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Bedford County Inquirer (Newspaper) - August 22, 1975, Bedford, Pennsylvania Spam re combined with the Everett Republican established 1812 163rd year Bedford Republican August 197s single copy ten cents Bedford highs Best team Ever front Row Glenn Jack Sonny mar Alton Jack Clair seated Jack Veryl Dan coach Bruce Dave Bud Eugene Charles standing emcee Bill Don Ron Tom Joe Ken shinier Joe Bob coach Bruce Fisher brought winning tradition to Bedford highs bosons by Ned Frear Only a Little kid who played at the edges of their practice Field can put this team in its proper the Are impressive but figures Are silent where vivid memories should March and be magnified by the wide eyed admiration of a boy underfoot at the football they seemed men like Dan Bob her and Veryl there was nothing they it and coach Bruce Fisher was a Man of ultimate through the Dusty Days of late they Niney Earold boys i whose fathers had yet to come Home from the War just Over were there every running i every sometimes in the and being gruffly autumn and school fourth Grade that year was in the High and there was some reason the had to punish i dont remember what id but i was not allowed to go to the first football game unless my i Mother came with poor she Tiad a baby la younger boy who haunt i discovered and a full time Job running the she had no i business taking me to the football i pleaded for i probably made her after it had we and stood trying to see Over the Heads of people lining the Dave the Quad remembers the Shade coach Fisher had several trick using their Standard Bedford had built such a Lead he took the first team out in the Middle of the second coach Fisher said we had to use Only the trick plays when he put us Back in the third Rose with a wide he remembered How it four four he sent us straight off the Field to the locker the score was Bedford Boswell now everyone was sex not just the boys who had been at the practice one by the team of 1945 mowed them Down a Tough then another two More easy against roaring Spring and and then the turning to be followed by where coach Fisher had been before coming to Bedford struck twice Early in the game and upset the Mercersburg Academy and in the mud of Point they survived their closest gave up the Only touchdown of the Shade township and the nine game schedule was but the Cumberland teams had often been in in a postseason both fort Hill and Allegheny would play but not with Dan the huge negro Bedford turned them Down Lasalle High school said it would and the game went to on the team had scored 329 Points and allowed but it had outdone the 1929 team by 100 Bedford would lose six starting but had a Host of big experienced men coming including All states Jack Faust and Bud and fullback Veryl and Dan the magic want there a second time and the 1946 team lost two to Ferndale and some of the same players would be Back in when they lost to and tied in three they won lost and tied in four beginning with they had a record of 30 5 losses and two they gathered on a saturday night this As they have every five to visit and to they came from and from Many places in nine of the starting eleven along with the like looks As fit As he did those 30 Swift years and they stood reminiscing after the picture was taken at the Bedford not smoking or drinking but enjoying each other men who will never forget what they did together one glorious you were the most usual group i Ever worked said coach who coached for 31 years at Bedford and Penn you were outweighed in a lot of but i never saw you you really played the game As though you liked the coach remembered that the boys were in he recalled that one of Tom had to help with the farming some a was the starting right coach knew Tom was in and the rest of the team so they let him help his and practice when he they said Tom is desperately in Florida where he has lived Many coach Fisher told them Goodhu Morely that you cant satisfy he remembers going into a Barbershop after the 1945 and hearing someone who didst recognize him say that it was a shame the boys had their season spoiled by that the Only one scored against this from a Community which had suffered a football drought for eight seasons before coach Fishers there had been one winning and their record from 1936 through 1943 was a woeful Dave Rose remembers ruefully that he played on the 1945 which won them and the 1943 which lost them Veryl and i had never seen a Ball before the first practice on he that he coach Fisher said he had to stay away from High school games for years after he because he stand the unreasonable criticism of the Many push their own children too and become Rabid