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2 - Hlnton News Tues. Jan. 12. 1999
From page 1
A Look Baek nt 1998
plan. She dropped over 72 pounds.
Hinton businssman James R.
Sampson, 72, died on Sept. 23. He
was owner and operator of the Ritz
Theater for a number of years and
owner of Jimmy's Restaurant in
Hinton.
OCTOBER
Stephen Brian Adkins, 21,
Anthony Adkins, 19, and Ivan Fox,
Jr., 19, were killed in a head-on-
collision near the John Henry statue
at Talcott on Oct. 1.
The Graham House, at Lowell,
holds its eighth annual Heritage
Craft Weekend.
A town meeting, sponsored by the
Summers County ARH Hospital
seeks community input and support.
A new location for RiteAid begins
construction on Stokes Drive.
The Hinton Area Community
Center obtains federal 501(c)(4)
nonprofit status.
A weekend fire destroyed the
home of Vicki and Wayne Caul on
Oct. 10.
Railroad Days is held Oct. 17th,
18th, 24th, and 25th.
A $5,000 forestry grant, awarded
through the efforts of the Hinton
Woman's Club and the City of
Hinton make possible the planting
of 139 trees between 4th and 12th
Ave. on both sides of Temple St.
A federal Empowerment Zone
application is sent to Washington
DC on Oct. 9. An announcement on
which areas in the nation will
receive the multi million dollar
award is not expected until Jan.
1999.
The Lady Bobcats host their third
annual Spaghetti Dinner on Oct, 23.
J. Marion O'Bryan is named
Democrat of the Year.
The State's Division of Forestry
donates a fire truck to the Forest Hill
Volunteer Fire Dept.
The Hinton Area Community
Center sponsors the first annual
Chili / Cornbread Cookoff. David
Grimmett took first place for his
chili while his mother, Gloria
Grimmett, took first place for her
cornbread.
State Senator Leonard Anderson
obtains state grants totaling $7,000
to help open the Hinton Area
Community Center building on 2nd
Ave.
Veterans Museum received a
The City announces a smoking
ban in public places and after a nine
year absence City Court will begin
in Jan.
Bids are sought for the lease of
the Willowwood County Club.
DECEMBER
Ed Hannah, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, is electede
Vice President of the New River
Heritage Board.
Gift Shop opens at the Railroad
Museum in the Visitor's Center.
The Hinton Ruritan Club
announce its annual Christmas Toy
Fund.
Roy C. Long, 77, county railroad
historian, died Dec. 4.
The New River Parkway
Authority selects their preferred
route for the New River Parkway.
They pick the west side alternative
on the Raleigh County side of New
River, the one originally envisioned
by the authority.
Loaves and Fishes begins fund
drive for 1999 with $3,970. The goal
is $5,000.
Nearly 300 enjoy a free holiday
dinner at the second annual
Christmas dinner at King's Dog's 2
Thing's.
by %Valk for
Her Lifetime' a breast cancer
awareness program.
Christy Burdette is selected 1998
Homecoming Queen.
Voters turn down the school levy
by 51.7 percent of the vote.
Preliminary drawings for the
Assisted Living facility at the
McCreery Hotel are discussed
during a meeting with the Main
Street Hinton board of directors.
NOVEMBER
CVB begins campaign to develop
the John Henry legend into a major
tourist attraction for Summers
County.
The Write Idea completes its first
year in downtown Hinton with an
announcement that it is expanding
its operation to include
manufacturing bags that were once
imported.
Myra Ziegler, head librarian, is
selected Christmas Parade Marshal.
Bethel Hatcher, 62, is indicted
with the murder of his ex-wife,
Phyllis Pettry Rogers. Rogers was
killed in Dec. 1992.
Letter To The Editor
Heartfelt Thanks
Dear Editor:
The Talcott School Adopt-A-Child
Program wishes to extend te you our
heartfelt thanks for your
contribution. This has been the best
year yet. You have helped us make
Christmas a little brighter for
eighty-two children. Each family
was also given a box of canned food
from our annual food drive. Thanks
to the generosity of a family we were
also able to have fruit for several of
our families. The Great Teacher
told us that it was more blessed to
give than to receive. You have
demonstrated this by your
generosity.
Best wishes for a happy holiday
season.
The Talcott School Adopt-A-Child
Program
Talcett WV.
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By Roy C. Long
Kiwanis to hold
Public Meeting
Tuesday evening, the 26th, the
pubhc is invited to fellowship with
the members and guests of Hinton
Kiwanis Club at the Peking House
Restaurant. The club has a record
of nearly 75 years of service to the
community, and wants to meet
anyone having an interest in that
history, or in possibly joining the
organization.
