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2 -Hinton News Tues. July 1, 2003 [. I More and More People are Reading our Newspaper I:! Because a recent survey found that The - HINTON NEWS is the favored source for three out of five for local news and advertising items. Save $$$. Call (304) 466-0005 Monday through Friday, or send this coupon to the address below and we will bill you for your 52 ' week subscription. Name Address (please print) City State Zip.__ Letter to the Editor Birthday Celebration Dear Editor The 7th annual West Virginia Birday Celebration was held on the 21st and 22nd Of June. Due to the support of the City, County and State, the event was very successful. One spectator I talked to came from Oregon on vacation and scheduled their vacation around this event. This event has grown over the last 7 years from having very few spectators and 15 reenactors to 3000 spectators and 100 reenactors. This organizing committee cannot claim the increase in popularity; without the community supporting this event, it would never have grown to what it has today. The amount of businesses and community organizations assisting the Hinton Area Community Center with this event has grown immensely. I would like to thank all of them for this popularity. le groups assisting us this year are the W Yjrdgi -Abwties Cotmcil, ". iSummer ,., oant- Commission for the use of the €ouRhouse grounds and a financial contribution, the City of Hinton for the:preparation and use of the streets for the parade and battles, not forgetting the superb police presence throughout the weekend. I need to thank ManTech (e-IC) for printing this year's event booklets. A special thanks to Beth Meadows for the beautiful cake she made for this year's event. One duo of people I have to thank is Jack Lilly for the firewood and Carlos Adkins for the hay; without these two items, we would have had several reenacters upset. I also want to thank the reenactors and sutlers for coming to this event. Some of these people traveled over 1000 miles one-way to be here this year and without them, we would have had no event. I ,would also like to thank the people who made breakfast on Saturday and Sunday and the Saturday evening reenactors dinner possible. These people were the organizers and volunteers of the Soup Kitchen located in the Hinton Area Community Center. I have to also remember the financial supporters for this event because without these supporters it would not have been possible. These businesses are TSM Corporation, Jarrell's Exxon, Big Four Drug Store, Double V Collectables, Advarced Water Treatment, Bluestone Dining Room, Briers Furniture, Massie Insurance, West Virginia Gourmet/JC Penney Catalog Store, Dairy Queen, King's One Dollar Store, and Mountain Creek Dining Room. With as many people as it takes to make this event possible, I do hope that I did not forget anyone. However, if I did, I do extend my thanks to you and truly appreciate your support. It will soon be time to do this all over again next year when we will be celebrating the state's 141st. birthday. Sincerely, Jay Vogel WVBirthday Celebration Committee Chairman Letter to the Editor Dogs Should Not be Chained Dear Editor: Have you ever been stuck waiting in an office? Bored, restless, wishing you could go somewhere, anywhere, just to escape the tedium of being in the same spot for a limitless amount of time? Your belly growling as a mealtime approaches, but you are "I TEAR & MAIL TO: THE HINTON NEWS P. O. BOX 1000 HINTON, WV 25951 dependent on someone else to get you out of that office. Frustrating isn't it? Consider being stuck day after day in that situation, having to use the bathroom in the same area, dependent on a busy human to take you for a walk, and to bring you a meal and water. Watching life go by from an isolated location. Bored and lonely, and in some cases, slowly getting aggressive. There are many dogs in this area who suffer long days of boredom from being in same pens or being changed to the same spot day after day. For animals tethered a part of a guard duty for home and property, consider ineffective, it is, since most people tune out the incessant or occasional barking, becoming accustomed to hearing "Fide" bark at a trespassing squirrel or a neighbor's wandering pet. Animals tethered for long periods of time do not get the requisite amount of exercise and