50 Years Ago

Herald of Nov. 6, 1969

Martinsburg and Roaring Spring have been promised better cable television service within a month.

At the borough council meetings of both communities Monday night, a representative of United Transmission Inc., explained the problems in cable service and promised that customers would see improvement.

Both towns had registered formal complaints about poor service.

The spokesman for the cable company was Ronald Amick, regional manager, who was in charge of the installation of the local system three years ago. He said an additional maintenance man was being hired this week a...