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Pocahontas will be host to a number of visitors next week so roll out the carpet. On Thursday the Governor will dedicate the new bridge, and other dignitaries will also be present. That same weekend the West Virginia Press Association will hold its annual summer outing at Watoga State Park. This will bring newspaper people from all over the state to our county and we hope that the friendliness and hospitality of our people will be made known to our guests.

This is more of a vacation and less of a business meeting so the emphasis is on recreation. A tour of the Astronomy Center at Green Bank and the Sugar Grove Center in Pendleton County are on the program, also a visit to the new Scout Reservation at Dilley’s Mill. So they will be out looking over the county.

The awards dinner will be held at the Marlinton Methodist Church, because of the size of the crowd. Featured speaker will be Alfred Stern, the master-planner of the West Virginia Centennial Celebration.

Wool Payments

With the deadline now past to apply for payments in the national wool program for the 1959 marketing year, a total of 1,130 Pocahontas County growers have applied, according to E. Ernest White of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Office.

Applications received throughout the country will now be used in computing the rate of payment, after which payments will be made to growers through their ASC offices.

Under the wool program, payments are made at the percentage rate necessary to bring the national average farm price of wool up to 62 cents a pound, which is the announced incentive level. That percentage is applied to each grower’s marketings to calculate his payment. On unshorn lambs, payment is made at a rate based on the wool rate. For 1958, the payment rate was 70.3 percent for shorn wool and $1.02 per hundred weight on unshorn lambs.

The purpose of the percentage method of payment, Mr. White points out, is to encourage growers to do the best possible job for marketing their clip. Payments under the wool program are made as an incentive to growers to bring about an increase in national wool protection.

Weather

Cloudbursts and washouts were scattered over the county last Thursday and Friday. Several bridges were washed out in the upper end of the county, among other damage; Thursday evening in the Beard and Denmar area it poured rain from 6:30 - 9 p.m. and washed out fences and sections of roads. Great damage was reported to gardens in several areas.

Garage Destroyed

Sunday at noon the garage building belonging to A. G. Killingsworth on the west side of the bridge was completely destroyed by fire. The garage was rented by E. McClure and some men were working on removing the gas tank from a truck when it fell and the gasoline ignited. The roof on Morgan’s garage and another small building next to it were damaged.

ALPINE THEATRE

“4 D Man”

Robert Lansing ~ Lee Meriwether

“Chief Crazy Horse”

Victor Mature ~ Suzan Ball

“Edge of Eternity”

Cornel Wilde ~ Victoria Shaw

“Teenagers from Outer Space”

“Gigantis”

DEATHS

Robert Lawrence McLaughlin, age 81, of Huntersville

Alva Lloyd Reed, age 89, of Marlinton

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Poage, of Buckeye, a daughter named Dreama Lee

Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Vrable, of Marlinton, a daughter named Alison Mae