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2 - Hinton News Tues. Oct. 12, 1999
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Pharmacy &
Your Health
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Name
Address
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City .State ZIp
TEAR & MAIL TO:
THE HINTON NEWS
P. O. BOX 1000
HINTON, WV 25951
Letter to the Editor
Concerns Parkway
Project
James E, Sother, P. E.
Director Eng, Div.
Charleston. WV 25305
Dear Mr. Sother:
This concerns the New River
Parkway project on the Raleigh
County side and requested
comments by October 11, 1999.
Please consider this letter as my
opposition to certain aspects of this
project.
I presently own property on west
side of New River as identified on
color section of attached map from
your recent publication. I
understand that the U. S. EPA and
Fish and Wildlife requires all
property between the new parkway
and river frontage be acquired by
WV Dept. Hwys. before approval.
I definitely oppose this condition
on the basis of unlawful confiscation
of my property, discrimination
Letter to the Editor -
MONEY APPROPRIATED
Dear Editor:
It is my understanding that
seventeen million dollars was
appropriated for a "Roadwaf' to be
built between 1-64 to Hinton. I
understand, also, that
approximately seven million dollars
of those funds have already been
spent for "DOH Engineering
Services" alone.
As you are probably aware, The
National Park Service and The West
Virginia Department of Highways
has altered all previously published
proposals and are now proposing to
build the road along the west side of
New River from 1-64 to Hinton. Be
advised, these propbsed plans are
not limited to a "Roadway" as
appropriated, but are now
attempting to add 10 miles of
"Recreational Facilities" between
the Roadway and the River!
agnst 'Wst 'itte'NbW 'Riv ...... I-n fed to ask, as a tax payer:
prort)116j r&:b;tltll V!€3tlml qventeillion
ofeoyableaeiandegrestohe-dollars Was approprid$o for a
Historic New River. I do not have "roadway, who has the power to
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Insurance that is!
need for a parkway with out the
enjoyment of my property.
I attach a colored area of my
property on the map from your
recent publication and request your
comment in regard to your future
plans thereto. I am sending this
letter to WV Senator Leonard
Anderson, US Senator Robert Byrd.
and The Hinton News to direct
attention to this situation.
I am Hinton WV native, Concord
College graduate 1957, Veteran
Korean War ( Prisoner War 27 mos.)
and am highly upset of any denial
of my property rights on the
beautiful NEW RIVER where I
desire to return and live until my
death.
Daniel L. Johnson, Sr.
100 Wynnchester Rd.
Gastonia, NC 28066-7556
LETTERS POLICY
Lettere are welcome, but no more
than one letter each month will he
accepted from the same writer. Pref.
erence will be given to fatten of 300
words or le. Longer letten may be
shortened or rejecte& Letten must
be signed and must include an ad-
dress and phone number. The tele-
phone number will not be published.
Lettor will be edited for grammar,
spelling, tag¢, yntar, and libel.
Names will not be withhehL
Addreu them to Letterm to the
Editor, P. O. Box I000, Hinton, WV
25951.
incorporate additional land and
"propose" additional expense, at will,
and not be made accountable for
such actions? All advertised
information to date has stated that
the roadway project was expected to
cost thirty-four million dollars
(today's figure, from the W. VA. Dept.
of Highways, now has the proposed
cost at forty million dollarsl) Neither
figure includes right-of-way (or
property acquisition) costs{{
Sir, I have no objection to
sacrificing.a few feet of my property
for much needed roadway as
shown to me in the plan of 1998. Nor
do I object to an increase in my
property taxes to maintain that
road. I do strenuously object to
having my tax dollars used so
wantonly{Tax paying citizens work
too hard to allow any governmental
organization to spend "at will." If
there's noLa law against that, there
should be{
Respectfully,
Jo Ann Roach
3422 New River Road
Hinton
HArCC BOARD MEETING
The Hinton Area Community'
Center's Board of Directors meet on"
the second Tuesday of every month
at 5:30pm at the Community Center,
310 Second Ave.
All meetings are open to the
public.
MAMMOGRAM
SCREENING
ACR/FDA Accredited - Registered Mammographers
Special available in Octelmr
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:
BECKLEY - 255-3306
SUMMERS COUNTY - 466-2912
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Idiom Of The Rafts
By Jack Maguire in "Railway
Progress - reprint from The
Train Dispatcher with
permission.
Boomers, the wandering railroad
men who once drifted over the
country from one job to another,
developed a picturesque language
that has become a part of the lore of
Letter to the Editor
Seeking
Information
Dear Sirs:
My mother and I are seeking
information about Mary 'Lil'
Sanders, my grandfather's half-
sister.
Her parents were Thomas Cicero
"Ibm' and Julia Napier Sanders. Tom
and Julia were married in Pardee,
Wise Co., VA. November 3, 1926.
Tom's parents were William and
Eveline Brown Sanders of Ashe Co.,
NC. Julia's parents were Alexander
and Mary J. York Napier (Nappier)
of Bell Co., Ky.
Julia had the following siblings
Gilbert, Mandy, Lizzie, Robert, and
James listed in the 1900 Bell Co.,
KY Census.
Lil had been in touch with her
half-sister, Monnie Sanders Rogers
in years past, but now all contact has
been lost. We would love to hear
from her or anyone in her family.
Anyone with any information
concerning these families, please
contact me.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Anna B. Tittsworth
216 Debbie Road °
Knoxville, TN. 37922
(423)671-4221
e-mail annacat@mindspring.com
Open House Reception
To Be Held
' You . are cordially invited to join
as at an open house reception
from 3:00 - 6:00 p. m. Tuesday,
October 19th., at the Memorial
Building in Hinton to celebrate West
Virginia University Extension
Service programs in Summers
County.
