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Member Associated Press The For The Home 3 CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, WE DNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1963 Second Section Section Set Contract To Call For Interchange Ramp And Bridge John D. Bushby, dislrict-. engi- for Maryland Roads Commission, has announc- ad. that a will be adver tised next-Tuesday' for. another portion of the Cumberland Thru way the Willowbrook Road bridge and interchange.

The contract will call for construction of the interchange ramp at the intersection of Balti- more Avenue, Willowbrook Road and U. S. Route 40, for the bridge and for the relocation of city utili- ties in the area. Mr. Bushby said plans call for advertising early next year foi the four-lane dual highway which will carry the Thruway from the Willowbrook Road bridge to Mary land Avenue.

Project Completion Next year will also see Ihe com pletion of another Thruway bridge project the span wh'ich wil carry traffic from the Industrie Boulevard segment of the Thru way over the BO tracks a Wineow Street. This contract was awarded J. C. Langenfelder Company Baltimore, for than $1,000, 000, calls for the construction .0 steel beam and welded girde bridge and for building of 0.4 miles of dual highway from th intersection of Cresap and Thoma streets to Williams Street. The road building job has bee: sub-contracted to the'Cumberlan Contracting Company, i plans to begin work next spring Lengenfelder crews are makin progress laying foolers an piers for the bridge and steel fo the span is being fabricated.

In Flve-Year Plan Cumberland Contractin Company late this fall complete another Thruway project, whic carried the south approach from West Third Street to a point nea the Wineow Street underpass a a cost of $448,488. The Thruway began severa years ago with the constructio of the new Evilts Creek Bridge. Another contract extended th dual highway to West Thir Street. The State Roads Commission has included the construction of the Cumberland, Thruway from Braddock Road to Maryland Ave- nue in its new five-year plan; Cost of the 5.56 miles of six-lane highway is estimated at 000. Fund Boost To Schools Is Proposed 'Additional Aid Backed By Tawes, Legislative Unit BALTIMORE (AP) A $16.2 million proposal' for additional to education will go be- General Assembly next with strong backing Tawes and the Legis- lative Council.

council, Ihe belween-sps- study group of the legis- Snow Forecast Through Region lature, approved the proposal of its Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters in a four-hour meeting Tuesday afternoon. Earlier, Tawes said at a news conference in Annapolis that he COLLEGE FLAG ARRIVES--Pictured above is the flag of Frost- burg State College, which was designed by students and faculty members. The flag was received from the manufacturer recent- ly. Holding Ihe flag, left to right, are Fred Burkett, Cresaptown; Richard Plummer, Frostburg, and Dr. Thomas Slettehaugh, who with.

Glenn Anchuelz, faculty advisors, supervised the design. City, A a DOWNSTOWN READINGS 1 p. m. 36 2 p. m.

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The Cumberland Evening Times has arranged to make the book available to its readers at 'a cost of $2. per copy. All orders must be sent directly to the address listed in the coupon on this page and not to the newspaper office. Since the president's Nov. 22 there' have been thou- sands of stories, and pictures, with memories piling on memo- ries.

The AP's 100-page book will bring together the best of these in a permanent record of'living history. It will include color as well as black and white photographs some already classics, some pub lished for the first time. The moving narrative will-trace in detail the events to the instan' of the tragedy Lee Oswald's full history, the last happy mo- ments of the Kennedy Texas tour and the last sad journey to Arl- ington. It will cover the presi dent's death at the hospital, the transfer of power to Presiden Johnson, and how the word reach ed the other Kennedys, the nation and the world. FORECASTS Allegany and Garrett counties- Cloudy and cold with snow today, tonight and Thursday.

Highs to- day around 30. Lows tonight about 1 25. Friday outlook cloudy and continued cold with snow flurries. Winds northwest to north 5 to. 15 m.p.h.

today and tonight. Little stronger Thursday. West Virginia Snow north and snow or rain changing to snow south portion tonight and continuing Thursday and possibly becoming heavy. Low tonight in the 20s. Western Pennsylvania Snow tonight with local amounts 2 to 4 inches south portion low tempera lure 18 to 25.

