Thursday,
July 12, 1962

Panther

We'll regard the lady's desire for anonymity but the story has to be told. About five o'clock in the evening one day last week this lady was driving in her car on the road above the Denmar Hospital through a small wooded section. A brownish-gray animal with a long tail was across the road in one bound. She said it looked like a great big wild cat but had a long tail, and it was about four feet in overall length. It was gone in a hurry and she did not tarry either.

Snakes
Pat McGurk, age 13, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killed a big black rattlesnake at his grandmother's place on Kee Flats. The snake was about four feet long and had 14 rattles and a button. Pat is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. William Akers.
John Sheets and his family were visiting relatives around Mountain Grove, Virginia, Sunday, July 1. They saw a rattlesnake in the road but every time they made a pass with the car that snake would dodge. Finally John got out and killed it; it had ten rattles and a button.

Lobelia News
Robert L. Cutlip received his degree as a doctor of Veterinary Medicine recently from Ohio State University. His is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cutlip at present. Mr. and Mrs. Cutlip, Miss Zora Cutlip, Mr. and Mrs. Moffett McNeel attended the Commencement exercises at Ohio State.

Lamb Sales
During a meeting of the Board of Directors held Monday of this week the decision was made to start the Producers lamb marketing season on Tuesday, July 17, as it was announced here by Association Secretary Walter E. Jett.
"Early lambs are ready for market and should be selected and sold as they reach a market weight of about 90 pounds," observed Mr. Jett. Lambs are one class of meat animals that can and are grown and fattened to the highest quality on mild and grass, and like a peach, should be picked and sold as they ripen, concluded the County Agent.

To Germany
Mrs. Judson Howard and young son and Mrs. Darel Underwood arrived in Frankfort, Germany, Tuesday morning to join their husbands who are stationed with the U. S. Army at different bases in Germany. They went by plane from Charleston Monday and will be overseas for two years. Mrs. Howard is the former Barbara Addleman and Mrs. Underwood before her marriage was Bonnie Defibaugh.

DEATHS
Levi Aldean Irvine, aged 77, of Marlinton, born May 3, 1885, son of the late William H. and Emily P. Irvine; member of the United Brethren Church and Odd Fellows Lodge.
Mrs. Paulina (Lina) Shrader, aged 86, of Clover Lick; member of the Mount Zion Methodist Church; preceded in death by her husband John F. Shrader.
George Washington Darnell, aged 72, of Marlinton; son of the late John and Elsie Auldridge Darnell.
Ortha Bryan Beale, aged 65, of Mingo; son of the late Samuel D. and Eva Jane Hamrick Beale.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lewis, of Renick, a daughter, Debra Lynn
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Perry Long, of Cass, a son, Jack Odell
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ross, of Marlinton, a son, Randall Alan
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Kellison, of Hillsboro, a son, Billy Joe
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Beecher Hammons, of Marlinton, a daughter, Rhonda Kay
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kelley, of Clover Lick a son, Farrel Gene

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Thursday,
June 28, 1962

Bear
Larry Arbogast and Danny Kellison shot a 200-pound bear in the Blue Lick country last week. Earl Kellison called Argile Arbogast and his dogs out to get a sheep killing bear. The bear was treed in about half an hour. He fell out of the tree after being shot by the boys and they followed him a little ways and finished him off. It was a small but pretty bear.

Fire Call
The Bartow-Frank-Durbin Fire Department had a call to the Howe's Leather Company right after their fire meeting Monday night. The damage ran to several hundred dollars. Plans are being made for fire drills each week for the Boy Scouts and the Junior Fire Department

New Sales Manager
Joe Furr, a well-known and respected farmer and stockman of Staunton, Virginia, has been employed as Sales Manager of the Pocahontas Producers Livestock Auction Market.
Mr. Furr, during a meeting with the Executive Committee of the Association, expressed a desire to work wholeheartedly for the successful operation of the market and assured this Committee that he would leave no stones unturned to establish a fair and equitable market for all classes of livestock.

Birthday Party
The evening of June 21, Miss Martha Irene Edgar, of Hillsboro, celebrated her 13th birthday at her home.
The following were her guests: Elizabeth McNeel, Karen Chappell, Lee McLaughlin, Sollie Workman, Pam Hall, Nora Lou McNeel, Bobby Smith, P. G. White, Jr., Pat Rose and Kathy Beard.
There were games, record playing, gift opening and refreshments.

