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Letter to the Editor
Liberal Court?
Dear Editor:
I hear a lot of complaining about
the Liberal Supreme Court. Some of
the comments are like unto remarks
of some of the old sidekicks in
western movies, "Them dadburn
critters done gone too far!" The fact
of the matter is, the Supreme Court
of the US should be Conservative by
a seven to two majority. The only two
Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court, who were appointed by a
Democrat President, are Steven G.
Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They were both appointed by
President Bill Clinton.
The other seven Justices were
appointed by Republican Presidents.
The list is as follows:
Clarence Thomas Aug. 23, 1991,
Appointed by President G. W. Bush.
David H. Souter Aug. 9, 1990,
Appointed by President G. W. Bush.
Anthony Kennedy Dec. 18, 1988,
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Servicemen In The
News
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eric M.
Harvey, son of Sandra R. Harvey of
Hinton and Richard Moore of
Jumping Branch, recently
completed a two-week bilateral
training exercise with Albanian
military forces while assigned to the
26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
(MEU), based in Camp Lejeune,
N.C. The unit is currently aboard
the USS Iwo Jima.
Harvey is one of more than 4,000
Pacific Fleet Sailors and Marines
who deployed aboard the ships of the
USS lwo Jima Amphibious Ready
Group.
Drawing upon lessons learned in
recent operatio.ns in Mosul, Iraq,
Harvey's unit sought to create a
training exercise that included every
element of the MEU with specific
emphasis on combat service support
of secure'convoy procedures.
RAILROAD
'.00RECOLLECTIONS
By Roy C. Long
The village of Hamlet, W. Va., was
no small community in the hey-day
of the single band sawmill. There
was a three or four story club house
operated by Mr. Marvin Lacy where
rooms were rented and meals served
family style. There was also a
boarding house that was run by Mrs.
Ward Hudson. A teacher at Hamlet
elementary school was Haven Clay
who taught Mr. Jack Ward of
Hinton, W. VA., his first year of
schooling. His family, Arrow and
Dolly Ward, lived at Hamlet one year
and then moved across the river to
Glade. Other teachers at the Hamlet
school were: Miss Maxine Hopkins,
who later married the C&O Agent
at Glade, Mr. C. Stanley Sweet, and
the last teacher, Susie Ranson, who
boarded at Glade with Mr. and Mrs.
Emmett Brandt and walked the
bridge to and from the school
building. The post office serving the
two communities of Hamlet and
Glade was located at hamlet until
the sawmill went out of business.
There was a doctor's office at
Hamlet. Some of the doctors serving
the two communities were: Dr. King;
Dr. Wilson; Dr. McClung; Dr. J. W.
Stokes and Dr. J. T. Johnson. Dr.
Stokes will long be remembered by
GLADE AND HAMLET, Villages
Of Yesteryear In The New
River Gorge; Part 4.
In 1929 the Glade Creek Coal and
Lumber Company sold their
property to Babcock Coal and
Timber Company. Mr. George Beam
was General Superintendent and
Mr. Edward Jones, Superintendent.
Edward Jones let a contract to his
brother Joe Jones to cut a tract 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 the logs with teams
of horses to designated locations for
the log train. This group of men lived
in a logging camp two and one-half
miles from Hamlet up Glade Creek.
Some of the employees of Babcock
Coal and Timber Company were:
Ernest Dillon, the Blacksmith; John
Hopkins, the Sawyer and Jim
Osborne, the Lumber Grader.
Coal was never mined along the
route of the railroad. There was
some talk about constructing a coal
tipple at Glade but the mines never
developed and when the bridge
girders were removed from the
bridge at Glade, W. Va., all hope was
gone.
RAHALL REPORT
Will We See History Repeat Itself?
In mid 20th century, the United
States faced a health care crisis.
Here, in the early 21st century, the
United States faces an eerily similar
situation, and again we have
returned to an age-old question:
Should health care for the elderly
and disabled individuals be run by
the volatile private, for profit
corporations or left in the secure
hands of the collective wisdom and
watchful eye of the people through
their elected government?
