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2--- H[nton News Tues. Aug. 7, 1979
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays
By the
Hinton Publishing Corporation
210 Second Ave. :
Hinton, W.Va. 25951
Bob Front, CoPubli§her
Jane Front, Co-Publisher
Richard Mtttn(Editor
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Comment:
ii
It's Time
.:i: Once again the issue of an
:.::atlletic field for the Summers
:. : oanty school system is flaring
:i::tip We feel it is high time the
:oiksuel came to a head and a
¢efisjve stand was taken b the
To Decide
By Bob Front
school is being built on approxi-
mately 20 thousand square feet.
It will have roughly 40 thousand
square feet of floor space. The
land at the Career Center where
Superintendent D.E. Taemes and
' :i.00rd of Education. Having no his staff, propose to build the
:immediate personal involve- high schl is presently abQ 76
:.::ment in the outcome, we hope thousand square feet. That's
:- :our@ersonal viewpoint is objec- without purchasing any ad-
:::fivend our comments heplful 'rditi0ual land. The high school
i'dent of the State Board of
Mary Martha
was quoted in the
Superintendents'
as saying, "A well
/tegrated educational oppor-
:'mity for all West Virginia
, "Itidents should offer a strong
'0gram of sports, academics
;atit the arts. In this way,
?' :d'dUcation will have fulfilled its
:dbligation to developwell round-
:ed citizens who have healthy
.olMlies, inquiring minds and
: Ity spirits." Incidentally, the
:'.-'Newsletter" is a state publica-
:ti0n.
" The real controversy is not so
:.much whether to build a field,
:'.bfit rather, where to build it.
: :Railroad crossings not with-
:standing, the Career Center
3omplex is the only logical
:fihoice. Let us assume for a
minute that we will, indeed,
have a consolidated high school
there at some future date. To
build the athletic field any-
where else would immediately
defeat the concept of centraliza-
tion, Arguments against the
Career Center site are based on
money, space, and competition
with the vo-ag program.
i. "Financially, the proposed site
at the Career Center will be the
Jeast expensive to develop. With
grading costs estimated at $20
thousand and finishing costs at
another $10 thousand Summers
:iCollnty could have a pretty
cheap field. Additional facilities
such as locker rooms and
bleachers will, of course, be
additional, but they will be
additional on any other piece of
real.estate also,
..:Will the money spent on the
. Railroadin"
:il !1[ ' .W. E. Dresslerl pelln¢
SmokyWe had always wanted t° take highway that was l°se to the' :und" I' also had himg °ur wag°n and the bears were [ Mountains National hbn y I
state°ur vacation and visit the Great camping area...of Tennessee and North lantern on the front of our tent, licking up all of the honey they hn_ !:v2;,
._'L'ne campers .no no! ren. hoping to scare the bears away. could find. One of the bears Jo
Park which is seven hundred ..ne aanger ol ,m.e e.ars, ana, Our son would ask me now and picked up our ten pound bag of
and twenty square miles in the mey target "mat me "'°enrs then' "D° Y°U see anY beers' charc°al in his m°uth' and I F
W lla .ammals, .ann mey Daddy?',' I wotdd reply in a low dropping it on the ground, he a,uwner
Carolina. The Smokies are a attacz anyone, tt mey are man voice, Not yet,son" It was ripped it open with his sharp
large area of rugged, forest- or hungry. I remember when we after midnight and I peeped out claws. My wife shout to me, "Go
covered peaks and deep ravines were traveling in our car up to again through the front of our out there and get our bag of,
that are preserved in its nat-
ural state. Clingmaus Dome, in
the Smokies, is six thousand and
six hundred and forty-two feet
high, and it is.the highest point
in the state of Tennessee.
Having earned a vacation as
clerk for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad at Hinton, W.