Marlinton Little League Baseball
CARDS: Ivan Withers, James Pyles, Charles Donovan McElwee, Kenneth Nottingham, Clifford Simmons, Ted Dunbrack, Frank Long, Tom Lane, Cecil Clark, Richard Dean, Ted Sharp, John Sparks, James Brown, Billy Maddy, Ronnie Evans, Roger Sharp and Mike Gerrish.
CUBS: Henry Shinaberry, Scott Sheets, Robert Rose, William Workman, Robert Hilleary, Donald Skaggs, John Hayslett, Richard Wright, Gary Lee Carpenter, Richard Hall, Darrell Friel, David Burgess, James Ramsey, Howard Barb, Tommy Rose and Douglas Wagner.
GIANTS: David Wagner, Walter Weiford, Mike Anderson, Herb McClure, Jr., Mike Cain, John Kenney, John Long, Jerry Stewart, Larry Lacy, Ronnie Carpenter, Tommy Clutter, Dale Sheets, Larry Broce, Willie Sparks, Eddie Carr, Larry McCune, Dewey Hoover, James Baxter, William Corso and Johnny Cain.
YANKS: David Peacock, Doug Morrison, Brent Withers, Paul Broce, Tom Moore, Barry Buzzard, John Jett, Eddie Stemple, Zed Weatherholt, John Mallow, Dewayne Tacy, Orval Beverage, Terry Richardson, Tom Morrison, Ronnie Peacock, Mike Maddy, Gary Broce, Wesley McCune, Tommy Miller, Eugene Kramer, Calvin Jackson and James Buzzard.

WEDDINGS
Miss Delores Jean Hansford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Hansford, of Huntersville, became the bride of Ronnie Leon Ball, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Rex Ball, of Minnehaha Springs, in a double ring ceremony, June 3, 1962, at the Huntersville Methodist Church.
Miss Gloria Evelyn May, daughter of Mrs. Mabel R. May, of Macon, Georgia, became the bride of William Lyle Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Taylor, of Green Bank, Saturday, June 2, 1962 at four o'clock in the afternoon at Robins Air Force Base Chapel.
On Sunday, June 17, 1962, at 4 p.m., Mary Kemper Hull became the bride of Anthony A. Gum in a double ring ceremony at the Old Stone Church in Lewisburg.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Dorman, Jr., of Greensboro, North Carolina, a daughter, Deborah Sue
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Larry McManaman, of Mace, a son, Barry Vincent.

DEATHS
Mrs. Hazel Weiford Young, of Huntington; burial in the cemetery at Buckeye Presbyterian Church.
Ross Hamrick, of Medina, Ohio, son of Elihu Hamrick, of Slaty Fork.
Mrs. Della E. Ray, aged 67, of Ashland, Kentucky, formerly of Marlinton; a member of Marvin Chapel Methodist Church at Mill Point.
John William Eagle, aged 86, formerly of Renick; retired farmer and brother of Mrs. A. W. Hill.
Mrs. Mattie Eulalia Kerr, aged 88; widow of George Porter Kerr and lifelong resident of Arbovale.
Joseph Harding Bankhead, aged 56, of Washington, D. C.; engineer on the new Dulles International Airport; husband of Frances Edgar Hill, father of Delia Edgar Bankhead.

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June 27, 1912

Mrs. W. B. Gatewood, of Peru, Indiana, was brought to the Hinton Hospital yesterday from Marlinton where she was taken ill during a visit to her father, B. M. Yeager. Mrs. Gatewood was accompanied by Mrs. Howard, formerly a nurse of Marlinton. Mr. Gatewood was summoned from his home to be at his wife's bedside. A serious operation was performed yesterday by Dr. Miller and the hospital staff and latest reports are that the patient is resting comfortably with [a good] prospect of recovery. The Hinton Herald
Mrs. Sallie O. Collins, wife of Chas. P. Collins, died at her home at Sunset, Friday, June 21st, and was laid to rest Sunday on a hill overlooking her old home. A beautiful Christian character from girlhood, an irreparable loss has been sustained by her large family and circle of friends.

County Court
In the case of Mrs. Wilfong versus the county court, an effort was made to effect a compromise of a suit for damages in the amount of $1,000 for injuries received on the public road by being thrown from a horse... The plaintiff was present in person and by attorney McClintic. The court saw no reason to believe that injuries other than of a transient nature were received by Mrs. Wilfong. Seventy-five dollars was tendered by the court as compensation for disability sustained, which was rejected.