Thursday cloudy with snow changing to scattered flurries, windy and somewhat 1 eXtl'Oll JN311168 colder. Daily Water Consumption BelowNormal Daily average water consump tion continues below normal her as the city limitations on wate lise and conservation practice show A report by Ray Nixon, wale planl foreman, to the Mayor-am Council today, showed that dail; average consumption for the wee ending Monday, was gallons with total for Ihe wee al 68,080,000 compared to 81,770 000 Ihe same period a year ago The water level in Lake Gordo is 3 feel 9 inches below Ihe cres of Ihe spillway and in Lake Koo 21 feet below. Last year at thi time, the level in Gordon was feet 8 inches below and in Koo 15 feet below. Volunteer Firemen Club Plan Yule Parly Short Gap Volunteer Fire Com- pany and Short Gap Points Broth- erhood Club will jointly sponsor a Christmas party December 21 at 7 p. m.

at the fire hall. A visit from Santa Glaus, treats for children, and a movie are scheduled. Sales Agents Genlry Associates, ha been appointed as authorized sale in several south ern slates for Allegany Instru ment Company, division of Tex- tomorrow at 8 p. m. at the school COLLECTION DAY TOMORROW Frostburg College Gets School Flag A flag for Frostburg State Col- ege, which was designed by stu- ents with the aid of faculty mem- )ers, has been received from the manufacturer.

The flag design was by Fred iurketl, Cresaplown, and Richard 3 Iummer, Frostburg, who were ided by Dr. Thomas Slettehaugh nd Glenn Anchuetz, faculty ad- isors. The program for the design was egun last spring by the students md faculty'ad visors and the Art Department. After the original ketches were drawn the Faculty Council for Policy Development vas consulted. The final design vas based on the ideas and sug- estions of the'three groups.

The school colors of black and gold were used with white acting as a neutralizer. The diagonal tripes crossing behind the state eal indicates the location of the college being south of the Mason- )ixon line. The use of the state seal in the center of the flag reflects the ability of the college to serve the vhole state of Maryland in devel- oping educational and other pro- essions as a multi-purpose insti- The three stars symbolize he growth and development he institution, first as a Norma School begir.ing in 1898, a teach ers college and now a Slate Col iege. A space has been left open future growth and develop ment of the college into a univer sity when the fourth star Will be added. Lost Hunters 'Find' Search Party In Area SOMERSET, Pa.

(AP) Two ost deer hunters stumbled into a search party Tuesday after spending a day and a night roaming a mountain wilderness a snow storm. The Rev. Ivory R. Adams, about 62, of Leckrone, Fayette )ounty, was suffering from frost bite of the hands and feet. Ke was admitted to Meyersdale Community Hospital in satisfac- ory condition.

His companion, Jesse Tuck, 63, also of Leckrone, was exam- ned at the hospital then was sent home. The two became lost Monday while hunting in-the Mt. Davis area about 20 miles south of Somerset. A driving snow storm piled up 8 to 10 inches of new snow throughout the county during the day. The pair said they walked all night to keep warm but built no fires.

A one point, they said, they heard the shots of a search party and spotted some lights but by the time they made theii way to the area the search party had moved on. About'mid-afternoon Tuesday, the two men walked out onto a road and met some of the searchers. New Heads Named By Fire Group Leroy Hartsock was elected president of the Oldtown Volun- license lags. too supports the committee's recommendations. The committee chairman, Sen.

Harry R. Hughes, D-Caro- line, would add the funds to S83.6 million which the state' al- ready provides to local schools. Choice In Plans The committee recommended using the slate income lax lo fi nance the plan bul left up to the legislalure Ihe choice between raising the tax rate from 3 to per cent or reducing Ihe person al exemption from $800 to $600 The council's special commit tee studying the state's Unsatis fie'd Claims and Judgments Fund recommended making cai policies honcancella ble during their first six months for nonpayment of premiums. Del. H.

Kemp MacDaniel, Baltimore, told the council som motorists take out an insurance policy for a small down pay ment, obtain tags and let the policy lapse. Uninsured driver must pay a $70 fee to the func each year in order lo receiv Truck Cause Of Garrett Road Traffic Block In connection with the blocking of U. S. Route 219, about three- quarters of a mile north of North- ern High School in Garretl Coun- il was brought out today by ohn D. Bushby, district State oads Commission engineer, that truck caused the tie-up.

