INJURED BLACKMON IN POOR CONDITION
   MSgt Jasper F. Blackmon was listed in very serious condition at Charleston General Hospital last night after receiving a skull fracture Saturday morning.
   Blackmon was admitted to the hospital; at 3:55 a.m. Saturday and underwent surgery that night.
   The 37year-old Beckley man, chosen in July as the outstanding Air National Guardsman in the United States, received the injury in a fall from a truck at the Kanawha Airport.
   Hospital attendants said last night Blackmon had not regained consciousness since entering the hospital.
(Beckley Post Herald, morning, October 21, 1957)

Jasper Blackmon Remains Critical
   Jasper F. Blackmon.  Beckley, was still listed in very critical condition at Charleston General Hospital last night where he was admitted Saturday after sustaining a skull fracture.
   Blackmon, a master sergeant in the Air National Guard, received in the injury in a fall from a truck at the Kanawha Airport.
   He has not regained consciousness since entering the hospital.
(Beckley Pot Herald morning, October 23, 1957)

Hurt Beckleyan Still Unconscious
    Jasper F. Blackmon.  Beckley, was still listed in  critical condition at Charleston General Hospital last night.
   Blackmon, a master sergeant in the Air National Guard and the outstanding guardsman in the country, was admitted to the hospital after he received a fractured skull in a fall from a truck at the Kanawha Airport.
   Hospital personnel said he has not regained consciousness since entering the hospital.
   He is also District Boy Scout Commissioner and scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 139 in Beckley
(Raleigh Register morning October 24, 1957)

Blackmon Listed As Very Critical
   The condition of Jasper F. Blackmon, Beckley, is "very critical" according to Mrs. Rex Johnson, whose husband is at Charleston with the injured man and his wife.
   According to Mrs. Johnson, Blackmon was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9 p.m.  Thursday, when his pulse stopped, but his pulse began beating again.
   Mrs. Johnson whose husband is field executive for the Raleigh County Boy Scouts, said Blackmon had several convulsions Thursday, and  had been placed in an iron lung.
   Blackmon, a master sergeant in the Air National Guard, and Boy Scout commissioner in this county, was admitted to the hospital after he received a fractured skull in a fall from a truck at the Kanawha Airport.
(Raleigh Register afternoon October 25, 1957)