Vs.,. my wife and our three
children packed our 1955 green
station wagon with camping
provisions and headed for the
Great Smoky Mountains Nat-
ional Park in July, 1956 to camp
for a week. We arrived in Gaff-
inburg, Tennessee late in the
evening and set up our camp
along the edge of a clear moun-
tain stream in the large camp-
ing area. There were seven
hundred and fifty campers in
this area from all parts of the
United States and Canada. The
forest rangers, who policed
these camping areas, warned
the campers never to feed the
bears. There were signs post-
ed around the camping area
that read, "$25 Fine for Feed-
ing the Bears". A camper told
us that a week before we
arrived,a young girl had been
feeding a bear, and when she
had fed it all of the food that she
had, the bear reached out with
his large paw and hit the side of
her face, inflicting a wound that
required seventeen stitches.
While we were at this camp
we would walk along the paths
of this dense forest late in the
evening, and a bear would grab
a loaf of bread form a camp-
er's table and scamper up a tree
like squirrel. Our youngest dau-
ghter was standing by the table,
during our evening meal, when
a cub bear brushed beside her
and climbed a tree. We snapped
a picture of this cub bear in the
tree. The campers had told us
that the cub bear's mother had
been killed by a car on the
the top of the Smokies and down
into Cherokee, North Carolina,
and we were watching along the
highway, hoping to see a bear,
when suddenly, out of the dark
forest walked a mother bear
and her two cubs. A young teen-
aged girl jumped out of their
car and rushed up close to the
mother bear and her two cubs to my wife to open the door. She
snap their picture. The old had locked all of the car doors
mother bear whirled around and she and our daughters were
and slapped her two .cubs and sound asleep. Finally they were
ran them back into the forest awakened and we scrambled
from beside the highway. Then into the station wagon. You can
she shirled around and jump- imagine five people and all of
ed at the girl and gave a loud our camping provisions cramp-
blowing sound from her mouth, ed into the station wagon. A few
You should have seen that minutes had passed and there
frightened girl running back to wer five large bears parading
the car. around our car. We had spilled
According to "The Golden honey at the end of our station
Book Encyclopedia of Natural
Science", "Black Bear ( Ursus
americanus) of North America
feed on everything from honey
and wild berries to insects and
small animals. Although typic-
ally black, they may be brown,
cinnamon, or nearly white.
Black Bears have short claws
on their front feet and do not
have humps between their
shoulders as do Brown Bears
and Grizzlies. Once common
throughout Canada and contin-
ental United States, Black
Bears are now found only in
wild forested tracts and moun-
tainous areas."
Unknown to me, my wife had
brought a pitcher of honey and'
poured it along the edge of the
forest above our camp, hoping
she would see a hear. That night
it was our son's and my turn to
sleep in the tent that we had set
up a short distance from the
car. My wife and our two
daughters were sleeping in the
station wagon. Every minute or
two, during the night, I would
peep out of the front of the tent
to see if any bears were ar-
Research Con]erence
: rO those who must make the will be approximately 73.3
:(lnal decision. Arguments pro thousands square feet. If the
,.-,.:':and con can be heard all over County can fit 40 thousand sq. ft. North America's smallest means ESSA must review the
,- the county - on a 20 sq. ft. lot, why can't they native wild cat, the bobcat, will bobcat population and manage-
.'- fit 73.3 thousand sq. ft. on a 76 be the subject of a research ment status for each state be-
"'" "'" thousand sq. ft. tract? We'll conference cosponsored by the fore exports of pelts are all-
National Wildlife Federation owed.
t * .
- Every educat|onal program overlook the fact that the new Some states have gone so far
'-di to bd well-rounded to elementary schoolisbeingbuilt and the Endangered Species
o," to the needs of each ' immediately adjacent to a very Scientific Authority (ESSA), as to ban bobcat hunting and
':3dual student to the great- busy road in a very dangerous October 16 through 18, at the trapping altogether, but many
::eSt-xtent practical. Athletics turn and on a lot far below state Smithsonian research center in officials argue that this is a mis-
:a long been recognized as minimum standards. Apparent- Front Royal, Vs. take. "Most of our bobcat in-
" ..r of the bona fide curriculum ly no 'concerned mothers' corn- More than 40 experts will formation is derived from hunt=
omfldwde. In fact, the new plained about that or, at least, meet to discuss methods and ing and trapping," Chet Me-
Cord of the Massachusetts fish-
the board at the time didn't techniques for assessing the
listen, population status and manage- eries and wildlife division re-
Will the field detract from the ment of the bobcat, cently told National Wildlife
mag-azine. "Without this infor-
"The bobcat has become a
vo-ag program? We don't think
so. There is already an addition very controversial cat," expl- mation, we can't manage the
to the vocational building on the ained Claudia Kendrew, resour- animals."
