Elkins Festival Opens With Mardi Gras Mountain Flair
Elkins West Virginia prepares for the 32nd annual Mountain State Festival with 5000 marching musicians outdoor pageant a train ride woodchopping and mountain rifle contest. Hal Boyle and Marshall Goldberg headline events. 58 bands lead the parade as WVU band Highlanders and Gov Smith attend crowning Miss Kaaren Janssen. The People Rejoice pageant and the Grand Ole Opry are on the schedule with a Cass No 4 train ride Thursday through Randolph and Pocahontas counties.
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Elkins
W. Va
UPI
New Orleans
Biggie) Goldberg
West Virginia University
West Virginia Highlanders
Gov
Hulett C. Smith
Kaaren Janssen
Morgantown
WVU
Dale Wilson
Grand Ole Opry
Randolph
Pocahontas
Four 1 H Grants Awarded to Forestry Students
Four $1,600 scholarships will be awarded to outstanding 4-H members majoring or minoring in forestry. Funds provided for 12th year by Homelite, Textron. Applicants must have three years 4-H work and be entering freshman year in fall 1968. Final judging by extension staff in Chicago in November. Winners announced during the National 4 H Congress in early December.
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Homelite
Textron Inc
Cooperative Extension Service
Chicago
Travel Fund Of Elmore Questioned
Charleston West Virginia reports that the state legislative auditor will review travel expense records of former State Liquor Commissioner Clarence Elmore. The audit will rely on postaudits and preaudits, with findings to the auditor. The case references Elmore's 1962 income tax evasion conviction and 1963 acquittal.
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Charleston
W. Va
UPL
Clarence Elmore
Legislative Auditor
Denzil Gainer
U.S. District Court
Elmore
Bell Hidden During British Attack Moved to Allentown
The Liberty Bell was hidden in a wagon and taken to Allentown Pennsylvania where it was stored in a church basement during the British siege. After the British evacuated Philadelphia the following year the bell was brought back to its original place.
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Philadelphia
Allentown
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Tri-State
Betty Crocker
Mir Gas
Ae van
University Aven
Foodland
KRAFT
Thousand Island
GARDA
Jumbo Bologna Superior
Braunsweiger
W Cornish
Jar
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Daisy
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