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TWENTY THE CUMBERLAND NEWS. CUMBERLAND, AUGUST 13, 1953 Phone 4600 for a WANT AD Taker Council Faces Eighteen Cents Increase In 1953-54 Tax Budget Paring Underway By City Officials Second levy Study Meeting Set Monday The Mayor and Council took one look yesterday at budget requests which would boost the tax rate by 18 cents and spent the next three hours on plans for whittling down the total. The meeting, the first in a series of budget talks which will end with i the setting of the tax levy on or before August 24, was held in City Hall with ail members of the Mayor and Council. City Audi- tor Arthur B. Gibson.

City Attorney Thomas B. Finan and City Engineer C. R. Nuzum in Decitions were made at the preliminary meeting for reducing a number of budget requests. City official! wiU study figures compiled by Gibson and resume the budget paring discussions Monday at 1:30 pm.

Gibson opened the meeting with a report of 1952-53 expenditures and of requests made by most city departments for the fiscal year began on July 1. The totals, Gibson said, show that a great deal more money is involved in the budgets which have been requested. Object To Increase To grant the requests, he added, would mean a city lax increase of 18 cents. Finance Commissioner WiUiam V. Keegan reported flatly he is not in favor of raising taxes beyond widening of Winchester the amount necessary to pay for will get underway next week.

Road Relocation To Begin Work on the relocation, resurfacing and widening of the Winchester Road is expected to get underway next week. In preparation for the work some of the homes in that section are being moved back from the highwav. Shown above is the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John E.

Lewis. They have occupied the home for nearly half a century. The work is being done under the supervision of Don McGiU and the two workmen in the picture are Peter Myers and John Grabenstein. Hazelwood Will Begin Rood Job Work on the relocation, resurfac- W. Va.

Veterans Get $66,000,000 In Bonus Claims Six Oak Wilt Areas Found In This Area Judge W. C. Chestnut Adminsters Oath 12 If' George Cochran Doub, 51-year-old Baltimore attorney, was sworn in today as U. S. attorney for Maryland.

He succeeded Bernard J. Flynn, 65-year-old Democrat who retired after 19 years in office. More than 100 persons watched Dtuib take the oath in federal court from Judge W. Calvin Chesnut. who commented later that reputation as a trial lawyer is a facie showing of competence in a short talk, pledged to fulfill the duties of the office with and honor and, above all.

to protect the civil rights of the individual." Flynn hailed his successor as able lawyer, gixxi citizen, and a man of high reputation." solicit for him the same cooperation I have received over the years." Flynn continued. will need it. I have." Regarding his own return to private law practice. Flynn said simply: expect to he long service in the office was praised by Doub. Judge Ches-' nut and Chief Judge William C.

i Coleman. The latter said: community. I believe, is a better- place to live in as a result of his, service." Flynn had tried to resign from the job since last January, following the Republican victory at the polls. However, there was a political battle over who would succeed him and he had to serve on until his successor was finally agreed on by the Miss Maryland Entries Contestants of the Maryland" beauty pageant to be held at the Maryland Theatre tonight shown as they assembkni last night in the lobby of the Fort Cumberland Hotel for briefing by officiali of the Miss Maryland Pageant Inc, Left to right are; "Miss Eastern Shore." Miss Meta Justice; Civil Defense," Miss Marilyn Jane Stern; Silver Miss Mary Ixni Vernon: Miss Anna Mae DaVinci; Baltimore County." Miss Virginia Elliott, and Western Maryland," Miss Carolyn Deck. The contest begins at 8 30 p.

m. 2 More Area POWs Are Released Cumberland Fair Hyndman Youth Freed From Red Six new areas in County where oak wilt has oeen found CHARLESTON. 12 have been pinpointed by ground West Virginia paid more than according to District Forest- fire truck which has been according to an announcement last ordered for South Cumberland. The G. Bates Chaires, district for approximate- wiUiam H.

Johnson, pumper, which will cost $15.354.18 Engineer for the State Roads Com- 239.000 bonus claims was ordered last year with the niission. understanding that funds would be provided in the 1953-54 budget. Receives First Hereford Entry Korean Prison CpI. Harry K. Fichtner.

2T, son of Mr. and Mrs, Harry F'lchtner. of String Town, near The George F. Hazelwood Com- Or the f.rst time in "as by the Com-, panv has been awarded the con- University faculty. Ground crew pj.al vears when A.