Visit our newly redecoi'ated
offices, talk with state Extension
speciaIists, and meet your county
Extension faculty.
WVU Associate Provost Lawrence
S. Cote will give brief remarks and
make special presentations at 5:00
p.m.
BUSINESS AND
PROFESSIONAL WOMEN
• Are you interested in
networking?
• Are business contacts important
to you?
• Are you looking for
opportunities-for personal &
professional growth, development &
training?
• Do you want to improve your
leadership skills?
Attend the Fall Membership
Expansion hosted by Hinton BPW
on Monday, October 18, 1999, 7:00
p. m. at the Summers County
Memorial Building. Learn how
affiliation with this local, active club
can help YOU. Call 466-3447 or 466-
3798 for more information.
EMT-B CLASSES
Anyone interested in an EMToB
class please call Summers County
EMS at 466-0312. Classes will start
in November.
the roaring road. Some words
became common wherever the twin
ribbons of high iron ran. Others
remained confined to one section of
the country, and sometimes to one
railroad system. Today they're still
in use, at least or occasion, around
switch shanties, beaneries, or
anywhere that two or three
railroaders get together.
Steam locomotives seemed to lend
themselves to almost limitless
variations, in the idiom of the
roundhouse. Under varying
circumstances, and at different
places, the steamer was a stack o'
rust" "pet," "smoker," or "tea kettle.
The engineer might be a "hogger,"
"highball artist, or "Big E." If he
liked speed, he might be a "light-
throttle man" or a "speed demon."
His fireman was almost invariably
a "tallowpot" or "clinker boy."
To a railroader, a "G-Man" is a
drunkard. This stems from Rule G,
standard on all roads, which forbids
shot," "scissor bill." His office, from
which comes all orders for the
switching of cars, is the "knowledge
box." Brakemen and switcnmen,
envious of the desk-bound yard
clerk, call him a "number dummy.
Outside yard clerks, working
alongside crews in all sorts of
weather are affectionately known as
"mudhops."
Many railroad slang terms have
become a part of the language and
are listed in dictionaries as
acceptable to grammarians. One
such is "tank town, railroad slang
for a town so small that it was
dominated by the track-side water
tank. Nowdays any village may be
a "tank town." "Jerk-water," another
term often applied derisively to
small towns, had a railroad origin.
In 1870 at Montrose, N.Y., the New
York Central made the first
installation of a track pan and scoop
to permit locomotives to take water
the drinking of intoxicants, on the fly. Since these installations
Standard treatment for a violator is * invariably were in tiny
to "pull the pin on him," meaning to communities, and since they
discharge him. This is a carry-over
from the old days when cars were
equipped with link-and-pin
couplers, and uncoupling was
accomplished by pulling the pin. The
official who disciplined an employe
always is a "brass hat" - a term
applied since Civil War days when
the armies of both North and South
operated large segments of railroad.
Officially, the caboose is the way
car but hardly any railroader ever
calls it that. It's usually the
"crummy, although it may be the
"dog house;" "shanty," or hack." In
designing the caboose, railroad
language sets a record for
synonymous variants. There are at
least a score of favorite names
railroaders apply to the tail and car.
"Call on the carpet" is one railroad
slang phrase that has been adopted
by almost all industry. It originated
this way. Railroad executives were
among the first 'A, merieaii
businessmen tablish aactive
offices. Even when the industry was
young, the top"bras hats" had offices
with mahogany desks and carpeting
on the floor. Such elegance did not
extend to the offices where the clerks
toiled, nor to the stations and shops.
Thus, when an ordinary employee
was called for a reprimand, it
usually meant reporting to an office
with carpet. TO "call on the carpeff
still stands for any occasion when an
employee gets a lecture from a
superior.
A "thousand-miler" was a
necessity to a generation of
railroaders now gone. It was a term
that boomers applied to a shirt. It
was usually made of black satin or
percale, and it lasted a train or
engineman about 1,000 miles
between trips to the laundry.
Generally speaking, a day's work
was about 100 miles, so the boomer
could figure on wearing a shirt ten
days before sending it to the laundry
or, as was usually the case, washing
it himself.
Railroad "slanguage" often is
indicative of how one class of
employe feels about another. To the
train crews, always trying to make
schedules, the dispatcher is the
"detainer. Switchmen refer to the
yardmaster as "ringmaster, "big
permitted locomotives literally to
"jerk water" without stopping, a
"jerk-water-town" became any small
village.
Strangely enough, it is a rate
railroader who will refer to himself
or his occupational class with a slang
term. An engineer is a "hogger" to
almost everyone, but never to
himself or to another engineer. A
conductor may be the "captain? or
the "brains" to his crew, but he is
never anything but a conductor
when he talks of his job. In fact,
railroad slang may be on the.way out
of the languages. Except for old-
timers who still like to talk the
jargon of their boomer days, today's
railroader usually limits his slang
to a couple of dozen words that are
in common use on his particular
road. Like the steam locomotive that
spawned it, the sprightly and salty
vocabulary of the high iron may
belong to an era of railroading that"
has ended: ...........
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APPLE BUTTER
The Lerona United Methodist
Church has kettle made apple butter
for sale. Price: $3.00 pt. $5.00 qt.
Call Mary Harris, 384-7772.
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The US Food and Drug Admin-
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estimated to affect 40% of women
who visit OB-GYN physicians. This
condition once was referred to as
nonspecific vaginitis. It is now the
leading cause of abnormal vaginal
discharge in women of childbear-
ing age. The bacteria associated
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The infection caused by this or-
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