50 Years Ago

Herald of Sept. 13, 1973

Martinsburg Borough Council agreed to use the borough’s revenue sharing funds for 1973-74 on a pick-up truck for road work and for sanitary and storm sewer work. The allocation of funds was $6,000 for a truck, $7,000 for sanitary sewers and $2,677 for storm sewers.

The Spring Cove School Board gave a vote of confidence to superintendent John M. Humberd by giving him a $1,000 salary increase, making his salary for the current school year $22,500.

Fire was burning for more than a week in a pile of bark and trash along Route 164 on Tussey Mountain east of Martiisnburg, an...