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Cumberland Evening Times from Cumberland, Maryland • Page 14

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FOURTEEN EVENING TIMES, CUMBERLAND, TUESDAY. AIIGUST 12, 1552 Phone 4600 for a WANT AD Tafcer 4 1 Labor Group To Seek End Of Old Strike Robert C. Morris, Fort Hill High School teacher, was chosen chair California, and man of the Cumberland Management-Citizens Committee at At tne time of hls retoement as its reorganization last night in City a 35611 conductor, Mr. Parker rJ V.nn-n nvn nt Vi a Obituary (Continued Prom Page 13) who died Friday in Phil- Annabelle Nealis, Baltimore, and Mrs. Margaret Magnim, Dalton, and three brothers, William Parker, city; Charles Parker of Paricer Hoi- nad been employed by the railroad be -con- Hall.

Jack P. Moore president of the for 33 years He held local Dairy Workers Union, was re- I Lhe Methodist Church. elected secretary, a post he has held The bod is at the Hafer since the group was formed Home where servlce wUl The first project of the committee ducted 7 sday at 2 byf ev will be bring about an amicable Kenneth Grove pastor of Em settlement of the strike that closed manued the Coca Cola Bottling Works three and one half months ago. The first step will be to inform of ficials of the company and Loca 453, Teamsters Union (APL), tha the committee is interested in seek ing a satisfactory settlement of th issues and offer its services towar an 'agreement. Considerable discussion was he! regarding the dispute which led the reactivation of the committe Mayor Roy W.

Eves, who wit City Attorney Thomas B. Pinan represented the City of Cumberland informed the committee that th Mayor and Council will be glad amend the ordinance in any wa which will further the work of th group. Also present at the meeting were John L. Estes, Edwin Homer C. Berry an James H.

Manning. Milberg Edgar D. Vandegrift, James A Weber and C. T. Williams.

E. Kenney Ralph R. Webster. Moore was instructed to contac members who were not present las night, to learn if they desire to con tinue their affiliation. Mayor Eves was'asked to appoin a member of the citizens group tc succeed Rabbi H.

J. Wilner, who resigned. Former Local (Continued From Page 13) president, Franklin D. Roosevelt who came into Maryland to make several speeches in his behalf. After his defeat, President Roosevelt appointed him one of the three members of the National Mediation Board, serving at one time as chairman of the railway labor board.

It was on January 31, 1943, that 'Mr. Lewis approaching his 74th birthday, announced he would not seek reappointment to the mediation board when his term ended February 1, 1943. thus ending out 41 years as a public servant. Among other things. Mr.

Lewis stood for while in Congress were: Lower sugar tariff in 1925, a federal old-age pension tax in 1928 and American adherence to the World Court in 1928. Firm Internationalist A firm internationalist, Mr. Lewis warned in June 1939 that "the responsible cause of war Is the absence in the international community of law and order organization." Mr. Lewis was called "Littls Davcy" because of his short stature. He was the idol of the working class during his period of prominence.

He was a member of the American Academy of Sciences, Physics Branch; the Society of Psychical Research of England and Cumberland Lodge 63, BPO Elks, and Cumberland Aerie 245, Fraternal Order of Eagles. Mn Lewis leaves no immediate survivors. His wife died two years ago. New Fall Style Methodist Church. Ohr have charge of Masonic rites at the grave in Camp Hill Cemetery, Paw Paw.

Miss Pearl Fankhouser PARSONS, W. Va. Miss Pearl Fankhouser, 70, retired college professor and native of Parsons, died yesterday morning in a hospital at Kenton! Ohio. Miss Fankhouser, who had resided in Painesville (Ohio) for the past two years, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Ward Parsons, at Dunkirk (Ohio) last Thursday when she suffered a heart attack and went to the Kenton hospital.