In the early 1950s, the Social
Security system, an economic safety
was the lack of affordable health
care coverage for our seniors that led
our Nation to create Medicare in the
first place. And, as the old saying
goes, =those who do not learn from
history are doomed to repeat it."
Today, what is proposed will hand
the elderly and disabled individuals
over to the private insurer, who have
long considered these individuals a
so-called "bad risk." And, they would
be given unchecked power to not
only design the new prescription
drug plans, but also decide what to
charge, with no provisions in the
the people of Hinton, Stokes Drive
being named in his honor. Soon after
Dr. Stokes was married, he and his
young bride came to Hinton and set
up house keeping in a house on
Temple Street near the toll bridge.
Although their new home had been
vacant for quite a long time and
rumors were to the effect the house
was haunted, they were unafraid
and scoffed at such rumors. All went
well for the newly weds until the
night of Wednesday, February 25,
1925, when their house seemed to
be besieged with ghosts. It was an
eerie night and hearing strange
noises, Dr. Stokes arose from the bed
and went to the door to see what was
the matter. To his astonishment,
when he reached the door it slowly
opened without his aid. He shut the
door, locked and bolted it but the
spooks were not to be deterred by
such a little thing. A moment after
he had bolted the door it stood wide
open with the bolt pushed back by
some invisible force.
That was not all. A cold blast of
winter air filled the room blowing in
from windows which they had not
opened.
Apparently believing they had not
scared their victims enough, the
ghosts seized hold of the bed and
moved it about on the castors. At
that point the good Doctor and Mrs.
Stokes decided that enough was
enough and left the house declaring
they would not return.
Dr. and Mrs. Stokes were told
their house was the same in which
Margaret Youell had committed
suicide in 1923. Since then the house
had no steady occupants. People had
come and gone but no one seemed
willing to live there very long. Dr.
and Mrs. Stokes could easily relate
to that.
There were about twenty five or
thirty private homes in Hamlet
when the sawmill was in full
operation. Mrs. Grace Brandt
remembers when she visited Glade
Appointed by President Ronald Harvey's unit is an expeditionary net for our elderly citizens, was legislation that would hold down the in 1921 there was only about five
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Rlchard'Nlxon. Became Chief enwronment. MInUs are composed program began an msurance the P&pdbhcan dntrolled HouseoT hvmg at Hamlet when "ts'am'lml
Justice under President Ronald of more than 2,000 personnel and program, backed by the financial Representatives would not was in operation: Steve Ray, Charley
Reagan 1986.
Antonin Scalia Sept. 26, 1986,
Appointed by President Ronald
Reagan.
Sandra Day O'Connor Sept. 5,
1981, Appointed by President
Ronald Reagan.
John Paul Stevens Dec. 12, 1975,
Appointed by President Gerald
Ford.
The principal author of the Roe v.
Wade Decision (1973) was Justice
Harry A. Blackmun, appointed by
President Richard Nixon
(Republican). He arrived at the
decision as being a right-to-privacy
principal from the due process
clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment (Not mentioned in the
Constitution). Justice Byron White
and future chief Justice William
Rehnquist criticized the right-to-
privacy as constitutionally dubious.
Jennings M. Angell
Hinton
NOTICE
The Summers County Health
Department would like to remind all
residents in Summers County that
before any installation or
modification to individually own
septic systems, a valid permit must
be obtained from the health
department.
A certified installer licensed by
the State of West Virginia must be
used to do all work relating to the
installation or modification of the
sewage system. This is a state law
and individuals not abiding by this
rule can be subject for fines.
RIGHT TO LIFE
Summers County Right To Life
meets at the Wellness Center,
downtown Hinton, at 7:00 pm. The
meetings are held on the 3rd
Monday of each month.
Anyone interested in working for
the protection of the unborn are
invited to attend.
are divided into an infantry
battalion, aircrag squadron, support
group and command element. With
this combination, Harvey's unit
supplies and sustains itself for
either quick mission
accomplishment or clearing the way
for follow-on forces.