generally suffer from physical and psychological problems. What may have started as a loving, easily manageable Ptppy, wen chained, h'n'aaitlly idling, "rd[ilCU'o hVane,hlel of a olg. Whether it is your animal or not, there are things you can do to help alleviate the animal's suffering. If it is your animal, the first answer is to unchain the animal. There are other ways to restrict the animal's movement, protecting it from possible injuries on nearby roads. Talk to area humane societies and area pet stores to discuss alternatives to chaining your animal. Dogs are social animals, enjoying their human's company. In this day and age of health concerns, here's a chance to do something for self and companion animal, Go for a daily walk! If it is your neighbor's animal, offer to take it for walks for them. Treat your animals as you would your best friend, with concern for their welfare, their happiness and their comfort. Cheryl Lowry Hinton BOARD MEETING The Southern Soil Conservation District will hold their regular monthly board meeting on July 10th. The meeting will be held atthe Southern Soil Conservaton District Building, 463 Ragland Road, Beckley, WV. The meeting will begin promptly at 9:45 A.M. Normal business will be conducted. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Alcoholics Anonymous meetings Tues., Thurs. and Sat. at 8:00 pm at Ascension Episcopal Church, corner of 5th and Temple St. SUPPORT GROUP Attention Support group fgr parents with children that have ADD/ADHD meets every 1st. Thursday of every month at 6:00 PM at the CAC Building/411 mple Street. Food and baby sttip.g wil be provided Ques'dolm call 466-2226. JB-NIMITZ PSD The regular monthly meeting of the Jumping Branch-Nimitz PSDis held tim first Monday of each month at 5 pm. the meaings are open to the public. BEREAvEMENT SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS Summers County - The 4th. Tuesday of each month - 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Summers County • Wellness Center, 221 Temple St., Hinton, WV. *Please call ahead to check for any change or cancellations.* RAILROAD "RECOLLECTIONS By Roy C. Long GLADE AND HAMLET, VILLAGES OF YESTERYEAR IN THE NEW RIVER GORGE: Part 3. The Glade Creek Coal and Lumber Company, with their sawmill on the banks of New River at Hamlet, W. VA., built their standard gauge railroad up Glade Creek to the mouth of Pinch Creek and up Pinch Creek over White Oak Mountain to its terminus. It is uncertain how many miles the company's railroad penetrated the mountains beyond the sawmill or the exact location of the End of Line. Roy E. Jones, retired agent- operator for the C&O Railway now residing at Green Sulphur Springs, cut timber for the sawmill in 1929, stated the line went over White Oak Mountain and crossed where State Route 3 now passes over. This fact has been verified by James R. Sampson of Hinton, WV., whose Letter to the Editor New River Rednecks? Dear Editor: In a March 2003 press release, the National Park Service notified the public that River Road along the Delaware Wild and Scenic River would he closed when it rains or rain is forecast. Anyone skirting those NPS barricades would be fined $50 to $150. The reason: to protect the frogs, spotted salamanders, spring peepers and other spring-breeding migrating amphibians from tourism traffic. (Inasmuch as a "parkway" IS vested to the United States on completion, could the NPS ever close the New River Parkway for such like reasons here? If not, why not?) When a most knowledgeable/ concerned citizen kept insisting that any real environmental impact • studies would prove that an increase mother worked in the freight depot at Beckley, W. VA., remembers as a lad, the family automobile being held up at the railroad crossing on White Oak Mountain while the log train pulled by. Mr. Daniel R. Crawford, retired Supervisor of Track for the C&O, now of Fayetteville, W. VA., also verified the crossing of the loging railroad over White Oak. On March 7, 1933, Theodore Harrah, an employee on the lumber company train, in picking up logs at White Oak, was caught between three cars and the engine, crushing his pelvis and causing fatal internal injuries in critical condition, he was brought to Hinton Hospital where he lingered for one week until death eased his great pain. The beginning of the end of Glade Creek Coal and Limber Company began in