendment

Ordinarily, the bill would be
sent to the Judiciary Committee,
whose chairman is Senator East
land of Mississippi, a foe of rights
legislation. But Mr.. Dirksen may
offer it as an amendment to some
minor bill already passed by the
House, one having nothing to do
with civil rights.
If the amendment were offered
and approved, the Senate would
have specific measure to debate.
But as the House has not yet
passed any civil rights legislation
nor has any cleared a Senate COM
mittee, the Senate does not, at the
moment, have a bill to debate on
the floor.
But bill or no bill, there will be
plenty of talk and much of it will
come from Southerners who vow
1T (rights legislation) shall not
pass" For awhile this session. the
word had been bruited about that
the Dixie Senators were resigned
Evening star., 1960-02-14
THE NATIONAL SCENE

to the passage OF new, fairly
strong legislation and would, ther-
fore, put up something less than
an all-out fight.
On Monday last, Georgia's two
Senators, Richard Russell and
Herman Talmadge, spiked such
talk. They pledged before their
States legislature they would fight
to the last for "our way Of life"
They can expect the full support
of their Southern colleagues. in
cluding Senator Thurmond Of
South Carolina, the filibuster
champion who talked for a record
"a hours and 18 minutes in 1857.
Meanwhile the passive resist
ance" movement begun by Negro
students in North Carolina against
segregated lunch counters spread
to Virginia and South Carolina.
The Negroes tactic is to occupy
all the seats. The restaurants have
closed down rather than serve
them.
But Friday, the lunch-counter
owners struck back in Raleigh.
N. C. They charged the Negroes
with trespassing on private prop
erty. Police arrested Al dem
onstrators and the States Attor-
ney General backed them up. New
court actions by the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People doubtless will
follow,
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Civil Rights:
The Big Debate

Administration package" civil
rights bill was introduced in the
Senate last week as support
grew for Attorney General
Rogers voting referee plan.
Tomorrow "the blue and the
grey" once again square of in the
Nations most celebrated debating
hall. the United States Senate.
The civil rights issue, which
may have an important effect on
the presidential nomination as
pirations Of number of Demo-
cratic candidates and on the No
vember election, this year is CEN
tered around the effort to extend
the voting rights of Negroes in
the South.
Last week, the prospect was
that the administrations plan,
drawn up under the direction Of
Attorney General Rogers, for
court-appointed referees to guard
Negro registration and voting
rights in both State and Federal
elections, would be at the core of
any new legislation passed this
year.
The Senate Rules Committee
was said to be leaning toward the
Rogers proposal, with perhaps
minor notifications, and one of
the leading civil rights proponents
in the House. Democratic Repre-
sentative Celler of New York,
came out for it four-square.
The referee plan also was one
of the key sections of a seven-point
package" bill on civil rights spon-
sored by "a Republican Senators
and introduced last Monday by
Minority Leader Dirksen.
Evening star., 1960-02-14
Politics.:
Friends

Gov. Rockefeller broke his ST.
lence on Vice President Nixon's
candidacy last week and praised
Mr.. Nixon's talk Of . forward
looking program. Z
Democratic presidential aSpir-
ants kept up a drum m-fire Of
criticism Of the Eisenhower ad-
ministration in speeches over
the country.
Gov. Rockefeller announced
last December 26 that he would
not vie with Vice President Nixon
for the Republican presidential
nomination this year.
For six weeks he did not men
ton Mr.. Nixon's name publicly.
There was speculation that Mr..
Rockefeller was waiting in the
wings, ready to re-enter the race
should MI. Nixon fail or falter.
Some observers felt that the Gov
ernor simply does not like the
Vice President and is, therefore,
not prepared to extend himself in
promoting the Nixon candidacy.
While the speculation on the
Nixon relationship will
go on, the Governor at least broke
his silence last Wednesday when
he lauded Mr.. Nixon for "clear
and fortnight" statement pledg-
ing a forward-looking national
program.
Even though this expression
from Mr.. Rockefeller is worthy Of
note it can easily be overempha-
sized. After all, Mr.. Rockefeller
has been talking long and vigor-
ously about the need for the
G. o. P. to look to the future
and not stand pat on the achieve
ments of the Eisenhower admin
istration. And so, it might only
be natural to approve of a fellow
Republican when he agrees with
what you hold important.
The four Democratic presiden-
tial aspirants, meanwhile, took
turns blasting the administration
in general, and Mr.. Nixon in
particular. in speeches throughout
the country. One Of them, Sena-
tor Humphrey of Minnesota, even
found time to drop a few catty
remarks about front-running
Senator Kennedy of Massachu-
setts. AS the campaign progresses,
this kind of intra- party activity is
expected to increase.
Evening star., 1960-02-14