Harvey is a 2001 graduate of
Summers County High School and
joined the Marine Corps in February
2001. For more information on the
deployment and high resolution
photographs, please visit the 26th
MEU website at http://
www.26meu.usmc.mil
Meadow Bridge
Area News
By Alvie Martin
A family gathering was held at
the home of Ida Cox in Rupert on
Sat. June. 27th. Those attending
were: TOm and Hilda Davis, Joe and
Reba Davis, Barbara Davis and
David Davis, all of Lawn; Helen
Irvin of Layland, Ida Cox and Rixie
Campbell of Rupert and Betty
Halsey of Springsdale, and Ruth and
Vernon Austin and Dora Vandall of
Greenway, VA.
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.
CREEks.id
C[liaoprutcTiC 002tiNic
Dr. Kevin Harvey
Dr. Holly Harvey
(304} 832-6420
Greenville, WV.
CHIROPRACTIC IS COVERED BY MOST INSURANCES INCLUDING PEIA,
WORKERS' COMPENSATION, AUTO INSURANCE, MEDICAID AND MEDICARE.
strength of the people, through their
elected government, designed to
provide care comprehensive health
care coverage at an affordable cost
to all seniors and later expanded to
those with disabilities.
Today, according to the Office of
the Democratic Leader, instead of
furthering Medicare's initiative to
provide the best health care possible
at affordable costs for our seniors
and disabled, we are taking a long
established program and making
those who depend on it to choose a
private plan that will raise their
costs of care in order to get a
prescription drug plan.
Proponents of changing Medicare
to rely on the private sector believe
it would produce competition among
plans that would drive down costs
and increase choices for consumers.
However, if you look to the past, it
guarantee seniors' access to,
prescription drugs, and it would not
lessen the overlying cost of health
care. It would put the burden of
prescription drug cost on seniors and
people with disabilities, the very
people who depend on the safe
economic foundation of Medicare for
health insurance. This model is
counter to the principles of
affordable health care for all, upon
which the Medicare program was
built.
Thirty-five years ago, Medicare
was the answer for unaffordable
private plans, but today some are
looking towards private plans as
answers to Medicare and
prescription drug coverage for our
elderly and disabled. The question
is: will we see history repeat itself?.
U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV)
represents W Va's 3rd District.
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Ray, the Bostics, the Simmons, the
Simpsons, Louie Delarenzo, the
Wilfongs, the Adkins', Jack Vance,
Ernest Dillon, Howard Hall, the only
African-American; Billy George
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QUARTERLY MEETING ,;.
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Investment Board Yo, uth Council., ,:
will hold its quarterly meeting On.i,
Thursday, July 17th., at 2:00 p.m. ..i
in the conference room of thg i'ri
WORK4WV Career Center, 812 .i
Northside, Summersville, W. VA. :
A tour of the center will begin at.,
2:00 p.m. and the meeting at 2:30, :
p.m. .:.,
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Medidnes Prescribed for
Facial Nerve Disorder
order which affects nerves of the
face. The nerves involved become
inflamed and swollen. This causes
certain muscles in the face to;
become paralyzed or weak, leading
to sagging of facial skin, numbness,
twitching, and eye dryness. Taste"
disturbances may occur. Bell's:
Palsy often appears suddenly and
involves only one side of the face.
The person may feel pain
one or both ears before
appears. Approximately 20 people
out of every 100,000 are afflicted
with this condition each year in the
US. Although the exact cause is'
unknown, it is thought that the'
herps"sibplcx virus responsible
for co|l sores is also res'li6nsibic
for Bell's Palsy/
Most symptoms go away in 3
weeks or so without the use of'-
medicines. Steroids may be given
to reduce pain and inflammation.
Since Bell's Palsy may result from
viral infections, antiviral medicines.
like famciclovir (Famvir) or
acyclovir (Zovirax) are prescribed
by some physicians along with
steroids. Antivirals are sometimes.
used alone. Lubricating drops or.
ointments may be prescribed if the
eyes will not blink or have become'
,verydry. .
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