June 1928 with the tragedy of murder in the company's main office at Hamlet. Cham Neely was an employee of Louie Mohair, an Italian who had a contract from Glade Creek Coal and Lumber Company to cut a track of timber and skid the logs to the Smith-Graham Family Reunion SMITH-GRAHAM Family Reunion will be held on Saturday, July 12th., at the Summers County 4-H camp in Hinton, WV., starting at 11"00 a.m. Please invite family and friends. Bring a covered dish enough for your family, a dessert and drinks. Paper products and ice will be provided. There will be music, swimming, door prizes and guessing games. Again this year we will be having the auction. We count on you bringing items to be auctioned for railroad where they could be loaded onto the log train and moved to the mill pond at Hamlet. Mr. Mohair brought out the logs within easy reach of the railroad and suddenly left the area without paying his employees their wages due. Mr. Neely was very much upset at not being paid and made several efforts to get his wages due from Mr. Ernest A. Simmons. President and Geperal Manager of the company. Mr. Simmons was presistant that Neely was an employee of Louie Mohair, that Mohair had not completed the terms of the contact he had with the company and that Neely's grievance should be with Mr. Mohair and not the Glade Creek Coal and Lumber Company. On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 11, 1928, business was going on as usual when Cham Neely entered the company office at Hamlet which was occupied by Mr. Simmons, his stenographer, Miss Vernette Burger; I. E. Hedges, Assistant Secretry and B. D. Lacy, Pay Roll Clerk. Miss Burger was taking dictation from Mr. Simmons when Neely, in a rough and commanding tone of voice, ordered her to leave the office. She got up to vacate the room and Mr. Simmons, exhibiting some concern of danger, requested she wait. Neely commanded her to leave the second time and as she exited the room, heard Mr. Simmons ask Neely, "What do you want?" Neely answered, "I want that money." Moments later the sound of three gun shot blasts rang out. Neely then left the buidling, walking toward the railroad track, with a smile on his ,face, said to a man he passed. "I got two of them." Mr. Simmons, in critical condition got up from his desk, staggered a few feet and fell dead. The second shot was aimed at Mr. Hedges who was seriously wounded and the third shot, aimed at Mr. Lacy missed without damage. • or tourism traffic on a parkway another successful year. The A short time later, in 1929, the immediately adjacent to the New proceeds from the actien are us! \\;Glde.Crook ,,1 .....  z,,, , River ,would harm-spring-breeding ,  r, ),,).  ,', .u,n ,'rnn, ................ ......... to,iax fqr larrup, renta!# Company, slhe.pvopety nigrating ampibias ahd:' h .... . " " .... ," ..... hfequard, door. p[qzes, paper Babcock Coal and Tiber Company subsequent fish food chain cycle pr0duts and flower t'und. Mr. George  Beam was General ' here, he was called a"Redneck" by For more information or Superintendent, and Mr. Edward a member of the New River Parkway Board. The board president mocked the citizen further, telling him, "The parkway isn't going to be built in the river." The Virginia Polytechnic Institute Landscape consultant, who received $2.5 million dollars of our tax dollars to push the proposed park way along the river, just recently informed that same Redneck, the parkway board, the public and the highway departments that hellgramites never crawl across New River Road but only crawl 3' from a river bank. (Pure fallacy! Huh, Mr. McGraw?) I think those agencies/ consultants are basking in the belief that we're not only Rednecks but 'DUMB Rednecks, and any real parkway studies would prove otherwise. And, while I can't begin to comprehend the magnitude of Mr. McGraw's 50 years of (Redneck?) knowledge about the aquatic life and the valuable fish food chain cycle of the New River he knows loves and respects so dearly, I do consider it quite a compliment and honor to be classified a Redneck with him any time, rain or shine. DUMB, obviously, he "ain't"!H Ann Roach New River Road Hinton directions, please contact Samuel Smith 304-466-1956, Ronnie Smith 304-466-1257 or Marie Ratliff 304- 255-9243. Looking forward to seeing you there. NOTICE DIABETES PROGRAM Take control of your diabetes rather than diabetes controlling you. Summers County ARH Rural Health Clinic is sponsoring a free "Diabetes Self-Mangement Program.  