75 Years Ago

Herald of Dec. 14, 1944

With the coming of dawn yesterday morning, the people of the Cove started to dig from under the worst early winter blizzard known in this section in years. For two nights and the greater part of two days the snow had been coming down and the wind howled, and the foot or more of snow filled highways and broke down telephone wires and poles. But one highway was kept open in its entirety, that being the road between Martinsburg and Altoona. Nearly 300 telephones were out of service in the Cove, damage to poles and wires being especially bad in the Waterside and Loysburg...