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By Wallace £* Knight(Staff Writer for The Gazette)The Braxton County Monster, for all his fire and fearfulness, was pretty dumb.If he had come to Kanawha County las May 13th and cast his ballot in the primary election land doubtless be would have gone unchallenged in plenty of precincts) he could have taken part in West Virginia's top news story of 1952.If he had stalked from Princeton to Charleston. bridging rivers and poking a hole through a hill flanking Cabin Creek, he could have blazed the path for the No. 2 story—the West Virginia Turnpike.If he had blown up a bridge near Widen, or pitched the first ball for the Charleston Mud Hen Senators, or had been revealed as a forpier KKK member, he could have hogged the headlines of states newspapers for weeks.The monster had absolutely no sense of the dramatic, however. All lie did was ride a flying saucer to the geographical center of West Virginia, smell up the place, and scare ?. group of sincere citizens half out of their wits.
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Dec 28, 1952
Page 29
Full Page
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