Thursday, June 7, 1973
ELECTION
The Citizens Ticket of Durbin elected the following people to office:
Mayor: William F. Del Giudice, 65 votes.
Recorder: A. S. Hill, 70.
Councilmen: Glen Gragg, 93; Fred Wimer, 95; Gary Beverage, 75; Hayward Colaw, 73; Frank Moore, 75.
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In Marlinton, Guy Fultz was reelected Mayor and the same council was also reelected. Fultz received 123 votes; Viola Abdella, 115; Kenneth Faulknier, 117; Bill Clendenen, 114; Bill Moses, 117; Reid Mitchell, 120; John Hayslett, 43; Harold Shifflett, 118.
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In Hillsboro, Johnny Kinnison was elected Mayor; Louise McNeel, Recorder; councilmen: Lloyd Payne, Mary Ann Beverage, Winters Rose, Archie Walker, William Simmons.
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In Cass, Russell Cassell was elected Mayor; Jeanette White, Recorder; Glen Grandon, Virginia Grandon, Sharon Cassell, Eugene Jones and Lyle McPherson, councilmen.
NEW STORE
A Dollar Store will go into the former A & P store building on Main Street in Marlinton.
SCHOLARSHIP
James F. (Rick) Wooddell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest H. Wooddell, of Green Bank, has been awarded a four year ROTC scholarship to West Virginia University.
This scholarship is award on a competitive and highly selective basis, as a result of meritorious achievement in academic studies and scholastic, civic and athletic extracurricular activities. Of an original 28, 500 applicants, representing 50 states, Possessions and the Armed Forces, James was one of 875 selected…
BIG FISH
T. L. “Nick” Nichols, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was fishing for bluegills in Watoga Lake May 29, using a very small popping bug, and pulled out a whopping 24 inch largemouth bass. They guessed its weight at 7 or 8 pounds. A U. S. Navy man, he was a cabin guest with his wife’s family from the Washington area.
Harry Sharp reported this fine catch – he knows the big fish are in the lake but it is hard to find the bait that will get them. The big tales were plentiful after this catch. One man said he caught a fish so big the picture weighed five pounds – another came up with a fish so big the lake went down three feet.
SNAKE
Lowell Underwood, Jr., of Clover Lick, and a friend, Bradley Hoover, of Buckhannon, killed a rattlesnake at the athletic field at Pocahontas County High School, while attending 4-H field day events.
ENGAGEMENT/WEDDING
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. “Doc” Griffith, of Bluefield, announce the engagement of their daughter, Robin Suzanne, to Charles Donovan McElwee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward McElwee, of Marlinton…
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Miss Nancy Jo Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Morgan, became the bride of Dr. James Kenneth Roche, son of Mr. and Mrs. James N. Roche, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, May 5, 1973, in a small wedding of simplicity in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland…
DEATHS
Miss Josephine Wiseman, 39, of Durbin; she taught the second grade in Durbin Elementary School for two years. Burial in Huntington.
William Orville Taylor, 37, of Dunmore; burial in the Wesley Chapel Cemetery.