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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
I Must Respond
Dear Mr. Long,
Once again I find myself in the
pmition where I must respond to
another letter to the editor by Mr.
Mathews, Vice-President of the
Summe County Board of Educa-
tion. s never-ending struggle to
counter "eeds of defamation" has
becomembarrassment to me,
and Ibld think that even Mr.
Mathews must feel some embarrass-
ment feonstantly placing these
doubt before the public.
Mr. Maews' most recent letter
isobvious]yreferring to a treasurer's
report that I provide each board
member once a month. Since Mr.
Mathews was elected to the board in
1988, he has never asked me to
explain the negative dollar amount
minutes over the last 15 months, i
believe you will find his statement is
contrary to his actions.
The last time I attempted to an-
swer a letter to the editor by Mr.
Mathews, he wrote the State Super-
intendent of Schools and asked if my
letter could be considered insubordi-
nation. His wife called me and
threatened to take legal action.
Every letter that I have ever written
was in direct response to statements
or allegations aimed directly at me.
Nothing would make me happier
then to never have to write another
letter to the editor.
Billy Joe Kessler
Where Are We
RAILROAD
RECOLLECTIONS
By Roy C. Long
ENGINEERS SUPERSITIONS
Of all the different classes of
employes in the railroad industry
probably the most superstitious of
al|, at least near the top of the list,
was the locomotive engineer. We
attribute that to the danger they
were always exposed.
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
An Open Letter
To The Citizens
Of Summers
County
Dear Editor:
We the members of Station 13
wish to thank each of you who have,
in the past, donated funds to help
this volunteer department survive.
Station 13 is located across from
Bellepoint, and because of our loca-
tion near the most populated area of
the county, we receive more calls
than other volunteer departments.
In 1981, the County Commission
purchased pumper trucks and we
are currently using this truck in our
department. We have had to have
the pump repaired. Upon receiving
the truck and a repair bill, the actual
costs is $9,908.74.
I think we all are aware of the
financial problems this county cur-
rently is suffering and we wish to
ask the citizens of Summers County
to please help in the payment of this
debt, so we can continue to serve the
people of this county.
If your heart will allow you to
assist, you may donate to: Summers
Co. Vol. Fire Dept. & Rescue Squad,
Station 13, Box 914, Hinton, WV
25951.
THANK YOU!
listed opposite our demand account. Goin Askin
Every month since his elecls , ........ . ..... ... .. g ,
figure hasappearedin parelefii .= ofy" " life in- : • '* :
Now, 2 and a half years r snt much an¢::
volved with education in Summers
County. It has been disappointing
and frustrating to observe the fail-
ure of the present board of education
to create a healthy climate in which
our teachers could teach and our
children learn. I joined the Friends
of Education in the hope that we
could make a difference; we may fall,
but we will have tried!
On the first of July, I attended the
Mandamus hearing relating to the
prosposed new high school. This
event was conducted in Judge
Kaufman's court in Kanawha
County. Parts of this hearing re-
sembled low comedy and were al-
most farcial. Our attorney, Mr.
Ziegler, made a most succint and
telling presentation. The opposition,
an intimidating force of almost two
dozen attorneys, failed to counter
his arguments. It appeared that the
judge was somewhat overawed by
the number of our opponents; our
attorney was not. We were all ira.
pressed with David Ziegler's con-
duct during a most distressing after-
noon.
The School Building Authorityhas
rested their case on the supposition
that they are not bound by the intent
of the Legislature to keep politics
out of the selection process, and the
SBA may disburse these funds with
complete discretion. It is a specious
argument and the only one they have,
but we fear the judge, under the
monumental pressure from the six-
teen counties that were funded, may
allowit. Ifthis occurs there would be
no valid reason for any county to
follow the selection process set up by
the SBA and this body could never
be held accountable for the funds
with which they have been intrusted.
We feel sure the judge sees
through the design of the SBA and
we hope we get a legal decision and
not a poltical one.
Pauline Fife
CLINT BLACK
Clint Black w/special guests:
Merle Haggard and Billy Dean on
Sun. Aug. 4 at 7:30 PM at the Char-
leston Civic Center Coliseum.
Ticket prices: $19.50 - all seats
reserved.
For ticket purchase call ticket-
master Charleston area: 342-5757
or Huntington area 523-5757.
An elephant's trunk has about
40,000 muscles.
