30 Years Ago
Week of November 30, 1995
2,241 Bucks Killed First Week In Pendleton County
Deer hunters killed 2,241 bucks last week in Pendleton County during the first week of the annual two-weeks bucks only hunting season.
Last week’s kill was 474 higher than was the kill during the first week of the previous year when 1,754 were taken.
This year’s kill continues a rebound from the 1993 harvest of only 1,485 which was the lowest in a number of years, but it still is considerably short of the high recorded in 1992 when 2,747 bucks were checked the first week of the season.
Pendleton Times Circulation Hits 5,501
Pendleton Times ads are reaching more than 22,000 people every week. Times ads are working harder than ever with an all-time high circulation of 5,501.
This is good news for business people. Call the Times today to arrange an advertising schedule that will be both effective and economical.
40 Years Ago
Week of December 5, 1985
Temporary Housing Sought for Flood Victims housing to be at 10 locations
Requirements for at least 125 temporary housing units have been identified in Pendleton County, Bob Tuckerman, director of the Pendleton County Emergency Services, announced today.
Tuckerman said state agencies assure us that they are moving as rapidly as possible to establish the temporary housing in group sites at approximately 10 locations in the county. The sites, according to Tuckerman, are to be prepared by the State Department of Highways for water and sewage disposal. Actual date of availability will depend upon the weather and ground conditions. As projected dates are known, they will be published.
DAHMER
This year is the first time in the memory of the writer that apples lay out under the trees and never froze until December 2nd.
The effects of the November 4 flood are still keenly felt by those living along the major water courses in Pendleton County. But life must go on.
60 Years Ago
Week of December 2, 1965
Brushy Run Post Office Discontinued
The Brushy Run Post Office located on Route 220 north of Upper Tract in Pendleton County was discontinued yesterday upon the resignation of Byron Shreve who has served as postmaster for the post office for a number of years.
DAHMER
It was the writer’s pleasure to visit all the elementary schools in Pendleton County and Blue Grass too and the total number was 1,326 pupils. This work was completed November 16, 1965 by giving every pupil a dime, nickel and tootsie roll.
EDITORIALS
100 New Jobs – – –
One hundred job opportunities exist in Franklin today which did not exist at this time last year, according to the lead story on page one. Not only are these job opportunities benefitting those who have secured employment, but the $5,000 weekly payroll which the workers are receiving also is breathing new life into the local economy.
Besides providing employment for 100 persons, the two firms which are contributing importantly to the area are the newly established Franklin Garment Company and the revitalized Max Ruddle Lumber and Flooring Company.
Pendleton Industries, Inc. has displayed an unusual amount of skill and a surprising degree of persistence in its efforts to bring employment to the people of this area.
70 Years Ago
Week of December 1, 1955
Nine Out of Ten Working People Now Covered By SS
Today about 9 out of 10 people who work for a living can look forward to retirement benefits under the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance program.
EDITORIALS The History of My Life – – –
In every far-flung reach of this country, millions of people look forward each week to the appearance of their local small-town papers. These papers are the running histories of the communities and regions they serve, and there is nothing that can take their place.
Now and then some old-time reader troubles to tell the editor just how he feels about the local paper. That pleasant experience happened the other day to the editor of the News, of Hemet, California. The correspondent was a woman who had lived in the Hemet area for more than half a century. She wrote: “I have many fond memories of your newspaper and the people who have been connected with it. Not long ago—it occurred to me that in the files of your paper is the history of my life.
“Your paper recorded my birth, my childhood parties, my graduation from high school and later from college, my marriage, the arrival of each of my four children and the death of one of them—and now, in more recent years your columns have been recording the arrival, one by one, of my grandchildren. Is it any wonder that your paper means so much in our home and that we look forward eagerly to receiving it each week?”
The country paper is an intensely personal thing, close to the lives and work and thoughts and aspirations of all who read it. And it’s a certainty that no medium of communication and opinion has so large a proportion of loyal, beginning-to-end readers.
Holidays Are Hazard Days – – –
Turkeys are not the only creatures that experience a drop in life expectancy during the holiday season.
The Christmas-New Year holiday season also is the most hazardous single period of the year for homo sapiens—that’s us.
The holiday season coincides with many winter traffic hazards.
Family get-togethers impel people to drive long distances regardless of weather. Shopping draws more people into the streets. And, of course, there is more drinking than at any other time of the year.
It is a season of gaiety, to be sure, but gaiety to be enjoyed only if you resolve to protect yourself from accident and to “Be Your Brother’s Keeper.”
80 Years Ago
Week of November 30, 1945
PEARL HARBOR: ‘Climb Mt. Niitaki’
Code message ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor, these fateful words were relayed to a Japanese task force of four carriers and escorts on December 5, 1941, when it was between 800 and 1,000 miles off Hawaii, testimony at the congressional inquiry into the greatest naval disaster in American history revealed.
