Vaughn is Mother of the Year

Herald of May 7, 1970

All is ready at the Blair County Airport for an air show Sunday that is expected to attract the biggest crowd since the terminal building dedication in 1960.

Roaring Spring Borough Council is receiving bids for the paving of nine alleys and four streets, estimated to be approximately $12,000.

Martinsburg Borough Council is planning to ban all heavy trucks from residential streets in the borough except for local deliveries. New complaints about heavy trucks, especially tractor-trailer rigs, parking along streets over night.

In one of the most violent automobile collisions reported recently in the Cove region, a Martinsburg man was killed and Sheriff George P. Replogle and his wife, Esther E. Replogle were seriously injured at 1:30 p.m., Sunday on Rt. 164 seven-tenths of a mile east of Roaring Spring.

Mrs. Mary Vaughn of Roaring Spring RD, a sand tart champion of her grandchildren, has earned the title of “Mother of the Year” for 1970 in Morrisons Cove.