TEEN TIME: We continue to get feedback on WESB’s “Teen
Time.”
Bill Higie writes, “There was a Junior High radio activity we
did in our 9th grade English classes. Mr. George Caylor and Mrs.
Johnston coordinated the activity where a pair of students would go
on the radio once a week and tell the public what was happening at
the School Street Junior High School. I remember doing the spot
with Karen Colligan during the 1968-69 school year.”
GAS PAINS: Bob Johnson of Johnsonburg writes, “This is for RTS
or where ever you report gasoline prices. While traveling to South
Carolina during the Memorial Day weekend we saw gas prices as low
as $2.49.9 in Virginia and North and South Carolina. Most places it
was in the low $2.50s and the highest was in the $2.60s. Once we
got back into West Virginia and Pennsylvania it was up to $2.85.9
again. Just makes you wonder.”
Ron DiGiacinto of Bradford dropped in last week which some more
current gas prices – still bad news, though. He has just returned
from Lancaster County where the price was $2.67 a gallon at a
Sunoco and other places nearby was at $2.69. Heading north,
Clearfield’s price was $2.73. (Ours? $2.88 at that time.)
DARK DAY: We told you we still have a bit of input on Sept. 25,
1950, when the skies went dark in the middle of the day.
Janet Holsinger Burch, a summer resident of Onoville, N.Y.,
writes, “I remember going to the matinee at the movie house in
Bradford with my friend and her parents. We came out of the theater
and wondered what happened.”
“We all lived in Corydon (before the Kinzua Dam) and wanted to
get home. I guess you always feel home is the best place to be in
questionable times. I guess everyone heard the same reason for the
black out – smoke.”
NEED HELP: Crook Farm Country Fair needs volunteers to assist
with the annual event slated for Aug. 26 and 27. If you’d like to
help out, you may contact Yvonne Cattoni of Gifford.
TODAY’S QUOTE: “Freedom of the press cannot thrive as it should
if it is closeted with a time bomb, the concept of seditious libel,
ticking away in the law,” said constitutional historian Leonard
Levy in 1985. As always, today’s quote is from the Freedom
Forum.
