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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-06-22
JENNINGS

Sunday visitors at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Glotfelty
were Mr.. and Mrs Glenn Miller
and daughter, Silver Spring; Bert
Rizer, Eckhart, and Dave Beachy
Grantsvillc.
Mrs Hubert Yommer and chill
drcn, of Ambridgc, Pa, are visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stan
ley Stanton Manadier Ridge
Homer Warwick, Baltimore, Wis
tied his mother, Mrs. Birdie War
nick, over the weekend
Mr. and Mrs. EmmOns Meyers
and David Faidley, Of Mt Airy
visited friends and relatives here
over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs Cecil Rcsh. Acct
dent, visited Mr.. and Mrs Harry
burst, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Homer Shaffcr and
family, Baltimore, are visiting Mrs
Cecilia Bittingcr.
Basil Hare and willard Hare
who are employed in Cleveland
o.. spent last week with their par
enls, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hare
Other visitors were Mr. and Mrs
Dayton BroadWatcr and family
Verda Mac BroadWater and Mrs
Vcspa Broadwater and family.
Mrs Harold Barnes and daugh.
ter, Cumberland, and Mrs Pear
Beaver, Piedmont. visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry burst, on Wednesday
Marlenc Glotfclty spent Friday
I afternoon with Mrs. Ellsworth
Beachy, Grantsville.
Visitors during the week at the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-06-22
FriendSViLle NeqvS

the topic on Highway Safety The
International Relations report on
"Thailand' was given by Mrs Paul
Fisher.
Mrs. Kenneth Savage was elected
president. succeeding Mrs. August
Neil, and Mrs. Chet Kelly, treas
urer. succeeding Mrs. Kenneth
Savage. The newly elected officers
will take office January l. The
July meeting will be at the home
of Mrs Orval Rush. Guests pres
ent were Mrs. Raymond McCul-
Tough and Mrs. Lester Guards
mother, Mrs Gilmore.
Rotary Meets
Rev Lloyd Trout, Grantsville, a
Civil Defense director for the
county, spoke on "Rural Civil De-
Tense" at the weekly meeting of
the Rotary club, Monday evening
Birthday Party Given
Mrs Kenneth Savage entertained
with a party. Tuesday afternoon,
June 18th, honoring her daughters
18th birthday. Games were played
and lunch served to the following
guests Janice and Kay Bittncr,
Linda Thomas, Sharon and Jimmy
Griffith, Christine Thomas, Vicky
Selby, Debbie Garlick, Allen and
CarOlc VanSickle, Jimmy Humber
son, Mrs. Gilmor Dean, Mrs. Ber-
tina Friend and Mrs. Ray VanSickle
Brief Mention
Miss Velora V. SWauger, Hagers-
town. visited Mr.. and Mrs. Ward
X. Livengood and sons. r Sgt. and
Mrs James S. Swauger and sons,
Elkins, are visiting his sister and
family, the LivengoOds.
Mr. and Mrs Donald Augustine
and daughter, Oldtown, were here
over the weekend visiting rela-
tives.
Mrs Edna SchrOyer, Morgan
town, spent the weekend at her
home here Her son Tommy and
wife, of Alexandria, Va, visited
her over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Fearer and
son Jimmy. Youngstown, o., were
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-06-22

