• Fifty Years Ago in The Pocahontas Times

    • Fifty-Years-Ago

    June 22, 2016

    Thursday,
    June 9, 1966
     
    Thomas Moore, 10, son of Thomas M. Moore, caught the fishing bug and has become a confirmed fisherman, the most obvious symptom being he will give up almost any entertainment to go fishing. He has caught some nice fish, including a golden trout, and Sunday he caught his biggest so far, a 14 ½ inch trout, on salmon eggs, at the dam. It pulled him off of his slippery rock on which he was standing. We hear Tommy Lane caught a 16 ½ inch trout, also. Stocking the creek will help raise fishing enthusiasts.
     
    Firemen’s Parade
    Entries wanted for Firemen’s Parade.
    This year for the first time the Fire Department will have a Firemen’s Queen and two Princesses in their Parade on Friday evening.
    The queen is Miss Linda Reynolds, and the two Princesses are Miss Linda Hockenberry and Miss Kay Landis.
    We would like to ask all clubs, businesses and organizations to put in an entry for the Parade to help make it a bigger event. The Parade will form on Court Street starting at the corner of the Graded School Lot.
    The Buckeye Presbyterian Church will run the cook stand at the Firemen’s Carnival to help raise money for repair of the church.
     
    New Building
    The Monongahela Power Company is erecting a new building on Second Avenue near the Tannery. This building will serve as headquarters for maintenance men, with space for trucks, etc. The old brick building nearby, the former light plant, will be torn down.
     Boys and Girls
    in Service
    Marine Major Dallas Walker, son of E. E. Walker, of Hillsboro, has been transferred from Marine Corps Schools Quantico, Virginia, for duty with Ground Forces, Western Pacific, in the Republic of Viet Nam.
    Mrs. Walker and their two sons will reside in Southern California, while he is overseas.
    Private First Class James W. Shearer, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shearer, Sr., of Buckeye, was awarded the Expert Rifleman’s Badge. PFC Shearer is stationed in Germany with the 8th Maintenance Battalion.
     
    DEATHS
    Mrs. Beatrice E. Dunbrack Waugh, 45, of Marlinton, the daughter of B. O. and Della Dashong Dunbrack. Burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
    Jason Joe Davis; burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
    Mrs. Mary Louise Bur-ner, 83, of  Jacksonville, Florida; born at Arbovale.
    Mrs. Zeda Kershner Dower, of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Mrs. Emery E. Anderson and the late Wallace P. Kershner. Burial in the Coraopolis, Pennsylvania Cemetery.

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