50 Years Ago

Herald of Oct. 23, 1969

Youngsters will be “trick or treating” for the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Youngsters from Martinsburg and Curryville churches will visit homes in those two communities as well as Fredericksburg. The chairmen ask citizens to turn on porch lights to aid the youngsters.

Increasing use of the laboratory and X-ray facilities at Nason Hospital during the past three months led all other phases of hospital service in growth, according to statistics presented last week at a meeting of the board of trustees. Mrs. Thelma Bergsresser, administrator, told the board that the number of laboratory tests performed during the quarter ending Sept. 30 totaled 1,709 compared with 1,305 during the same period a year ago.

Joseph E. Corle of Cover Creek, Martinsburg RD 2, has been reelected president of the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park Association. Other officers elected at a reorganization meeting of the board of directors were Paul Stonerook, Paul G. Dilling, Samuel Beegle, Kenneth Weaver and Dennis Smith.