We have heard ofemployes carry-
ing a rabbit's foot to ward offdanger
while others carried good luck
charms. It was a no no to walk under
a ladder and if a black cat crossed
your path something dreadful was
going to happen. Some were made
superstitious by being awakened by
bad dreams, having unlucky num-
bers and by hoodoo dates. A few
train dispatchers throughout the
country would skip over the number
thirteen when issuing train orders
and those that did use it made many
a trainman uneasy when they re-
ceived train orders issued under that
number.
A reporter for the Rocky Moun-
tain News in 1902 questioned sev-
eral locomotive engineers if they were
superstitious. =No, I am not super-
stitious," said one, =but my wife is,
and I have never been in a wreck
since we were married but what she
predicted it was going to happen. I
remember once by her insistance in
the truth of a dream she saved my
life. I was to have taken out the
freight in the morning, but she
awakened me soon after midnight.
"Oh, Jim', she said, "I have had such
a dreadful dream. I thought I saw
your engine plunge into another
engine. I heard the crash, Jim, and
the hiss of escaping steam and the
cries of some poor fellow pinned
under the wreck. You must not go
out in the morning, I know you will
be injured."
He had laughed and told her to go
back to sleep that she was just nerv-
ous. When he awoke at 6:00 a.m.,
she hadn't slept, was pale and hag-
gard and he knew that if he went out
she would be a nervous wreck until
he returned. Because of her condi-
tion and begging him not to go out,
he gave in to her plea and laid off. A
substitute engineer took the train
out in his place. They brought his
body back that evening. There wa a
collision up the line. The engineer
who took his place was killed. The
other engineer involved in the head-
To Whom it may concern:
You may not be aware of the fact
that West Virginia Power Gas Serv-
ice has asked the Public Service
Commission to grant them
$3,500,000.00 or 21.67% annually
for providing gas service to 22,300
customers in the Counties of Boone,
Calhoun, Clay, Fayette, Gilmer,
Jackson, Kanawha, McDowell,
Nicholas, Putnam, Raleigh, Ritchie,
Roam. SUMMERS, Wirt, Wood and
Wyoming to become effective March
1, 1992.
There will be a meeting Tues.
July 23rd. at 7:00 P.M. in the audi-
torium Oak Hill High School for the
purpose of taking statements from
the public in protest or to support
the requested rate change.
If you cannot attend this meeting,
let's flood the Public Service Com-
mission of West Virginia 201 Brooks
Street, Charleston, WV 25323 - P.O.
Box 812 with letters, letting them
know how you feel.
This affects the middle class more
than anyone else. The poor gets their
bills paid from taxpayers money, the
rich have it and the middle class
struggle to get it.
Please do not neglect this impor-
tant matter - It's toolate to cry when
your gas bill jumps 21.67%.
Sincerely,
Estella Akers
NOTICEI
The Summers County Singing
Convention will hold the July con-
vention at the Bluestone Baptist
Church, at Jumping Branch, WV.
James Withrow, President
Mount Olivet Camp
Meeting To Be On
PBS T.V.
wants the public to believe that the
report is an attempt to deceive the
board. In Mr. Mathews'letter to the
editor he states, q still have no
explanation for the negative figure
on the statement." He has never
ked that it be explained.
During the last board meeting,
when Mr. Mathews brought up the
topic of overdrafts, he was referring
to an article in the Hinton News. He
never referred to the treasurer's
report and he never asked for an
explanation. In fact, the article he
was making reference to never
mentioned overdrafts. It was an
article about the 1991-92budget and
|ated that it was approximately
$600,000 short of meeting antici-
pated expenses.
Mr. Mathews states that he went
to the hank to see if we were over
draid and, if so, was the bank
charging the board interest" Anyone
with any sense at all would know
that no bank is going to permit over-
drafts of this magnitude. Further-
more, the difference between the
treurer'ereport and the figure that
Mr. Mathews obtained from visiting
the bank is the result of a bank
reconciliation. This is a very ele-
mentary, but standard procedure
whereby you take the bank balance,
add deposits in transit, and subtract
outstanding checks. This will give
you your true bank balance. The
reason it will always be negative is
because I do not transfer money from
our investment account to our check-
ing account until the checks are re-
leased. This will allow us to maxi-
mize our efforts to earn interest on
any positive cash flow.
Mr. Mathews states that, =As a
board of education member, I am
trying to keep us fiscally responsible
and fiscally sound. This statement
is not at all consistent with the fact
that the Summers County Board of
Education is facing its first-ever
deficit at a time when Mr. Mathews
is part ofF mjorfty vote on the
board. Ifu care to review the
Lette are welcome, berne mere
than oneqetter each month will be
acceptodlom the ume writer. Pref-
erence will be given to letters of 300
word= or leu. Longer letters may be
shortened or rejected. Letters must
be signed and must include an ad.
dress and phone number. The tele-
phone number will not be published.
