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2 - Hinton News Tues. July 27, 1999
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From page 1
History
the same conditions that had existed
for the past 25 years. The fire.
department did not accept this
arrangement, instead they are
spending money for a lawyer to sue
the Pipestem Ruritan Club to try to
force them to give them a long term
lease. I want the citizens, of
Pipestem and surrounding areas to
know that the Pipestem Ruritan
Club did not ask the fire department
to move out of the Ruritan building.
The decision to move out was the fire
departments decision•
You will not be without a fire
department in this area regardless
of what the outcome of this law suit•
If they do move out they will have
their own building.
T must say that I am still very
proud of the Pipetem Volunteer
Fire Department and like to think I
had a small part in making it what
it is today• I am still very much
interested in the welfare of the fire
department, as it i great assetto
the community. When they get
ready to build a building on their lot,
I would be willing to do what I can
to help.
If the members of the Pipestem
Fire Department and the Pipestem
Ruritan Club could reconcile
themselves and return to the
friendly cooperation that had existed
between beth organizations for 25
years, I would like to see them stay
in the Ruritan building.
I realize the fire department
cannot do all the things they would
like to do while being housed in the
Ruritan building. They can in my
opinion, perform all aspects of a fire
department, which is only what
their West Virginia charter calls for.
Notice B0E Book
Bag Policy
"The Summers County Board of
Education believes that a safe
learning environment is necessary
if students are going to achieve the
high level skills necessary to survive
in the twenty first century," the
"book bag" policy for the county
school system says.
"Part of assuring students safety,"
it continues, "is the prevention of
contraband and weapons begin
carried into the school. '
"It shall be the policy of Summers
County Schools that students who
choose to carry any type of bag shall
only use mesh or 'see-through' bag."
ENERGY EXPRE
Enjoy being around kids? Have
some free time in the morning?
Come on down to Hinton Area
Elementary from 9:00 am to 12:00
pm on weekdays to volunteer for the
Energy Express Program.
The program will run from June
28-August 6th. If you would like to
help out just stop by or call 66-6024 '
between 9:00-12:00 on Monday
through Friday.
TO WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN
Dear Editor:
Have you been reading your
newspapers? Did you read where
someone in Raleigh County had to
pay more taxes this year for the
same car they had last year?
Did you read where someone slept
when they should have gone to the
polls and voted against that levy?
Now they're grumbling. Serves them
right.
DID YOU READ WHERE
SUMMERS COUNTY BOARD IS
PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES
ON ITS EXCESS LEVY CALL?
It's a three year, 50 percent excess
levy that will raise an estimated
$677,065.00 each year beginning
July 1, 2000. To raise that kind of
money, poor and rich taxpayers will
have to shell out a lot of CASH.
Seniors have no way of earning
more and parents of the children are
drained paying 6% tax on food,
clothing and necessities for their
families. Chic k out Your salesslips
You will be surprised what you pay:
They say the la$t levy was
defeated by a mere 85 votes.
Summers County voters had better
wake up. Watch closely when the
election will be held. Call all your
friends, neighbors and relatives.
Make them aware. Then go in droves
to the polls to defeat this nonsense
levy.
Say "NO" in a big way or be sorry
later.
Sincerely
Edith E. Akers
107 Park Ave.
Hinton, WV 25951
REUNION
There will be a reunion on Aug.
15th. at the Old Suck Creek School
House for the students, family,
friends and anyone that cares to
come. We are hoping that more will
come that went to any of the old one
room schools. We all played ball
together and had the same teacher
from time to time.
We hope to eat about 1:30 so that
the ones that wants to go to church
first, can. So bring your lunch and
visit with us. There will be
restrooms available.
For more info call Harold Bragg
1-304-466-3737 or Lois Basham 1-
304-466-0707.
LETTERS POLICY
Letters am welcome, but no morn
than one letter each month will be
accepted from tlm saum writer. Pref-
erence will be given to lettem of 300
words or ira. Longer letters may be
shortened or rejegted. Letters must
be signed and murat include an ad-
drem and phone number. The tele-
phone number will not be publiahed.