The 4th at Minnehaha
Preparations are going merrily forward for a big red letter day at Minnehaha Springs on July 4th. Several of the prominent stockholders in the game and forest preserve company, which controls 20,000 acres alongside the new summer resort town, will be present and conclude arrangements for bungalows to go in this year.
Brass band music, daylight fireworks together with gas balloons and gas airships will be leading features.

Local Mention
Someone took the harness off of Wallace Jackson's horse Saturday night. Next day the horse was found on Stony Creek only a mile or so from home. The horse was taken from the hitching place near the bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Brill are at home from their wedding trip.
The Rev. Hudson, of Monroe, and the Rev. S. B. Hannah, Jr., of Rockbridge, will dedicate the new Presbyterian Church at Linwood Sunday, June 30.
Dick Long is in jail on a charge of bootlegging in the lumber camps west of Lobelia.

GREENBANK
O. L. Orndorff was badly hurt last Friday by his horse taking fright at an auto and, throwing him from the buggy, dragged him some distance by the lines becoming wound around his hand. He was carried home from Arbovale Sunday on a stretcher, and it is feared that he will not get well.
Wilbur Clark, of Marlinton, passed through town Monday in his automobile, enroute to Durbin.

HUNTERSVILLE
Mr. Abbott, of Marlinton, was here Saturday and Sunday giving Isaac Barlow some lessons on "chaffeuring."
Our little town will soon be able to boast of two or three automobiles.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Herold, a fine, eleven pound boy. Mother and baby are getting along first rate, but Everett's actions indicate suppressed hilarity which is likely to break out at any moment.

SPRUCE FLATS
John W. Adkison has got a phone now. He reports it much company to him.
Edward Sheets made a flying trip to Buckeye last week after Mrs. Maud Hayes.
D.W. Loudermilk has got his artificial hand and it proves to be very beneficial to him.

ONOTO
Anderson Barlow is in Baltimore with his wife who is unable to come home.
Fifteen of the neighbors got together and hoed Anderson Barlow's corn, potatoes and garden.

DUNMORE
We are having fine rains. Vegetation is much revived. Wheat harvest is coming up fine.
We can say with a clear conscience that French Sutton has done some sensible work on the roads. French is working with pick and shovel putting in culverts low enough that when you drive over them you don't have a knot jerked in the back of your neck.
C. B. Swecker was badly burned by a bottle of carbolic acid coming open in his pocket.

ARBOVALE
While holding his horse for an automobile to pass, Oscar Orndorff was thrown to the ground and knocked insensible. He was not seriously hurt, but badly jarred and bruised.
The meeting continues with good crowds in attendance. The services are being held in a tent, and it is estimated that between five and six hundred people attended the Sunday morning service.
A wagon load of Dunmore people and another from Wesley Chapel attended the meeting Tuesday night. They did not seem to mind the rain.
The stork paid a visit to the home of Oda Wooddell and left a fine young blacksmith.

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Thursday,
June 21, 1962

Crafts Shop

For the first time since early settlers began shaving shingles and hickory brooms in the Pocahontas County hills, a major outlet for native handicrafts is opening its doors to serve tourists who visit this scenic area. This outlet is located in Arbovale on the Sutton property adjacent to the Community Center. The shop, which will specialize in Alleghany Handicrafts, will be known as the Deer Creek Crafts Shop, and will be under the management of Mrs. Ellen Martin. It will be staffed by civic-minded community ladies who, like Mrs. Martin, will be serving on a voluntary basis.

Huntersville Jail
About sixty people picnicked at the Pocahontas Camping Area on June 10 and a larger number attended the unveiling of a marker at the Huntersville Jail in memory of Editor Paul Haddock by the Pocahontas Beautiful Commission Sunday afternoon and toured the jail building.
The history of the jail was given by Mrs. Mabel Barlow, which began... "There are two old structures, one, the county jail, and the other a shed-like office building of brick and wood that remain to show that Huntersville served for 70 years as the county seat of Pocahontas County."

Birthday
Squire Pierson was over to see L. D. Sharp on his 90th birthday last week. Mr. Pierson came into this county in 1912 selling shoes. Mr. Sharp is the only one living of the many well-known men he sold shoes to on that first trip.

Attending Camp
Attending Presbyterian Pioneer Camp at Camp Shaw-Mi-Del-Eca last week from Marlinton were Harriet Goddin, Cindy Colburn, Joan Eye, Barbara Vanscoy, Nancy Diller, Sherry Beverage, Dannie Meeks, and Dale Hollandsworth; Mrs. Carl Gladwell, Miss Eleanor McLaughlin and Mrs. Murrill Colburn served as counselors.

