January 7 through the years

1924

The City Pressing Club on Fayette Street promised “pleating of all kinds – box, knife, accordion.” W.R. Stultz was the manager, and the phone number was 323.

1949

At a Jan. 7 meeting of about 60 farmers at the courthouse, Virginia Farm Bureau Vice President A.F. Mahan urged farmers to grow more cigarette-type tobacco. Figures obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture showed that the carry-over of Old Belt tobacco is greater than the unsold leave produces in other sections of the flue-cured belt. Too much heavy tobacco is grown, he said.

1974

Henry County Commonwealth’s Attorney Roscoe Reynolds said that special officers are required by law to cooperate with, and are subject to being directed by, the county’s chief law enforcement official, C.P. Witt, the Bulletin reported on Jan. 6, 1074. Witt said when he has asked for help from the Bassett Special Police (the county pays part of their salary), he had been denied. One such instance was during the strike at HCA Martin Processing. The Board of Supervisors was planning to bring up the matter.

AP: Most of the nations clocks moved ahead an hour on Sunday for 22 straight months of Daylight Saving Time. The switch, the first time the nation has gone on year-round Daylight Saving Time since World War II, was proposed by President Nixon and approved by Congress to help ease the energy crisis.

1999

The MHC Chamber of Commerce decided to cancel the 1999 Trade Show because they decided the building in which they were going to hold it was not safe enough. The Trade Show, which had been scheduled for March 8-12, was going to be held at F&L on Cleveland Avenue, the former Sara Lee Knit Products Plant, used at the time for Fred Martin Sr. and his family’s offices. One hundred and twenty-two businesses had signed up; Larry Aydlett was the Chamber president then.

— Information from those years’ editions of the Henry and Martinsville Bulletin.