part Of German Tanganyika. It
was given to Belgium to admin
lister after World War I. Although
it adjoinS the Belgian Congo, its
people are ethnically different and
its cattle-coffee economy is linked
more to East Africa than to the
Congo. Ruanda- -Urundi is land
locked and too small and poor to
stand alone. It's people are prim-
tive and have of late taken to a
brand of inter tribal warfare
which will set back its chances Of
even local autonomy for years.
Stotus Contested
The last United Nations area,
eX-German South West Africa,
which lies on the west coast be-
tween the Union of South Africa
and Angola, is an even more
difficult problem. The Union re-
ceived League of Nations man.
date over this thirsty land more
than three times the size OF the
United Kingdom and alone among
the mandate powers refused to
put the territory under U. N.
supervision when the League be-
came defunct. Although the Union
has admitted the U. MS interest
in South West by occasionally
admitting visiting commissions, it
has consistently denied that the
U. N. has any real jurisdiction.
Since South West. which has a
population of 100000 including
some 10000 whites. is represented
in the Union parliament and its
native inhabitants are subjected
to the rule Of apartheid. the issue
would seem to be closed.
In the main. the United Nations
has been hampered in Africa by
the vagueness Of its fiat in the
trusteeship territories. Lacking
has been a comprehensive plan for
economic or social development.
Although the caliber of visiting
missions has improved in recent
years, too often they have been
made up Of men with no real
knowledge Of or interest in the
peculiar problems of Africa. In
many cases commissioners have
been representatives of nations
which have achieved far less in
their own lands than have the
Colonial governments.
II the political and economic
development Of U. N. Africa has
been spotty and weak, it is sur
prising that the record has not
been worse.
Evening star., 1960-02-14
BY JOHN v. HORNER
Star STAG Writer

