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Volume 90 No. 27
The
HINTON NEWS
(Continuing the Hinton Daily.News & The Weekend Leader)
Home of the W. Va. Water Festival
Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday Oct. 29, 1991
25
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Delegate Districts
Boundary Lines Changing
i,
Summers Seat on House Questionable
By Fred Long
House of Delegate District bound-
ary lines for Summers County will
be different next December when
the House votes on a redistricting
plan developed because of a state
loss in population; but House mem-
ber Mary Pearl Compton (D) for 21st
Del. Dist. of Summers & Monroe
County said the new lines should be
an improvement.
The new boundary lines, drawn
Oct. 16 by Jack Roop (D) for 22st Del.
Dist. of Raleigh & Summers, would
still split Summers County between
Monroe and Raliegh; but the orgin-
ial plap had Summers split four
ways•
According to Roop, the original
plan was drawn by Mercer delegate
Richard Flanigan (D), and it had
Summers County split between
Monroe, Fayette, Raleigh and Mer-
cer County. Summers County would
not have a delegate.
Next week Roop will introduce an
amendment to the original plan that
will guarantee Summers County a
seat on the House and restore the
boundary line close to its present
appearance.
The seventeen memberredistrict-
ing committee will meet in Char-
leston orl Nov. 3rd., 4th., and 5th.
=I'm in hopes that when we go into
committee they will acton the redis-
tricting of Summers County to keep
it like it is, Compton said. =The
people in Summers County don't
want to lose there seat on the House
and see it split apart. I'm not going
to stand for it. Perry Mann [(D)
22nd. Del. Dist. of Summers &
Raleigh] is working very hard on
this too to see that this doesn't hap-
pen.
=I think I have enough votes,"
said Roop, the only member of the
redistrictincommittee for this area.
=I just feel that Summers County
should have a seat on the House.
Summers County has three-fifths of
the population, about 14,000, and
the way I read the State Constitution,
Summers County should have a
delegate. Some of them said I was
reading it wrong but I think I have
the votes. The chairman agrees with
me. I think I have 13 or 14 votes.
Poop said when the original plan
was presented to them, =they said
this is the only way you can do it. I
said. "No! We are not going to do
this. rtt
=When I saw what they were
trying to do to Summers County,
Compton said, "I told them there
was no way that I was going to sit
back and let them split Summers
County four waysT
Compton and Roop worked to-
gether to come up with the new dis-
trict boundary lines• Compton, in
order to prevent the county "from
being split four ways, has agreed to
give up part of her territory in ex-
change for some new territory.
Under the new boundary lines
Compton would be giving up the
Sandstone and Green Sulphur area
which would then be placed with the
Raleigh County district• In return
she would pick up residents in the
Seminole Hill area. =This will make
it better for those people because
they have to drive by one precinct to
get to their voting precinct. The
County Commission will have to
make the change in precinct lines,
she said.
=the redistricting committee
started at the top of the state,"
Compton said. =That's how Sum-
mers County got carved up so bad."
When they got to the southern end,
trying to come up with one delegate
for every 17,935 people, =they had
the southern counties chopped up so
much that you couldn't even find
Summers County."
According to Compton, Fayette,
Mercer, Summers and Raleigh lost
population but Monroe County
stayed just about the same as ithas
for the past 10 years. Fayette add
)
Mercer wanted to reach into Sum-
mers County's population in order to
prevent the loss of a delegate.
Fayette County has enough popu-
lation for 2 1/2 delegates, Compton
said. "They can go into Kanawha to
pick up the other 1/2 and still keep
their three delegates. Mercer County
has enough for 31/2 delegates. Ifthe
new plan i s approved Mercer County
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will lose a delegate.
=The problem we face right now is
with Fayette County," Roop said. "I
don't think going into Kanawha
County will work. We may have to
make a single member district to
solve that. I did that for Mercer
County. My map has a single
member district for one delegate from
Blue field."
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The new redistrictingmap for Raleigh, Summers, be approved. The full House will vote on the state
Monroe, Mercer and Wyoming Counties will be redistricting in December. Mary Pearl Compton
presented to the State Redistricting Committee (D)" said the redistricting plan would not be pre-
next week for a votb. Jack Roop (D), member of sented to the House unless it had the required 51
the committee, said he believed the design would votes needed to pan it.
JOB APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE
Applications are now being ac-
cepted for eight positions to be tMled
in the new Concord College ' Sum.
mere County Head Start Program,
according to Concord's Presidential
Associate, Dr. Wellington Friday.
The positions consist of a Head
Start Director / Education Coordi-
nator; a Social Service / Parent In-
volvement Coordinator; two teach-
ers with early childhood education
experience; two part-time classroom
aides; and two part-time bus driv-
ers.
Applicants should submit a com-
prehensive resume and the names
and telephone numbers of threo ref-
erences. These can be turned in at
• the Personnel Office of the Summers
Qounty Board of Education in Hin-
ton or the College Personnel Office
inAthens. Iftheychoose, applicants
may mail their resume and refer-
ence information to Dr. Friday at
Concord College Box 82, Athens.
All applicants must have experi-
ence in working with people from
diverse socio-economic and educa-
.tional backgrounds, Dr. Friday
stressed. He also noted that "every
attempt will be made to hire mem-
bers of the immediate community to
rill the Head Start positions."
The deadline is Nov. 18. Under
the program, 38 children will begin
their Head Start experience on Jan.
6, although the new employees will
need to complete a training, and
familiarization period starting ap-
proximately Dec. 1.
