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2 - Hinton News Tues. April 20. 1999
Lettertothe .... o RAILROAD
National Infant Immunization Week
,Dear Mr. Long:. contribute to the overall protectS n :>
National Infant Immunization of other children.
Week .(April 18-24, 1999) is a good
time to focus on the importance of
getting children immunized, not just
to protect the individual child, but
to protect the health of the entire
community. The more children who
are immune from the preventable
childhood illnesses, the less risk
there is for those in the community
who are not immunized...this may
include the very young, the elderly,
those with weakened immune
systems, the poor, and the
underserved.
The problem in our country today
is that people have not seen a case
of diphtheria, pertussia, or polio in
several generations• They don't
realize the severity and devastation
these diseases can cause. Many
parents think the discomfort caused
by the injection or the infinitesimal
risk of serious illness from the
immunization itself is a good reason
not to immunize their children. But
parents who do immunize their
children not only provide individual
protection to them, but alao
GVT Free BrownBag
Lunch Series In April
Greenbrier Valley Theatre
presents a brown bag lunch series
each Wednesday in April at the
downtown theatre, 113 East
Washington. New plays, short
stories or poetry, will be read during
the noon hour. It's free, so bring your
lunch and join the entertainment.
For further information, call 304-
645-3838.
TICKET PRICES: FREE.
LOCATION: 113 EAST
WASHINGTON STREET
AMERICAN LEGION
The American Legion will meet on
the 4th. Thursdays of each month
at 7:00 p. m. in the Lincoln School.
LETTERS POLICY
Letters are welcomv, but no more
than one letter each month will be
accepted from the same writer. Pref-
erence will be given to letters orS00
wor or laB. Loapr lettem may be
shortened or rejevd. Letters must
be slgnod and must include u ad.
dress sad photo number. The
phone ill not b ,
Names will not be wttthheld.
Addre them to Letro to the
Editor, I). 0. Box 1000, Hinton, WV
s595z.
We urge parents to participate in
infant immunizations. Not only are
the rates of death and disability
from these diseases a consideration,
but the medical costs to treat them
and the lost productivity from
parents who must miss work to care
for their sick children are enormous. •
If we believe it takes a village to
raise a child, then the inverse is
certainly true as well• It takes the
collective choice of individual
parents to immunize their children
to protect an entire village.
We at the Starting Points Center
feel that childhood immunizations
are of utmost importance.
If you would like more
information on infant
immunizations, please contact our
local health department or contact
me at the Summers County Staring
Points Center, 411 Temple Street.
Hinton• WV, 466 0614.
Sincerely,
Jo Ann Miller, RN
Summers County Starting
Points Coordinator
Group Sessions
Have you really thought about
quitting Smoking? Smokeless
Tobacco? Habitual Boozing?
Gambling? Compulsive Spending?
and/or other habits that are causing
you Trouble?
We will begin organizing group
sessions geared to helping each
other regain control of our lives. We
begin Friday, April 22nd., at 4:30
P.M. at the Summers County
Community Wellness Center, 221
Temple Street Hinton, WV 25951
Ph. 466-3916. No Charge.
QUILT SHOW
"Monroe County Quilts, A Living
Tradition," bicentennial quilt show
Saturday April 24th. (9:00 am to
7:00 pro) and Sunday April 25th.
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 pro. at James
Monroe High School, Lindside.
There will be an outstanding
display of quilts: Vendors with
fabric, quilting supplies; food
vendors. A great opportunity to
participate in our heritage.
PCH BOARD OF DIRECTORS
, TO MEET ,
toCommut./doi
Boof,Directors wil hold their
monthly meeting on Tuesday, April
27th•, at 5:00 p.m. in the Princeton
Community Hospital Multi Media
Conference Room.
Let's ROCK & ROLL
2nd Annual Spring
Classic Car/Truck Show
April 24,/11 a. m.- 4 p. m.
Historio Downtown HInton
Third Avenue Between Temple and James
RegistraUons Oiose at I p.m.
Registration Fee | I O
4 0 Top Trophies / $ Speolal Trophies
Best General Motors, Be0t Ford, Best Mopar,
Best of Show & Best Truck
$ I O0 Grand Prize to one luoky show
parUcipant & many door pdzes
Come Relive The Days of
Yesteryear
Reminisce with old friends and even make a few new ones.
Meet others who have the same special feelings about the
classic autos of a bygone era. The era of your teenage years
perhaps, you r era of drive-in movies and cruising'? Take a
leisurely stroll among the vehicles that will be here and
don't be auprieed if you meet some proud owners who tell
you all about their "little truauree."
Bring the whole family and make a day of it.
Stroll hand in hand through downtown Hinton with that
special someone while listening to music of the 50'= and
60'$. And don't forget to thank the Hinton area merchants
who's donations have helped make this event possible.
This event sponlomd by (HArCC) Hinton Area Community Center, Inc.