Land Judging Winners
The Hillsboro High School FFA Chapter Land Judging Team placed first in the Greenbrier Valley Federation Contest at Union on June 4.
Members of the winning team were Tommy Cook, Joe Hollandsworth, Lloyd Arbogast and June Landis. Tommy Cook and Joe Hollandsworth respectively were the individual high scorers among the forty-eight participants from twelve high schools.

Home Demonstration Club
The Minnehaha Springs Home Demonstration Club met at the home of Mrs. Ernest White, Jr., on June 6. Mrs. Guy Sharp was in charge of the lesson which was Interior Design. In designing a room, beauty is that quality which should give pleasure to the senses and lifts the spirit.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Taylor, of Dunmore, a daughter, June Allison
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore, of Durbin, a son, Charles David
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gibson, a son, Harlon Ezra
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Cain, a daughter, Carolyn Louise
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold McCall, a daughter, Kathryn Darlene

DEATHS
Mrs. Nellie F. Sheets, aged 70, of Marlinton. Born at Hillsboro, the daughter of the late Thomas and Serene Smith; wife of the late Fred L. Sheets.
Mrs. Reta Moore Fenwick, aged 56, of Charleston. Born at Huntersville, the daughter of the late William P. and Maude J. Moore.
William James O'Brien, of St. Petersburg, Florida, husband of Lula Bryan Herold, formerly of Pocahontas County

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June 20, 1912
Several hundred people went to Minnehaha Saturday, the occasion being the opening of the swimming pool at Minnehaha Springs. The pool is seventy feet long by twenty-five and from five to seven feet deep, fed by the continuous flow of a ten inch stream of Crystal pure lithia spring water, temperate enough to be pleasant yet bracing. With but the fishing and the swimming pool to attract, this is now becoming a popular resort as a place for an outing, and with the completion of a hotel, the contemplated road improvement, it will be a very popular watering place.

GREENBANK
We are having fine June showers which was badly needed. Grass was burning and nothing growing; corn is very short for the time of year; wheat is fine if the freeze don't injure it; our fruit crop will be good if the fruit don't drop off from the freeze.
The Luton Bridge Co., of York, Pa., started to work Monday on the long needed bridge at the Slavin Ford of Deer Creek. We hope the court will give us a bridge in town over the same stream as it is a very dangerous ford both winter and summer.
William Gibson, Republican candidate for assessor, was around shaking hands with the voters and we suppose kissing the babies.
The oil boring has stopped for a time as they have lost their drill and cannot get it until they get more tools to work with.

ONOTO
We are having some fine rains which was badly needed. The fruit is falling off to a great extent - supposed to be caused by the recent cold weather.
Anderson Barlow has gone to Baltimore to see his wife who is in a hospital there. There is but little encouragement for her recovery.
Marvin Carter, E. F. McLaughlin and Wilmer Sharp passed here recently with their cattle, taking them to the Williams River meadows to pasture.
John A. Young's team became frightened a few days ago and ran off. The horses run about a mile and a half before they were caught. They were injured some. As they were running a horse belonging to Cutlip Geiger became frightened and jumped a wire fence and was badly injured.
Some Gypsies were through here last week, telling fortunes and trying to trade horses.

FROST
Tyler & Sharp sawed a large pile of wood for Butler Sharp last week. They saw about 20 cords a day.
The stork visited Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Pritchard last Thursday and left a little daughter.
Quite a lot of people passed thro' town Saturday enroute to the opening of the Minnehaha Spring.

TOP ALLEGHENY
We have been having some fine rains lately that will put new life into the growing crops and cause the farmers' faces to shorten to their natural length.

KNAPPS CREEK
Almost every family in this section attended the opening of the Minnehaha Bathing Pool and report a pleasant time and returned home realizing that it was good for them to have been there.
H. N. Moore has a very neat bungalow almost completed at the Minnehaha Spring.

DUNMORE
Windy McElwee, John Pritchard, Dr. W. B. Hite and Gatewood Campbell visited the swimming pool at Driscol Saturday night and report a fine time and say the Minnehaha Springs will soon become one of the famous places of the world.
Fourteen or fifteen of our boys went to Marlinton Saturday night to take a moose ride.

