75 Years Ago

Herald of May 5, 1949

W. Michael Bechtel, supervisor of agriculture at Morrison Cove High School for 22 years, resigned the position to organize a new agricultural department in Saltsburg High School, Indiana County.

Kenneth Wilson, 17, won honorable mentions through the Scholastic Creative Music Awards sponsored by Scholastic Magazines for his song the Lord is King with piano accompaniment and for a piano solo. He was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. M.G. Wilson of Martinsburg.

John Hoover Kensinger, 76, former Martinsburg postmaster, died May 2 at his farm near Henrietta. June 1933 he was appoin...