There will be two sites for the
program: the Avis Center in Hinton
and Twin Towers on the Concord
campus. All children will come from
Summers County, however.
The Head Start Director will serve
both locations. Qualifications re-
quired for this position include a
Bachelor of Science in Early Child-
hood Education; three years' experi-
ence in grant or contract admini-
stration; and the ability to delegate
authority, organize, supervise, and
coordinate activities of the staff. The
employment term is 11 months per
year.
The Social Service / Parent In-
volvement Coordinator will also
serve both locations on an ll-month
contract. This person must have a
Bachelor of Science in Early Child-
hood Education, Social Work or re-
lated area; one year of experience in
preschool programs; and good or-
ganizational skills.
Qualifications for the two teach-
ing positions also include a B. S. in
Early Childhood, with one year of
classroom experience in a preschool
program. The teachers'employment
period will be 9-1/4 months.
The two Classroom Aides are
required to have a high school di-
ploma or GED and one year of expe-
rience working with preschool or
elementary children. They will be
employed for 8.28 months, accord-
ing to the staff vacancy announce-
ment.
The Bus Drivers must have a valid
commercial driver's license and a
safe drivingrecord, as well as one
year's experience driving a van or
bus and working with young chil-
dren or parents. Their employment
term is 36 weeks.
Magistrate's Office
Get High Marks
"Audits of the magistrate courts the magistrates, assistants, and
have improved dramatically over the
past five years," an official with the
State Supreme Court of Appeals said
in a letter to Chief Circuit Judge
Frank Jolliffe following a review of
the records kept by Magistrates
James "Wootie" Beasley and Bill
Jeffries.
Ted Philyaw, Administrative
Director of the Courts, said in his
letter after reviewing the audit re-
port for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1989, =this audit indicates that
magistrate court clerk (Kay Meador)
have done an outstanding job for the
audit period in question, and they
should be commended for their ef-
forts. The magistrate system con-
tinues to improve, and is evidenced
in the current auditreport completed
by the State Tax Department.
=An audit report of this nature is
an excellent commentary on the ef-
forts and competence of the magis-
trates and support staff to do a good
job2
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HALLOWEEN SCENE
This photo was taken recently in the front yard of Mr. and Mrs.
Darrell Mann at 1400 Greenbrier Drive in Bellepoint.'l-ick or treat
will be observed in the City of Hinton on Thurs night Oct. 31st. from
6to 8.
APCO REQUIRED TO
FILE COMPLETE IMPACT STATEMENT'
Appalachian Power Corn pany will
be required to file a complete envi-
ronmental impact statement with
its application to construct a 765 kv
high voltage transmission line in
southern W.Va., under an order
handed down recently by the Public
Service Commission.
In June, APCO filed a petition
with the Commission seeking per-
mission to file the environmental
impact statement after filing its
certificate application but not later
than Dec. 31. The PSC, in denying
the request, said that a delayed ril-
ing of the environmental impact
statement unreasonably limits the
opportunity of PSC Staff and other
parties to review such statement at
the time of APCO's certificate filing.
Although APCO has not yet filed
its application with the PSC to con-
struct the line in question, it is pro-
posing to construct a 765 kv high
voltage transmission line from its
Wyoming Station in Wyoming Co.,
W.Va., to its Cloverdale Station in
Va., and possibly passing through
the counties of Wyoming, Raleigh,
Summers, Mercer and Monroe.
Upon the filing of the June peti-
tion, several area residents inter-
vened as did the Commission's Con-
sumer Advocate Division, Peters
Mountain Associates, Inc. (a non-
profit corporation organized to rep-
resent its members); and Sweet
Springs Valley Water Company, Inc.,
a company in the business of bot-
tling and selling spring water lo-
cated in Gap Mills.
Under existing W.Va. law, a util-
ity proposing construction of a high
voltage transmission line of 200,000
volts or over is required to file a
proper application with the PSC
containing a description of the loca-
tion and type of line facilities pro-
posed; a statement justifying the
need for (hcilities; an environmental
impact statement; and such other
information as the Commission may
require.
APCO specifically sought exemp-
tion from Commission rules which
require that a certificate application
for a transmission line contain the
type of line to be constructed includ-
ing the height of the proposed line
and number and type of poles or
towers to be erected to support the
line. APCO asserted in its petition
. that it will not have this information
until survey work has been com-
pleted and the survey work will not
be completed until the Commission
approves a specific transmission line
corridor.
Finally, the PSC told APCO that
it will be required to file with its
certificate application the typical
maximum and minimum pole and
line height expected to be used in the
construction ofthe transmission line
within its proposed corridor.
Families May Apply for
Head Start on Nov. 6
Applications for children and their
families to apply for the new Con-
cord College/Summers County Head
Start Program will be available on
Wed., Nov. 6 and should be turned in
by Dec. 16, school officials announced
today.
Applications may be picked up at
the Summers Board of Education
office; ariy Summers Countyelemen.
tary school; the Pipestem Post Of-
rice; the Hinton Office of the WV
Dept. of Health and Human Serv-
ices; and at selected grocery stores,
hardware stores, and clothing stores
around the county.
The completed forms should be
turned in to the Summers Board of
Education office.
The 38 children enrolled in the
program will attend half-day ses-
sions, five days a week. All the
children will be from Summers
County. This program will not
compete with Mercer County Head
Start efforts, Concord officials em-
phasized.
=We want to reach as many eli-
gible families as we can, said Head
Start Interim Director Sharon Neu-
stadter. "We are using all possible
means to get the word out and get
the forms to places where people can
pick them upO