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Thursday,
June 14, 1962

Mrs. Edith Barrett, of Buckeye, reports a banded pigeon has been at her home for three days.ﾠ A metal band carried the numbers and letters MCCA61-62-82 and a rubber band had 617A580.
Mrs. Porter Wooddell and son, Stephen, left Wednesday for Germany, to spend three years with her husband, Master Sergeant Porter L.Wooddell.

Goes to Auburn
Jack Gay, after teaching at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, the past year, will now go to Auburn University, where he will be assistant superintendent of Auburn University Lower Coastal Plain Experimental Station at Camden, Alabama.ﾠ He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gay and received his Master's Degree at the University of Kentucky in August, 1961.

Students
Bonnie Beverage, Marlinton High School Valedictorian, has received an additional scholarship, this one by West Virginia University.ﾠ She is one of twenty-two high school graduates who achieved exceptionally high American College Testing score.

Winners of the Fire Department prizes
were as follows:
Lawn mower - Evelyn Withers; electric mixer - Glen Rucker; TV chair - Glen Hefner; $25 certificate - Dempsey McNeill.

Purple Rhododendron
Because of the tremendous interest shown by the public in past years for viewing purple rhododendron in bloom, the Marlinton District, Monongahela National Forest, wished to announce that the "Back County" road to Black Mountain Lookout will be open this weekend.
Purple rhododendron is found only in one area on the Marlinton District.ﾠ This area is located approximately four and one half miles south on the Black Mountain Back Country road from the Williams River road.

Museum
The Pocahontas County Historical Society announces that it is ending its present stock selling campaign this coming Monday.ﾠ It is requested that all friends and supporters of the Society who are planning to buy stock do so by Monday so the Society can determine if there is enough interest in its projected County Museum as indicated by the sale of stock to warrant an actual start on the Museum.

ENGAGEMENT
Miss Rebecca Sage, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sage, of Elk Route, Marlinton, to Leslie Vaughn, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughn, of Lodi, Ohio.

WEDDINGS
Miss Jane Callison Ruckman to Dr. Virgil Lee Curry, at the Marlinton Presbyterian Church, June 9, 1962.
Miss Evilene Hilda Friel to Roy Lee Beverage, at the Campbelltown Methodist Church, May 6, 1962.
Lenore McCloud to Joseph Henry Donovan, at the First Methodist Church in Santa Monica, California.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Ramsey, of Huntersville, a son, James Ernest
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Moore, of Marlinton, a daughter, Sandra Lynette
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Layman, of Marlinton, a daughter, Kimberly Lynn
Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Friel, United States Army and Slatyfork, a daughter, Theresa Carol
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James E. McComb, of Huntersville, a son, Morgan George
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Hanson, of Franklin, a daughter
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Taylor, of Dunmore, a daughter.

DEATHS
Word was received Sunday of the death of Andrew Burns in Miami, Florida.ﾠ He was hit by an automobile and killed as he was walking from a creek there. His wife is the former Pearl Barnes, of Marlinton, and her sister, Mrs. Glenna Hayes, left Sunday night for Miami.
Jesse Eye received word Tuesday of the death of his brother, Kirk, in Franklin, after a long illness.
Charles Byrd Cleek, aged 81, of Olympia, Washington; son of John and Hemmie Cleek; born at Mill Point in 1880, moved west in 1903.
Mrs. James R. (Florence Grimes) Wallin, of Youngstown, Arizona; daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. Cragen Grimes; born in 1892 at Mill Point and moved with her family to Washington State in 1905.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee McMann and sons were called to Kingwood by the death of L. Starkey Shafer last Friday.

Bartow Drive-In Theatre
"The Green Helmet"
Bill Travers
"Go Naked in the World"
Gina Lollobrigida -
Ernest Borgnine
"Gidget Goes Hawaiian"
James Darren -
Deborah Walley

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Thursday,
June 7, 1962

After hearing talk of big trees, Charlie Nottingham brought in a picture of one cut between Dunmore and Wesley Chapel about 17 years ago. The stump was over seven feet in diameter a foot above the ground, and over 21 feet around. This tree was cut by W. M. H. Arbogast and sons, Artines, Ted and Golden, who trucked it to McDowell, Virginia, and sold it to the Chickasaw Wood Products Company in Clarksburg.

