Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times

Thursday, April 16, 1970 BE CAREFUL! A 35-acre fire burned for several hours Sunday at Wilmoth Cemetery, east of Bartow....

Thursday, April 9, 1970 From California comes the following article from Billy Lindsay, whom, I’m sure, many will remember. He...

Thursday, April 2, 1970 Achievement Eleven officers from the police department in Cass County, Michigan, were honored at an achievement...

Thursday, March 26, 1970 TV Program “Do the impossible,” must have been the command given to start many of the...

Thursday, March 18, 1970 DAMS Last Thursday, Jerry Baumgardner, an engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntington, presented...

Thursday, March 11, 1970 THINK CLEAN! If cans, bottles and trash are not thrown on the ground or in a...

Thursday, March 3, 1970 Tannery The situation doesn’t seem to improve at the Marlinton Tannery. International Shoe has been trying...

Thursday, February 25, 1970 Amazing Fact: The longest stretch of straight country highway in the state lies where? In Pocahontas...

Thursday, February 19, 1970 Thank You Last Thursday was a red letter day for the Town of Marlinton, a grant...

Thursday, February 12, 1970 Billy Lindsay, grandson of John “Bunk” Jordan, Sr., has informed us of his change of residence...

Thursday, February 5, 1970 The ice went out last Thursday in both the Greenbrier and Knapps Creek. In the creek,...

Thursday, January 29, 1970 Fireman of the Year Reed Wilfong was named Fireman of the Year at the annual banquet...

Thursday, January 22, 1970 Sixteen below zero Wednesday at the Howard Mullens home on Williams River. TAXES The State Tax...

Thursday, January 15, 1970 HIS LAST TRIP The fate of Lieutenant E. H. Bobitt, Jr., of Hot Springs, Virginia. O’er...

Thursday, January 8, 1970 Robert S. Gay, of Edray, was appointed Justice of the Peace for Edray District to fill...

For many years, The Pocahontas Times staff took a week’s vacation at the end of the year, so there was...

For many years, The Pocahontas Times staff took a week’s vacation at the end of the year. To fill in,...

Thursday, December 11, 1969 CHRISTMAS 1969 What Does It Mean to Us? Sherman Markley, Pastor Minnehaha Springs Methodist Church A...

Thursday, December 11, 1969 Boys and Girls in Service Rick Griffin is in Da Nang, Vietnam. Rick is the nephew...

Thursday, December 4, 1969 HURRY A Southern Airways DC-9 Jet is being chartered for a trip to Atlanta for the...