Thursday, January 2, 1975
THE YEAR THAT WAS IN POCAHONTAS 1974
Flood on Knapps Creek and Greenbrier December 26 closed out the news for 1973.
Jean Claude Killy, top professional skier, visited Snowshoe for the first time in January.
Federal grant to Watoga for improvements.
Sarita Lantz, Green Bank, Merit Scholar finalist.
Mrs. Allie Burgess celebrated 95th birthday. She died in October.
Times office was filmed for educational TV.
County property valuation $37,82,370.
Bank of Marlinton celebrated its 75th Anniversary March 21.
First shipment of paper to be recycled first week in April.
Pearl S. Buck Birthplace formally dedicated May 4.
Charles Hausser received Eagle Scout award.
Hanover Shoe operation to stitch shoe uppers opens in Shrader Building.
Courthouse renovation continues.
Dave Rittenhouse named Conservation Minister of the Year.
Susie Workman selected “Miss Pocahontas.”
Thomas C. Edgar Bridge at Seebert dedicated July 8.
Cass Scenic Railroad named to National Register of Historic Places.
Construction of Foodland store started by Worlledge Construction Company.
PCHS Band invited to Mardi Gras.
Flood warning installed on Greenbrier.
Ralph Hefner, of Cass, chosen “Rehabilitation Man of the Year.”
Two women, Julia Pitsenberger and Jae Spears, elected to House of Delegates.
Snowshoe officially open-ed December 20.
DEATHS
Mrs. David (Dolly Burgess) Grimes, 57, of Dunmore, a daughter of the late George and Delphia Haught Burgess. Funeral service was held from the Dunmore Presbyterian Church with burial in the Dunmore Cemetery.
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Mrs. Lucy Lowe, 84, died at the home of her son in Huntersville. Born at Clover Lick, a daughter of the late Ab and Mildred Buzzard Shinaberry. Funeral service was held on her birthday, Christmas Day, in the VanReenen Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Clover Lick near where she was born.
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Verline Adam Irvine, 55, of Stony Bottom, a son of the late Levi A. and Lula Bell Miller Irvine. Funeral service was held at the Poage Lane Church with burial in the Wilfong Cemetery.
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Mrs. Goldie Jackson McCoy, 70, of Williamsburg; born in Buckeye, a daughter of the late George H. and Delilah Kellison Jackson. Funeral service from the Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Dennis James Hill, 57, of Frankford; born at Lobelia a son of Mrs. Plummie Hill, of Maxwelton, and the late L. T. Hill. Funeral service was held from the Hills Chapel with burial in the church cemetery.
A BIT OF HUMOR
Income Tax has made liars out of more people than golf.
Babysitter to returning parents: “Don’t apologize – I wouldn’t be in any hurry to come home either.”
The one book that can tell you where to spend your vacation is your checkbook.
By the time you’ve said, “To make a long story short,” it’s already too late.