Students
Those from Pocahontas County receiving degrees at West Virginia University this week were: Margaret Fleming Johnson Reynolds, Bachelor of Arts in Speech. Ernest Keith Shaw, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. Chester Avis Cromer, Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering, January 1962. Kenneth James May, Bachelor of Science in Forestry. Leroy Lawrence Friel, Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (with honors). Barbara Blackhurst Shaw, Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. Lousie Jarvis Currence and Ralph Kenneth McKeever, Bachelor of Science in Physical Education. Max Leroy Gum, Master of Arts in Education, August, 1961. Mary Carolyn Feagans Patton, Master of Arts in Education. Sterl Franklin Shinaberry, Master of Business Administration, August, 1961.
Miss Eleanor Ann Hannah received a Bachelor of Science degree in the Commencement exercises at Concord College, Athens, on May 31. Her teaching fields are Home Economics and Biology.
Dotty C. Rhodes, daughter of Mrs. Merl Cloonan, of Mill Point, graduates June 14 from the Social Poise School of The Southern University, Washington, D. C. She is also a graduate of the Finishing School and Fashion Modeling Course at the same University.

Visiting and Other News
Mrs. Ernest H. Friel has returned home after spending a month with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. William Sterl Gibson, at Charleston, South Carolina; also visited her husband, Private Ernest H. Friel, stationed at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
Hull Yeager, Jr. of Michigan, visited his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Arnout Yeager, and his grandmother, Mrs. W. H. Yeager, last week.
Roy Kellison and Wayne Geiger were on a fishing trip on the Rappahannock River in Virginia recently.
Jack Richardson is now on the faculty of West Virginia Institute of Technology after teaching many years at Greenbrier Military School. Before that he taught in Marlinton High School.
The Rev. Byron W. John delivered the Baccalaureate Sermon to the Senior Class of White Sulphur Springs High School on May 27. Emery Anderson is principal of the White Sulphur school and he reports an excellent and impressive talk.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Morrison, Jr., of Marlinton, a son, James Bryan
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Barlow, of Marlinton, a son, Randy Owen
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Simmons, of Hillsboro, a son, Robert Gray
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Pyles, of Bedford, Massachusetts, a daughter Brenda Mae
Born to Mrs. and Mrs. Burl Compton, of Princeton, a son, Stephen Burl

DEATHS
Martin Beverage, aged 52, died near Belington enroute to the Medical Center at Morgantown. He was the son of Andrew and Caroline Simmons Beverage, and husband of Lucille Mayse Beverage

Buckeye Drive-In Theatre
"Dark at the Top of the Stairs"
Robert Preston andﾠDorothy McGuire

Edgar Allan Poe's
"The Pit and the Pendulum"

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Thursday,
May 31, 1962


In Memoriam
Lord, bless those who read these words and may we not forget our Buddies who died on the field of battle. Let us not forget the pain Jesus endured on the Cross of Calvary that you and I might have everlasting life.ﾠ These we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
Ralph D. McElfresh, Chaplain
Veterans of Foreign Wars

Injured
Cecil Carpenter suffered burns on his arm and leg when some gasoline exploded while working for the State Road Commission last week.

Clean-Up Program
A meeting of the Pocahontas County Clean-Up Committee was held in the Town Hall, Monday night, May 21, 1962.
Present at this meeting: Mrs. Virginia Mason, Pocahontas County Chairman; Mrs. Mary Jo Sharp, State Officer; John William Moses, Marlinton Chairman; Mrs. Viola Abdella, Secretary; Mrs. R. R. Pittman, Treasurer; Mayor Guy R. Faulknier; Parade Marshal Leo Davis; Mrs. Jane Price Sharp, Publicity Chairman; and Forrest McChesney, Marlinton Sanitation Collector.
The purpose of this meeting was to review pictures of the 1961 and 1962 parades, and to discuss ways and means of continuing the good work being done in Pocahontas County toward the goal to make Pocahontas one of the outstanding Counties of the State of West Virginia for the Centennial year.

Craft Shop
During the summer months the Little Levels Home Demonstration Club will operate a souvenir shop in the former post office building in Hillsboro.
The store will feature West Virginia handicrafts, largely made right here in Pocahontas County. Anyone having crafts which they would like to put on sale will be welcome to display their articles there.
The store is expected to open this weekend, and will be open from one to five each day.ﾠ High School girls will run the store.
This is a real treat for our tourist friends to be offered gifts of home craftsmanship.