Bittinger, GrantsVille; and Mrs.
Minnie Friend were Sunday dinner
guests of Glen Frantz, at Elder
Hill.
Miss Hazel Schlosnagle was a
Friday overnight guest of Mrs,
Naomi Bowscr, of Selbysport
Donald Moescr, student at Get
tysburg seminary. was Sunday
dinner guest at the Friend-Devine
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Garletts
and sons, of Sabraton, W. Va, were
Sunday callers of Miss Mae and
Russell Schroycr, Oak Hill
Mr.. and Mrs. f. d. Browne,
Washington, d. c., visited her
mother, Mrs. Henrietta Lininger
over the weekend.
Visitors during the week at the
Richter home were Mr.
and Mrs. Vernon Richter and fami-
ly Mrs. Walter Richter and daugh-
tcrs, Cove; Mrs. Emmerson Frazce
and daughters. Oakland: Mrs. Ezra
Garlctts and Mrs. Merle Garletts,
Frazcc Ridge; Mrs Evelyn Hauscr,
Hoyes, and Mrs. Edith Lowder-
milk.
MIR. and Mrs. Paul Lehman. Ft.
Wayne, Ind, who arc visiting rela-
tivcs in Accident, were Tuesday
morning guests of Mr. and Mrs f.
Shoemaker and family.
Mrs Robert LOwdermilk and
children, of Baltimore. spent the
weekend here with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frazce and
with Mrs Edith Lowdermilk. The
latter accompanied her to Balti-
more on Monday for few days
visit.
Isaac Frazee. Markleysburg, was
Saturday overnight guest of his
son-in-laW and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Okey Hoff.
James Thomas and Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Snyder, of Rockville, spent
the weekend here with Mrs. James
Thomas and children. Mrs. Snyder
remained here for a weeks visit
w. j. Glenn and Floyd Grahame
Severn, Md, spent the weekend
here with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Barnes, Jr
and family, of Dayton, O., spent
from Friday until Tuesday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Barnes
ST.. Other callers during the week
we're Mrs. Amos Friend, Mrs. Helen
Dcvine. Mrs. Charles Metheny and
son, Mrs. Wade SchrOyer and Kim
my.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. F. Savage and
Beverley spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Crit
fifth and son. Sharon Griffith re-
turned to her home after visiting
with Beverley since Friday morn
ing.
Misses Vivian and Coral Shat
fer, BrandonvilIe, w. Va, were
weekend guests of their uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Rush
Other Sunday dinner guests were
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Shaffer and
daughter, Brandonville; Mr.. and
Mrs Worden Metheny and sons
Mrs. Harold Thomas and son, Mrs
George Shaffer. Brandonville; Mr.
and Mrs Clyde Frantz and grand
daughter, of Buffalo Run: Mrs
Richard Selby and son. Other af-
ternoon callers were Mr. and Mrs
Playford Ryan and son Tommy. OF
Oakland Tommy remained here
and visited his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. Rush, until Tuesday
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Sheila Bucket, of Bittinger, spent
Monday night with her grandpar-
ents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Resi-.
Mrs. Ruthella Resh Mrs Mamie
Yommer Frank Stanton and Stan
ley Stanton attended the meeting
in Oakland Friday evening, re
garding the special election on
June n.
Mrs. Lee BroadWatcr, Of Jcn-
nings, was honorcd with a birth
day supper at her home on Satur-
day, June H. Those attending were
MIR and Mrs. William BroadWatcr,
of Savage River; Mr. and Mrs
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1961-06-22

Glenn Harvey and son Billy, Of
Luke. and Harvey Warwick, of
Westcruport
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Harvey and
son DWIGHT accompanied their
daughter. Ruth Ann Harvey to
Washington. ID. c., on Saturday,
where Miss Harvey joined the
group Of All club members repro
sentue Maryland in the l9G0-61
Observation-Disclosures All exchange
program being held in Minnesota
from June II TO July z.
Rella and Buddy BroadWatcr are
employed in Baltimore.
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June IS was moving day for
former vice president Nixon. He
and his family left for their new
home in California.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Resents PV Criticism of
Nutter and Birchites

Dear VOICE"
1 was glad when 1 learned Montana
was to have an independent newspaper.
But how you let us down. Yours is
the most biased, vicious propaganda
sheet that comes to my house-and I
read many. You are not even truthful
and your reporting is more the "fish-
Wife type than high class reporting.
When you turned on the sob sister
stuff for Dryman years ago 1 began
to doubt your integrity and your COM
mon sense. Dryman, in cold blood,
killed man awfully dead-an innocent
man who had befriended him and you
defended him and saddled us taxpay ers
with huge costsi
Your attacks of vicious propaganda
on Governor Nutter and the effective
and patriotic John Birch Society are
bad reporting and sickening.
Independent? The brainwashed cap
tive of the Farmers Union!
May you see the light before it is
too late.
You have as much right to your opin-
ions as I have to mine but a news
medium has an obligation to seek to
be informative, fair and factual Wry
don't you try it?-MARTHA PACKER,
Inverness, Montana.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
WATCH ON The POTOMAC
By ROBERT G. SPIvACK, Washington D. c.