RECOLLECTIOHS
t.ly Roy C. Long
RAILROADS BEGINNINGS: stages moved by steam engines from above the surface of the ground, to
Reprint from The Train Dispatcher one city to another almost as fast as be supported by brick columns four
with permission, birds fly, fifteen or twenty miles per hundred to the mile.
In 1813, William Medley built a hour. A carriage will set out from In 1814, George Stephenson
testing carriage on the permission Washington in the morning, the builds a locomotive called the
that weight was a vital factor in passengers will breakfast at "lucher" which ignores Medley's idea
affording traction of a smooth wheel Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia and of adhesion of smooth wheels to
on a smooth rail. He built a supper in New York the same day. smooth rails and instead follows the
framework mounted on four wheels To accomplish this, two sets of Trevithick idea and roughened the
and loaded it with iron blocks and railways will be laid, so nearly level wheels with bolt and other
bars, experimenting until he found as not in any place to deviate more protuberances to make them take
the proper weight required for than two degrees from the hold. Its use is not successful as the
adhesion to that of the load drawn, horizontalline, made ofwood or iron roughened wheels so wrack and
As these experiments proved very or smooth paths of broken stone or wrench the locomotive that it is
suceessful, Hedley, discarding all gravel, with a rail to guide the constantly out of repair, so smooth
previous ideas of locomotive carriages so that they may pass wheels are substituted. The engine
construction in this direction, each other in different directions, is finally shaped up to draw eight
proceeds to build the "Puffing Billy" and travel by night as well as by day, loaded wagons at a speed of about
upon the principals he had just and the passengers will sleep in three miles an hour, but is
proven to be correct. The "Billy" with these stages as comfortably as they confessedly inferior to both the
about fifty pounds steam pressure do now in steam stage boats." John Blenkinspp and Hedley engines in
hauls eight to ten loaded coal Stevens figures the cost of building point of efficiency and economy as
wagons at the rate of five miles an the railroad at nearly $11,000 a compared with horse power.
hour, doing with comparative ease mile. He figures a timber road Hedley finds the Puffing Bill's
the work often horses, covered with iron bar plates and weight on four wheels is very
Orville Evans declares "The time elevated from three to five or six feet detrimental to the track causing the
will come when people will travel in plates to break requiring constant
care. He hits upon a plan of
Letter To The Editor distribution ofweight by decreasing
it on the wheels, by doubling the
Be Ware ! number of wheels and
ee e e experimentally produces the first
eight-wheeler. The eight:wheeler
Dear Editor: pay. Their pension raises are few does not prove to be satisfactory and
Bad things are about to happen, and far between. Able bodied have he returns to the four wheeler,
First, West Virginia Power is to leave for greener pastures, strengthening the plates to meet the
requesting a raise. Have you written Our young families who choose to requirements.
your protest? If not get busy, quick stay and work for the minimum In 1819, a party by the name of
!! wage, struggle to live and exist. Dearborn, in Boston, forwards a
Second, Summers County Board Every way we turn necessities are memo to Congress advocating the
of Education is planning it's fourth raised till we run out of anything to construction of railways, which he
election for a levy to raise our taxes, pay additional. This has to be declares should "have carriages
They never seem to know when to stopped, provided with accommodations for
quit. I cooked my children's breakfast, passengers to take their meals and
One levy was on a regular ballot bought their clothes and books. It their rest during passage. Protection
only two times and they're getting wasn't easy but I managed, from the attacks of assailants, " he
ready for the third where they've Children wanting to learn have
says, "will be insured, not only by
had to rent polling places, buy the best opportunity ever-Yet few the celerity ofthe movement, butby
supplies, ballots, pencils, signs and can siell, read, "add a nine line
weapons of defense belonging to the
so forth, problem or fill out a resume, carriage."
Poll workers have to go to election Teachers are paid more than ever The main obstacle to applying
school at a cost ofat least $15.00 per before and school buildings are steam for stage coach travel was
worker. Then they have to be paid better than most children's homes, that the boilers in use on the
around $75 to $78 per day for Board members learn to do with railways cannot be adapted to
working the election. Levies have to what! 3otr'. hav)v. Spend' the :levy common rads, Anew and light type
' st'thouscs ofci0ils and .et)mpplies an4gli trdng= of boiler must come before the stham"'
..... ................ ........... t.burdeR ,us, with more axes ,We .carriag e will materialize. In 1821,
could have been used to run the don't have it to pay. Julius Griffiths has his plans so
school system. Those against the levy had better perfected as to enable the
They plan the election for a work hard. Be sure to let your construction of the pioneer
Saturday lest we'd forget to vote if friends and neighbors know when it locomotive steam coach, as he
we're against it. will be held. Vote and get others to termed it. It has two Working
If it would pass first thing they'd do the same. cylinders, which, together with the
do would be raise some salaries! Let's defeat this "thing" for the boiler, a condenser and other
Summers County population fourth time. Show them! appendages, are suspended to a
consists mostly of Senior Citizens Estella Akers
and people with disabilities strictly 107 Park Avenue
because there are few jobs and poor Hinton
Hinton BPW Conducts
Development Training
The Hinton Business and
Professional Women recently
conducted an Individual
Development Program workshop at
Summers County High School. On
March 5th., thirty-four junior and
senior female students participated
in the training. The program
curriculum focuses on the
connection between effective
communication, leadership skills
and professional and personal
growth. Segments on the
development of networking,
negotiation, and interviewing skills
are included. This year's instructors
were Mary Lou Haley, Jean
Thompson, Sheri Fullen, and June
Elwell. Sheri Fullen will represent
Hinton BPW and District I of the
WV Federation in the Individual
Development Program speak off to
be held at BPW/WV's annual
convention in Morgantown, WV on
April 17th.
