Dozens Leave Due to Flooding

Herald of Nov. 19, 1970

Flooding described as the worst since 1936 hit the Cove area last Thursday night, forcing dozens of families from their homes in the Claysburg-East Freedom area.

Approximately 130 paper mill employees went back to work Tuesday at the Roaring Spring plant of Combined Paper Mills, Inc., after union members voted to accept a contract and end a 97-day strike.

Paul Stonerook has been elected president of the Morrisons Cove Memorial Park Assoc., succeeding Jodeph Corle.

Two burglars hit a pair of business establishments in Curryville early last Saturday morning and almost got caught.

Boy Scout Troop 67 made plans to meet at Shawnee Park to construct a new barbecue pit.

Students at the Roaring Spring Intermediate School observed Veterans’ Day with an assembly program given by the fifth graders.

A coroner’s jury in Bedford County exonerated the Penn Central Railroad engineer on the train which struck and killed a 10-year-old Imler boy at a grade crossing near his home.