Bushby said a milk tank truck arly yesterday morning was be- ng driven on the highway without now treads or chains. The cmer- cncy snow plan had been placed effect Sunday, according to ushby, and the truck driver was esponsible for the blocking of nost of the highway. Bushby also staled lhat the teer Fire Company at a meeting: Monday during which plans for; a fund drive were formulated. Hartsock said members of the company will conduct a house-lo- house solicitation for funds, and at the same time explain the need for another piece of firefighling equipment Canislers will be placed in various business places, the new Calls For Penalty McDaniel eslimalecf tha 20,000 uninsured drivers in Ih state have not paid the fee. Th council approved the noncance lation proposal and called for $25 penally on uninsured motor ists caught driving without ing paid the fee.

The Committee on the Poto- mac River, under Del. Ha'rvev bree or four school buses headed the school from the Grantsville rea' were turned back by the azardous situation at the point vhere the Iruck was sluck. The school bus drivers did not attempt to pass the truck because hey feared the vehicle might slip off the side of the highway, Bush- bysaid. The possible danger to the school children caused the bus drivers to turn back, he added. Bushby also reported the truck vas stuck on the highway until 5:42 p.

m. yesterday when finally a tow truck was called lo get the vehicle out of the way of traffic. The SRC official also pointed out that crews of the SRC do not have police powers in such situalions. The crews of State Road Com- mission men had worked 30 hours straight due lo Ihe heavy snowfall and blizzard condilions due to high winds, Bushby slated. Police Report Emergency Plan Still In Effect The emergency driving plan remains in effect in Garrett County despite a report by Mary- land Stale Roads Commission ficers that the principal highways are from 85 to 100 per cent bare, and secondary roads from 50 to 75 per cent bare.

Stale Police explained lhat the plan calling for chains snow tires remains in effect be- cause most of the roads not yet cleared are on grades and curves. Police patrols maintain a con- stant report on road conditions and the emergency plan will be lifted as soon as roads are re- porled driver-safe. Snow Forecast i The Weather Bureau forecasts president said, pointing out thatl a und th co a criticized the -De- the company already has a start! in the fund appeal from shooting matches the unit has been spon- soring. Other officers elected included a father-son combination for the positions of chief and assistant chief. Leo Keyser was named fire chief, and his son, Charles Keyser, assistant.

Also elected were Guy Evans, vice president; Fred Abe, secre- tary; Donald Seckman, financial secretary; James Crablree, treas- urer; A. W. Chancy, sergeant-at- arms; Irvin Allen, chaplain, and Crabtree, three year trustee. BRT Elects New Officers Officers were elected recently by members of William M. Mc- Kaig Lodge 440, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, to serve' for three-year terms.

Roy E. McLaughlin, 140 'Fred- erick Street, president; Charles L. Yankee, RD 1, Ridgeley, vice president; Andrew Lear, 719 Hill Top -Drive, treasurer: anc Harold F. Nixon, Valley Road secretary. Elected for four-year terms were Mr Lear as Mr.

Nixon aS 'alternate Wil liam G. Lee, 932 Maryland nue, legislative representative anc Mr. Nixon as alternate legislative representative. PTA Will Meet The Parent -Teacher Associa- tion of Oldtown School will meet ron Electronics, it was announced! The Gentry firm will serve as sales representative in Florida, Georgia, A a a a Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. North Carolina Wcbsler In Hospital Ralph Webster, sirperinlen denl of Allegany County public schools, is a surgical patient Memorial Hospital.

His condition I DunlapWill Instruct In Gun Safety Graydon S. Duiilap, 117 Greene Itreel, has been appointed a home irearms safety instructor by the Nalional Rifle Association, spon- sors of a new course designed to lelp reduce shooting accidents in home. The NRA course promotes safe- ty "among those who normally do not firearms for recreation but have them in their home. It emphasizes the recognition of un- safe practices and condilions and points out how to correct them. Mr.

Dimlap was awarded an NRA instructor's certificate fol- lowing successful completion of a written examination. He is quali- fied to.conducl the course locally. It runs about four hours and re- quires no shooting range since actual firing is not included. The new course supplements the NRA's 13-year old Hunter Safety Course, which has been instru mental in helping to reduce acci- drnfs in the field. Nearly two million students have completed this course; in this time, the tolal number of hunlinc accidents has I Tippit Fund Check Sent By Gaffney for not meeting wilh counties in the Patuxent.

