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By BILL HART. . . CLARENCE GAPEN-WHO WITH HIS brother, Lonnie, pioneered the all-weather winter tire (sawdust) phones:‘Sofar as most of us old timers know the coldest weather recorded in Monongalia County was at Maidsville on Feb. 10, 1899 and the temperature was 45 degrees below zero . . . father woke us boys and said: “it seems real cold this morning; we better go look about the stock” ... we did and found our dairy herd almost frozen in the barn . . . mother made hot meal mash and we fed that to the cows after we put blankets on them .. . they shivered like anybody would thawing out. I am sure our cows would have frozen to death if we had waited until 7 a.m. to go to the barn as we often did . . . father got us up at 5 that morning ... it was really cold . . . father wrote the event down in our Bible . . . that is why I know it is true. ... in the “auld days” anything written in the Bible washinHino hprancp QQ 44/lftO nf thp nponlp WPrP. . . YES, THERE IS A THIRD airport in the planning stage for Washington and could become a reality within a couple years . . . it would be for general aviation exclusively ... the new field house at the University is to have some opera type seats in special sections, z-1 is informed ... the seating accomodations at the old field house should be lent to our forces overseas to use as torture chambers for captured prisoners . . . for years, in order to gain more seating capacity, it has been necessary to pack spectators in like a second class sardine on the way to the packing house . . . now, all of that is to end soon . . . there are those of us who saw Harry Stansbury build the old field house with no money or trading stamps who will hate to see the old place go as a hall of intercollegiate activities but then some of us ‘old ones’ haven’t been sitting too much in our seats recently simply because they are not comfortable.
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Morgantown Dominion Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Sun, Jan 15, 1967
Page 25
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WV, USA 08 Jun 2019
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