F. O'Brien of munists yesterday. StatP Vet- spotted The Cumberland Fair was as- i sured of having Hereford beef cat- Keegan said he thought all com- submitted a low bid statistical cut sample and specimen cultures Manns Choice. As- Cpl. Fichtner.

according to hisj missioners should cut budget 7 3 gg the SRC. state bonus program. McGovran were sent to Dr, Walter F. sistant County Agent Joseph Jigures to keep the tax rate dowm said 23S.602 claims "jre Processed profe.ssor of botany at the Umver- sxeger. beef cattle surenntendent.

Gibson explained there will undertaken in additional sity of Maryland, who definitely he will exhibit about 10 head increases in all departments to Countv in recent years, "cre denied for reasons of meli- confirmed certain samples as vie- 3 breed. meet the fuU cost of a 10 per cent gibllity. Less than 400 claims still tims of oak wUt. o-Rrien this week has some of increase granted to city employes Potomac Dnve-In Theater. processed, having been piaces where oak wilt has been his Herefords on display at the parents, has been a prisoner of the ft'r alxvut two and a half years.

They heard the good news from a John Pfeiffer, who heard the report over the last year, but paid for only 10 Road extends from the necessary include two spots on Me- Bedford Fair. Some years ago he months of the year. Six-Mile House on U. S. Route 40 to Hill, near McCoole; one point showed Jersev dairy cattle at the Eichtner overjoyed and Is Up To Council S.

220 at Van Store in The state made bonus payments on the west side of Moun- Cumberland Fair. happy and said is news Mrs. Lucile W. Roeder. commis- Cresaptown.

to veterans of both World Wars, tain near Westernpiirt, two areas The fair has received some cri- have been liking forward to for gioner of streets and public proper- project is expected First claims were filed Jan. 2. 1952. on Franklin Hill north of Western- ticism in recent years for having ty, pointed out that the costs of started about Tuesday or The extended deadline expired last port and one point on Pmcy Moun- Aberdeen Angus entered in Mrs. Fjii-hner learned that her payments to the state pension sys- Wednesday of next week.

Chaires June 30. tain north of the Six Miie House. its livestock department. More beef was a POW the first part tern wiU rise $13.000 and added Preliminary work toward Payments were made to West Three new locations in Wash- cattle men in County have January 1951 when she received f-Qf 5fOV6 Th6lt that all must share in the decisions relocation of the road is already Virginia veterans in each of the ington County also have been dis- Hereford than Angus stock, critics a tekgram from the War Depart- which result in the new tax rate, underway as some private citizens 55 counties, state in covered. They are just south of ment.

S.nce then she has received OfU SCHOOl Gibson, who in previous are moving their homes. the union and 33 foreign countries. Route 40 on Fairview Mountain, on Meanwhile. Edgar H. Reynolds, from her boy and his writ- ROKERT L.

MCGREEVY Two Men Jailed Robert L. McGreevy Local Athlete Is In Exchange Group The second CumFverland POW was rel. ased by the Communist! -t: rdav according to an official k. of prisoners fret yc.sterday in the nuith day of the Korean armi. tice POW exchange.

He is Cr-I. Rc.lx'rt L. McGreesy, 22 -y- of Patrick O. and C. MeGreevy, 240 North Street, who was captured by the Reds November 2.

1950. Cpl. mother last said, have been praying for him ail thus time and now pi'ivcrs are She ex-" enedly told NEWS reporters that he was a private firrt claims when lar.t heard, but now under- he is a corporal. Hu- the "best news we could get." she I Cpl. McGreevy.

who has been iin The service for .39 months now, in the U. S. Army May 8 Two men accused of 1950. Following basic training at st.al.nf, an nld atove from Knox. K.v._, hv sent th.

abandoned Dutch Hollow SchmJ west coast and shipped to Japan. several davs he was sent to has had to force department bud- oldest residences McGovran said. the west side of Tonoloway Ridge general manager" of the 36th an- shows he is in good health, gets down to keep the total below the route is now in the pro- a total of 199.978 veterans of and on the Woodmont Rod and Cumberland Fair, which will He would comment of the fond the legal levy limits, told the elect- of being moved. It is the pro- World were paid $60.855.600, Gun Club property on Sideling Hill, from Monday. August 24, he was getting and new clothes ed officials: perty of Mr.

and Mrs. John E. and 27,776 veterans of World War three miles south of Route through Saturday, August 29, an- issued to him. He was active in is up to you. You will set Lewis, former residents of Frost- i received $2.988.600.