River watershed on development of sewerage and anti-water pollution propos- als. The committee withheld com- ments on an Army Engineers program for developing the Po- tomac River Basin until the State Planning Department fin- ishes studying the plan. Among the 10 reports received by the council was a proposed statewide fire code. The council approved the code which would set up a stale fire prevention commission and grant enforce- ment powers to the state fire No statewide fire code now exists. Orehardist Wants Deer Kill Right ANNAPOLIS A A Wesl- rn Maryland orchard owner is ceking a court order Is employes to shoot at will any deer on 'its property.

Paul Ottinger, lawyer for Western Fruit Growers Sales argued yesterday in circuit Deer Hunting Lull Is Noted local fund for the widow of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit closed today with a tolal of $326.50 collected. A check for the amount is being sent to Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry by Cumberland Police Chief B. F.

Gaffney who served as col- lection agent. Officer Tippit was slain by Lee Oswald, President Kennedy's al leged assassin, as the Texa; policeman was about to appre tiend him. Gaffney, while the number hunters has increased. in an accompanying letter, staled: "We, of the Cum berland Police Department, are pleased with the response various Tippit drives throughou Ihe country. Mrs.

Tippit, wej realize, would gladly relinquish! the sizable fund if it were pos- sible to have her husband back. But il musl be a source of con- siderable consolation for her to know her bereavement is shared by so many warmhearted Ameri- cans. "Your department also has our sincere compassionate feel ings over, the tremendous job it has faced since the assassination of There is a mid-week lull in deer hunting in Allegany and Gar rett counties with only one deer reported by noon today. Thi; was checked in at the LaVale Barracks of the Stale Police. There have been 629 deer kills in Allegany Counly up to Ihe enc of the hunt yesterday.

John Shipway, who checks dee kills atop Green Ridge Mountain said there are very few hunter out loday in the huge slate fores area bul expecls the final twc days of the season on Friday and Saturday will bring out many hunters. The wintry weather has curtail- ed hunting in both Allegany and Garrett counties to some extent. court that any land owner should a right to do whatever is necessary to protect his crops. It testified that large numbers of'deer are eating co- ver crops, lender shoots of young apple ttees and the buds the properties -known as the Dillon orchard in Washington and Allegany counties. E.

W. Lins, secretary of the it would re- quire 50 miles of fence costing between $143,000 to surround the property. Company, officials said they have tried, to drive the deer away with noiseonaking devices "ncluding firecrackers. Loring E. Hawes, repre- senting Ihe Maryland and Inland Fish con- lended present regulations are sufficient to provide remedy They include authorization to kill deer and a permit was is sued yesterday for employes Western Fruit to shoot 25.

Hawes will present stale wit- nesses when the trial resumes Monday. snow for Allegany and Garrett counties tonight and tomorrow so there is little prospect the plan will be lifted in the state's west- ernmost county. A pre-noon weather summary gave this description of the na- ture of the precipilation: 'On Ihe Eastern Shore, along the coastal areas, the precipita- tion will be mostly rain. As you move inland, it probably will be rain and snow mixed at times, eventually changing to snow be- fore ending late Thursday. "From the Chesapeake Bay area west, it will be mostly snow but some rain is likely over the southern portions of Maryland at times." SRC spokesmen today said U.

S. Route 40 through Garrett is 100 per cent bare: U. S. Route. 50, 85 per cent bare, and Stale Route 219, 75 per cent bare.

These roads are the principle arteries through Garrett. Secondary roads are listed as from 50 to 75 per cent bare. The thermometer is expected to dip into the mid-20s tonight, while tomorrow's forecast calls for cloudiness and continued cold with snow. Winds will range from five lo 15- miles per hour tonight nd be stronger lomorrow. Flur- ies are called for Ihrough Friday.

Cold Remains The snow is also predicted for learby West Virginia, with the possibility of a heavy accuinula- ion in the. higher elevations. Yom two to four inches is fore- cast for' western vhile the thermometer is expect- ed to register in the teens. The prediction for tomorrow is for lurries, windy and colder. The temperature in downtown lumberland has remained in the mid-30s since yesterday morning, Ithough the reading reported for he city by the SRC was placed at 29 degrees.

Other lows in the region in- luded 21 degrees at Oakland and Accident in Garrett County and or Frostburg in Allegany The SRC said the overnight low on Town Hill was 30; with similar readings listed for rfagerstown and Boonsboro. Hancock's low' vas placed at 32 degrees by the, roads commission. PTA Will Meet The Short Gap PTA will meet tomorrow at m. at the school. A Christmas program will be presented by the pupils.