he it makes the game particularly to a coach who knows the limitations of the coach Fisher advised his thirty years that the Best Way to get a boy to do your bidding is to Praise then lower the he the boy will turn All of you were my Fisher said i enjoy seeing All of head fitted he haunt known two of the nearly 30 who returned for the 30th but was proud of the remembered the remember you he Dave Rose offered a tribute to the three deceased Mem Bers of the they were Jim and Mike both underclassmen in and Jere on Page 3 fact he i As you on the Village Square Hill was the football team of which won All 10 of in and hat Many sup Porcuri for the title of bed tort Belt football front Row Jack Fern do hurry rom Dan Joe Bob Eugene Ken Bui second Row asst coach Francis manager John Sonny Mike Tom Johnny Chuck Bud Veryl Dave Jere coach Bruce third Row Bob Ron Robert Glen Glen Jack Leonard Bob Johnny dutch Gene Hubert Tom Dick Alan her fourth Row Jack Carl Jim Kenny Jim Joe Gary Clyde Harold Shimer fifth Row Don Harry Alonzo Roy Maynard Jay the court House has a new White and Blue Flag flickers and their guests held their annual picnic at the Pete Ott farm in friends Cove on tuesday the Bedford rotary club held its annual family picnic at fort Bedford Park on with a tour of the fort and an evening walking tour of Bedford and James Littlefield and their Michael and and of friends Cove returned recently from a weeks vacation in where they visited Disney Busch gardens and Silver the newly revived Community chorus met thursday at Trinity lutheran Church in Diane Elizabeth Smith of Bedford was among graduates at the University of Pittsburgh in miss Amy daughter and William of Bedford re 1 will attend Elizabethtown College this fall As a Raymond former District supervisor for pen elect Titusville has been named director of services for headquartered in Russell of Bedford hosted a reunion of his children and their families at his Juliana Street Home Over the August 9th among those attending were Alan Russell of new Ken Anna Belle and Eugene Thomas of Orchard and family Jim and Betty Russell of Thomas and their Frank of Reading and John Russell of Juliana their John of state College and their Lynn Nielson of Harrisburg and Ann Graham of state Mary and Ted Blackburn of Richard and their Melissa Kern of and Cecelia Saxman of Texas and and Ladelle Black Burn and Bill and Jason of Terry a 1975 graduate of Bedford High and son of and Telford Pyle of Watson has enrolled in the College of engineering at the Mont Alto Campus of Penn and Charles Turner and Lisa and of Manns Choice concluded a recent vacation in Hershey with a tour of Coral caverns in their miss eve Ann daughter of Edith Reisner of has returned to following a two week visit Here with family and Geri Wilson of Bedford was one of four state delegates to attend the fifth National biennial convention of the Junior Catholic daughters of America held in she is the daughter of and Carl Wilson and a senior at Bedford court chairman Mary Collins and Counselor Mary Stefanko accompanied the delegates to downtown travellers Are learning to arrange their schedules around the daily morning March of the drum and Fife corps from the court House to the Legrand Perce of Bedford was named chairman of the state restructuring committee of the Bedford Fulton Somerset turd at its annual meeting held recently at the Beaver Creek Ruth and Lee Slick visited and Homer Schuler of Bedford events of the week whats believed to be several thousand dollars Worth of drugs were taken Over the weekend from the Pleasantville pharmacy along route 56 just East of Alum state police said the exact thought to be a Large could not be determined until an inventory was the breaking occurred Between saturday and 1 entry was made by knocking a Hole in the rear Cement Block a 20yearold Bedford Man was sentenced to terms up to seven years after he entered pleas of guilty to four state police had charged Robert Dewey Wolfe with two counts of receiving stolen goods and two of Wolfe was sentenced in Blair county court last month for an armed robbery at a Gas station he received 2 to 7 years in Huntingdon correctional institution for that the Bedford charges Are to be served concurrently with each other and with the Blair Wolfe said before judge Van Horn monday that the Caliper revolver he used in the Rob Bery was the one on which Bedford county police had charged him with receiving stolen the stolen last december from Ralph Everett was the second receiving charge involved a cd radio stolen in Bedford Borough police said that on Wolfe stole another cd from a Bedford re 4 and on was responsible for the burglary at Fishers Bedford re in which about