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PAGE 6 COSTUMES AND FORMALS FOR RENT Phone For Appointment 75 W. Green 848-4630 WANTED A model for 10 a.m.-12 noon every Tuesday. Regular school_ pay See Mr. Palijczuk. art building. DON AND ELLEN ELMES (left, top) are pictured with their students in front of their old school house. In the middle back is the superintendent of the makeshift school, Bobby Daugherty. The school is now housed in a and the Church the school on weekdays which housed DAVIDS JEWELERS circus tent next to Daugherty's home. This building, on October 5. The Elmeses teach the youngsters without of the to the ground pay. Living God on Sundays, was burned (Photo-George Steele) wmc college rings gifts panasonic expert Elmeses involved In school boycott keepsake church was burned to the ground. Arson was almost diamonds by Mike Shultz certainly the cause Elmes said. That's when the com- HIGH KNOB, W. VA. -There is a circus tent on Coon munity bought the circus tent. ;9 East· Westminster,:. Branch Mountain these days, but there aren't any clowns He noted there had been trouble from the start and he Main Street . Maryland to be found. suspects the local school board of creating it But even without clowns the children of this tiny Ap- "The night before we opened this school, three of our palachian Community flock to the tent. They go because tires were slashed, costing us eighty dollars. Several days it is their school. later one of the parents involved had the windshield ,of his broken costing him truck smashed and all of his lights There Mountain-the school on Coon Branch is another bobby's public school. But as the children walk through the cool over a hundred. to close us down. They can't stand the way The local board has tried unsuccessfully. three times they in the morning roads hobby ". mountain school house and go to the tent. ignore the the white of it parents are showing them up," said Elmes. ignore frame They "1 don't know how long the school will last or how long board' boycotting their because are parents lobby • education. we can work without financial backing. One thing's for Teaching in the consolidated school are Don and Ellen sure, you always seem to work harder when you are not Elmes, Western Maryland '69. They are working without getting paid," he a_dded pay. Ellen Elmes said she felt the tent school was much 65 east main st. 848-4350 The parents of High Knob are boycotting the public superior to the board of education school on the mountain. schools because of unsanitary conditions, inadequate "We have 28 students and the public school has only 8," ARTS CRAFTS MODELS facilities, and the school boards do nothing attitude. she said. "We serve hot lunches and they don't and we MODEL CAR RACING The'first Coon Branch Consolidated School was housed have two teachers and they have only one." in the church of the Living God. Two weeks ago the She said she hopes to make the new school tent look less like a tent. "1 want to let the children paint the walls Just paint anything on them." One of the biggest losses when the first school was Ellen said, was the books and equipment burned, they had HOUSE OF LIQUORS been able to gather. She said they had received loans on books from many people and some equipment. A woman who had graduated from Western Maryland called them up and lent them an encyclopedia set. All of this was destroyed in the fire. would get worse the situation Don said he was afraid FOR WMC STUDENTS ONLY before it got better. He pointed out that the parents have been in contact with the state boards concerned, but there has been no action taken to alleviate their situatiion. The parents of Coon Branch are supporting the effort finan- cially Elmes said, but thought they could not continue too m~ch longer. Schaeffer Quarts Last year the Elrneses taught in the Panther (W. VA.) Elementary School, but they were not rehired this year. 39 cents each 3 for '1 00 Elmes thinks it is because he has applied for conscientious objectors status. A collection was taken for the school during the free concert sponsored by the Gold Bug-Strawberry last Also introducing Sunday. About ten dollars was raised from the crowd and by $25 from the Gold Bug. this was supplemented Ellen Elmes said that ordinarily they would request con- AQUARIUS WINE tributions in the form of books or equipment but since the fire they are afraid to take things on loan and need money for the tent and the lunch program. The Gold Bug will continue to raise money for the Coon Reg. 85 cents/fifth now 79 cents/fifth Branch school. If anyone is interested in making a donation, or working on the project contact the paper. shew student ID card at checkout According to information obtained by a leading comp- Carroll Plaza Next to A&P uter research center from detailed Ivestigation, showed that the year 1870 occurred nearly a century ago.