Thursday, September 8, 1951
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN SERVICE
Corporal Clive A. Alderman Jr. is spending a two-week furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Alderman, of Huntersville.
Pfc. Carl B. McNeill, of Buckeye, has been assigned to the School Squadron of the U. S. Air Force at the Chillicothe Business College in Missouri. The squadron consists of 300 airmen students and is quartered at the college. Pfc. McNeill is a son of Mrs. Eleanor McNeill, of Buckeye.
FIELD NOTES
Some weeks since, Okey Hinkle brought in some blueberry bushes full of ripe fruit. The peculiar thing was the color – pink. There were several clumps of the pink berries among blueberries and huckleberries on the Wooddell Flat near Marvin Chapel.
The berries were sent to the Experiment Station at the university. Dr. Childs writes in reply:
“The pink variation among the blueberries, while not common, is not unknown. There are two named varieties of this type – Red Skin and Cataba – which resulted from some of Dr. Coville’s high bush low bush crosses. They are considered only a novelty and never attracted much interest. We saw some bushes of them while on a blueberry tour in New Jersey in 1941. We believe they are called “albinos” even though not white.
Forrest Sims brings in a sweet pumpkin held over from last year’s crop. It proved as sweet and fresh and fine as in season. It looked like it might last out another winter and summer. Mr. Sims did not recall the name but is saving the seed. It was of the yellow variety, with a tough, but not hard, shell.
ALCOHOL ANONYMOUS
Mr. Calvin Price, Editor
Dear Sir; I am writing you a few lines in hope that you will print it in the Times for me. Perhaps it will do some one some good, especially some of my nephews. It is about alcoholism.
Perhaps a lot of the folks down there know that I drank in my younger days; never giving it a thought that I was an alcoholic, until it got such a hold on me that I could not take a drink and quit. I tried every method that I could think of, and the same thing happened every time. I just wound up drunk and sick. Finally, I decided to do something about it. I had heard about Alcohol Anonymous, so I had my wife call them up and they came to see me, and I can say I am sure glad they did.
It is so simple. They have what they call the 12 Steps. The first one is the hardest one for all of the alcoholics. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol; that our lives had become unmanageable.
That is very hard for any of us to do. But after that, the other 11 steps are very easy.
Nothing on earth would please me more than to get an A. A. Group started in my hometown. It does not cost anything and if anyone would want to do something about their drinking, I would be more than glad to come there some weekend and bring a couple of good A. A.s along with me and help get a group started at Marlinton.
D. C. McLaughlin,
Homeworth, Ohio
DEATHS
Mrs. Hallie Bernice Wilt Lester, aged 26 years, wife of William Lester, died September 2, 1951, from injuries received in an automobile wreck near Marlinton. The funeral service was held from Smith Funeral Parlors with burial in the family plot in Mt. View Cemetery. The deceased was a daughter of Howard K. and Pearl Fowler Wilt. She is survived by her husband and four small children.
