Thursday, December 19, 1974
We are getting more snow on Back Mountain this week. We just had 18 inches of snow last week. The school bus didn’t get off the mountain until Thursday.
REBELLION IN THE HOME
The tendency to rebel against authority is certainly evident in many homes today. Rebellious young people defy their parents and do as they please. Home rule or order seems to mean little to them. Many children even ignore their parents’ rules about drinking, drugs and smoking. But at this point, it should be observed that the fault for this situation is not altogether traceable to the young people themselves. First, the father and mother should remove the bottle from the shelf or refrigerator, discard the tobacco and start setting the right examples before the children at home. Contrary to popular opinion, most young people feel that their parents should keep them from getting too far out of line by setting reasonable and right standards and then enforcing them. Many parents, however, seem to be afraid of their children when those orders are not carried out. This kind of hesitation encourages children to think that they can get by with disobedience, so they rebel. Why? Due to a lack of firm parental discipline, an attitude of resistance toward authority is developed…
This is from a boy, 19 years old:
“In a recent letter you told a parent that his sassy teen-ager really wanted to be hauled up short and disciplined. You never wrote truer words. I am a boy almost 19, and I understand things a lot better than I used to. I know from experience that there were times when I talked terrible to my folks and did things that I shouldn’t have done because I wanted them to move in on me. Instead, they let me do anything. When I got in trouble, they made excuses for me and got me off. A high school teacher saved me from becoming a delinquent and a bum. She told me I had too good a brain and too much ability to waste it on nonsense and that I had better discipline myself because it was apparent that nobody at home was going to do it.”
DEATHS
Mason M. May, 77, of Marlinton, a son of the late Samuel and Alice May. Funeral service from the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Roy Brown Landis, 76, of Mill Point, a son of the late Emory Harlan and Alice Nevada Landis. Funeral service from the Marvin Chapel United Methodist Church with burial in the Ruckman Cemetery.
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Jesse A. Moore, 73, of Buckeye, a son of the late Nelson and Elsie Moore. Funeral from the Marlinton United Methodist Church with burial in the Mountain View Cemetery.
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Mrs. Lottie M. Martin, of Marlinton, a native of Judson. Funeral from the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Dawson.
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Dr. Ligon Price, 80, of Aspen, Colorado; born at Clover Lick, a son of the late John C. and Mary Ann Williams Price. Service was held in the Episcopal church in Aspen with interment with Masonic honors in Denver.
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Mrs. Jeanne Whitt May, of Willowick, Ohio; born at Minnehaha Springs, a daughter of the late Chester and Florna Whitt. Funeral service from the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Ray Franklin Scott, 74, of Buckeye. Funeral service from the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg with burial in the Old Brick Church Cemetery in Hillsboro.
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Hazel Burton Fowler, 65, of Hillsboro, a veteran of World War II and a native of Hillsboro. Funeral from the Hillsboro United Methodist Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
A BIT OF HUMOR
He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
The guy whose troubles are all behind him is probably a school bus driver.
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren’t crazy about the first time around.
A road map tells a motorist everything he wants to know except how to fold it up again.