plans and that will not be ce specialist with NWF. But Maurice Hornocker, of
altered in any way. An outside "Because its pelt has become Idaho, one of the country's best -
known wildlife biologists, does
source, incidentally, has con- so valuable, the fur industry,
firmed that Summers County would like to see more of the' not entirely agree. "Trapping
can be justly proud of their cats being trapped. But some information has its place," he
Vocational Education program, biologists question how long the explained to National Wildlife,
The agricultural program will bobcat population could sust- " but too many states use it as a
still have access to the island ain heavy trapping. We hope at crutch-- an. easy way to man-
adjoining the center and, aside the conference to come up with age bobcats without doing the
from being a bit too small, some answers, so we can make necessary in-depths studies."
everyone seemed to think it was intelligent decisions about how Kendrew hopes the. research
suitable for football so why the cat should be managed." conference can help settle th-
wouldn't it be suitable for agri- The bobcat was not always ese arguments. Among the iss-
culture? Besides, it was dis- such a controversial cat. A ues to be discussed at the con-
closed at a board meeting that a small animal, weighing up to 25 ference are survey techniques,
poll by principals found only pounds, the stealthy bobcat is harvest reports, pelt trade and
seven students interested in found in nearly all of the low- utilization, factors affecting
taking agriculture. Wouldn't it er 48 states. It is capable of harvest level, response of pop-
be safe to say more students -killing an animal ten times its. ulation to harvest, and the
would be interested in using an own weight, such as an ante- relationship of habitat studies to
athletic facility? lope or deer. census techniques.
Why does it seem that the Although the bobcat's usual
Career Center is a separate, fare is mice, rats, squirrels,
entity, apart from the overall birds, and rabbits, itmayatt. Medical
school system rather than an ack farm animals. This tend-
integrad part thereof? .encv -led some states to class-
Is the athletic field detracting fly the cat as a varmint, with a D lega t
from the educational responsi- bounty on its scalp, e e
bilities of the school system? Then, in 1975, an internal-
Yes and no. The field is not, but ional treaty- the Convention on
the controversy certainly is. International Trade and En- Alexander V.Fakadej, a West
For nearly a year and a half the dangered Species (CITES) - Virginia University School of
Board of Education of Summers banned all commercial trade in Medicine pediatric neurologist,
County has debated, tabled, the furs of big spatted cats. With will be a medical delegate from
voted, approved, reconsidered, their old supply cut off, the West Virginia at the Internat-
been delayed, and anything else once- scorned bobcat pelt, ional Special Olympics Aug. 8.
that they could conceivably do. which is tan to reddish brown, 13 in Brockpart, N.Y.
In the interest of education, it is looked quite attractive to Eur- Dr Fakadej, an associate pro-
time, indeed past time, ][or the opean furriers. Prices soared -- fessor, has been ipvolved in.
onepeltsnldforasmuchas$40o SpecialOlympics programs in
board 'to'take deflnitiv!itttlon
on thk matter.. If at dlii&w and in the 11176- 77 trapping the state for seven years and he
student in S0mmers County season, more than 100,500 bob- serves on the board of West
fie|d:detract from the feasibility schools, learns nothing else, it cats were taken. Virginia Special Olympics, Inc.