the Laotions lack of will to fight;
finally we abandoned those Laotians
who showed some spirit at Geneva.
The military uprising in South
Korea took us totally by surprise.
This would indicate that our intelli-
gence services in Asia are no better
than those in Cuba-and that's about
as bad as they can get.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
Negotiations with the Soviet Union
may be desirable under certain cri-
cumstances-bu it is of paramount
| Importance that we negotiate as
equals, not as suppliants.
Mr.. X. is a willy man and he has
been trying to make the "young man"
in the White House look foolish al
most since last November's election.
1t began with the Soviet airlift into
Laos of military equipment; its high
point was Communist takeover in
Cuba.
This is par for the course when
you are playing Cold War But our
actions ought not to be determined
by Mr.. K. or what he wants to do,
or his timetable for doing it.
MIR. Kennedy's first job, and it
becomes particularly urgent since
Cuba, is to put our house in order
in the area of foreign affairs. What
are our detectives? Where are we
going? How do we intend to get
there?
The impression is strong here that
Mr.. Kennedy is improvising in foreign
affairs, with no clear goals in mind.
AS one writer put it we are just get
ting Eisenhower 're-treads", that is,
hasty action without adequate prepa-
ration. We are reacting to Soviet
initiative, not setting our own course.
This idea for summit meeting
with Mr.. K. seems to have grown out
of a suggestion by former Vice Presi-
dent Nixon that Mr.. Kennedy meet
the Soviet Premier to show him we
cannot be pushed around anymore.
This seemed like a Nixon needle,
probably not seriously intended.
Whatever Mr.. Nixon's motives, or
whatever Mr.. KS desires, this seems
like poor time to sit down with the
Russian.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Minimum Woge-Hour
Law Amendments
Go Into Effect Sept. 2

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Labor Day
will have a special meaning this year
and for the next five years-to the
millions of Americans protected by
the fair labor standards act.
The 1861 wage-hour amendments
providing for $1.25-an-hour mini
mum, in steps, and coverage for $50
million new workers-were signed
into law May 5 by President John F.
Kennedy. The effective date of the
higher minimums will come 100 days
later, on Saturday, Sept. 2.
Thus the actual pay increases will
come for the first time ON the payday
following Labor Day. At that time,
presently covered workers will go to
$1.15 an hour, and the newly covered
will start at the 81 level.
There are some 1.9 million present
ly covered workers below the $1.15
level, and some $50, 900 newly covered
workers making less than 81. For
these more than 2.5 million workers,
then, Labor Day 1861 will be the sig
nal for significant wage increases.
The step-ups in the minimums, and
the gradual ceiling that will be placed
on hours for newly protected workers,
will go into effect over the next five
years on the same date-making each
Labor Day constant reminder of the
major breakthrough scored with the
1861 ELSA amendments.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
A Comprehensive Report
Tragedy Of the Aged

understanding and solving the needs
of the elderly.
Current slogans-such as the cry
of "socialized medicine" raised by
the American Medical Association
serve only to raise extraneous issues
They ignore, rather than tell, the full
story of the nations aged popula-
tion- 1t is this story that must be
understood before America provides
meaningful assistance for what may
well be its fastest-growing national
problem.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26

Believe it or not, communists have
infiItrated the u. S. Chamber of Com.
| merce, old stronghold of reactionary
Big Business! Who says so? The John
Birch Society, whose authoritarian
leader, Robert Welch, has previously
counted President Eisenhower, Chief
Justice Earl Warren, and other emil
nent Americans as agents of the Reds.
Welch's latest outburst was brought
to the Senate's attention by Senator
Gale w. MCGEE (D-Wyo.). He read
from the Society's white Book"
which said:
eve can't help wondering wheth-
err the Lenin Institute in Moscow
is now giving courses for the u. S.
Chamber of Commerce. If the left
lists have permeated the Chambers
staff, or have been purposely placed
on it, patriotic businessmen do not
have to take it lying down"
Why did the Birch leaders become
so agitated? Their White Book ex-
plains that a course in practical
Politics., given by the Chamber, adj
vised businessmen to back liberal"
candidates in some cases because they
had better chance of winning than
conservatives"
It's hard to imagine the Chamber
actually giving such advice, but that's
the Birchers' version of it. The White
Book says maybe this line did not
come directly out of Moscow-and
maybe it did. But Moscow could not
find better one for promoting its
of American business
and community leaders with ideas
that serve its purpose"
The White Book urges Birch So
ciety members to do as they've done,
in the case of other organizations
where they've "spied'' on meetings
namely, to attend U. S. Chamber
course meetings and "take notes..
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Even Chamber Of Commerce
Is Red, John Birchers Say

"Then," the book says, ego to work
through your local chamber of COM
merce, through the national chamber,
through your fellow business men and
every practicable means and chan
mel, to publicize and eliminate any
socialist teachings or pro-communist
slant that you find in the u. S.
Chamber course, and to have the
Chamber get rid of those responsible
for such un-American propaganda"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
SOCIAL SECURITY THE
MAJOR INCOME SOURCE