Case Opens On Appeal Testimony was started loday in Allegany County Circuit Court be fore a jury on an appeal taken by a worker at the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company from Ihe decision of the Marylanc Workman's Compensation Com mission in his claim. John 0. Hanlin took the appea through his attorneys, Simon Reilly and Milton Gerson. Horac P. Whitworth is counsel foi the paper firm.

Associate Judge W. Earle Cobey is presiding in the case. Two Boys Face i At the last report, the national; fund had grown to more' Tire Company Engineer Transferred To Illinois Ithan $200,000. is satisfactory. RUSH--ORDER COUPON Cumberland Evening PO Box 350 Rough keepsie, N.

Y. I enclose $2 for a hard-cover copy of the Press book, "The Torch Is Passed." I understand that it will be mailed to me as soon as after December 30. Name Street I A hearing for two teenaged boys charged with the theft of a 11963 convertible which they al- wrecked and demolished in Romney has been scheduled I for tomorrow in Juvenile Court. The car, bfllonging to Ray H. Lapp of 1028 Weires Avenue, LaVale, was reported stolen last Thursday night.

About 2Vz hours later, West Virginia Stale Police were called to an accident near Romney and a routine check dis- closed the wrecked car as being the one reporled stolen. Each of the two boys was injur- ed, although apparently not seri- jMan Jailed For City. State ously. Romney authorities said the car, which smashed into a Zip Code tree, was demolished. (Checks or money orders should be made payable to The Associated Press) Another minor was implicated in the case as having purchased two six packs of ale for the twn youths.

A local man, placed on proba- tion earlier this monlh afler re- ceiving a one-year suspended prison senlcnce, was given a 15- day term in Allegany County Jail i Thomas O. Kolb, an electrical! engineer, has been transferred! from the Kelly-Springfield Tircj i Company plant here to the newj plant now under construclion in Freeporl, III. Mr. Kolb was graduated from LaSalle High School in 1952 and then served four years in the Air Force, part of which was in Japan. Discharged from Ihe service in shoplifting charge.

Guy D. O'Hara, of 230 Glenn' Street, formerly of Elkins, W.I was sentenced loday by Magistrate F. Allan Weatherholl. O'Hara was charged wilh sleal- ing an cleclric sabre saw from Montgomery Ward Store. On November 4, O'Hara was found guilty of two counts of thefl and was scnlenccd lo a one-year term by Chief Judge Morgan C.

Harris in Allcgany Circuit Court. He was placed on probation. 1956 to February 1957 as a machinist's apprentice in Hous- ton, Texas, and from September 1957 to June 1959 while atlending Frostburg Stale College, he was employed by Cooley's Pharmacy, this city. Mr. Kolb received an associale in arls degree from Frostburg and a bachelor of science degree in elcclrical engineering from Wesl Virginia Universily.

Upon graduating from West (Continued on Pago 28) DENEEN Miss Leah 89, of ".301 Decatur Street. TUDY Ray, 64, Maysville. KEMP William 78, of 45 North Mechanic Street. ROLL Mrs. Guy, 44, native of Thomas, W.

Va. MRS. GUY ROLL THOMAS Mrs. Viola Roll, 44, died today in Blue Island, A native of Thomas, she was born November 23, 1919, a daugh- ter of Hobart McKinley Lipscomb, of Thomas, and the late Florence (Helmick) Lipscomb. Surviving besides her father are her husband, Guy Roll, Blue Island; four sisters, Mrs.

Tligby, Berkeley Springs, Mrs. Marine Judy, Mrs. Louise Shan- non and Mrs. Harold Helmick, all of Cleveland; two brothers, Ho- bart J. Lipscomb, Thomas, and Donald Lipscomb, of Cleveland.

The body will be brought lo the Duncan Funeral Home here to- morrow evening. Services will he conducted there on Saturday at 2 p. m. wilh Rev. A.

B. Mann, Presbylerian-minis- ler, officialing. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery near here. RAY JUDY PETERSBURG Ray 64, of Maysville, a member of the Granl County Board of Education for several years, died early loday at his home after suffering an apparent heart atlack. He had (Continued on Page 28) JAMTW HELPER JAYi SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS SHOP FOR I IN OUR AD PAGES.