ofahewhighsehool? No, at the will be tbat each of us is faced in Some biologists began to For the state's first program,
COunty's present bonding limit, life with decisions that must be worry about the bobcat pop- 850 youngsters turned out. By
assuming a bonding issue would made. The decisions are not ulation, but information was sc- this year the number had grown
' ." y y, t one must arce. In 1977, ESSA, which was to. 2,100. About 40 young per-
passa vote, we couldn t meet alwa s eas bu
tbeg, ost of a new school anyway, decide what he or she sincerely established to direct U.S. com- sons from West Virginia will
pliance with CITES, proposed compete in the New York ev-
::]gtce is no great problem believes is right and then act that all exports of bobcat fur be eat, which also will attract
'. The new tlinton Area accordingIy. Serious decistons
Etenentary School iS designed 'inlife'Wilitlwllllaff banned, la the face of loud pticipants from ofler',states
lo!omodate 600 stdentLWe with Our peers, but our: true p¢0ts from' some state and and from 504oreign countries.
uitand this will also be the friends will respect our game agencies, ESSA hacked The Joseph P. Kennedy Foun-
d@ffd student body of a new decisions, eventhough they may down: but did place the cat on dation co- sponsors all of the
higl:$chool. The elementary not agree. Appendix II of CITES. This programs.
tent and to my surprise there charcoalt" I replied. " If that
stood a giant bear at the end of bear wants that bag of char-
our station wagon! I shouted to coal, he can have it!" We were
oorson,"GreatDay!Thereisa scared, because we thought
bear!" He shot out of that tent ,every minute that those five
by me as fast as an arrow out of bears would turn our station
a bow, and ran toward the car. wagon over looking for food. We
We ran to the front door of the didn't sleep a wink, but sat
station wagon and shouted to crowded up in that station wag-
on and watched those bears
walk around it. Finally, at
daybreak, those five bears fad-
ed into the forest. We pulled up
camp that morning and drove to
a nearby motel and enjoyed a
good night's sleep. We were
anxious to see the bears in the
Great Smoky Mountains Nat-
ional Park, but we hadn't
dreamed of there being so many
bears, and being so close to
them.
Byrd's.Eye View
By U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd
Ahead of the Game
The President, in his
recent energy address,
called for the nation to
unite in the energy battle,
and to cut our dependence
on foreign oil in hal; by
1990.
Congress is willing to
give thorough and biparti-
san cooperation to this ef-
fort in order to free us
from bondage to the OPEC
cartel. Indeed, many of the
energy plans mentioned by
the President aro already
moving through the legis-
lative process in Congress.
For example, there is the
omnibus energy bill that
would create an Energy
Mobilization Board, fund a
major program of synthetic
force to study energy pro-
posals in the bill, including
the President's plan to set
up an Energy Security
Corporation to direct the
development of 2.5 million
barrels daily of oil substi-
tutes by 1990.
In other energy-related
developments, the Senate
Finance Committee has
been examining a windfall
profits tax on profits the
oil companies are expected
to take in as the govern-
ment removes controls, and
prices rise.
Two years ago, Congress
passed coal conversion leg-
islation to encourage utili-
ties to switch to coal. Con-
gress may now consider an
fuel development and solar
heat research, 'and open
more Federal land to gas
and oil leasing.
The Energy Mobilization
Board, loosely patterned on
the War Mobilization Board
of the 1940s, would be em-
powered to cut throu'h gov-
ernmental red tape that of-
ten delays for years con-
struction of new energy
projects.
The goal of the synthetic
fuel program would be to
develop a new fuels industry
to liquefy and gasify coal,
convert organic materials
to methane and tap the oil
in oil-shale deposits. The
omnibus energy bill would
fund 15 "synfuel" demon-
stration projects, including
the Solvent-Refined Coal-II
coal conversion plant pro-
posed for Morgantown.
The Senate Budget Com-
mittee has set up a task
amendment to the Fuel Use
Act that :Would mandate
utilities to switch from oil
to coal, in order to cut oil
consumption by 50 percent
in the next decade.
It is important for the
country to have a standby
gas rationing plan ready, if
needed, in the event of any
major interruption in oil
supplies. The Senate ap-
proved such a plan in May,
but the House failed to act.
