June 1923
100 Years Ago
To Reorganize Baseball Team: Business Men Are Requested to Meet Wednesday Night at Court House
All work and no play makes the most active businessman dull and inactive. If we wish to make a success out of this life, and we have only one to live, we must mingle business with pleasure.
To come to the point, there is no game that is enjoyed more than the National pastime, baseball. During the world’s series, a single seat has sold for as much as 25 dollars, and the spender is satisfied as he has real enjoyment.
At present, we have no baseball club in Covington. Surely the citizens will not allow this state of affairs to continue very long. Are we going to miss our games on Saturday afternoons? Had it not been for Mgr. Levisa of the Grays loving the sport as he does many times meeting the expenses out of his own funds I am afraid we would have had very little playing during the past three years. The Gray’s suits were called in following the last game with Hinton here. And unless something is done by somebody it will be a long time before we will see another game.
June 1948
75 Years Ago
Paper Mill Replies to Union’s Request
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company today released a reply to a recent request by the United Paperworkers of America —CIO —for negotiations on a new contract to begin “not earlier than August 18, 1948.” The UPA-CIO represents hourly paid employees of the company’s Covington, Va., Luke, Md., and Williamsburg, Pa., plants.
In its reply, the company calls attention to the fact that this date is only two days before the expiration of the present contract which runs out on August 20.
Previous attempts to reach an agreement on a new contract were deadlocked last week at Cumberland, Md. when the union rejected company proposals to clarify the definition of mill seniority in the contract.
Some weeks ago, the company offered the union a choice of either a five-cents-per-hour interim increase under the present contract or a larger increase, later set at 11 cents per hour, provided the two parties could agree on a new contract. The union chose the five-cent interim increase, which the company placed in effect on June 1. The company, however, in a further effort to write a new contract and grant the additional six cents, requested the Cumberland meeting.
June 1973
50 Years Ago
Groundbreaking is Held
As an estimated 80 spectators in addition to platform guests and high school band members looked on, three of the men closely associated with bringing the $1 million-plus Jackson River Vocational Center from a dream to a reality used three shovels to turn spadesful of earth at the center site in Valley Ridge Friday evening.
After a preliminary program of brief speeches by local dignitaries, the official groundbreaking for the center was performed by Frank H. Hammond III, chairman of the Joint Control Board for the center; Robert M. Loving Jr., former chairman of the Vocational Center Study Committee which had recommended the project in 1970; and Richard Showalter, former chairman of the Regional Cooperative Vocational Education Committee.
JUNE 1998
25 Years ago
Covington treasurer explains ‘no car tax’ law procedures
Covington treasurer Eunice Dressler Wright has returned from attending professional training sessions during the annual meeting of the Treasurers’ Association of Virginia in Winchester.
Topics focused on the business of the treasurer’s office from audit practices to sheriff’s sales but information on administering the new “No Car Tax” law was of special interest.
Wright, noting that the “No Car Tax” law goes into effect this year commented: “I have had several taxpayers ask how the new law was going to work and I promised to give the citizens the information after we attended some classes. My staff and I are preparing handouts on the subject and hope to have them ready by July 1 for our taxpayers.”
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