T. C. "Ted" Fearnow, of Berkley Springs and Philadelphia, veteran conservationist and career official of the United States Forest Service, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his entrance into conservation work.

He first started work as a 14-year-old student summer worker at the hatchery at White Sulphur Springs. He was highly commended for his fine character and manliness. He continued working summers in various parts of the country and after completing his schooling, he became a career employee at the United States Fisheries Station, Orangeburg, South Carolina, in 1926. In 1927 he came to West Virginia under Governor Howard Gore "to study the fishery resources of West Virginia and set up a system of state fish hatcheries." After this survey he was made first chief of the West Virginia Division of Fisheries, which he held for more than six years. He returned to Federal Service in 1934. "Loaned" to the Forest Service in 1935, he then accepted an appointment on the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia and since has worked on most of the National Forests in the east.

From 1942 to 1958 Fearnow was Regional Biologist and in 1958 he became promoted to assistant Regional Forester and made Chief of the Division of Information and Education, with headquarters at Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia.

Hedgeapple

A light green, knobby fruit was brought from Millboro and they said it was called mock-orange. That name did not sound familiar to me so I looked it up in the familiar name of hedgeapple, also osageorange. It is not native to West Virginia or Virginia but of the Midwest. It has been widely planted for hedges in the east and has escaped from cultivation. What was interesting was the fruit was used as a source of dye for olive-drab uniforms during World War I and that an extraction plant was located at Cass.

Bears

Pocahontas County got credit in a Conservation Commission release for a woman shooting a sheep-killing bear, but it was really Mrs. Lester Hartman in Pendleton County.

A conservation officer had been called to the Hartman farm and when he arrived the bear was cornered in a patch of woods. Mrs. Hartman had a 22 Hornet rifle and was waiting on top of a small knoll and the bear came within about 50 yards of her. One shot killed the 210 pound bear instantly. The animal has wool and bits of mutton in his mouth. Mrs. Hartman also has two foxes and one rabid wildcat to her credit.

Timber Sales

Nearly 19 million board feet of sawtimber will be offered for sale on Monongahela National Forest during the next four or five months, by Supervisor E. M. Oliver, of Elkins. The timber is in 15 different locations and varies in size from 200,000 board feet to 5,600. Twenty five percent of all money received from all sales of timber is returned to the nine counties containing national forest land.

Football

Green Bank 33 - Hillsboro 0

Ronceverte 7 - Marlinton 0

Selective Service

Four young men left Monday for induction into the Armed Forces, at Beckley, on October 18: Ben Austin Gragg, son of Mrs. Jean Gragg, of Durbin; Charles Warren Cutlip, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Cutlip, of Marlinton; Donald Lewis McKenney, son of Mrs. Nellie Underwood, of Huntersville; and Donald Clarence Hansford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dharl Hansford, of Huntersville.

ALPINE THEATRE

"Beast from Haunted Grave"

Wally Campo

"The Burning Hills"

Tab Hunter ~ Natalie Wood

"Circus of Horrors"

Anton Differing ~ Erika Remberg

"The Glenn Miller Story"

James Stewart ~ Jane Allyson

DEATHS

Allen Clark Young, age 67, of Marlinton

James Roy Slaven, age 80, of Marlinton

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Lee Rose, of Hillsboro, a daughter

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lee Williams, of Marlinton, a son named Kenneth Darrell