Thursday, April 10, 1975
WIND
Unusually high wind buffeted the county Thursday through Saturday. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory reports the highest velocity at 67 miles per hour. They lost telescope tracking time because of the wind.
March came in like a lion and went out like a lion, contrary to the old saying. After a beautiful spring day on Wednesday, the temperature fell, and snow came with a regular blizzard Thursday night with up to 10 inches accumulation in some places.
“OKLAHOMA”
The musical “Oklahoma” will be given at Pocahontas County High School Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26.
There are only a limited number of seats available (250 for adults and 50 for children each night) and the cost is $2 for adults, and $1 for children under 12.
The main parts are being played by: Laurie – Wendy Wooddell; Curley – Wilbert Smith; Alie Hakin – Arbie McLaughlin; Ado Annie – Peggy Rosencrance; Will Parker – Steve Hefner; Aunt Eller – Estelle Cook. The total cast will have about 30 students.
C & O
We were notified that there will be a notice within two weeks of the planned discontinuance of the 92-mile Greenbrier Branch from North Caldwell to Durbin.
A & P
Word has been received that the Marlinton A & P Store will be closed at some future date. Asa Bailey, manager of the local store, says no date has been set and they will be notified a month in advance.
SNOWSHOE
Snowshoe has been gathering its pluses and possibilities together and has applied for a big loan to take care of present indebtedness and assure the development of the big resort through the next few years.
Several hundred jobs of this year will grow to a thousand or more and this is something Pocahontas needs. Those jobs will hold our young people here and in turn feed the general economy. This is an industry that is based on our greatest resource – our mountains, climate, natural beauty – and will not destroy them. And an industry it is, but much better suited to us than big factories, which don’t come anyhow
Also commendable this year was Snowshoe’s courtesy days for our students, and we’re sure more opportunities will be offered and more of our people will come to enjoy skiing. As someone said, both the skiers and Cheat Mountain make it a different world
We wish them success.
DEATHS
Mrs. Eula M. McCalpin, 70, of Green Bank; funeral service from the Green Bank United Methodist Church with burial in the Arbovale Cemetery.
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Loyal Waugh, 62, of Marlinton, a night watchman for Hanover Shoe Company and a veteran of World War II. Funeral service from VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in Mountain View Cemetery.
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Clarence Noble Jones, 63, of Nitro. Mr. Jones was a former owner and operator of the Huntersville Amoco Station.
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Gale Thomas McClung, 28, of Columbus, Ohio, died Sunday, April 6, 1975, in an automobile accident. Born in Marlinton, he was a son of Mrs. Erma Kellison McClung, and the late Charles Davis McClung. Funeral service from VanReenen Funeral Home with burial in the Mountain View Cemetery.
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Harvey G. McComb, 82, of Alvon; a native of Huntersville and a retired carpenter at the Greenbrier Hotel. Funeral service from the Alvon United Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery.
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Mrs. Georgia Allen Eye, 63, of Brandywine; born at Bartow, a daughter of the late Solomon Harvey and Daulie Mullenax Johnston. Funeral service from the Brown Funeral Home with burial in Pine Hill Cemetery in Brandywine.
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Edgar Luke Guthrie, 53, of Covington, Virginia, died at his home from a small caliber revolver shot. His wife, Jessica, died a while later in a Roanoke hospital from a similar shot. The shootings are still under investigation.
Mr. Guthrie was born in Cass, the son of John R and Cosa Stonebraker Guthrie. Funeral service was held from the Arrit Funeral Home Chapel with interment in Alleghany Memorial Park.