Linwood News
Mrs. and Mrs. Ronnie Moses and children, of Barberton, Ohio, were weekend guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Vandevender.
Mrs. Hattie McClung, Mrs. Wesley Doyle, and Mrs. Grady Doyle were business visitors in Elkins last Friday.
David Whyth, Gene Hellbusch, and Harvey Galford USN, Norfolk, Virginia, were visiting the latter's parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Wallace Galford, this past weekend.
Norman Smith had the misfortune of cutting his hand while working on a sawmill, but is getting along nicely.
Richard Kramer has purchased a farm in the Linwood community.
Karen and Jo Debra Galford will leave June first to spend their vacation with their grandmother in Smithsburg, Maryland, and will also visit their aunt, Mrs. Frances Wilfong, in Hartstown, Pennsylvania.

Marlinton High News
Diane Harper, who has enrolled for summer school at Berea College, in Berea, Kentucky, leaves June 8.
Fairley Workman has placed 85th ﾠin National Chemistry competition.
In the field of sports during the past week Marlinton's Copperheads, "Copped" 3 tournament games, winning over such teams as Richwood 4-2; Summersville 5-2; and Webster Springs 3-2.ﾠ This entitles them to advance to next week's tournament play.
This is the last week of school news, therefore I will say goodbye and wish you a very happy and prosperous summer vacation.

Graduate
Mrs. C. K. Dilley and daughters, Martha Kay and Betsy, are attending the Commencement activities at Admiral Farragut Naval Academy at St. Petersburg, Florida, where their son and brother, Charles Kermit (Chuck), is a member of the graduating class. He will enter West Virginia Wesleyan College this fall.

Recital
On Sunday afternoon, June 3rd, the younger pupils of Mrs. Mildred Seagraves will present their annual spring recital.
The older piano pupils of Mrs. Seagraves gave their spring recital on Wednesday, May 23, in the Marlinton High School auditorium. Those participating were: Barbara Curry, Sharon Shrader, Sharla Gladwell, Carla Gladwell, Sarah McCune, Debbie Sheets, Sondra Nelson, Becky McCune, Karen Peacock, Harriet Johnson, Cindy Faulknier, Linda Hockenberry, Sally Rose, Suzanne Jett, Nancy Harper and Evanna Wyatt.
In the grading system used, those with the highest [scores] received awards for the term, first places going to Cindy Faulknier and Evanna Wyatt.ﾠ Other winners were Karen Peacock, Nancy Harper, Harriet Johnson, Becky and Sarah McCune.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Goode, of Beard, twin sons, Jerry Donald and Gary Ronald
Born to Mr. and Mrs. James Rex Gatlin, of Marlinton, a daughter, Pamela Jean
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude Simmons, of Hillsboro, a daughter, Barbara Kay
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mace, of Marlinton, a son, Samuel Garland

DEATH
Timothy A. Currence, two-month-old son of Mrs. and Mrs. Marvin Currence, of Durbin. Death was attributed to pneumonia.

ALPINE THEATRE
"The Blob"
"Saga of Hemp Brown"
Rory Calhoun -
Beverly Garland

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Thursday,
May 24, 1962

Honor Studentsﾠat Hillsboro High

Miss Sharon White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. White, of Hillsboro, has been selected Valedictorian of her class with a grade average of 3.75.
Miss Mary Etta Pyles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Pyles, of Seebert, has been selected Salutatorian of her class with an average of 3.7.

Green Bank High School
Miss Carol Orndorff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Orndorff, is Valedictorian of the 1962 Green Bank High School graduating class. She earned a Merit Diploma and has almost a straight A average, scoring in the upper quartile of both SCAT and ACT tests.
Selected as Salutatorian of Green Bank High School is Willard Shears, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shears, who earned a Merit Diploma and is considered a good all ﾑround student and ranked in the upper quartile of SCAT and ACT testing programs.

Marlinton High School
Top students at Marlinton High School are Bonnie Beverage, Valedic- torian, with an average of 97.3, and Paul Layman, with an average of 95.3.
Miss Beverage, daughter of Mrs. L. E. Hale, of Milford, Ohio, lives with her aunt, Mrs. Edith Beverage, of Marlinton. She is the recipient of two scholarships, the Legislative Teachers Scholarship and the Claude Benedum Scholarship to Glenville College.
Paul Layman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Layman, Sr. of Marlinton, has been awarded the State Road Scholarship and a Claude Worthington Benedum Scholarship. He plans to attend West Virginia University and major in civil engineering.

Open House at Denmar
The Open House at Denmar on Sunday was a big success, with the biggest crowd ever touring the buildings and enjoying the refreshments at the reception at the nurses' home. It was a beautiful day, though hot, and many from this and surrounding counties came to visit this unusually nice hospital and beautiful grounds.