Call 466-2905 for more lifesaving information. Knowledge is power. Jones, Superintendent. Edward Jones let a contact to his brother Mr. Joe Jones, to cut a track of timber and bring the logs out of the woods to the railroad. Mr. Joe Jones employed his son, Roy E. Jones, and about twenty laborers to cut the timber and skid thP logs with teams of horses to designated locations for the log train. The timber man of this group lived in a loging camp two and one-half miles up Glade Creek from Hamlet. Continued next week. LETTERS POLICY Letters are welcome, but no more than one letter each month will be accepted from the same writer. Preference will be given to letters of 300 words or less. Longer letters may be shortened or rejected. Letters must be signed and must include an address and phone number. The telephone number will not be published. Letters will be edited for grammar, spelling, taste, syntax, and libel. Names will not be withheld. Address them to Letters to the Editor, P. O. Box 1000, Hinton, WV 25951. Between jobs? ...... Before you cash in your 401(k), Talk to me about rolling it over. Taking a lump sum payment on your 401(k) plan could cost you 40 percent of the total in taxes. Even more if you're subject to a penalty tax because you're under 59-1/2 years old.* Regina Gwinn Eckle, LUTCF 211 Pleasant Street Hinton, WV 304-466-3290 regina.eckle.bwax @ statefarrn.com Ask me how your money can continue to grow and compound on a tax deferred basis. state farm.corn'" Slale Farm ' • Home Offic'cs: Bk,minglon, Illimfis *Ask your lax advisor Ior advice regarding ytmr situation. Meadow Bridge Area News By Alvie Martin Alvie Martin of Meadow Bridge celebrated is birthday on June 10th. But he celebrated his birthday on June llth. at Hinton Senior Center at the Senior Spring Picnic at Bluestone State Park with all his friends. His birthday cake gave to him by his sister, Hilda Davis of Lawn. He also received several cards and lots of gifts. He wants to thank everyone who sent him a card or gift. He has the Martin Family Reunion at his home at Meadow Bridge, as always, but this year i will be canceled because his brother- in-law, Raymond Pack of Christiansburg, VA., has been sick. Alvie loves flowers and loves bluegrass music. He attends the Chesntut Knob Christian Church of Layland. BIG FOUR DRUG STORE Cot. 3rd AVE & TEMPLE ST. HINTON W.Va., PHONE 466-2323 . ',.E..'.- • : Ellison,.  aR. Ph. What To Do About Childhood Bedwetfing Bedwetting (nocturnal enure- sis) is the accidental and repeated nighttime urination by a sleeping child who is old enough to be ex- pected to awake on their own and go to the bathroom. Bedwetting is a common problem that affects an estimated 5 to 7 million older chil- dren in the United States. About 20% of children up to the age of 5 years will wet the bed at night. As children get older, bedwetting usu- ally stops. However, around 10% of 6 year-olds and up to 3% of 12 year-olds still have a problem. Re- searchers have found that if both parents were bedwetters their chil- dren have about a 70% chance of inheriting the problem. If bladder or kidney infections, diabetes, or emotional problems are causing the problem, a physi- cian should address these causes. Bedwetting alarms are effective and arc,commonly used to control bedwetting. Medications can be helpful as well. Xmipramine (Tof- ranil) works to tighten the muscles that block urine flow from the blad- der. Bedwetters tend to have low levels of a natural substance called antidiuretic hormone.This can cause them to produce more night- time urine than normal. The drug desmopressin raises antidiuretic hormone levels to normal, reduc- hag the overall volume of urine and making it easier for a child to wake up when the bladder feels full. RICHMOND CEMETERY at SANDSTONE, i. SUMMERS CO. This is a private cemetery. There is no ownership of plots. Do not place headstones on unoccupied grave sites. Markers placed without permission will be removed. , AI & Ramona McMillion Care Takers Box 63, Sandstone, WV. 25985 /211/2 Hone Towing 4' Road Senior ,/gnloeldng Smite ,/General Motors Wamnty Towing ,/'Ford Motor Company Wurnt00 Towing ,/Llgkt Meehnkal Repairs ,/Roll-Back 4'C0mplete Antobody Slop ,/'Alignments 4"Bake Oven 4'AND MUCHI MUCHI MOUlt [ !1 '!