Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 13

Local Comics Classified County Board Facing Tough Fund Problem May Obtain Money For Welfare, But Must Match Amount 4. serious financial decision awaits A County Board of oners as a result of the funds made available LIC to employable persons. Elinor M. Westerfeid, dithe Allegany County Weltar: Board. informed the 3: the Tuesday meeting; pa: $53.000 of the original $:.34 -state tune ww Irf: and most of it would to: the March assistance NE J.

Milton Patterson, di: the State Department of ellare. said chat state! would be made avaliable to £.: une unemployed in any political and do not have to 3: the county where first tenta- alocated. Dust Be Matched AU tts: is required, said :5 to: the Jocai governments put 43 matching funds. us the problem which faces county commissioners. Tat matter will be discussed at tosession at the Court House.

Mire. Westerteid, said that al- had received Te the $300,000 emergency gran. Allegang county last zone was assisting about four unes as many cases as Baltimore can and the number of applications Zac grown since. thus. Patterson, acknowledged had been allotted ca a matching basis in compare with 363.000 for but he emphasized the was tentative.

10 put the money 122 need 15." Patterson said. January 404 checks were sent c-: :9 employables in Allegany! county. while 580 checks were protar: month. The March total 35 expected to be even larger. Figure Being Studied Cal 025: $30,000 in January in 3:3:4 grant and matching funds 843.000 mn February.

This leaves $53.000 fo: the remainder of tea: -or until June 30. Pattered said when the requests come 13: cent month. the statejto 2.:: will be allocated according the needs. morning Mra. SHIn that the county needs for the sex: tew months should no: exceed 850.302 ct county- -provided bu: she was not sure as to the amount.

She is compiling fig723 to: submission to the commis- B. Makes Available Book On Math par: of a continuing educaprogram, the Bal-; and Ohio Railroad today anthe publication of a Fad for school The 500k. in two volumes, provides problems from railroading reachers to use in illuarithmetic principles. was edited br Mass Olive W. Dennis, research to: the at Balamaro.

with the assistance and of members of the school -m In Baltimore and Book I is designed for use in arr and includes r. andreds of problenis In simple! from the reading and numbers through addi-! subtraction, multiplication and division. the use of decimals and percentages, the measuring perimaters and areas. and the use of simple graphs. "Rationd 'Rithmetic, Book IT." secondary schools, provides pracural problems in more adranged work.

including percentages, 805 use of tables, the measurement of space. volume, distance, rate and time. the use of advanced graphs and scale drawings. Bask I contains 68 pages. Book IT has 48.

Both are distributed free charge to school principals and reachers requesting them through the Public Relations Department! of the at Baltimore. Amply illustrated, the two volumes are especially designed to appeal to the natural interest that all have in railroads and trains, and $9 add zest to the working out arithmetic problems that seem when divorced from The 3 long has worked with schools and school teachers in marine railroad material and photos available. and in taking students on of railroad facilities. Last I summer. the put some of historic railroad equipment on cars for an exhibition tour of cities along its lines.

Thou-: sands of school children viewed this exhibit. tracing the development of railroad equipment over 120 years. I Births and Mrs. Claude E. Martin, Baltimore Pike.

announce the birth of a this morning at Allegany Ecapital. A son. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Corle, Star Route.

Grantsvice, last sight at Allegany Hospital. Mr. and 'Mrs. Robert W. Welch, Washington.

formerly of this arcounce the birth of a daughter March 5. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Rober: Dyer. 111 Laing Avenue, March 3 at Memorial Hospital, Cumberland Evening THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 the modern store front of the Holly Shop at the corner of South store.

The large section on the South Centre Street side went out first. WIND DISINTEGRATES WINDOWS-One of the stronger gusts of Centre and Baltimore streets. Three sections of the glass were wind that kept Cumberland blustery this morning took its toll 011 broken in one show window of the recently remodeled women's dress Mercury Drops As Sharp Wind Brings City Return Of Winter Winter, which hasn't shown parts much this year, blew into the northwest with high winds While the thermometer midnight until noon today, it the wind that caused most of a the discomfort. inconvenience and damnlage. The wind.

blowing at velocitles up 45 miles caused A blizzard in Garrett and parts of Allegany county. A light powdery snow was twirled into a blinding storm in Western Maryland, causing driving to become very hazardous. Visibility Near Zero The State Roads Commission reported that all ronds in Garrett county were covered with snow, and the visibility was nearly zero because of the high winds. Two trucks and 16 men were busy in the county this morning, while 12 trucks and 35 workers were on! duty in Garrett county cindering and clearing. The wind, with 3 steady velocity of 15 miles per hour, reached 45 miles per hour in gusts, according to the All-American Airways weather station here.

