MARYLAND STATE APPLE COMMISSION

Chairman: John P. Caspar, 1957

E. Dwight McCain, 1954; Lloyd Balderston, III, 1954; W.
Lee Allen, 1955; Raymond K. Gardenhour, 1955; Joseph G.
Harrison, 1956; Marshall T. Heaps, 1957.

Hancock Telephone: Hancock 18 and 272

The Maryland State Apple Commission was created within the
State Board of Agriculture by the General Assembly of 1947. The
Commission of seven members is appointed by the Governor from a
list of fruit growers approved by the Executive Committee of the
Maryland State Horticultural Society. The terms of the members are
for four years. The purpose of the Commission is to raise funds for
conducting publicity and advertising, sales promotion, education, and
research to increase the demand for, and consumption of, Maryland
apples. All apples of U. S. Number 1 Canner Grade or better, grown
in Maryland and sold in commercial trade are subject to a tax of one
cent a bushel. However, the first five hundred bushels sold by any pro-
ducer are tax-exempt. Commercial growers must report all apples sold
during the crop season by December 31 each year. Apples sold after
the season shall be reported by the close of the following May. The
funds received by the Commission for these purposes are deposited
with the State Treasurer in a Merchandising Fund, and none of this
money may be used for any other purpose (Code 1951, Art. 97, sees.
72..80).

Appropriations 1953 1954
Special Fund 8,523 $6,885

Staff: 1.

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION

Board of Correction

Chairman: Enos S. Stockbridge, 1955

James M. Hepbron, Chairman, Board of Parole and Proba-
tion; John T. King, M.D., 1955; John D. Dunn, 1955; Ger-
trude E. Horigan, 1958; Angelo Schiadaressi, 1958; Howard
E. Crook, 1959; Joseph H. Rash, 1959.
Harold E. Donnell, Superintendent of Prisons

Alice J. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer

James W. Curran, Industrial Superintendent, State Use Industries

1410 Standard Oil Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 9-3789

The Department of Correction was organized in 1939 superseding
the Board of Welfare and the Board of Prison Control in the super..
vision and administration of the penal institutions of the State. The
Department has further been re-organized by an Act of 1953 so that
in the future the administration of the Department of Correction will
be under the control of the Superintendent of Prisons, appointed by
the Board of Correction, with the approval of the Governor and
the consent of the Senate. The Board of Correction, as presently
organized, consists of the Chairman of the Board of Parole and
Probation, ex-officio, and the Chairman and six associate members,
at least one of whom shall be a woman, appointed by the Governor,
with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of four years.