Thosp attending should arrive at
the restaurant in time to order
before 6:30 PM (it's "Dutch Treat")
and an informal program will begin
about 7:00. There will be ample time
for questions, and there is no
obligation to join or participate.
Phone Kiwanis President Jane
Duffield, 466-3740, or Secretary
Pete Peterson, 466-0498, for details.
Tour
Tom Collins presents Champions
On Ice Winter Tour on Wednesday,
COLLIS POTTER
HUNTINGTON; The railroad
builder. Part I of 4 parts.
Collis Potter Huntington, of
Central Pacific and Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway fame, was bern 22 Oct.
1821. Early in life he showed signs
of the capitalist he would become by
working at odd jobs at farming and
in a hardware store. In 1842 he, and
his brother, went into the hardware
business in Oneonta, N.Y. It was
here he gained experience in
salesmanship. When gold was
discovered in California, in 1849, he
at out for the west coast to get in
on the money.
A boat took him to San Francisco
via Panama where he was delayed
three months. His salesmanship
during that delay was proven
through his enterprise of selling
merchandise by leaving Panama
with more than twice the money he
had on arrival.
Once he reached his destination
he sent for this wife to join him in
Sacramento where, in 1851, he went
into the hardware business with his
partner, Mark Hopkins. It was here,
on the second floor of his hardware
store, Mr. Huntington, Mark
Hopkins, Charles Crocker and
Leland Stgnford teamed up to
organize the Republican Party in
California and were dubbed the "Big
Four." Mr. Sanford was elected
Governor of California in 1861.
• In 1862, as a result of the Civil
War, President Abraham Lincoln
signed the Pacific RailwayAct which
authorized the Big Four to charter
the Central Pacific from Sacramento
east and Dr. Thomas Durant to
charter the Union Pacific west from
Omaha to a point where the two
would join.
When the two lines met at
Promontory Point, May 10, 1869,
Mr. Huntington was working from
his office in New York City.
During this period of time the
C&O Railroad was stalled at White
Sulphur Springs, W. VA., because of
to work hard tor a number of years
to keep soul and body together.
Slt is true, however, we had a
great deal of fun swimming in New
River, killing wild ducks and chasing
and killing deer. I killed the first
deer that I ever shot at, and I was
only thirteen years old.
"My father died in 1859, when I
was but 14 years of age. Three years
later the terrible Civil War broke
out. I was not of military age when
the war began - being but 18 years
old. I had my choice of going North
or South. Somehow my head was
inclined Southward. I served nearly
three years in the Southern army. I
don't know whether I did my share
of fighting or not - ifI didn't I at least
did my share of running. Sometimes
it was run or be left on the battle
ground. The war didn't go exactly
the way I wanted it to go and I was
very blue for a time. I suppose I felt
about like Lasarus felt - as thought
I had been licked by the dogs.
"Shortly after the Civil War ended
there was strong talk of the C. & O.
Railroad being built westward from
White Sulphur, the point which it
then extended to. In July 1869, C.
P. Huntington and ten other
gentlemen came to Hinton's Ferry,
General Echols, General Wichem
(sic) <Wickham> and General
Ewing, being in the crowd. They
were looking over the proposed route
for the next extension of the C. & O.
and said they wanted to hire
someone to rum them to Hawk's
Nest in a beat. They wanted to know
if we knew the river. We told them
we didn't but we knew how to run a
boat. Some of them said it was no
use to hire us as we didn't know the
river. Others said they wanted to
hire us and take the chances. They
hired me, Joe Hinton and Parker
Adkins and gave us $2.50 a day,
which we gladly accepted. We left
Hinton's Ferry about 3 o'clock and
landed on Sandstone Falls that
evening. We went down to old Aunt
Sally Richmond's and stayed all
February 10th. at 7:30 p.M. at the financial difficulties. President night, Next morning John and
Claa[sv ivic Cdnti Colisbum Williams C W*xckh the C&O, "Tuck" Richmond joined us and we
Ticket prices are:'$45, $35i $2. sought" fin'ancial aid .... from Cut skidpo!es and pushed over the
All seats reserved. G'rbup discounts investment bankersW. B. Hatch and fails, which took Us about three
- 20 or more.
For ticket purchase - call
Ticketmaster Charleston area (304)
342-5757 or Huntington area (304)
523-5757.
Johnny Appleseed (whose real
name was Jonathan Chapman)
was an American pioneer who
planted large numbers of apple
trees along the frontier in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries.
Pliney Fisk, who recommended
Collie P. Huntington as a source of
help. This they did but Mr.