Born October 13, 1881 in Parsons, she was a daughter of the late N. P. and Arminfca (Mayhall) Fankhouser, who operated a lumber business in Tucker County for many before teaching school and Marshall counties years. Miss Fankhouser took her Bachelor of Art and Master of Art degrees at Columbia University, New York, in Tucker (W. Va.) and in Lake County, Ohio.

After 12 years of teaching, she went to Concord College, Athens, (W. Va.) to become associate professor in education. She retired in 1946, after 21 years with the college. Her retirement was to end a 33- year career of teaching, but Miss Fankhouser later accepted a faculty position at Davis and'Elkins Elkins, for two years. She was a charter member and past president of the Concord Branch, American Association of University Women, a member of Kappa Delta Pi Sorority, and was councilor for the Delta Gamma lhapter at Concord for six years.

While at Concord, she was faculty advisor to the YWCA and a member of the executive committee of West Virginia State Education Association. She was a member of Honor Education Fraternity, of he Athens Woman's Club, and of First Methodist Church, Parsons, Surviving besides her sister, are brothers, Lewis Fankhouser, 'ainesville; W. M. Fankhouser, 'erry, Ohio, and C. L.

Fankhouser, Parsons. Another brother, Lloyd Fankhouser. Parsons businessman, died in 1946. Rites will be conducted at 1:30 i. m.

tomorrow in Kenton, with 'Urial in that city. Mrs. Nellie Plumb KEYSER Mrs. Nellie Plumb, widow of Clarence D. Plumb, died afternoon at her home, 17 West Piedmont Street.

She had een in falling health for several ears. A native of Mineral County, she as a daughter of the late Mr. nd Mrs. Scott Stotler. Surviving are three daughters, Helen Rice, Mrs.

Grace Huffman and Mrs. Anna Lee Albancse; ne sister, Mrs. Bernlce Mixon, and our grandchildren, all of Kcyser. Wolford Services DEER for Stewrt Wolford, 49, who was found dead a gunshot wound Sunday near Storm, will be conducted tomor- adelphia, this morning at the Fredlock Funeral Home here for services tomorrow at 2 p. m.

in Pentecostal Holiness Church. Rev. Rex Coffmarj, pastor, will officiate, assisted by Rev. Clarence Tranum, Middletown, Ohio. Burial will be in the family cemetery.

Mr. Turner leaves his widow, the former Emma warnick; three daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Walker, Piedmont; Mrs. Louise Webster, Baton Rouge, and Ruth Turner, Philadelphia; two sons, William and Ray, also of Philadelphia; a sister, Mrs. Hazel Buduris, Tucson, one brother, 'Gilbert Turner, Akron, and seven grandchildren.

He was a member of Highway Tabernacle, Philadelphia. wood, and Mrs. Alva Laurence, Dry Fork, and four brothers, Hess Wolford, Erwin, W. Charles and Dan Wolford, Alexandria, Va The body is at the Sharpies Funeral Home in Blaine, W. Va.

Murphy Services Services for Mrs. Bertha M. Mur phy, 74, of 5 Virginia Avenue, wh died Friday, were conducted yester day afternoon from the home Rev. Hixen T. Bowersox, pastor St.

Paul's Lutheran Church. Buria was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Paul Reid, Ear Hobrock, Carl Zimmerla, Calvin Shipe, James Merrill and Albert Green. Lewis Funeral for William Lewis, 36. of 140 Bowery Street, wh died Sunday, will be held tomorro 1 at 2:30 p.m.

from the residence wit Rev. John Bayley Jones, pastor First Methodist Church, officiating Interment will be in Frostbur Memorial Park. Charles L. Windem WESTERNPORT Charles Leo nard Windem, 42, Clarksburg, died last Wednesday in a vet erans' hospital at Perry's Poin where he had been a patient fo two and a half years. A native of Westernport, he wa a son of the late Dennis and Rob erta (Dawson) Grove, and later adopted by the late Marsha; and Cora Windem.