Gleaned from captured Nipponese documents and questioning of prisoners, and presented to the investigating committee by Rear Admiral T. B. Inglis, the disclosure of enemy war plans showed that the surprise assault had been planned as early as January, 1941, by Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, who later told officers that though Japan did not want to fight the U. S., she would have to if America continued to aid China and block off oil shipments.
As it was the enemy’s low-level torpedo assault by 351 planes that sank 4 battleships, 1 medium cruiser and 1 auxiliary vessel; heavily damaged 3 battleships and 1 light cruiser and 1 auxiliary vessel, and lightly damaged 3 battleships, 1 light cruiser and 1 auxiliary. In addition, 188 U. S. aircraft were destroyed. Against this toll, the enemy lost 27 planes and five midget submarines.
Week of December 7, 1945
SCHOOL CHILDREN’S CLOTHES NEEDED
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If you have any children’s clothing that you do not need because your children have outgrown them, please bring them to the county superintendent’s office in Franklin at your convenience for distribution to needy school children.
There are quite a number of school pupils of all ages who are badly in need of shoes, shirts, underwear, coats, trousers, sweaters, etc., etc.
Whatever you can do to help these children will be very much appreciated by them.—I. L. Bennett, superintendent of Pendleton County schools. 11-30-2c
FRANKLIN HI LIGHTS
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A CHALLENGE
Teachers have a challenge to face—a most difficult challenge. It is the challenge to restore faith and purpose and significance to life—to lay the foundations of a global order in which life, love, truth, justice and goodwill shall be exalted. We teachers can only do this by believing that such an order is desirable and possible.
SIX-WEEK EXAMS
Examinations for the second period of six weeks were given November 28 and 29. These tests are not needed to determine matters of promotion. The teacher who knows his or her pupils and the quality of the work of each already knows what pupils are entitled to promotion. If the review and the study and the organization purposes were eliminated, examinations could not justify their existence.
105 Years Ago
Week of December 10, 1920
SCHOOL REPORT
•Report of the Oak Flat School for the first month beginning Oct. 18, ending Nov. 16, 1920.
•Number of pupils enrolled this month—12 boys, 8 girls; average daily attendance this month—boys 12; girls 7.
•Those neither absent nor tardy this month—
Roscoe Bolton, Curtis Hartman, Stanley Eye, Curtis Eye, Harry Eye, Roy Pope, George Pope, Alva Temple, Ronald Moyers, Edgar Walker, George Walker, Ella Bagby, Myrtle Eye, Elsie Hartman, Theda Moyers, and Thelma Pope.
Claude Mitchell, Teacher.
SHORT NOTES
Herman Evick has sold his house and lot on back street at the price of $1000.
We have just received a nice line of BOX PAPER, CHRISTMAS CARDS, MANICURE SETS, FLASH LIGHTS, and BOOKS. Johnson’s Pharmacy, Franklin.
About half of our last week’s issue was printed and mailed several days late on account of our being out of print paper. We had a large shipment at Petersburg but were unable to have it delivered on account of the bad roads. We are now supplied with a sufficient supply to carry us through the winter months and we hope there will be no more delays.
The Board of Education District met the last Saturday in November to receive bids for a new building at Circleville. Only one bid was received and it was rejected. The Board will meet again the last Saturday in December to receive bids again, specifications and plans can be seen at W. S. Dunkle’s store. Come on carpenters, don’t be afraid to bid.
TUBERCULOSIS IS CURABLE AND PREVENTABLE BUT
1. More than 2000 lives are destroyed by tuberculosis every year in West Virginia.
2. Tuberculosis kills producers one third of the men and women who die between the ages of 18 and 45 years.
3. The economic waste alone to the state of West Virginia by death from tuberculosis is more than $10,470,000 every year.
4. More than 30,000 men, women and children in West Virginia have tuberculosis in active form.
5. For every active case, 15 other persons are liable to infection.
6. Tuberculosis menaces every individual.
7. The average community has about nine times as much tuberculosis as it thinks it has.
8. This insidious and communicable disease is spread largely by ignorance, carelessness and neglect.
9. Tuberculosis strikes silently and often has been long at work before it is discovered.
The fight against tuberculosis is financed chiefly by the sale of Christmas Seals and Health Bonds.
BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
And Help Stamp Out
TUBERCULOSIS
CIRCLEVILLE
Butchering seems to be the order of the day.
Dr. Hummelshine landed at Riverton last week and is preparing to do any kind of dental work.
Jimmie Cook is building an auto shed for Roy Phares.
Hon. B. H. Hiner was in our town the other day.