These gusts were responsible for blowing out three large show windows in the Holly Shop, corner of Baltimore and South Centre streets. The modernistic glass front was destroyed about 10 a. m. today when the window on the South Mechanic Street side caved in the wind. The other two followed within a half hour.

More Cold Tonight The section returned to cold weather of last week, with the following low readings reported: Altamont and Terra Alta, W. 10; Blazer, W. 13: Deal, 8, and Thomas, W. 10. The cold weather is expected to remain in Allegany and Garrett countles tonight, with low temperatures forecast between six to 12 degrees in Garrett and 10 to 15 degrees in this county.

The Weather Bureau predicts toin. Allegany will be fair morrow becoming milder in the afternoon, with the winds becoming gentle and variable. More flurries are predicted for Garrett county tonight with northwest winds 12 to 18 miles an hour, dying down tomorrow. Former Resident Bridge Operator I Walter C. Capper Gets Bar Association Post The job of swinging around the $5,000,000 South Capitol Street Bridge in Washington belongs to a former Cumberland man, He is Charles H.

Thompson, who lived here prior t.o working in: the U. S. Naval Gun Factory at Washington. Thompson qualified for his present position on this recently dedicated bridge after he became bridge operator last November at the Anacostia Bridge, His job Is to 'operate the draw. which swings around to open what is reputed to be the largest plategirder span in the world.

Former Judge Walter C. Capper, was advised today by the American Bar Association, through Its disector of state committees, that he had been appointed a member of the Section of Judicial Administration, representing the American Bar As-1 sociation for Maryland. Man Gets Divorce Oliver Fred Maxwell has been granted an absolute divorce from Zettn Jean Maxwell in Circuit Times, Camper Quint Will Play At Takoma Park Barton and Damascus Tossers Will Meet At Frostburg Tomorrow Allegany High cagers, who topped Frederick High here last night to take the Class District 1 crown, will oppose Montgomery Blair High, of Silver Spring, Montgomery county entry that cuptured District honors, at Takoma Park Junior! High Saturday night at 8 o'clock, and if successful in that engagement will advance CO the Class state finals at College Saturday, March 18. Announcement of the Allegany-1 Montgomery Blair game and Digtrict 1-2 Class and engugements was made carly this afternoon by Arthur G. Ramey, director of the state scholastic basketball championship tournament.

Central High of Lonaconing. trict 1 Class titlist, will oppose High, District 2 champion, tomorrow (Friday) night at the Takoma Park Junior High gym. Takoma Park borders the Silver Spring area in Montgomery county. Barton High, District 1 Class champion, will oppose Damascus High, also of Montgomery county, at Beall High, Frostburg, Saturday night. The winners of the three District 1-2 engagements will become state finalists and have a full week to prepare for the March 18 champion ship, battles at College Park.

Director Ramey reported today that Glen Burnie High defeated Bel Air High 44-42 last night to advance to the District 3-4 Class title engagement with Salisbury High this Saturday night. The winner of Saturday's game will pose the Allegany-Montgomery, Blair winner for the state championship. In Class play last night Snow Hill High defeated Crisfield High 35-28, will meet Elkton High at Elkton on Saturday, and the winner of that engagement will oppose Aberdeen High next Tuesday with that winner going to the state finals at the University of Maryland. Mardella High defeated Vienna High In Class "C' contest last to advance to the district finals where it will oppose Sudlersville High this Saturday night at Salisbury State Tenchers' College. The winner of Saturday's game will meet Clarksville High next Tuesday and the survivor of that game will to the Class finals at College Park.

Farm Cooperative Group Meets Here Operations Report Will Be Presented ship relations, from the tive's central offices In Richmond, will present the mid-year report. In addition to the board Approximately 64 members of Southern States Cooperative community advisory boards, directors of cooperatives and Cooperative Service Agency managers, from this region will attend a meeting Wednesday, March 15, at the Cen(tral Y.M.C.A, at 8:45 p. m. An annual event, the meetings are neld to give the board members the opportunity to hear a report on the operations of the cooperative during the first six months of the Southern States' fiscal year which ends June 30, 1950, and to discuss proband policies of the cooperative as they effect the 250,000 patronowners of the 'organization. Southern States district manager W.