On March llth., Hinton BPW
members Doris Cobb and Nancy C.
Smith presented the' Individual
Development Program workshop to
eight (8) Adult Basic Education
Class students at Linccin school.
The program provides valuable
information to individuals who are
seeking to improve their career
opportunities and are focusing on
setting goals for personal growth.
BPW members are encouraged to
take part in the program to enhance
their communication and leadership
skills and then to share these skills
as trainers throughout their
communities. Hinton BPW
appreciates the opportunity
provided by Summers County High
School and the Adult Basic
Education program to present the
Individual Development Program. If
your group or club would be
interested in learning more about
Individual Development, contact
Doris Cobb at 466-2807 or Nancy C.
Smith at 466-3798.
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Photo Contest
The Hinton Senior Cizens
Center will sponsor a photo contest
April 29th. People are asked to give
Site Manage Rose Moten an
unidentified "younger" photograph
of themselves showing "the way we
were." The photographs will be
displayed Men., April 26th., through
11 am, and Thurs., April 29th., at
the Hinton Senior Center.
A contest will be held that day,
and participants will be able to test
their skills at identifying individuals
in the photographs. All seniors are
invited to participate in this special
reminisce activity. Give your
photographs to Rose by April 23rd.
MEETING
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
Tues., Thurs. and Sat. at 8:00 P.M.
at Ascension Episcopal Church,
corner of 5th. and Temple Street.
frame at the back of the vehicle,
which is a double coach for capacity
of eight passengers. This method
proved very successful and other
carriages follow these experiments
and they are the talk of mechanical
circles.
ooR. Ird AV]L & aT.
BIN'PON, Wa, PllONI¢ 40lSlm
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Gmdelines: Safe Medicine
Use by the Elderly
Health statistics indicate that
older, persons take more l€-
scription and over-the-counter
medicines than any other age
group. While persons over age 65
make up about l 1% of the US
population, they take 25 m 30%
of all medicines sold. As com-
pared to younger adults, this age
group tends to have more long-
term illnesses such as diabetes,
arthritis, and heart disease. And as
a result of the aging process, older
adults may be more "sensitive" to
the effects of medicines. Kidney
function, for example, often de-
clines, causing some medicines to
remain in the body longer and
leading to more side effects.
The Poison Prevention Coun-
cil provides these guidelines for
safe medicine use in older Ameri-
cans: • Take exactly the amount
of medicine prescribed by your
physician, i Never take the inedi'-
cines prescribed for friends or
relatives, even though your symp-
toms may be the same. • Always
tell your doctor about past .prob-
lems associated with medicines
(e.g., rashes, dizziness). • Make
lists of all medicines used. Keep
one copy with your medicines and
keep one copy in your wallet or
purse. • Make sure you under-
stand the directions printed on all
medicine containers. • Discard
old medicines because they 10se
effectiveness over time.
This Weeks Special at
Eddie's Market
201 Greenbrier Drive Ph: 466-6681
CIGARETTES:
Malboro $2.00 off a carton. GPC $3.00 off a carton
Dorel $3.00 off a carton Blackstones Buy I Get I Free
First Class $11.99 a carton USA $12.99 a carton
CHEWING TOBACCO:
All Brands In Stock Only $14.62 a carton
SNUFF: °
Copenhagen & Skoal $22.64 a roll While Supplies
Redwood & Silvercreek $12.08 a roll Last ! ! !
PRODUCE:
Vine Ripe Tomatoes 65¢ lb. [ ".l.e, _, I
Fresh Ramps $1.10 a bunch [ roP"
New Golden Delicious 69¢ lb. / -.%eg'.t
New Potatoes 59¢ lb. ' "=€6". s=,
Baklng Potatoes 39¢ lb. o9 " ...
#10 bags potatoes $1.49 a bag \\; "/
Call for I_..ar._georders_ at 466-668
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ON THE HINTON BY-PASS
HOME OF THOSE DELICIOUS HOT DOGS!
r Men., Quarter Pounder Hamburger (everything) .................. $1.25
r Tues., BBQ (everhing) ....................................... $1.29J
r Wed., Hamburger (everything) .......................... ' ......... 99¢ J
B Thurs., Ham & Cheese (everything) .............................. *1.29]
rFr,., Hoagie ............................................ $2.2
OP N DALLY
Serving full breakfast, including homemade
waffles & omlets from 6 to 11 am.
[[ll Open daily from 6 am to 10 pm 466-1700
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