Survivors of 40. 1 nounced that Somerset County playing baseball and often said were sentenced to 15 days the Korea with Company L. 8 th Regi- the tax rate." burg. They have occupied the home World War II dead, numbering Dr. Jeffers, Dr.

L. O. Weaver, Agent C. C. McDowell wiil he had just fini.shed washing County Jail by Magistrate Howard ment.

First Cavalry Division. He was referring to the fact that for nearly a half century. 7,276, received $1.879.945.84. and plant pathologist at the University judge the maple products entered clothes down at the river. Stevens of Mt.

Savage. Mrs. McGreevy said she did not the General Assembly boosted from The moving of the house is being 3 572 survivors of World War I of Maryland: Dr. Curtis May, plant the fair. Maple products are in-' In 1948 Cpl.

Fichtner served a Jniled were Armel Sweene and hear from her son for over a year 95 cents to $125 the ceiling under done under the supervision of Don veterans collected $424.785. pathologist for the United States eluded in a new department at the year in the U. S. Army and was Waiter Harden. A third m.m al.o after his capture.

know which the city may levy for op- McGill. McGill and his workmen The total amount paid by the Department of Agriculture at fair. In October of 1950 he charged with larceny. Thomas whether he was alive or smaller amounted to $66,148.030.83. BeltsvUle, and State Forester H.

S. Allegany County 4-H Club boys was recalled as a member of the Lynch of Mt. Savage, was paroled addid. Buckingham examined the 18 areas are being urged to get their entry Army Reserve and after a refresh- 90 days. Magistrate Stevens Thi-n a little over a year ago in Allegany County where oak wilt blanks in now for the tractor driv- er in basic training at Fort Knox, bieft occurred 1951.

Mrs. McGreevy received her jWa.s found last year and contest, which will held was sent to Japan and Korea The three were arrested first letter. She received several jtion measures have been August 27, at the he was reported taken cape by State First more shortly afterward, jed. Dr. May favorably commented Entry blanks must be returned to tive in January of 1951.

Class William F. Raker. Mrs McGreevy said that a on the eradication work. Bucking- by August 18. Clubs which; He attended Hyndman School small Dutch Hollow School wounded released in the Legislative Council ham reported to Johnson.

to have a booth exhibit at the and later was employed at the exchange May wrote her a Eradication steps are being fair must return their entry blanks Amcelle here before going to the EVudren from that area are now from a hospital in Fort Me! Army. A younser brother Boy is to the new Mt. Savage and aid he had talk- crating expenses. Several items, have already moved a iuch as the fire truck, had to be home and razed another in that omitted last year when the full 95 area, cents was used. Gibson suggested the budget job could be attacked in one of two raSMlOfl ahOW bet ways to adopt at least a tenta- JodaV At Piavlot tive idea of what the tax rate Luke Mill Will Fete Legislative Council should be, and work down to that A fashion show will be held at When the visits Western Maryland next week point, or to go through the re- 2 m.

today at West Side Play- the legislators will be guests of started this week the'six new bv August 20 quests. Item by item, and decide, ground according to Eve Hogan, the West Virginia Pulp and gj-eas in this county Mean-i after further study. director. Company at a luncheon Johnson plans to travel in a' He added that all budget re- Prizes will be awarded for the August 20 at the Westvaco over the area in the next two GrOWGtS quests appeared justifiable but the most beautiful, most original, to Delegate Horace to if additional area! oi, council must decide on how high in wear and beach wear. Whitworth, who made the ar- infestation can be found, to set the rate.

i Movies will be shown at the play- rangementi. Study Budget Itema 'ground at dusk. Besides the Allegany County' Following the preliminary dis- A but. supplied by the West Side Delegation, guests also will include cussions, city officials began a Playground Association, will leave the Allegany County Board of DiririS of specific items. playlot at 9.30 a.m.

for the Commissioners and the Garrett; The first request was for 3,000 mtra-city picnic tomorrow at Con- County Delegation. at Fort Knox now scrvnng in the School. Referendum Is Set For Friday Tomorrow is Day' CnI and Mrs William A Allegany County wheat growers. Miss Jean Fichtner, Corriganville. Trust Building.