M. Caldweil, of Weston, W. is in chorge of arrangements. J. E.

McDonald of Marunsburg, W. a director of the cooperative, will side. L. E. Raper, director of member- and agency managers, county state agricultural department officials and agricultural college representatives have been invited to Attending the Cumberland a area are: James Miltenberger, w.his H.

Johnson, J. William Loar, C. R. Armstrong, S. A.

Koontz, Dennis Koontz, Floyd Buser, Paul Yoder, John D. Coleman, Harry Johnson. Joseph Pollock, Paui Greise and Granville Shumaker. TIMES Hospital Unit Funds Granted By U.S. Agency Total Of $69,846 Made Available For Memorial Ward TIMES The U.

S. Public Health Service has approved the final application for funds for the contagious disease ward at Memorial Hospital, necordIng to Benjamin W. Wright, hospita! superintendent. A total of $69.846 is thereby made available by the federal government toward construction of the unit, which will cost $158,741. The City of Cumberland and Allegany County Board of ers will provide the balance, or $98,895 for erection of the ward.

Contracts will be let in a few days! for the construction according to Wright. The architects, Palmer, Fisher, Williams and Nes, of Balti-1 more, have approved the low bid of the John I. Vandegrift Company of this city. The contagious disease ward will! have facilities to handle cases which must be isolated and the unit will be so constructed that it will operate independently of the main hospital. The ward will have its own kitchens, laundry, and other ities.

Both the city and county made available an additional $15,000 each recently when it was found that original estimates on the job were too low. The two governmental units had previously given $30,000 each for the project. The city and county have cach provided $45,000 for the work. Child Injured In Fall From Vehicle Improves Christopher Kelley, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Kelley, 522 Frank's Lane, continued to improve this morning at Memorial Hospital where he was admitted yesterday afternoon with 3 fractured skull. Attaches said he fell from A car driven by his grandmother, A 67-yenr-old pedestrian, George Lafferty, Eckhart, a fracture of the right night when struck by an nutomobile at the intersection of Route 40 and Parkersburg Road. He was admitted to Miners' Hospital, Frostburg. State Police Identified the driver as Ralph Frantz, Ridgeley, and no charges were filed pending pletion of the investigation by Trooper Harry Bosley. in the area.

The officers, left to right, are James Miltenberger, agent, is adviser to the club. 6 DAIRY CALF CLUB -Pictured above are the newlyelected officers of the 4-H Dairy Calf Club which met recently at the Court House. The club is interested in improving dairy herds The Newspaper For The Home Soap Box Derby Again Planned For Cumberland Soap Box Derby time will soon be here. Plans for the third annual TimesNews Derby are being formulated. The race is to held some time in expected, the' winner gaining the right to represent the city in the All-American finals at Akron, Ohio, Aug.

13 with all. expenses paid. Boys in the tri-state area between the ages of 11 and 15 years are eligible to participate. For more about the Cumberland Derby, see this evening's sports section. Communion Of Holy Name Set Here Sunday Breakfast Follows Mass: Father McCauley Principal Speaker A record.

number of men is expected to attend the annual Holy Name Society communion breaklast following the 7 a. m. mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church Sunday, according to the Very Rev. J.

Lawrence Kilkenny, pastor of the church and rural dean of Western Maryland. The breakfast at the church social center will be the first of 3 serles of events marking the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, March Principal speaker at the breakfast will be the Rev. Lawrence J. McCauley, CSSR, of Catholic Unir versity, Washington, D.

C. South Africa Native Father McCauley is an Irishman, but he was born in South Africa. His parents came from the same part of Ireland, but didn't meet untill they went to South Africa. Cape Town was the priest's home town, but he was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at Kimber-1 ley, a diamond center, 650 miles away. Finishing there, he decided to study commerce at the University of Cape Town, but later decided to become a Redemptorist priest.

After his ordination In 1939, he worked two years in the he home missions of England. Ho was in Birmingham during the Battle of Britain, and "had the dubious honor of being bombed nightly for months on end." In 1942 he returned to South Africa, seeing much sea warfare on the way. For the next seven years he was busy preaching missions and retreats to all sections of the people, white, colored and black, secular and religious, young and old--often spending seven months a single mission tour. During that period he was becoming a popular writer for Catholic and non-Catholic papers. His writing ability became recognized by his superiors in London, and he was sent to the Catholic University to broaden his background.

Other Events Planned Father McCauley is one of two! South African Redemptorist priests In the world. Sunday morning's breakfast will be served by the ladles of St. Pat-! rick's parish, Other events scheduled in celebration of St. Patrick's Day are solmn high mass on March 17, be followed by the annual breakfast of St. Patrick's Choir.

