On the Level ...

by Leslie E. Montgomery

Work Unit Conservationist 

The tile ditching machine owned by the State Soil Conservation Committee arrived in Pocahontas County on November 19 with approximately 32,000 feet of tile scheduled to be installed. The machine has completed jobs for Raymond Shinaberry, Lee McLaughlin, Kermit Wyatt, Joe Fertig, Roy McLaughlin, Garfield Grimes and William Buckley. Two jobs remain to be completed for J. Lewis Barber and Denmar State Hospital.

The machine also dug 2,000 feet of ditch for the installation of the Boy Scout Camp at Dilley’s Mill. About 8,000 feet more will be necessary to complete the water system and sewage disposal.

The dam at the Scout Camp is completed and is now full of water. This dam makes a pond with a 15.8 acre surface area. The designing and engineering assistance was furnished by the Soil Conservation Service.

Dewey F. Sharp, District Supervisor of the Greenbrier Valley Conservation District, announced a temporary stop on the flood control retention dam being installed on the Zed Smith farm. He states that freezing, thawing and moisture content of the soil make it impossible to meet the compaction specifications during the winter months. He thinks construction will resume in early April.

National Honor Society

Eleven Marlinton High School Juniors were initiated into the National Honor Society in a candlelighting ceremony in December. Members are chosen on the basis of scholarship, leadership, service and character. Those honored were:

Emmett Bailey, Lyle Campbell, Ann Eskridge, Evilene Friel, Virginia Gallaher, Hugh Jackson, Tiney McComb, Calvin Morgan, Kay Sharp, Lois Tennant, James Yeager, Jane Kay Michael and Patty Tyree.

Basketball

Marlinton 75 - Lewisburg 58

Hillsboro 47 - Renick 32

White Sulphur 64 - Hillsboro 42

Marlinton 75 - Rupert 73

Hillsboro 56 - Frankford 47

Green Bank 53 - Webster Springs 53

Celebrate 13th Birthday

Carla and Sharla Gladwell, the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gladwell, of Buckeye, celebrated their 13th birthday Saturday night with a “Teen-Agers-Party” in the club room of the Buckeye schoolhouse.

Dancing and party games were enjoyed by the following guests: Janice Bailey, Judy Bennett, Martha Kay Dilley, Nancy Harper, Carolyn Ann Rimel, Harriett Fay Waugh, Karen Colburn, Paula Beverage, Ernestine Small, Sue Ellen Welder, Brenda Kellison, Mary Lee Shafer, Patricia Jordan, Susie Jett, Vicki Moore, Sally Rose, Susan Yeager, Dwight Diller, Gary McElwee, Marvin Perry, Tommy Michael, Jimmy Shisler, Jimmy Martin, Bob Hively, Jimmy Taylor, Clarence Davis, Jr., Chipper Williams, Carman Sharp Jr., John Keeler, George Broce, and the hostesses, Sharla and Carla Gladwell.

Chaperones were Mrs. Wayne Bailey, Mrs. James Shisler and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gladwell.

ALPINE THEATRE

“Reprisal”

Guy Madison ~ Felicia Farr

“The Party Crashers”

Connie Stevens ~ Robert Driscoll

“The Big Circus”

Victor Mature ~ Red Buttons

“The Diary of Ann Frank”

DEATHS

Mrs. W. C. Gentry, of Huntersville

Mrs. Rosa Adeline Addington, age 70, of Cass

William Patterson Evans, age 71, of Marlinton

Charles C. Beale, age 73, of Slaty Fork

George H. Overholt, age 89, formerly of Pocahontas County

BIRTHS

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Shinaberry, of Huntersville, a son named Timothy Wayne