Lottem will be edRod for mnar,
spelling, tu, ryntax, and libeL
Names will not be withheld.
Addm them to Lette to tbe
Editor, P. O. Box 1000, Hinton, WV
25951. ..
RAILROAD
83RECOLLECTIOHS
By Roy C. Long
tayang, ancl xt is also said that a great
many of the present day roadbeds
were born to the accomplishment of
this old favorite. It is still widely
sung by groups and around
campfires.
Many ballards have been written
about railroad wrecks some of which
have become well known and
famous. The Ballad of Casey Jones
became famous by reason of Casey's
memorable collision but the theme
of the song was the immortalization
of Casey himself. Perhaps the most
famous of the plaintive songs about
railroad wrecks was one publishing
in 1924, The Wreck of the Old 97. It
was based on an accident which took
place on Sept. 27, 1903, when a
Southern Railroad passenger train,
No. 97 plunged off a trestle near
Danville, VA., resulting in 11
Letter to the Editor-
Express
Appreciation
To The Editor:
On behalf of REACHH and 411
Family Resource Center, I would
like to express my sincere
appreciation to all of the individuals
who contributed to our most recent
fund appeal. Their support of our
expanded programs means a great
deal to us as we continue our efforts
to address some of the many unmet
needs in our community.
Our contributors include: Janet
Rush, Barbara Steinke and Nina
Shinagel, John and Diana Kelley,
David Stanley, Mary Pearl and
Delmar Compton, Dr. Hyler Booth,
Don and Susan Sauter, Perry Mann,
Denver and Nola Lilly, Jo Weisbrod,
Mary Ann Richmond, Virginia
Harrah, Richard and Brenda
Snuffer, Helen Powell, Camon
Baptist Church, Peggy and Oakie
Blevins, Ronald and Edith Seaton.
Chuck Jaffee, Ernestine Mitchell,
National Bank of Summers, Chris
and Torula Chanlett-Avery, Simon
and Yvonne Satow, Dr. Stanley Day,
Bill and Marge Coleman, Leonard
and Elkie Shatzkin, Doug Yarrow,
Marylou Rush, Sandy Elliott, Beth
Fountain, Kathy Cross, Helen
Johnson and Elizabeth Bare.
The financial and moral support
of these, and the many other friends
who find other ways to contribute to
our efforts, mean a great deal as we
continue to seek to touch the lives
of people in our community in a
positive way.
We invite anyone who has not
stopped by to learn more about our
diverse programs and services to
come to visit us personally by
stopping by our offices at 176
Pleasant Street or 411 Temple
Street.
Sincerely,
Peggy Rossi, Coordinator
REACHH and 411-FRC
411 Temple St., Hinton
SING A SONG OF
RAILROADS - reprint from The
Train Dispatcher with
permission.
From the day in 1823 when an
unknown composer created The Rail
Road March, an .nstrumental piece
without words, to 1964 when Roger
Miller turned out the popular King
of the Road, railroads have been the
subject of hundreds of musical
compositions, and their inspirations
as well. Although many have been
ballads, their lyrics have fallen in
numerous other categories.
The Rail Road March, published
before there were actually any steam
railroads operating in the U. S., was
written to commemorate the first
passenger rail line and was
dedicated to the directors of the B.&
O• During the next 16 years
numerous other compositions
appeared which were devoted to the
railroads - waltzes, polkas and other
instrusmental pieces - but it was not
until 1854 that bona fide railroad
song appeared. It was titled Rail
Road Chorus and the lyrics were
believed to have been plagiarized
from a railroad poem which had
appeared a few years earlier.
