Fifty Years Ago

Thursday, August 27, 1970

Kenneth Ervine caught a whopping big large-mouth bass August 14 in a farm pond. It weighed four and three quarter pounds and measured 20 and a half inches. It had a blue gill in its gullet – two fish at one catch. Then last Thursday, he and his wife were returning from a fishing trip to Sherwood Lake and killed three copperheads at different places on the road, all good sized. Howard Shinaberry also killed a copperhead last Tuesday. Forest McLaughlin killed two copperheads and Kenneth Hill killed a black rattler recently, all on Browns Mountain.

FOOTBALL SQUAD

Pocahontas Warriors
First game at Sophia

Seniors: Dana Moyers, David Horne, Mike Chestnut, Charles Cover, Bill White, Paul Zirkle, Greg Irvine, Ronnie Friel, Charles Montgomery, Tom Morrison, Richard Wilmore, Tom Hill, Ray Taylor.

Juniors: Gilbert Dean, Mark Kane, Terry Richardson, Dennis Dever, David Cain, Zane Hickson, Bobby Dean, Russell Arbogast, Jerry Stewart, Willie Sparks, Danny Armstrong, Ronald Moore, Keith Dean, Dennis Hunter, Allen Friel, Gary Beverage, Marshall Clutter.

Sophomores: Wayne McKeever, Roger Sharp, Kenneth Shearer, Rick Moore, Robert Ervine, James Wilfong, Doug Ryder.

Freshmen: William Kill-inger, Tim Waybright, Alan McCarty, Gary Cassell, Kenneth Starcher, Lester Turner, Steve Phillips, Matthew Withers, David Rhea, Forest Rhea, Jimmy Tripplett, David Eddy, Joe Hamed, James Rose, Joe Kerr, Rick Moore, Thomas M. Moore, Charles Woodrow Ray, Frank Morrison, William McClain, Mike Smith, James Dilley, Mark Tracy, Hollis Ryder, David Moore.

Your Schools

Congratulations to Harold Crist, who has been nominated for a two-year International Teaching Fellowship to Australia. He is one of several West Virginia teachers with proficiencies in mathematics and science being considered for this honor…

Mr. Crist, we feel certain, will rank high in the final selection for the award. He has been a teacher for the past twenty-one years at Green Bank High School where he has various courses in higher sciences and mathematics. This year he is scheduled to teach science at Pocahontas County High School and act as one of the deans of the school.

BIRTH

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Paul Poage, of Marlinton, a son, named Steven Allen.

DEATHS

Jasper Crowley, 78, of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly of Arbovale. Burial at Arbovale.

Charles Middleton, Sr., 93; born in Virginia, but reared in West Virginia and, while a young man, he carried mail from Traveler’s Repose to various points. He lived in the Burner Settlement near Durbin, farmed and worked in the woods.