He was a Navj veteran of World War II and wai employed as a truck driver. Besides his widow, Mrs. Velma Windem, he is survived by three brothers, Wiliiam Grove, Westernport; Robert R. Grove, Winchester and -Nathan E. Grove, Lonaconing and two sisters, Mrs.

Frank Green Barton, and Mrs. O. G. Digman Bridgeport, W. Va.

The body is at Boal Funeral Home where services will be held tomor- p. m. Full militarj accorded by Victory ow at 2 p. m. Ill Methodist (EST) in Nethken Church by Rev.

toward Spruill. pastor of Elk Garden Assembly of God Church. Burial will take place in IOOF Cemetery, Elk Garden. Mr. Wolford was born In July 1903, in Tucker County, a son of the late James and Mallnda (Carr) Wolford.

Survivors Include his widow, Mrs. Sana (Wiltons) Wolford; four children, Mrs. Betty Estes, Renovo, Carrie, Norma and Frank Wolford, at home here: four sisters, Mrs. Grover Flanagan. Seneca Rocks, W.

Mrs. Hiram C. Pennington, Mt. Storm; Mrs. Elmer Arnold, King- Turner Rites PIEDMONT The body of Charles Ray Turner, 52, native of row at i :30 rites will bo Post No.

155, American Legion. Interment will be In Laurel Hil Cemetery. Moscow. Dr. Lcroy Reeves WESTERNPORT Dr.

Leroy Reeves, 35, Hope Mills, N. nephew of Drs. K. and Raymonc W. Reeves.

Westernport, was killed yesterday in an automobile accident in Georgia. Survivors include his widow and two children. He also leaves two brothers, Charles Reeves, Parkersburg, N. and Dr. Murray Reeves, Hope Mills, and a sister, Mrs.

Anna Ballard, Parkersburg. Miss Lucille Ferguson Lucille Ferguson, 74, retired school teacher, died Sunday at Hillcrest Nursing Home in Winchester. where she had been a patient for some time. A native of Romney, Miss Ferguson was born July 24, 1878, a daughter of the late R. S.

Ferguson and Lucy (White) Ferguson. Miss Ferguson spent most of her teaching career as an instructor In a school for the blind at St. Augus- dne, Fla. She retired from teaching several years ago. She leaves no immediate survivors.

Services will be conducted at 3 p. m. (EST) tomorrow in Romney Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Ferguson was a lifelong member. Burial will be In Indian Mound Cemetery.

The body is at the Thrush Funeral Home here. Arthur F. Kerlinp WESTERNPORT Arthur F. Kerling, 63, Klngwood, formerly of Westernport, died yesterday in Morgantown General Hospital where he was taken Friday after suffering a stroke. Mr.

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42 Pattern 243 West 17th St. New York 11. N. V. Print plainly XAME, ADPRESS with ZONE, SIZE and STJIXE NUMBER, CUMBERLAND SOUTH CUMBERLAND FROSTBURG KEYSER BEDFORD PIEDMONT Raaio .75 MAT SHIELD met scooter with rubber Ures foot tread.

Protect your c.tr from dtrt mat to fit center hump of any cnr. Can also used for rtar car. RINK ROLLER SKATES HABDY 3-IH-l I-OZ, CAN OIL BIKE INNER TUBES Hontshoid eir. For fret lor.a wear Morgan State Work Planned BALTIMORE A construction program for Morgan State College and an airport project for Ocean City have been outlined to the State Planning Commission. It took the requests under advisement.

The Morgan State construction requests, totaling $8,948,500. were presented to the commission yesterday by Dr. Martin D. Jenkins, Morgan president. They' involve such principal items as an auditorium and fine arts building, a military science armory, a combination infantry and home economics building, a commerce classroom building and two men's dormitories.