He has been in the service jfor about seven years, with 14 months in Korea. Chest GfOUD To Meet During World War II an older brother, Ray, served in the Army' The executive committee of the 'and was stationed in Germany. Cumberland Community Chest will Greevy received from her soldier Icpl. Fitchner has two sisters. Hazel meet thif evening at 7 3F) o'clock Ison wa.s written in April this year Browning.

Fairmont, and in the Chest Office in the Liberty and she received it the la.st week I (Continued on Page 10 Col. 6) 1 ed with her son in a Red prison. Cpl. McGreevy had asked wounded POW to write his mother in Cumberland and tell her he was all right. The last letter that Mrs.

Me- same as provided in last year's Lring his lunch, budget, and is abiiut as low as the can go, Gibson said. He added that the figure is about $500 to 1,000 less than was provided in budgets a decade ago. A Uital of 1,944 was spent last year, but additional money must be on hand to meet reasonable contingencies HzzMcYh the only ones eligible to vote in the aaugn- Film On Workshop For Blind Stresses Skills, Activities for accident awards. This the Park. Each person 1.

to The Legislative Council wiH be km announce the birth of a on wheat quotas (or the 1954 crop. Aberdeen. Rank.n is the (or-; mer Mis, Virginia Lea Rees, city. 3 Hospital Wa.shington Street, between 9 a. Dr.

and Mrs. Norman L. Barger, 5 tomorrow. The eligible 700 Louisiana Avenue, a daughter who planted 16 acres I yesterday. rnore in wheat the past three! Mr.

and Mrs. Richard E. Par- five from Little Or-i Del. Charles See, Fulton Avenue, is 103. The 4 Broadway Circle, a son leans, three from Oldtown and two Liberated Cumberland POW Tells Experience In Red Room Requested for the Cumberland tive of the Cumberland field office workers do not live at the work-' eai from North A Cumberland POW released in rf Branch and Potomac Valley.

Korea i.y the Communist last week Jf cliSHpprovc rolstcd to 3 Municipal Airport was $32.825. This of the Workshop of the shop, but come from their 1 Mrs David Includes about $10.700 for the re- Blind, is now scheduling appoint- daily. In addition, five home teach-! 50 vesterdav pair of 14 hangers which officials ments to show a film and lecture er.s who visit the blind in their Buriav 423 marketing, price loans tor viuajie 7 4 laid are about ready to fall down, on the activities of blind people, and give instruction in Avenue a dauahter greatly munir.t and left end $2,400 for a building to house See, who has already shown the Braille and occupational reduced. If are approved, to die. av DavIs takos a two-thirds majority pfc, William Rhodes, 31, son Frnkithiirff a approve, wheat loans to cooper- of Mrs.

Mary Jane Rhodes, 180 a tors will be at 90 per cent of Wineow Street, related his ex- Mrs Cordon I parity. If the vote is unfavorable, nerience in the the new airport truck. Plans were movie in Washington and Fred- ate employed. Mrs. See is a home 1 made to pare several thousand dol- trick counties, said the film will teacher in and Mrs.

lars from this budget. available on request by local and Allegany Counties. 12) Grant Street, Pension Costs icivic. fraternal, church. PTA, or The state is the parity.

If the vote is unfavoraoie. in the room The City Employes Pension fund, groups. Schedules may be agency for the U. I Mr. ano Mrs.

into the state retirement sys- by contacting Del. See in Government Talking Bmik btreei. a son lues- parity. Parity as of and left them to die without tern, will be $65,500 this year, as the Union Street County Building for the blind in the 1,1 June 15 was $2 42 a bushel. attention whatever.

and is also the designated licensing I L. Paugh, agency for the establi.shment and West Oldtown Road, a son compared to last $53.727,70. or by calling 929. Gibson said thy cost is set by Story the state and payments will not maintc nance of vending stands for lurMia.v, drop for about 20 years, when See pointed out that the lecture deral. tate, county and munici- Burkett, about $600,000 in accrued liability and film is not for soliciting funds pgj buildings.