Worth of tools were police said most of the tools were recovered in either Bedford or judge Van Horn passed Down 2vito7 year sentences on each of the plus ordered the defendant to pay the costs of prosecution and make he also sentenced Wolfe to lto3 years in Huntingdon on the receiving charge involving the and lto2 years on the cd receiving costs and restitution were also ordered paid in those Charles Hazelette of Wolfsburg has been awarded the car Negie foundations medal for heroism in connection with his Rescue of a 9yearold neighbor boy from the Ray town in Hazelette pulled Matthew Simpson from the water after the boy fell through the Matthew was trying to save his 7yearold who drowned in the the county commissioners awarded Hazelette a plaque for his and submitted the mans name to the Carnegie a Cash award of goes with the the commissioners Learned of Hazelette Honor this and decided to wait until the Pittsburg based foundation had the medal cast before making the an out of county television station found out about the award and announced it the commissioners then released the a formal presentation is planned As soon As the medal when contacted said he haunt known anything about the until i was rather Hazelette i was coming Home from work when i heard it on the August 1975 a Bedford re 2 injured in an Accident in Snake Spring township last died at monday night in John towns memorial Steven suffered head injuries in the one car crash on route state police said Thompsons car skidded Over 300 feet through the intersection with township route hit an embankment and overturned onto its Northern Bedford county teachers have reached a tentative agreement with the following a negotiation session an salary dental care and income Protection Are included in the the agreement will have to be ratified by members of the education association and the school William Nicea said the terms will be presented to the teachers 2 for a vote to accept or reject the if a vote will also be taken to decide whether the teachers will work without a contract or Reed the new school term is to get underway the same week As the teacher in with just three weeks of summer vacation the teachers will meet 25 with school District negotiators and Pennsylvania labor relations Board mediator it will be the first meeting since june school is scheduled to begin 3 at teachers and school administrators agreed recently they were about apart in salary with other items to be Standard Register reopened this after a on week shutdown that idled 80 the local Plant had closed for Lack of orders to Plant officials were out of town monday and so no word was available on the business Outlook for the other sources indicated that All 80 persons who had been working before the shutdown were As Well As an additional eight of those furloughed in the july layoffs accounted for about 60 state police in Cambria county tuesday issued an Allstate bulletin for the arrest of William Russell formerly of for questioning in two shootings late last month in the mainline the shootings now being linked together and with Roberts Are one on july 23 in which Miles was fatally wounded outside the Cresson state school pumping and the wounding of David of Lilly on july Roberts lived in Lilly until when he moved to new Jersey he Hast been seen in that state since the shootings or but Lilly residents reported seeing a Man they believe to be Roberts in that area during the week of the Roberts is also wanted As a fugitive to escape prosecution on a charge of recklessly endangering another person when he shot through the window of a car in Cambria county in Roberts was described As 52 years of age and about 5 7 180 he has Gray hair and is police said he closely resembles the television character Archie almost half the camping Sites at Shawnee state Park will be closed after labor Day in an Effort to Cut the depart ment of environmental resources has released a list of eight state Park campgrounds that will be closed completely and 19 More that will be partially at 158 Sites will be closed and 177 left Blue Knob is one of 22 Parks not of Der Secretary Maurice Goddard said the closings will cover million in budget deficits Between the departments needs and the amount appropriated by the general additional Steps to cover another million inputs will be taken later if a supplemental appropriation is not made in Goddard August 1975 Northern Bedford county school directors tuesday deferred action on the tentative contract agreement with the districts teachers and the proposed expansion program at the High superintendent Van Horn recommended tto Botro continued on Page 6

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