In the evening, the grade school children of St. Patrick's will pre-1 sent a skit covering the life of St. Patrick. Also on the program will be scenes depicting Trish legends, and others featuring Irish jigging and singing. A boys' oratorical contest will be lone of the highlights, with euch contestant presenting a brief tion from Robert Emmett's tion.

Emmett was an Irish patriot and martyr. Sewing Machines Stolen From Car City Police are investigating the theft of two, portable sewing machines valued at $219 from the automobile of Morris Resnick, delphia. Resnick told authorities he parked car near Allegany Inn before the robbery occurred Tuesday night. Entrance to the machine was gainled by breaking a window. Detective Thomas J.

See Said one of the electric machines is' new. No arrests have been made. Driver Found Guilty In Two-Car Accident Henry Getz, 37, Altoona, was fined $11.45 today in Trial Court on a state charge resulting from a -car collision in which a local resident was hurt. Police said Getz's car crashed against the machine driven by Robert A. Puttenberger, 20, of 125 West Third Street.

The accident occurred March 4 at the Intersection of Thomas and Wineow Street. William Davies, 54, also of West Third Street, riding with Puffenberger, received treatment at Memorial Hospital after the crash. Amvets To Nominate Officers Tonight Officers will be nominated at a meeting of J. Louis Wolford Post: No. 1, Amvets, tonight at 8, at the post home, according to Commander Robert F.

Baker. Officers will be elected Saturday with balloting at the post home on Baltimore Street from noon until 6 p.m. Commander Baker is not eligible to succeed himself. Liquor Board Sets Hearing On Licenses Applications Now Available; Notices Must Be Posted Applications may be made at the office of the Allegany County Liquor Control Board, third floor Court House, for renewal of licenses held by operators and for new places of business. Members of the board urge early application so that the applications may be advertised and other preliminaries completed as soon as All applicants must have a suitable sign or notice posted in a spleuous place the premises for which a license being sought at least 10 days prior to April 30 The form of the notice may be obtained at the Liquor Board office.

Hearings will be held by the board Thursday, April 27 at 9:30 8. m. for applicants for beer, wine and liquor licenses; at 1:30 p. m. the applicants for beer and wine licenses will be heard and on FriApril 28, at 9:30 a.

beer Acense applicants will appear. Due to the large number of persons who appear for the hearings the Liquor Board will probably use the main Circult Court room as in past years. Savings Bond Campaign To Open In May its grizzly face around these Cumberland last night from and 16-degree temperatures. remained below freezing from Installation Of Equipment Planned By PE To more efficiently burn available coals, it was announced today that two new pulverizers, four new burners and miscellaneous piping in the high pressure plant of the Potomac Edison Cumberland River Station will be installed in the near future. Costing over $99,000, the project will take approximately three weeks to complete, The new installation will be in service in May.

All the new equipment will be of the most modern design, and will be larger than that in use. The present installation WAS placed. in service in 1938. Employes of both the Potomac Edison and Combustion Engineering Superheater Companies will provide the labor for the project. Fishing Queen To Be Crowned The eight-year-old girl who won the first City Fishing Rodeo last 'Summer will be crowned Junior State Fishing Queen tomorrow at 1:30 p.m, In Virginia Avenue School.

Mayor Thomas S. Post will present Sandra Sulser, of 23 West First Street, with a certificate designating her as state girls' fishing champion. The little angler won. the title catching the longest fish in the contest held last August at the Ali Ghan Shrine Country Club pool in which 1,000 children participated. Edmund F.

Hoey, city recreation! director, announced today that the young fishermen of the city will again be offered fishing rodeo portunities. This event will be staged at the same place on August 26, he said, and plans are being made to accommodate a larger crowd. The winner of the Junior State Fishing King title was Byrl, Gibson, 14, of 533 North Mechanic Street, who will also be presented with a certificate in the next week, Hoey reported: Consecration Of Bishop Planned The Right Rev. Msgr. John J.

Russell, director of Catholic charities in the Washington Archdiocese and brother of Rev. W. Joyce Russell, formerly of St. Mary's Church here, has been appointed Bishop of Charleston, S. C.

Msgr, Russell, pastor of Church of the Nativity, Washington, will be consecrated March 14 in ceremonies at 10 a. m. in the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, Washington, His uncle, the late Bishop William J. Russell, served as Ordinary of the Charleston Diocese from 1917 until his death in 1927, and ordained him in Rome in 1923.