Our Men andﾠWomen in Service
Steve Smith has completed his additional Army service and has returned to his home here.
"Butch" Yeager is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Yeager. He is a Navy medical corpsman and will be sent with a Marine unit to Okinawa and Laos.

Mapping
Catherine McClure, of Mill Point, was among the members of the National Speleogical Society attending the Virginia Region project near Maxwelton on Saturday. This was an organized cave mapping project.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Kellison, of Beard, a daughter, Patricia Lynn
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Sharp, of Buckeye, a son, David Wayne
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Billy Broyles, of Marlinton, a son, Jeffrey Allen
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burns, of Marlinton, a son, Jeffrey Wayne

DEATHS
William M. Burks, age 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jack Burks, of Mill Point.
Mrs. Ruth Ervin Collins, age 67, a resident of Frank for 41 years; survived by her husband, Floyd Collins.
Word was received of the death of Knott Thomas, of Cornstalk, on Tuesday night. He was the brother of Mrs. Ella Kirby, Mrs. Ruth McNeill, Mrs. Alta Rose, of Marlinton, and Harry Thomas, of Hinton.

ALPINE THEATRE
"Brushfire!"
The brushfire incident that shocked Southeast Asia - and the world!
John Ireland - Jo Morrow
"Summer and Smoke"
Rita Moreno -
Earl Holliman
"The Earth is Mine"
Rock Hudson -
Dorothy McGuire

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Thursday,
May 24, 1962

Honor Studentsﾠat Hillsboro High

Miss Sharon White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. White, of Hillsboro, has been selected Valedictorian of her class with a grade average of 3.75.
Miss Mary Etta Pyles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Pyles, of Seebert, has been selected Salutatorian of her class with an average of 3.7.

Green Bank High School
Miss Carol Orndorff, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Orndorff, is Valedictorian of the 1962 Green Bank High School graduating class. She earned a Merit Diploma and has almost a straight A average, scoring in the upper quartile of both SCAT and ACT tests.
Selected as Salutatorian of Green Bank High School is Willard Shears, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shears, who earned a Merit Diploma and is considered a good all ﾑround student and ranked in the upper quartile of SCAT and ACT testing programs.

Marlinton High School
Top students at Marlinton High School are Bonnie Beverage, Valedic- torian, with an average of 97.3, and Paul Layman, with an average of 95.3.
Miss Beverage, daughter of Mrs. L. E. Hale, of Milford, Ohio, lives with her aunt, Mrs. Edith Beverage, of Marlinton. She is the recipient of two scholarships, the Legislative Teachers Scholarship and the Claude Benedum Scholarship to Glenville College.
Paul Layman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Layman, Sr. of Marlinton, has been awarded the State Road Scholarship and a Claude Worthington Benedum Scholarship. He plans to attend West Virginia University and major in civil engineering.

Open House at Denmar
The Open House at Denmar on Sunday was a big success, with the biggest crowd ever touring the buildings and enjoying the refreshments at the reception at the nurses' home. It was a beautiful day, though hot, and many from this and surrounding counties came to visit this unusually nice hospital and beautiful grounds.

Our Men andﾠWomen in Service
Steve Smith has completed his additional Army service and has returned to his home here.
"Butch" Yeager is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Yeager. He is a Navy medical corpsman and will be sent with a Marine unit to Okinawa and Laos.

Mapping
Catherine McClure, of Mill Point, was among the members of the National Speleogical Society attending the Virginia Region project near Maxwelton on Saturday. This was an organized cave mapping project.

BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Kellison, of Beard, a daughter, Patricia Lynn
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Sharp, of Buckeye, a son, David Wayne
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Billy Broyles, of Marlinton, a son, Jeffrey Allen
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burns, of Marlinton, a son, Jeffrey Wayne

DEATHS
William M. Burks, age 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Jack Burks, of Mill Point.
Mrs. Ruth Ervin Collins, age 67, a resident of Frank for 41 years; survived by her husband, Floyd Collins.
Word was received of the death of Knott Thomas, of Cornstalk, on Tuesday night. He was the brother of Mrs. Ella Kirby, Mrs. Ruth McNeill, Mrs. Alta Rose, of Marlinton, and Harry Thomas, of Hinton.

ALPINE THEATRE
"Brushfire!"
The brushfire incident that shocked Southeast Asia - and the world!
John Ireland - Jo Morrow
"Summer and Smoke"
Rita Moreno -
Earl Holliman
"The Earth is Mine"
Rock Hudson -
Dorothy McGuire

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