Retiring

Two teachers with a total of 76 years of teaching service are retiring this year from Pocahontas County schools.

Miss Roberta Dice Smith, of Hillsboro, taught one year in Rockingham, Virginia, after attending school at Southern Seminary. Then she returned to Hillsboro where she has taught 36 years in Hillsboro Graded School. She received her AB Degree from Marshall College. Miss Smith was selected as Teacher of the Year for Pocahontas County two years ago.

Miss Ida Sue Choice has retired to her home in Roanoke, Virginia, after 39 years of teaching, three years in Greenbrier, one in Mercer and the remainder in Pocahontas County at Frank, Cass, Brownsburg and Marlinton, She graduated from Bluefield State College and earned her Master’s Degree from West Virginia University in 1958.

Brownsburg News

Mrs. Ida S. Choice, a former school teacher in Brownsburg, after retiring this year was honored with a surprise “Tea” in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kirk Davis.

Mrs. Ethel Stewart, one of her former pupils, presented her with a gift from the community. She will long be remembered in this little community for her many efforts and endeavors which have enriched our churches, homes and communities.

Outdoor Notes

A marauding bear was killed Saturday on Swago Creek by young Martin Sharp, 13, son of Oscar Sharp, one of the bear hunting twins. This sheep-killing bear has killed about $200 worth of sheep from Morris Friel in the last two week and they think it is the same bear that has been ranging among sheep flocks from above Mill Point to Woodrow and Stony Bottom for the last three or four years.

The party was made up of Ira and Sherman Friel, Ralph Perry and son, Bill, and Oscar Sharp, and son, Martin. Knowing the bear would probably take off into Cranberry, they came in on the back side of Swago Knob, chased him down the hill and treed him right where he has been killing sheep, close to Morris Friel’s home.

The bear weighed 175 pounds, but they say his big feet would fit a 500 pound bear. His frame was big but he was thin; they said he looked like a cow in the tree.

Truck Safety Award

Presentation of awards to 21 companies featured the fourth annual safety round up in Charleston. The contest is sponsored by the West Virginia Motor Truck Association and Trailmobile, Inc.

Ralph H. Burns, of Hillsboro, was the winner in the category of trucks traveling less than 250,000 miles annually and Burns Motor Freight, Marlinton, received a certificate for accidents ratio lower than average in its class.

New Ministers

The annual Methodist Conference met at Buckannon last week and at the close on Sunday the assignment of ministers changed to Pocahontas County are as follows: Durbin - J. E. Stout; Green Bank- Paul Pepoon; Levelton- Paul Reigel; Minnehaha Springs- Howard McNeill.

Among others are Quade Arbogast of Cheat Neck, L. E. Milem to Smoot, Richard Jarrett to Clarksburg, associate, Francis Gum to Leivasy, Virgil Shrader to Upper Tract, and Charles Potts to Peterstown.

ALPINE THEATRE

“The Big Night”

Randy Sparks ~ Venetia Stevenson

“Gunslinger”

John Ireland

“Happy Anniversary”

David Niven ~ Mitzi Gaynor

“That Kind of Woman”

Sophia Loren ~ Tab Hunter

DEATHS

James C. Harris, age 75, of Marlinton

Hunter W. Shinaberry, age 54, of Stony Bottom

James H. Varner, age 82, of Arbovale

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beverage, of Clover Lick, a son named Richard Keith

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Hehe, Jr., of Marlinton, a daughter named Donna Elizabeth

Born to Mr. and Mrs. David Kincaid, of Marlinton a son named Larry David