As for the Ocean City airport, Director Richard A. Jamison said the $200,000 project could be financed jointly by the state, Ocean City and the users. He suggested the state contribute $125,000 and Ocean City $55,000 with the remainder coming from aircraft gasoline taxes and registration fees. Jamison said he would ask the General Assembly to earmark the 5-cent aviation gasoline tax for airport development and to set a registration fee of one cent per pound empty gross weight on aircraft. A similar proposal failed in the 1952 General Assembly.

Police Notified Of Milk Thefts A report that bottled milk is being stolen from the porches of North End homes was turned over to police today. One Fairview Avenue resident said three quarts were taken in eight days. Similar thefts reportedly occurred in the Elmwood Lane area. However, three local distributors of dairy products stated they have received no complaints of milk thefts with the exception of one incident on the West Side. Park, a son of the late Christopher and Ida Kerling.

A coal miner, he resided here until 14 years ago. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Margaret (Fazenbaker) Kerling; five daughters, Mrs. John Mitchell, Baltimore; Mrs. Arthur Fisher, Piedmont; Mrs.

Maxine Ralston and Mrs. Janet Baier. Lonaconing, and Mrs. Anna Appel, Westernport; three sons. Leon of Batimore, Gerald of Piedmont, and William of Barton; a brother, William Kerling, Keyser, and 12 grandchildren.

The body is at the Bolden Funeral Home, Oakland, where services will je conducted tonforrow at 2 p. m. (EST) by Rev. J. E.

Dettra, pastor of Westernport Church of the Brethren. Burial will be in Oakland DanielTrimper Elected Mayor OCEAN Trimper jr. was elected to his fifth term as mayor and Hugh Thomas Cropper Jr. and William H. McCabe were named to the city council in yesterday's balloting.

Of the more than 1,200 registered voters, 653 cast ballots. Trimper, 66-year-old beer distributor and 364 votes Savage, 49-year-old hotel operator, iernor also learned the institution real estate man, pblled to 182 for Crawford O. Conditions At Crownsville Are Difficult BALTIMORE (Of Gov. McKeldin says personnel at Crownsville State Hospital are working under difficult conditions including a shortage of help and more patients than prescribed. McKeldin has sharply criticized the number of -escapes from the institution, including 41 this year, and has said they must stop.

After a tour of the hospital yesterday he said tht personnel are working "under very difficult conditions" and that officials there are making a "sincere effort to improve conditions and to increase security against escapes demand -for a halt in the escapes was contained in a stern letter written recently to Dr. Clifton T. Perkins, director of mental hygiene. McKeldin said yesterday his earlier stand hadn't changed and that the escapes "have got to stop." But he noted that "there are provisions for a complement of 592 employes, but there are 76 vacancies in the staff The Gov- Robert C. Cropper, who ran on a platform called for legalized Bingo and open bars on Sundays, got 80 votes.

Hugh Cropper was re-elected to council with 370 votes. McCabe, the other victor in the six-way race, got 249. Cropper and McCabe are both hotel men and Cropper also raises chickens. Other council contestants were: M. James Brown, 199 votes; Elizabeth S.

Gordy, 139; Lemuel Timmons, 100, and Milton L. Conner, 69. The council seats are for lour years, the mayoralty, two years. The prediction had been that 800 would ballot in the election. In 1950, 721 ballots were cast.

Sport fishermen at Ocean City, Maryland, have caught more than three hundred marlin so far season. now houses 2,315 patients but has a prescribed maximum of 1,266. And he put part of the blame of the Cronwsville situation on families who fail to reclaim relatives from institutions. "Many of those who walk away from the institution are ready for discharge. They know this 'and are waiting for relatives to come and get them," he said.

But he said he was withholding a final opinion on Crownsville. Before making a final comment on the situation or recommendations for future action, the governor said he would await a report being prepared by Dr. Perkins. Dog Struck By Aiilo A small dog owned by George Reynolds, 831 Columbia Avenue, was badly hurt last night when struck this by a hit-nan driver. The animal (was taken to a veterinarian.

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