Lettem will be edited for grammer,
spelling, taste, syntax, and libel.
Names will not be withheld.
Address them to Letters to the
F.,ditor, P. O. Box 1000, Hinten, WV
,S.91. .........
One of the special events of the
1991 Mount Olivet Camp meeting
will be the filming of the camp for a
special PBS T.V. program. Mr.
Randal Bal mar, professor at Co]um-
bia University in N.Y. along with a
T.V. crew from London, England will
be on the camp ground July 23 and
24 for this filming.
Mount Olivet camp has been se-
lected to be a.part of the program;
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory.
This ninety minute program will be
shown in America and England. One
of the reasons Mount Olivet Camp
was chosen is it's Historic past and
setting. Something else for Summers
County and Hinton to be proud of.
on collision and both firemen were
seriormly injured.
Another engineer regarded the
number thirteen as interwoven with
the tragedies of his life. On July 13,
1901 he was pulling a passenger
train. At thirteen minutes past
twelve, his train struck a wagon on
which a man and his thirteen year
old son was riding. The boy was
killed instantly. The engineer was
delayed thirteen minutes making a
report of the accident and his con-
ductor casually remarked there were
but thirteen passengers riding the
train.
When asked about superstitions,
another engineer looked very seri-
ous and after thinking about the
question for a while answered. =Well,
I have no unlucky day but maybe it
is my lucky day. For the past ten
years something has happened to
my engine or train ifI work the last
day of the year. So far I have escaped
injury but now, when I climb into the
cab on Dec. 31st., I always say, "Now
look out, Tom, old man," and con-
tinuing he said, =It was Dec. 31st.
ten years ago when I was pounding
along on a double-header about thirty
miles an hour in a blinding snow
storm. You couldn't see thirty feet
ahead. We crashed into another
double-header making about forty
J
miles an hour. I saw the train just in
time to reverse my engine and jump.
I escaped without serius injury but
one of the firemen was killed and the
rest were bunged up.
An operator had failed to give him
a train order. After that incident he
said something always happens.
Once an engine wheel snapped off
but he was able to stop his train
before the engine derailed. In the
past ten years he had his share of
pulled drawheads, broken knuckles
and hot boxes but remembers all
that occurred on Dec. 31st. And so it
goes. Superstitiuous or not, the rail-
road men answered their call. Some
were very lucky while others were
not. ....
SUPPORT GROUP
The Epilepsy Support Group will
meet July 25, at 6:00 P#, at Me, a-
Centers for Independent
329 Prince St., Beckley, WV.
Topic: "ADA and Rights in the
Workplace." For more information
call 469-4034 or 255-0122.
COIL Srd AVE. & TEMPLE fir.
HINTON, WVm, PHONE 4825g$
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Mark
P..
Otitis Externa is
"Swimmer's Ear"
An infection of the ear canal
brought on by the presence of too
much moisture in the external car
is commonly referred to as "swim-
mcr' s ear." The technical or medi-
cal name for this condition is otitis
externa, meaning inflammation of
the external ear canal.
Very often otitis externa results
from water entering the ear during
diving or swimming. Water may
become trapped in the ear due to
the presence of excessive ear wax.
The moisture softens and wears
away skin lining the outer canal.
This makes the canal more suscep-
tible to infection. Other causes of
otitis extema include hair dye, hair
spray, or excessive cleaning of the
ears with cotton swabs. The ear
canal may itch and become in-
flamed. Fluid may drain from the
ear at night and often can be seen
on pillows the next morning.
Although nonprescrip6on ear
cleaners are available, many au-
thorities recommend professional
removal of ear wax. Ear drops may
be effective in relieving pain and
itching. Aluminum acetate drops
may help decrease swelling and
car canal crusting. Oral pain re-
licvcrs may help. Antibiotics or
ar,ungals sometimes arc needed.
Furniture Anniversary
Sale Winners
FREE DAYS PURCHASE DAY
Louise Lilly. Lawn Furniture
Gary & Diane Wheeler- Recliner
Martha Estes- Day Bed & Bedding
Charles Skidrnore - Sweeper Belts
Virgil Clowers- Leather Recliner
Sally Dick- Vacuum Cleaner
Thanks to all who made our
sale a success and to the
whole community for the
support given us during this
time of loss. We have opened
a temporary office at 209 Bal-
lengee St. (old Downtown
Floral) and the Briers Annex
is open.
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