There's good reason to believe
the Cuban visit Of Soviet Deputy
Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan will
boomerang, both on international
communism and on the fledgling
revolutionary government of Fidel
Castro. If it does, the Western
World and particularly the
United States-stands to benefit
from the counter productive"
effects.
The man to thank for this well
come development is Mr.. Mikoyan,
himself. AS the Kremlins star
travelling salesman. he has simply
sold too hard. He has gone so far
in public utteranceS and succeeded
so well in identifying himself with
Mr.. Castro and the Prime Min
ister's principal advisers, he has
jolted all of Latin America.
For the first time, it appears,
our neighbors to the south realize
the United States was not crying
"Wolf!' in warning, over and
over, Of the Red menace. It's
easier, in light of the Mikoyan
performance, for Latin America
to see and sense the inherent
danger of spreading communism.
Mr. Mikoyan was extended an
invitation to visit Cuba through
the Cuban Embassy in Mexico.
This was last November, when
the Deputy Premier went to Mex
leo City to open a Russian trade
exhibit. He accepted the invita-
ton and was on hand in Havana
to open the same exhibit early
this month.
First Appearance
In his first public appearance
in the Cuban capital. Mr.. Mikoyan
was greeted by burst of gunf1re
"a burst, incidentally, which came
from arms carried by jittery guards
in the security detail for the Rus
sian leader. Despite the incident,
Mr. Mikoyan proceeded to speak.
He lavished praise on Prime Min
lister Castro's socialistic land re-
form program and cockily bossted
Russia owes much of her success
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Continued From Page C-1
conference last week in order to
fly to Cape Canaveral for his first
look at that missile and space
vehicle test center. On Thursday,
he told reporters the visit i'm
pressed him and made him feel
better about things. Some critics
saw the trip as something of a
gimmick aimed at convincing the
public that the old World War II
general was keeping up with the
missile age.
At the conference, Mr.. Eisen-
hover struck at his critics. He ac-
cepted a questioner's description
Of Pentagon officers as defense
experts" but implied that those
individuals on Capitol Hill who
have been attacking his military
budget and policies were not any
such thing.
He said he deplored leaks" of
information and the methods of
publicizing the personal opinions
Of particular weapons held by
various top military officers. He
reminded the news conference:
II have been in the military
service long time. am obviously
running for nothing. I want only
my country to be strong, to be
safe and to have a feeling of con-
hdence among its people so they
can go about their business
II have heard all of the ar
guments, pro and con, in this
individual type of an opinion of
. which I have been speaking, and
have done the best I can. and I
. am doing it with one idea in mind
only-America."
Whether the critics may prove
TO be right or not, they will find
1t difficult to make headWay in
the face of statements like the
above from this popular, profess
sional-military man President.
Evening star., 1960-02-14
Mikoyon's Visit
Too Successful?

to the confiscation Of property
without any compensation.
Mr.. Castro may have been fat
tered and his claque may have
been elated. But most Cuban cit
liens, Just as most other Latin
American people, are proud, hon.
orable people. They abide by
commitments and discharge their
obligations. They do not appre-
ciate the implications of the
Mikoyan statement.
For all of Latin American, the
conflscation remark points up the
Communist attitude toward in
dividual rights. And at the mo-
ment, nothing is dearer to the
hearts of the hemisphere than
individual rights.
International Communism
The Russian visitors warm re-
lationship with Fidel Castro and
his brother, Raul, and Mai. En-
nesto (Che) Guevara served to
impress the world with the link
between the Cuban revolutionary
movement and international COM
munism. Even if the Prime Min
lister is not a Communist, as he
says, he has demonstrated a will
ingneSS, if not an eagerness, to
travel with those who are.
Raul Castro. who heads the
armed forces, and Che Guevara,
who runs the Cuban economy,
have never made any bones about
their friendship for Communists.
Undoubtedly. they are pleased
with all that has happened. But
if Fidel Castro ever intends to
establish the democracy he has
promised, he will realize too late
what harm he has wrought.
This is a lesson being learned
by more and more freedom loving
Cubars and by more of the think
ing people elsewhere in Latin
America. 1t is a lesson taught by
Deputy Premier Mikoyan.
They see now that communism
seeks to destroy individual rights
and to destroy Latin American
friendship for the United States.
Fortunately. this Red campaign of
destruction comes when the hemi-
Evening star., 1960-02-14
Broodcosting:
HousecIeoninq

The Federal Communica-
tions Commission recommended
on Thursday new legislation
making it q crime to give or
take payola or to participate
: In rigged radio or TV shows.
:. The long awaited hearings on
disc jockey payola opened on
Capitol Hill.
The FEC. which has never been
accused of acting with undue
speed, has proposed that some
thing be done about payola and
rigged shows.
What it wants is what Attorney
General Rogers proposed last De-
cember 81 and the House SUBJ
committee on Legislative Over
sight recommended last Sunday
namely, that Congress make pay
ola and rigged shows a criminal
effense.
But the FEC came last with the
least. Both Mr. Rogers and the
subcommittee went far beyond
the agency in its recommends
tons for Kidding the broadcast
ing industry Of deceptive and cor
rupt practices. And both blasted
the FEC and the Federal Trade
Commission for being passive in
the use Of their existing powers
to crack down on wrongdoing,
Most Importantly, Mr.. Rogers
and the subcommittee want the
FEC to license networks as well
as stations and to give the agency
power to suspend these licenses
for brief periods if they failed to
heed Government warnings that
their programs we're not serving
the public interest
The FEC now has the authority
to revoke or refuse to renew sta
ton licenses, but the power has
been regarded as so drastic that
1t has seldom been used.
With the apparent broad agree
Evening star., 1960-02-14
ole Spots in Africa After March Of NationaIism

