50 Years Ago

Herald of Dec. 9, 1971

Glenn S. Leidy, owner of the Leidy Electric and Home Furnishing Store in Martinsburg, passed away at the age of 60 after a long illness.

A fire destroyed a barn on the farm of J. Elmer Guyer of Roaring Spring RD. The barn and hundreds of bales of hay were destroyed, but no livestock were lost. Cement mixer trucks from the Roaring Spring plant of New Enterprise Stone and Lime hauled water to the farm to help fight the fire. Feather Petroleum supplied a fuel truck to replenish fuel used by the fire fighting equipment. Mr. Guyer’s milking cattle were herded to the Dean Stern farm and the dry cattle and calves were taken to the Dean Yingling farm.

Mrs. Louise Norris of Williamsburg was using hypnosis to help local women lose weight. Mrs. Norris was a registered nurse and a hypnotechnician. She said hypnosis was also helpful for smoking, bed wetting, and nail biting. She was working with ten women who had been referred by their physicians.