SECTION B — PAGE 3
These Pictures Told The News
Of The Back Mountain For 1964
NEW YEAR’S DAY fire at the home of A. Harden Coon
Jr., Huntsville, was probably the worst tragedy in the
Back Mountain in twenty years. Five lives were lost, an
entire young family.
END OF AN ERA: That's what we captioned it, when
RIVSTERY STORY of the year, and still unsolved: EIGHTEENTH LIBRARY AUCTION: It drew a mice of the Back Mountain. This excellent Kozemchak pano- p..o pie 1 cot permission to salvage the “Dallas”
seven coniracters machines mostly doners ono shovel, od SSC umbi ane soa event Tama packed in a lof of faces, (Jl)
neon ‘state dam project.
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sign from the doomed old freight station, late in March.
THE DISTILLERY: Government agents nabbed this still
in a barn just over the county line on the old Kunkle-Beau- :
mont road, in January, and the case of a number of out-of- i ; : = am a
town men, allegedly involved, is up for trial this January. MOUNTAIN BURNED OVER, as did quite a few acres in the re-
Post put out a little 9X12 extra on Sunday, breaking the story. gion, which was drought-stricken ra the summer and fall, and
Se water is low even now. Creeks ran dryer than in anyone’s memory,
SE and volunteer fire fighters put on a lot of mileage. (October)
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TWISTING HIGHWAY, between the “big completed this year. Picture shows shovel
bend” and Hillside road, was straightened chewing away the mountainside in April.
out some, as part of the new highway work Highway was dedicated in October.
WORST TRAFFIC FATALITY in some years, and the
second to occur on the completed four-lane highway, an
elderly couple in the dark sedan were killed when their
car hit the other head-on, just south of Route 309 inter-
a Ba : i section, late November. Three others were seriously in-
" RAIN AND FLOODS: Hard to remember, but the year wasn’t all dry. March jured. Dead were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Achuff, Shaver-
rains made Bowmans and Tobys Creeks look like this. town.
FIRST FATALITY on the new highwa y, ironically, was not a traffic victim, but
a. construction worker, Carl Brobst, of N oxen, killed by the front-end loader seen
in this picture. (August)
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I FIRST HIGHWAY TRAFFIC. CASUALTY: Mrs. ing her 25 feet into the air, and skidding 194.7 feet. ws CI BL
Nora Hall was victim of an accident in front of Shaver- Coroner’s inquest found no speeding and no negligence PROPOSED DALLAS POSTOFFICE: Arch- old railroad depot site in the center o
town Shopping Center, late October. As she walked : on part of driver. : itects Roushey, Smith, and Miller drew it to early December, 1964.
x across the road, an out-of-state car struck her, knock- : "look like this, and ground was broken on the