which elected in 1856 in a close
plebiscite to join Ghana when she
became independent the follow
ing year. This smallest of the
U. N. territories Git is little larger
than Maryland has a population
Of 100000 and virtually no cash
crops aside from a little cocoa.
A considerable percentage of the
population (40 per cent voted
against joining Ghana) is un-
happy with the majority decision.
They claim that Ghana has run
rough-shod over Togolese institu-
tions and would have preferred
union with their fellow Eve
tribesmen across the border in
French Togo. which gets its inde-
pendence in April.
The French trust, which has a
population Of ! million and would
f1t tidily into West Virginia, ex-
ports bit of palm oil and will be
hard put once it attains inde-
pendence to stay out of the orbits
of its more powerful neighbors,
Ghana and Nigeria.
New Nations
In addition to French Togoland,
two other United Nations Trust
territories achieve independence
in 1860. French Cameroons, which
has three million people and is
larger than California, hoisted its
red, green and yellow tricolor on
New Years Day. CameroonS,
which produces coffee and alumi-
mum but still operates at a deficit.
has the additional problem of
beginning national life in a state
Of near civil war fostered by dissi-
dent elements who regard Premier
Ahidjo's regime as too conServa-
tive.
Former-Italian Somalia, a des-
ert waste on the eastern horn Of
Africa between Ethiopia and Ken
va. gets its independence in July
and the situation here is little
more encouraging. Somalia, which
is the size of Spain but has a
population Of only 1.3 million,
operates on a f1imsy, one-crop
economy (bananas) subsidized in
the past by Italy, an arrangement
which will cease when the So
mali flag goes up. On top of its eco
nomic difficulties, Somalia is
headed for trouble with Ethiopia:
Somali extremists claim that third
of Ethiopian territory occupied by
their fellow tribesmen and Mus
lin co-religionists, a claim to
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THE u. MS STATUS THERE
By SMITH HEMPSTONE
Contributing Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya.-United Ma
tions Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold last month COM
: pleted a fast-stepping tour Of
Africa and the length of his air.
/. line ticket underscored the inter-
national body's responsibilities in
this reStive continent.
At the end of World War II,
. the new United Nations found it
self with the job Of bringing along
= the road to self-determination no
: less than 10 African territories
. with a total area of 1.9 million
equare miles-almost half as large
as the United States-with .
population Of l5.1 million.
Seven Of these territories
British Togoland, French Togo
land, British Cameroons, French
CameroonS, South West Africa,
Ruanda-Urund and Tanganyika
were German colonies taken
from the Kaiser at the end of
World War 1. The remaining
three-Libya, Eritrea and Somalia
were the remains of II Duce's
italian Africa.
Without exception the 10 ter
ritories are sparsely populated,
lacking in social services and
communications, poor in natural
and human resources. To add to
q its troubles, the U. NJ, while it
has responsibility, enjoys no
parallel degree of authority:
Administering powers act on the
advice of the international organ
ization but are in no way bound
by its edicts.
How has the U. N. discharged
its responsibilities?
Prior to 1860 it managed to
shed three Of the 10 territories.
Libyo Shoky
Libya, peopled by a half million
nomads. an immense desert waste
the size Of most of the United
States east of the Mississippi, be-
came politically independent in
1851. With only a handful Of
college graduates and no export
crops of account, it has main
tanned a shaky economic life with
the assistance Of international
grants.
The U. N. solved" the problem
Of Eritrea, a louisiana sized slab
Of desert and mountain Tapped by
the Red Sea, by federating that
country with Ethiopia, an answer