Federal programs-social security
and old age assistance-provide the
aged with their major source of in
come, despite claims that social Sc
curity payments go sup, up, up, aver
age monthly payments in mid-1959
were $72. For the two million receiv-
ing OAA benefits, payments averaged
only sos monthly.
Other sources of income for the
elderly include: private pensions,
liquid assets, and investments. I'm
fortunately, most older people have
been unable to build up ''nest eggs"
and their income, aside from Social
Security, is negligible.
While private pensions have been
to include millions of work
ers since the "break-through" strikes
of 1949 and 1850, pensions are still
small in amount per worker. Many
plans provide only $50 month and
average payments per individual
only 20 per cent of retired men in
1957--were 5000 a year.
Financial aid from relatives was
reported by only five per cent of
l957's Social Security recipients, al
though 35 per cent declared that they
we're receiving indirect support in
5he form of demonstrating with mem
oers of their family. Median liquid
assets for aged couples in 1857 was
'eported as $4,000, and home equity
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Idaho, Utah Drug
Groups Charged
With Conspiracy

WASHINGTON, D. C. = (AFL-
CIO) - The U. S. Department OF
Justice has filed separate complaints
against the Utah State Pharmaceuti-
cal Assn. and the Idaho State Phar-
maceutical Assn, charging them with
conspiracy to fix prices for prescrip-
ton drugs.
In complaint filed in Salt Lake
City, the Utah association, represent
ing 80 per cent of the pharmacies
and pharmacists in the state, is
charged with establishing uniform
prices for prescription drugs. The
effect has been that price competi-
ton has been suppressed and the
price of prescription drugs sold to
consumers in Utah has been increased
The complaint also asks that the
associations Committee on Prescrip-
ton Pricing, Wages and Hours be
dissolved.
In complaint filed in Boise, the
Idaho association, corporation with
95 per cent of all pharmacies in the
state as members, is charged with
setting up arbitrary and non-competi-
tive prices since 1857. The maximum
penalty in these cases is a $4,000
fine for the associations and a year
in prison for their responsible Off
Gals.
Other complaints are pending
against the Northern California
Pharmaceutical Assn. and Donald K.
Hedgpeth of San Francisco (the
pharmacist in charge of its price
setting committed; the Arizona
Pharmaceutical Assn. and the Mari
copa County Pharmaceutical Assn,
both of Phoenix; and the Tucson
Pharmaceutical Assn. of Tucson.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
TALK NOW. PAY LATER


1t I were a member of the White
House staff | would argue as hard
as I know how against the proposed
summit meeting" in Vienna between
President Kennedy and Soviet Pre-
mier Khrushchev.
No useful purpose can be served
when President of the United States
negotiates from weakness. And that's
exactly what Mr.. Kennedy would be
doing.
The objection to a summit confer
ence runs counter, of course, to all
the sterotypes about getting along
with the Russians and learning to
live with them It's mistake, though,
to think that the only alternative to
talking now is a general war. That's
fuzzy thinking of the kind the Soviet
Unions propagandists disseminate
for those who sentimentalize about
foreign affairs.
Basically these are the objections
10 a summit conference with Mr.. X.
at this time:
There has been no single event
or series of events, either in outer
space or on this planet, that would
impress the Soviet dictator with
American seriousness, determination
to fight for freedom, or capacity to
do so.
Fidel Castro has tweaked Uncle
Sans beak with total impunity up to
this point-and our reputation in
Latin America lacks lustre, to put it
. We made big fuss about the
of Laos, then started to
back down with planted stories of
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Low-Income Level

Those who insist that the aged can
take care of themselves charge that
most older people have planned for
their retired years, have adequate
savings, own their own homes, and
have sufficient emergency funds for
unexpected expenses. Retired couples
moving to Florida, California, and
the Southwest are cited as proof that
the elderly have nothing to fear but
initiation.
An oft-repeated claim of those
who say that the aged can face
their own problems is that only
four million of those 65 and over
cannot afford unexpected finan-
cial drain. A study of the median
income and assets of the nations
16 million elderly demonstrates
that nothing could be further from
the truth.
According to the Federal Council
on the Aging, "by most measure
ments :. so to IS per cent of the
people 65 and older will not have
more than $1,000 year in cash in
come" For most older people, this
income comes from Social Security.
1t is estimated that Old Age Survi-
vors' Disability Insurance pays bene-
fits to some two-thirds of the aged,
while an additional IA per cent of
the elderly receive Old Age Assist
ance payments. Last year, persons IS
and over received an average of
5000 from federal programs.
Another study, by Senator Nc
Namara's Senate Subcommittee On
Problems of the Aged and Aging,
found that almost 80 per cent of all
aged individuals had less than $4,000
IN money income during 1858 and |
chat "the average income for an
over-65 family is about half that of |
Ill families" The study pointed out |
hat about rs per cent of all couples
With the head of the household IS or
'lder had a median income, in 1856,
If only $1,000.
The charge has been made that
averages are misleading when con-
idering the income of the aged be-
,ause so many persons 65 and over
ire not employed, thereby bringing
Town income levels. Statistics show,
however, that even when the nom
elderly are excluded, the
ever than four million employed
nen who have reached and passed
heir 65th birthday are forced to
york for earnings that decline as
heir age advances. In 1858. the
nedian income of employed elderly
zen was less than 500 a week-or
1850 annually.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26