Huntington would not commit
himself until he was taken on a trip
over the line, and its planned
extension. This was done in July
1869. We do not have a record of the
entire trip but we are fortunate to
have a record of the trip from Hinton
through New River Gorge to Hawks
Nest written by William Hinton, one
of the guides, and published by
Editor John Faulconer, of Hinton
Daily News, in his "Hinton Aroun&
column dated March 16, 1942 as
follows:
I was born May the 27th., 1844
in an old log house near the crossing
in Avis. My father was a poor man
and it didn't seem as though he
wanted to get rich very fast. We had
hours. After having gotten safely
over the falls, we all got aboard and
floated on down the river. When we
arrived at Richmond's Ferry, Aunt
Sally was there waiting for us. We
landed and she stepped aboard. She
said she wanted to take a seat by
the best looking man on the boat,
and I suppose she did for she had
her choice of ten fine looking men.
Aunt Sally rode with us about one
mile. We landed and she went
ashore, bidding us good-day and
wishing us good luck, and that was
the last we saw of Aunt Sally. John
Richmond took the front steering oar
and I took the stern, and we were
off for Hawk's Nest. We had rough
sailing some places, the water flew
high enough to hit me on the head
standing straight up in the boat. We
landed that evening at Bowyer's
Ferry, now called Sewell. We camped
on a sand bar, drank fine whiskey
and ate catfish half cooked. The
party had some of the finest whiskey
that you ever stuck a tooth in. They
gave us small drinks, and far in
between, which was the most
sensible thing they could have done.
Parker Adkins said it was little
drink s and a long time between
drinks, but that which he did get,
did him a sight of good. The next
morning we still had eleven miles to
go to reach Hawk's Nest, over the
most dangerous parts of the river.
At the bad places we had to get out
and make a survey of the water
before we run through. In looking
out of the boat we saw a rattlesnake
which we killed. Mr. Huntington
could hardly wait for Joe Hinton to
pull the rattles off the snake before
he had them in his pocket.
"We landed at Hawk's Nest at
about 2 o'clock and tied our boat and
were paid off. Mr. Huntington
thanked us for our work and offered
to give us all a free pass to Richmond
and back. We all rejected the offer,
saying we didn't want to go. We than
had to walk home - a distance of not
less than 50 miles.
'e reached home the tiird day,
tired out and with sore feet, but we
felt good with a few dollars in our
pockets.
"Shortly after I got home, a party
came along, surveying on the C. &
O. route, and I hired to them for one
month to hack brush. I went with
them to Sandstone and quit. That
was <the> last railroading I have
done. I have often thought if the C.
& O. could have been built in one
night, and the iron horse came
snorting along about daylight next
morning, that half of the people on
New River would have taken to the
woods and never stopped running
and never looked back until they
crossed the Rocky Mountains.
"If anyone disputes this account
of our trip down the river I can prove
it by Joe Hinton and Tuck
Richmond. Signed William Hinton,,
Contintmd next week. , ..
'IN SYNC
2N SYNC will be at the Coliseun
of the Charleston Civic Center or
Supday, March 7th. at 7:30 AM.
Ticket prices are: $29.75 ant
$24.75. All seats reserved. Ticke,
limit - 8.
For ticket purchase cal
Ticketmaster at Charleston Are
(304) 342-5757 or Huntington Are
(304) 523-5757.
Medicines Used for
Two Seizure Types
A seizure or convulsion is
caused by abnormal activity in the
brain. Seizures may be associated
with brain injury before or at the
time of birth, high fever during
childhood, infections involving the
nervous system, poisons, brain tu-
mors, and. nutritional deficiencies.
Prescription medicines used to pre-
vent or control seizures limit the
occurrence of seizures by deprcs:,;-
ing abnormal nerve discharges in
the brain• Some seizure medicines
.3rovide better control when they
arc used with other seizure medi-
cines.
Grand mal seizures are the most
common type, typically lasting
from 2 to 5 minutes. These usually
are noticeable in that the person
may have severe muscle contrac-
tions, fall to the floor, and lose
consciousness. Medicines pre-
scribed for the control of grand mal
seizures include phenytoin, car-
bamazcpine. /amotrigine, and
phenobarbital.
Petit real seizures do not involve
severe muscle contractions. They
usually affect children and typi-
cally appear as a sudden cessation
of activity and staring by the child
tbr a few seconds. Some of the
medicinesscd to contro,:this sei-
zure type include plenobarbital,
ethosuximide, acetazolamide, and
valproic acid.
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"THE OLDER THE VIOLIN,
TIlE SWEETER THE MUSIC."
Happy 70th.
Birthday
January 12, 1999
RALPH JONES
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Mary Carol, Bruce, Lindsay, Shirley, Ed, Kent, J. V.,
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