Time←←Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke City's newspaper; plus 1972.

 

    (Editorial)

*February 1972

                         (Salisbury Daily Times)

(Info from AI)

Early 1970s Pocomoke High School star basketball player Wilbert "Wilbur" Mills passed away, leaving behind a legacy as one of the greatest athletes in the school's history.

High School Achievements

• Led the Pocomoke Warriors to their first-ever MPSSAA State Championship in 1971.
• Remembered by peers as an elite guard and the "greatest teammate ever". 

College Career

• Played NCAA collegiate basketball for the James Madison University Dukes from 1972 to 1976.
• Set the school's single-season assist record with 126 assists during the 1973–74 season.
• Ranks among the all-time single season assist leaders in James Madison University program history. 
• Later Life and Legacy
  • Resided in the Pocomoke City area with his wife, Myrtle Marie Tindley Mills.
  • Predeceased his family members, including his son, Wilbert "Buddy" Mills Jr.
  • Honored posthumously through The Wilbert J. Mills, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund, which supports local students. 

(Pocomoke Public Eye research)

(November 1988)

                 (Salisbury Daily Times)

Ah, Jeff Carter, number 44, was the other one. I should have known as I watched him for years. It's funny that when he made 1,000 points there was no big celebration like when Jack Tatem did it.

Your friend,
Slim

(See Slim's earlier comments on Friday's Time Machine Preview post.)

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Time←←Machine: 90 years ago this week in Pocomoke City's newspaper; 1954, 1960.

 

Note:  Archives for the Worcester Democrat were not available for this week 100 years ago. We're using items from this week 90 years ago.

                          

(Montgomery Ward was located across the street from the current Pocomoke City Hall Municipal Building which was under construction in 1936/1937.)

How old am I? I easily remember George Henderson, Jr., Mary Lee Moore (Leister) and when Walters Implement Company had new tractors delivered by rail car down by Railroad Avenue. My first pair of real work boots came from the Montgomery Ward store, sold by Bobby Judd for the magnificent sum of $10.

Your friend,
Slim

tk for PPE says:  Mary Lee Moore was my second-grade teacher. That is, it was Miss Moore at the start of the school year and Mrs. (Klein) Leister later during that school year.  She dressed in her wedding gown to show us.  Bobby Judd was in my sister's graduating class of 1954.  His younger sister Peggy was in my class.  Could you have bought those work boots at the adjacent JC Penney at the corner of Clarke and Market?  I remember Bobby working there.

Good catch! Bobby did work at JC Penny, the place with all the pneumatic tubes. I was fascinated with the "latest" technology.

Slim

*April 1954

Salisbury Times

*February 1960

Salisbury Times

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