ROLAND, wa-(CNS)-Farm-l
ers who own the coop elevator here
received refunds averaging $16O on
farm supplies they bought there last
year. This is equal to farmers net
return on 80 hogs or 1000 bushels
of corn, Manager Jerald Berwick
explained recently.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26

concern for the elderly, the nation
could move forward by increasing
Social Security benefits and en-
couraging higher pensions. Unfor-
tunately, the problem is more COM
pick.
The need for finding and holding
a job is crucial to many of the aged.
Workers with little or no savings are
forced to eight retirement or face
a drastic cut in their living standards.
The worker who nears retirement age
Continued On Page Four1
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
Contends Income Tax Is
Destroying Middle Class

Dear Editor:
Now that tax time is overt thought
it would be okay to write about it.
But ESQ words?*
You wouldn't believe, how lightly
the income tax, tapped the pocketbook
in the first years, after Republican
William Howard Taft proposed it in
1910.
And Democratic Woodrow Wilson
began to collect it (1913).
Our Kennedy is the eighth President
to be confronted with the income tax
riddle
Some lower brackets which are taxed
substantially now, escaped paying taxes
altogether.
Persons making 5000 paid $40.
My how times have changed The
middle class is being taxed out of
existence!
The income tax is fulfilling the
Marxist prophecy-that the surest way
to destroy capitalistic society is by
steeply graduated taxes and heavy
levies on estates-If Karl Marx is
right the u. S. number is upi
The Hoover Administration Revenue
Act started taxes up-a depression
m easure.
1 was wondering if Congress and
the voters had foreseen such rates as
now prevail, the income tax amend
ment to the Constitution (16th) prob
ably would not have been ratified
Wanna bet?' M. ELIZABETH
Power.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26

The Forum" is open to all who
wish to express an opinion or present
facts on any subject. Limit 500 words.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26

Mrs. Lucotch apparently missed the
notation of two issues back that for
the period ahead We've raised the
limit from $50 to 500 words.-EDI-
TOR.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1961-05-26
From Industrial Union DIGEST,
AFL-CIO

Less than 40 years from now-in
2OOO-there will be an estimated 80
million Americans over 65. This num-
Der will almost double the present
16 million Senior citizens" who have
become the focal point of a political
battle that ranges from the far left
to the extreme right.
Thanks to the advances of medical
science, the present century has al
ready witnessed five-fold increase
in the elderly. This population ex-
plosion" has highlighted the problems
of the aged and awakened the nation
to the need for finding solutions.
AS the Senate Subcommittee On
Problems of the Aged and Aging has
pointed out: ''The challenge is how
America will act to meet the problems
that the process of aging and our
modern civilization create. The prob
lens are many, and they, too, reach
out and touch all Americans"
Independent surveys, government
studies, and other statistical data in
dictate that Americas elderly are fast
becoming an important-and sub
standard segment of our popula-
ton. Income is low, housing is poor,
medical needs are not being met, jobs |
are hard to find and hold, leisure -
without training for it-creates hard
ship, and adjustment to a retired |
life" is often difficult.
With almost one of every 10
Americans facing all or most of
these problems, the country's poll
tical, social, and cultural leaders
have now recognized that "some-
thing must be done" to translate
the so-called golden years" of
life into reality.
To help bring about these changes,
the elderly have organized clubs and
other mechanisms that stress the i'm
portance of growing group of vot-
ers.
1t is understandable that these
groups have modified for a health
care bill and for increased Social Sc
curity benefits. 1t also is understand
able why many Republicans, includ-
ing New York Governor Nelson Rock
efeller-have jointed in supporting
such measures.
HEALTH CARE-A FIRST STEP
While the battle over health care {
may make all of the headlines during t
fha n,,4 - L,