Thursday, December 13, 1973
Snow came Saturday night, wet and heavy. Many limbs broke, some on power lines. Several people witnessed spectacular flashes about 4:30 a.m. in Marlinton and lights were off from a half hour to six hours in different sections of town. The Hillsboro area was without power for several hours Sunday. It cleared Sunday, then more snow Monday, more to the south of us, then turned very cold. Mrs. Wilma Tennant reported 10 above at Frost Tuesday morning. Depth of snow ranged from 3 to 16 inches.
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Moody Wilson was eighty-three years young December 9, 1973. Although he is on a crutch and uses a cane, he is able to cut wood and bring in his own coal.
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W. B. Wells, of Renick, was in to pay his dues. He first signed up in 1918 and has missed only one week of getting the paper, when the mailman couldn’t get through on account of the snow – the paper arrived the next week.
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Ted Moore was at his camp in the Hills Sunday and saw an odd looking creature come over the hill. It was a good sized animal, rusty and brownish in color, long tail. It reminded him some of a cat and the big tracks, almost four inches across, looked like cat tracks, but the head looked like a dog. In the encyclopedia he found a picture of a wolf that came closest to it. It wouldn’t jump the wire fence but easily went over the rail fence, stopping on top. He couldn’t get closer than 400 yards to it but he trailed it a quarter of a mile as it went to the Knobs.
AMBULANCE SERVICE
An emergency is at hand in the Marlinton area.
Ivan VanReenen says his ambulance has always operated at a loss and now regulations are such that he cannot comply, so, after January 1, he will not run an ambulance service to hospitals.
The Marlinton Rescue Squad has a nice new ambulance but it was purchased under the Highway Safety program and it requires that the ambulance carry patients to the nearest hospital, which is in Marlinton, and be present in the County for highway emergencies. Altho they cannot have two trained men on duty 24 hours a day…
Many people have taken an ambulance when they could have gone cheaper in a car or taxi but in other cases an ambulance is an absolute necessity to the life of the patient…
BIRTHS
Born to Jimmy A. and Mary M. Galford, of Marlinton, a son.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. William Sherdian, of Cowan, a daughter, named Catherine Anne.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ray Newbraugh, of Shinnston, a son, named Frederick II.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion McKeever, of Roanoke, Virginia, a son, named Steven Duane.
DEATHS
Carl Griffin Shields, 68, of Stony Bottom. Funeral service from the Clover Lick United Methodist Church; burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Mrs. Beauty Frances Myers, 66, of Gassaway, formerly of Cass, died at her home after a long illness… She was a member of Sutton Baptist Church… Funeral service from Robertson Funeral Home in Sutton, with burial in the Daugherty Family Cemetery.
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Mrs. Margaret Shaffer, 85, of Ohio; born at Seebert a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Letcher Symns. Burial in Bethel Cemetery, Phoneton, Ohio.
