 By Alvin Engelke
alvinengelke@hotmail.com
Rev. Keith Belt filled his regular appointment at the Burning Springs M. E. Church. There will be no Sunday services Easter Sunday at Burning Springs as all will be at the New Home (Mayberry) church for sunrise services followed by breakfast. The sunrise service starts at 6:30 A. M.
Josiah McAbee had a birthday party down at Parkersburg.
There was a birthday party for Paris Parsons at the Miletree Center on the occasion of his 96th birthday. Family & canine friend all showed up for the event.
The Moth Man and wife returned from Florida. They and the Spocks attended the Mrs. Jim Sullivan benefit at Grantsville. She has been having major ticker troubles.
David Tenbarge is reported to have cancer and is not doing well at all.
Julia Joyce's daffodils are in the height of their glory with a splash of yellow along the Richardsonville Road. While it had been spring like, local residents arose Saturday morning to about an inch of snow and very slippery roadways. It was reported on Sunday morning that the mercury dropped to 11 degrees Fahrenheit at White Pine with it being around 20 in the Creston area.
Edith Kittle noted that she counted 23 fogs last August which meant that there should be 23 snows during the winter and she noted that the Saturday morning incident made #21, thus making it unlikely that this was the "Easter snow". The Big Eared One announced that governors and others who do not follow the global warming orthodoxy are to be punished by the withholding of federal funds. One could easily conclude that there is another easy example of where and how to cut federal spending thus leaving taxpayers with more funds locally to address local needs.
Speaking of Easter, a big crowd was on hand for the Creston Community Easter party held Sunday afternoon at the Community building.
Those who have been out and about note that there are lots of new calves.
Charles Russell was calling on Mr. & Mrs. Paris Parsons, Ray Gumm & brother Euell at the Miletree Center. Euell celebrated his 79th birthday. Charles was also consulting with his podiatrist as was prominent Hur resident Carl Shaw.
Gov. Earl Ray signed the bill to clip the wings of the little Unger boy's tank & water bill which would have regulated and taxed (with fees and mandatory expensive inspections) tanks that held milk, maple sap, crude oil, brine, etc. Those who march to that drummer now claim that only 90 tanks in the entire state are subject Unger's rules "and all the water will now be polluted".
John Pitsenbarger reported that the ramps are up and soon folks can be feasting on fried ramps, raw ramps, boiled ramps, ramps with eggs fried in a skillet over a wood fire along a trout stream, etc.
There will be an auction Saturday April 18 at the Creston Community Building starting at 10 A. M. The auctioneers will be Leonard Hardway and John Weaver. There will be all sorts of items at the sale.
The Creston ATV Poker Run will be Saturday April 25 at the community building.
Garry Anderson and Roger Grim were in Creston Saturday fixing some electrical problems.
Antero and other of the out of state boys who "can't find" or disagree with oil & gas owners have dozens of court cases where they take citizens minerals from them. In Tyler County CA 14-C-81-K there will be a sale of just under 2% of 136 acres of oil, gas and minerals on Indian Creek on April 16th at 9:50 A. M. The minimum bid is $5,000/acre and bidders either must have a wad of cash or a letter of credit from one's friendly bank. For more details call Antero's lawyer Allison Ferrell at 304-933-8124.
A considerable crowd was on hand Saturday morning at the high school in Elizabeth for the Wirt oil & gas group meeting. Dr. Bob Chase from Marietta College laid out the status of the present oil & gas situation and noted that when matters turned around (when the Arabs direct their anger toward the Persians & Russians instead of the Americans, etc.) leasing and drilling will resume and decent oil and gas deals can be made. John Smith a Farm Bureau leader from the northern panhandle was present and spoke about the consequences of signing bad leases that the farmers didn't understand. The Chesapeake leases in their neighborhood were not subject to the Tawney case and deductions are being taken out of the royalties. Then the amount of royalty turned in to the state (as the basis for county ad valorem taxes) is based on the gross [before "costs" are deducted}. Then, to make matters worse royalties were "annualized" and as a result of all this some folks in his neighborhood had county tax bills that were more than the royalty checks that they received. Jim Lydon gave a long explanation of the forced pooling bill (HB 2688) and suggested that all talk with their legislators about all the evil that the bill, drafted by the out of state boys (carpetbaggers) and their local buddies (the scalawags) would impose on the state and its citizens. The biggies say they plan to either have a special session or bring the bill up again early next session.
A prominent rabbi, speaking on the pending deal to give the Iranians nuclear bombs compared The Big Eared One to Haman, the "nice" gentleman in the Book of Esther, who wished to annihilate all the Jews. As background for the present chaos one might want to go back and read about the king, Esther, Mordecai, etc.
J. P. Marks was calling at the Creston Space Dock.
The price of Pennsylvania grade crude oil was $47.87/bbl. with Appalachian light sweet (drip or mountain high test) fetching $23.87, Marcellus & Utica light $41.87 and medium $47.87/bbl.
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