Thursday, July 11, 1974
The Mingo area had a washout last Saturday with damage on roads, homes and fields.
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Dog days came in Wednesday on one of the few dry days.
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Boyd Beverage, of Bartow, had five head of cattle killed Saturday. A registered bull, three cows and a calf were struck by lightning in Saturday’s storm. The five were under a tree.
June Weather
Minimum Temperature: 24 degrees on the 19th.
Maximum Temperature: 86 degrees on the 9th and 10th.
Rainfall: 5.02 inches.
WEDDING
Miss Penny Yannocone and John Randolph McNeel were united in marriage Saturday, June 29, 1974, at three o’clock in the afternoon on the lawn of the Mt. Madonna House of the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy, Watsonville, California. Miss Yannacone is the daughter of Mrs. Virginia Tunberg, of San Francisco, California, and Mr. Bert Yannacone. Mr. McNeel is the son of Mrs. Isaac (Florence Price) McNeel, of Charleston, and the late Mr. McNeel.
BIRTHS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Bond, of Cass, a daughter, Katrina Yvonne.
Born to Airman and Mrs. Kenneth Snyder, of Indian Springs Air Force Base, Nevada, a son, Kenneth Eugene, Jr.
DEATHS
Carl W. Dumire, 65, of Marlinton, a son of the late John and Frankie Sharp Dumire; a retired foreman of Burns Motor Freight, Inc. Funeral service from the Union Methodist Church with burial in the Gibson Cemetery.
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Charles Jack Sharp, 74, of Marlinton, a retired school teacher and former manager of the Marlinton Southern States Cooperative. Funeral from Central Union Metho-dist Church with burial in the family cemetery on Jerico Road.
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Moser B. Herold, 83, of Minnehaha Springs, a son of the late Lanty William and Laura Lockridge Herold. He worked many years in Washington, D. C. and was the first postmaster at Minnehaha Springs. Funeral service held at VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Walter Herbert Jolley, age 69, of Bartow; funeral service from the Durbin United Methodist Church with burial in the Arbovale Cemetery.
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Glenn Franklin Goodsell, 65, of Durbin, a son of the late John W. and Georgia B. Goodsell; a veteran of World War II. Funeral from the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home with burial in the Goodsell Cemetery at Bartow.
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Mrs. Clemie Tracy Long, 87; born at Green Bank, a daughter of the late Preston and Madora Bright Tracy; and wife of the late Vernal S. Long. Funeral service from Trinity United Methodist Church in Ronceverte with burial in Rosewood Cemetery at Lewisburg.
WVU DAILY ATHENAEUM – 1974
By Kay Holovak
Harley Carpenter, Richard Hefner and Dwight Diller were three of the original Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys until Kimmel joined them and the group decided to change its name. Under their old name, they won seven out of seven recent bluegrass festival contests, including the Bill Monroe Festival in Jackson, Kentucky, the past two West Virginia bluegrass festivals in Elkins and the Goins Brothers’ Festival in Beckley.
Harley and Richard grew up together near Marlinton under the influence of traditional mountain music. Harley is waiting for a copyright clearance on his first song, “That’s Enough – You’re Driving Me Crazy,” before singing it for an audience.
Richard is the composer of “Million Lonely Days” and “Blue and Lonely,” which appeared on their album, “The Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys.” The album also features Dwight on bass. It will be available soon from RPM, a local record shop.
With Harley singing lead and Richard singing tenor, they wail out solid bluegrass vocals. Harley’s hard-strumming guitar backs up Rich-ard’s fast, driving banjo that won him prize money and honors in the 1973 West Virginia state banjo competition in Elkins.
Although Dwight plays bass, he is also an accomplished fiddle and old-time banjo player – clawhammer style. There’s always a spot in the group’s performance that makes room for some of the lightening quick or loose and lonely banjo strumming style that he puts into old-time mountain music.
Dwight’s deep commitment to West Virginia and its tradition of old-time mountain music is reflected in his recordings with the Morris Brothers of Ivydale and his co-producing of two albums of ethnic old-time music as played by the older people of Pocahontas County.
The addition of Kimmel to the group, with his flourishes of “progressive bluegrass,” is the touch which combines both traditional and modern elements to their style. He has played and recorded with various musical groups since the early 60s.
At the present time (1974), the group lives several hundred miles apart, but because they’re all musicians in the best sense of the word, they can and do go up on stage without any rehearsal, even if they haven’t played together for several weeks. None of their stage performances are prepared in advance because they don’t believe in using the same material when conversing with their audience or telling jokes with their special brand of mountain humor.
The group is currently playing the Bitter End coffee house circuit at numerous colleges in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Massachusetts and other eastern states.
Much of their booking is done through the Hallmark Agency of Washington, D. C., which handles such names as Larry Sparks, Don Reno, and Country Gazette…