Flu Closes Schools

Herald of Dec. 20, 1945

Owing to the prevalence of the flu among students and teachers some of the schools in the Central section of the Cove closed Wednesday afternoon and will remain closed until Dec. 31. 75 students at Cove High were out yesterday due to illness, one instructor was off because of the flu and another went home ill.

It should be a happy Christmas for the Clarence L. Smith family who live on one of the Packard orchard farms near Ore Hill.

It is expected that all members of the family will be home, including 14-year-old Peggy who was so terribly burned in February and who ever since has been in the Nason hospital. She had been tending the furnace at home when an explosion of gas in the fire box sent a sheet of flame out over her.

The farmers and woodland owners surrounding Martinsburg for years past have been so much at the mercy of persons, coming from as far away as Altoona, who would cut down Christmas trees, that steps this year have been taken to break up the practice.

Rubber in spare tires deteriorates faster than in those in use.