The clinmte appears to be
better now for full Con-
gressional approval of the
plan.
Congress has taken a
strong leadership role in
the past in enacting a great
deal of energy legislation.
Congress is already well
ahead of the game in mar-
shalling the forces that will
turn the country back to-
ward national energy self-
sufficiency,
A group of Becldey business-
men headed .by former Gover-
nor Hulette Smith and and St-
ate Senator Alan Susman, ann-
ually make up four foursomes
for a golf vacation at Myrtle
Beach, S.C. or Southern Pines,
N.C., but this year they will
have their outing closer to home
due to the gasolene shortage.
This year the group instead of
traveling a considerable dist-
ance will make a short trip to
Pipestem State Park for the
first two days of their golfing
vacation. Then for the third
day, they will play at Glade
Springs, just a few miles from
Beckley; and on the final day
will play on their home course,
the Black Knight Country Club.
Many golfing groups form
West Virignia, nearby Ohio,
Kentucky, and Virginia are foll-
owing the example of the Beck-
Icy men; and are coming to
Pipestem Park for several days
of golfing fun and relaxation in
this beautiful mountain setting.
September and October are
two of the best golfing months of
the year at Pipestem with warm
days and cool nights plus some
of the most colorful fall foliage
in the world.
Groups planning vacations
here during either September
or October should get advance
reservations as well as starting
times on the golf course.
Among the distinguished
guests at Pipestem State Park
recently, was retired Birg. Gen-
eral Thomas J. McGuire and his
pretty wife Marjorie, a Holl-
ander. They now live in Mc-
Lean, Va.; but plan to beemce
native West Virginians in the
next several years.
General McGuire, a graduate
of West Point in 1944, served
with an artillery unit during
World War II, and met his wife
in Frankfurt, Germany where
they were married in 1946. After
visiting Pipestem Park on sev-
eral occassions the McGuires
fell in love with the area, and
have purchased a 178- acre
farm that lies in Summers and
Greenbrier counties, where
they plan to build a house and
make their future home.
In Germany, Marjorie comp-
eted in track and field, special-
ized in the I00 meter run and
broad jump. She alsos
ballet.
Mrs. McGuire now has a
utation in the Washington
as a designer of exercises
athletes, and she was
featured in a Washington
story after she directed the
season training program
Washington High School
ball team that went through
season with fewer injuries
any time in the last 20 year
"Training must match
talent, and match the goal
any athlete or team
of the sport", Mrs.
said. She is oRen
runners, golfers, football,
etball, and baseball players
Mrs McGuire is a living
ample of her exercise
and she believes that
training techniques used
foot-
ball, baseball, and
teams could be greatly
proved by using the
she learned while corn
sports in Germany.
When the McGuires
West Virginia to make tl
future home, they will
welcome addition
community.
"The West Virginians"
Alderson- Broaddus College
cently presented a
songand dance at Pipestem
ate Park, and completely
ivated an
that gave them a standing
ation at the conclusion of
performance.
"The
the direction of David
formerly associated with
Young Americans", have
designated as the "Singing
bassadors of West Virginia ',
Governor Jay Rockefeller.
Each member of "The
Virginians" has
voice; and their
of show tunes, popular
old favorites, and sacred
was an absolute delight to':
who heard them here. It was I
ocnsensus opinion of the
personnel that they were
most talented
group ever to appear at
park.
Applications
The graduate program in Re-
habilitation Counselor Training
at Coppin State College is acc-
epting applications from eligi-
ble students for admission to the
program for the academic year
1979- 80.
A limited number of train-
eeships ( stipends, tuition and
fees), funded by RSA, US De-
partment of HEW, is likely to be
available for full- time students
who are eligible for the
ram.
Preference for
will be given to handles
students. For further detai
apply to: Dr. S.B. Mitra,
airperson, Department of
habilitation Education
State College, 2500
Avenue, Baltimore, Mar
21216; or call (301) 383-
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