SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
June 18, 1936
Today’s Headline: In Police Court At Clifton Forge.
A Good Samaritan act which ended in a heated argument and the alleged striking of a woman cost a Clifton Forge man $2.50 and costs in police court this morning.
The defendant claimed he had gone to the woman’s house to escort home a drunk.
He was found guilty of hitting the woman but was acquitted on a drunk charge.
Cadet W.E. Dressler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dressler of Covington and Cadet W.L. Major, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Major of Clifton Forge, received honors at the graduation exercises of Virginia Military Institute yesterday.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
June 18, 1961
Today’s Headline: Baltz And Dressler Promoted.
The appointment of Richard G. Baltz to technical superintendent and Charles E. Dressler Jr. to control laboratory supervisor of the Covington plant of Hercules has been announced by Desmond L. Fornell, plant manager.
A runaway pony was found wedged tightly between two trees and freed following a search in the Indian Draft area by Deputy Sheriff W.C. Cummings and Dog Warden Cecil Taylor Friday afternoon.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
June 18, 1986
Today’s Headline: Alleghany Supervisors Support Opponents Of Chessie Move.
With jobs and revenues for the entire Highlands area on the line, the Alleghany County Board of Supervisors went on record opposing plans made by CSX Corporation to transfer 65 men and much of the yard work from the Chessie System’s Clifton Forge operation to Cumberland, Md.
FIVE YEARS AGO
June 18, 2006
Today’s Headline: Salvation Army’s Major Sloan Is Transferred To Waynesboro.
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday, Major Linda Sloan is still vigorously working away at the Salvation Army’s Family Thrift Store in downtown Covington.
Starting in July, however, she won’t be helping out locally anymore. She is leaving June 30 for a reassignment to Waynesboro.