Bishop-elect Russell was born in Baltimore, a son of John W. and Mary Joyce Russell. He studied at St. Charles Seminary and St. Mary's Seminary there and at the North American College in Rome.

He succeeds the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh. Father W. Joyce Russell is pastor of St.

Francis De Sales Church, Benedict, Md. Bishop-elect Russell has made frequent visits to Cumberland. Assessors Will Attend Meeting Somerville Nicholson, supervisor of assessments for Allegany county, and members of his staff will attend the annual Spring conference of the Maryland Association of Assessing Officers in Hagerstown March 30 and 31. The event will be held In Hotel Alexander. It is the first time that the session has been held in Hngerstown, About assessing ofever, ficers from the various counties, will altend.

Traffic Group Releases Data The Maryland Traffic Safety Commission pointed out today that 110 highway fatalities occurred in Allegany and Garrett counties dur-! ing April, May and June of 1949. The commission relensed its seasonal report to allow law enforcement agencies to plan safety prograins for the coming thre2-month period. State Police records show that 33 mishaps occurred on Routes 36, 40 and 220 in Allegany county during the three months. Personal injury accidents totaled' 17 and property damage accidents also hit the 17 mark. were hurt, the majority at night.

The 1950 U. S. Savings Bonds campagin, to be known as the Independence Drive, will get underway May 1 and run through July 4, according to Lynn C. Lashley, chairman for the drive in Allegany county. The Liberty Bell is the campaign symbol, and "Save for Your Independence," emphasizing AmerIcan faith in thrift, is the drive slogan.

"It is singularly appropriate that this campaign should be known as the Independence Drive. because the spirit of personal independence has motivated our Gnancial as well as our political thinking since our nation's earliest day's," Chairman Lashley sald, "As for Liberty Bell, it symbolizes not only our political independence but also all those characteristics of Americanism which serve to sustain our independence. of these characteristics, thrift, of course, is cle of the most outstanding. Thus in the Independence Drive, the Liberty Bell will be an especially sultable reminder of the Importance of savings and Savings Bonds to our economic life and to the financial independence of the individual." committees for the state and each county will be ganized to represent banking, industry, labor, agriculture, motion pictures, advertising, newspapers, radio, as well as womens', veterans', civic, fraternal and similar organizations throughout the state. VolU unteer committees with their workers put Maryland well over the top for the Opportunity Drive of last year, and we again will depend upon them to assure the success of this drive," Lashley added.

La Vale Students Admitted Into D. and E. Sorority Two LaVale students, freshmen at Davis and Elkins College. Elkins, W. bave been Initiated into Phi Mu, social sorority.

They are Miss Lou Ann Wright, dnughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin C. Wright, Park Heights, and Miss Margaret Ellzabeth Long, daughter or Mr. and Mrs.

Charles D. Long, Woodlawn Avenue, Obituary Henry A. Everline Henry Andrew Everline, 79, a retired bullding contractor, died early today at his resider.ce after an illness of two months. Mr. Everline was born in coning, a son of the late Daniel and Dora (Milford) Everline.

He served as an elder of St. Mark's Reformed Church for 25 years and was a membere of the LaVale Volunteer Fire Department. About 30 years ago Mr. Everline purchased 3 tract of land now known as La Vale and began developing that area. He retired nine years ago.

Surviving are his widow. the former Miss Ida Gaumer; two children, Mrs. Ardella Mahaney and Chester J. Everline. LaVale; four brothers, D.

P. Everline. Wellersburg, William P. Everline. Pittsburgh; Edward Everline, Portland, and George Everline Hagerstown; four sisters, Miss Annie Everline and Mrs.

Emma Bode Pittsburgh; Mrs. Margaret Baker Baltimore, and Mrs. Lillian Edwards, Seattle. Wash. Mr.

Everline also leaves grandsons, Calvin Mahaney, a student at the University of Maryland: and Chester J. Everline. Jr. La Vale, and a number of nieces and nephews. Francis X.

Reitmeier Francis Xavier Reitmeier, 61. of 22 West First Street. dropped dead this morning in the dressing room at the -Springfield Tire Company plant, where he worked as a steam tender. Death was attributed to natural causes. Born November 5, 1880.

In Bavaria, Germany, Mr. Reitmeirr had re(Continued on Pagr 3) of Ridgeley, vice president; Mary Miltenberger, of Ridgeley, secretary; Dale Harvey, of Shaft, president; and Robert Greise, of Valley Road, publicity officer. Joscph M. Steger, assistant county farm.