The workshop now 22 Ueber Street, a daughter Tues- is paid. The lia.bility consists chief- but to acquaint the public with the 25 blind individuals operating bay. ly from men who were on pension foct that blind persons can take and stands in Sacred Heart Hospital lists when firemen were placed in care of them.selves, and that they Mr. and Mrs. John Derrick, Pin- Weather the state pension system.

can hold down a job if given the Workshop Activities The Weather He told of how he cheated the scared a Chinese woman doctor out of her wits when he emi'rged shakily from it long Temperature continued to climb, after she thought he should have yesterday in Cumberland, and the been dead. to, a daughter yesterday. Highlights of the film shows the Requests for appropriations for opportunity City Hall and City Hall Annex were The film is a series of piclurc.s: work.shop’s mop department where up about 2,000 from that spent showing the activities, teaching persons make different MWOnianS lO meCi last year. Included were requests and learned skills of blind people and hrrxim department SunshiflO Camp for improvements, termite exter- at the Maryland Workshop for the manufactures brooms from mination, lighting and minor re- Rlind in Baltimore. See explained the house type to the arehousi modeling.

that the workshop w'as establisiied and factory sizes One Item which questioned on April 8 1908 when the General if doors proposed for the Assembly passed a law setting up of glass of that type) but it was for the adult blind of Baltimore agreed something wojild have to and the 23 counties, be done. An air conditioner for It is for men and women, white City Hall was also but end colored. 18 years of age and no decision reached. over. The present enrollment of (Coououed oa 10 Col.

jj iblind client! in tiie building at 601 It also feature.s the blind working at chair caning and making front entrance to Cdy Hall. Ob- a non-profit making agency of the'rush chairs. These are only a few Jections were raised to the expense state which conducts a workshop of the skills that blind individuals in the state may learn without cost. Other skills which are taught are piano tunuig and radio repairing, secretarial work, telephone operators, typing, braille reading and writing and amusements, etc. Bureau predicts even I higher for today.

Weather IS expected to be partly I cloudy and rather w'arm with high between 85 and 90 degrees. The Bureau said there is a possibility of scattered thundt rshowers in this Instead of having their regular'fnb the state. Maximum read- weeklv dinner meeting at Central png yesterday was 89 according to YMCA this week at 12:15 Park weather station: the Cumberland Kiwanis members was 60, and at 8 p.m. mercury will meet at Sunshine Camp. at 78 degree.s.

Humidity at Invited to attend are members of nn. was .56 per cent, the Sanitarium Board, Miss Jeanette Bonig and her a.s^ociates of the Associated Chanties and Miss Jean Reinhard, secretary of the Allegany County Chapter of the Tuberculosis Association. Will To Live was nearly dead, but I knew why they took me to that hut we called the death room, Rhodes siud. put me in there to PFC WILLI.AM H. RHODES He said the Chinese doctor! would make a tour of the camp dav.

would pick out all the very sick and put them the dea til to he added. "There was no medical care in that Captured In 19.31 a Red prisoner since April, 1931, wa.s Saturday. Mrs. Rhodes, who i.s now hospitalized with an arthritic ailment at Sacred Heart saai she received letters from her son, the latest in September 1932. The local mother received new hope of her son's release w'hen Pfc, Robert C.

Stell. of Batlimore, who wr.xs freed by the Reds in May, sent word that he had talked with the local POW and related he wa! well. A few wetks fore the local die. But 1 told myself I was going i men of how he crawled around the prisoner was released local groups IMIWMOW.X llr MIO H.SII HI 1 2 pm. 3 9 m.

1 m. 9u 10 11 Midnight to live. wa.s there for nine days. On the eighth day 1 finally crawled to the door and put my head out in the sunshine. That was as far I could get.

Chinese guard kicked me back inside aaid closed the door I pushed the door open again and looked at the sun. I was not goirg to die, I kept telling myself. He kicked it closed again." The local soldier then told room to build up his strength. were w'orking to provide a new I pulled myself up on home for him and his mother, my knees, and then on my feet, by Through the aid of the Allegany holding to the he said. County Chapter of the Red Chinese womam doctor came in and the cooperation of the local and looked surprised to see me Authority were readying alive, because most people did not an apartment in the last one day in the death room.

Banneker Homes on Frederick told me to lie hark d( wn Street for Rhode.s and his mother, but 1 said no; I wanted to live. Just two days before Pfc, Rhodes Finally I crawled ouf.side, and they was released by the Ccmraunists, let me stay in the sunshine. I knew Mrs. Rhodes signed the final lease then 1 was all right." occupajicy of the new home..