Railroad music became an
essential part of the country's folk
music, just as the railroad itself
became folklore. But the railroads
had not only been the inspiration for
folk songs; Music Historian Alan
Imax believes that "no subject, not
even the cowboy's little doggie, has
produced so much good American
music as the railroads." These
include our best ballads. John
Henry, Casey Jones, and The Old
97; powerful worksongs for every
aspect of railroad building:
spirituals like .his Train and All
Night Long; love songs like Down in
the Valley and Careless Love;
innumerable blues songs (indeed,
the blues might be said to be half-
American and half-locomotive
rhythm); endless jazz songs like
Blues in the Night, Chattanooga
Choo-Choo, The Fireball Mail and
Tuxedo Junction. The familiar ditty
She'll Be Comin' Round The
Mountain, made up of verses
anonymously composed and set to
the tune of an old hymn called The
01d Ship of Zion, was an early
railroad song, and it caught the
spirit of that day when the first
steam engine came whistling into a
mudstreeted horse-and-buggy town
on the prairies.
The period in which the boomer
and the hobo had a prominent role
gave America many classic songs,
among which are The Wabash
Cannonball and The Big Rock
Candy Mountain. The former is
about a fairytale train which carried
the hobo anywhere he wanted to go,
and of which the rod-riders said
there was no station in America that
had not heard her lonesome whistle.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain is a
ballad describing hobo heaven as "a
land that's fair and bright, where the
handouts grow on bushes, and you
sleep out every night: Where the
cops have wooden legs, the bulldogs
all have rubber teeth, and the hens
lay softboiled eggs."
Most sung, probably, of all
railroad songs is the familiar I've
Been Workin' on the Railroad. It was
adapted from an earlier song of the
same melody I've Been Workin' on
the Levee. It is said to have been
sung by gangs of Chinese, Negro and
Irish as they worked during the rail
1 .....
ANDERSON REUNION
Anderson's and related families
are encouraged to attend the
reunion to be held at Pipestem State
Park on the first Sunday in August
(Aug. 1st•).
The fun starts at 10 am, with
lunch at noon. Please bring a
covered dish, drinks, and paper
products will be provided.
For more intb, contact Margaret
Anderson Butler at (304) 486-6358•
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NOTICE
ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW AND
SALE
W. VA. State Water Festival Arts
and Crafts Show and Sale will be
held at the Memorial Bldg. on Fri.
and Sat., Aug. 6th. and 7th. Hours
are 10 am to 8 pm and Sat. 10 am
until 4.
Call Ruth Pivont at 466-0822 to
reserve a table.
fatalities.
Even in this space age of faster-
than-sound travel, railroad songs
still appear regularly, and some gain
popularity. This is something of an
oddity since neither busses nor
airplanes nor spacecraft have
inspired much interest on the part
of songwriters. Perhaps this is
because the more modern
transportation media lace the
rhythm of the old-time steam
engine, or the click-click of bolted
rail joints which, even in our day,
have not yet completely disappeared
by reason of continuous lengths of
welded-rail. Or it may be that the
train whistle even the airhorn of
today's diesel - is more of an
inspiration to creators of music than
the whine of the jet or the rhythm-
less roar of the rubbertired bus•
JOIN THE
CELEBRATION
Join the celebration on August 7,
1999, as the annual West Virginia
Water Festival Grand Parade gets
underway at 11:00 a. m. See
majorette and dance units; military
vehicles; boats; floats; fire trucks;
horses; antique and classic cars;
Queen Mermaid and her court; and
much, much more. This year's
Parade Marshal Jimmie Hutchison
will lead the way.
Make plans now to enter the
parade or mark your spot along the
route. Interested parties can contact
Nancy Smith at 466-3798 or Mary
Lou Haley at 466-4271. The Hinton
Business and Professional Women
will host a reception to honor Parade
Marshal Hutchison at Rivertowne
immediately followng the parade.
SUMMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL
TRYOUTS
Tryouts will be held August 4,
1999 at 3:00 p. m. for 7th. and 8th.
graders at Summers Middle School
Auditorium.
If interested, please get in touch
with Vicki Cales at 466-4251.
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for a correct diagnosis of depres-
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Treatment of chronic depres-
sion may involve some form of
psychotherapy (with a therapist or
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The antidepressants commonly
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1/2 Price Wednesday August
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Phone 466-3101
Located 2 1/2 miles down New River Road,
Deb Berry, Owner and Operator
Bridging the Gap
Fall Courses Available
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