50 Years Ago

Herald of July 29, 1971

Leighty’s Farm Market in Newry and Long’s Furniture in Roaring Spring began to be built. E.F. Smith Inc. Trucking company also was enlarging its storage facilities with the addition of a combination poured-in-place and pre-stressed concrete building.

Area students graduating from the Altoona School of Commerce were L. Karol Ayers, Sharon Wareham, Twila Kay Cramer, Larry Long, Antoinette J. Claar, Dianne Weitzel, Jane L. Smith, Larry Lee Blough, Kristine Ann Milliron, Beverly Ann Bridges, John E. Smith and Cynthia Eileen Ickes.

Mrs. Louise Fagans of Martinsburg won the L...