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The Myth of "Good Drugs" and "Bad Drugs" ' By Luke Catton prescription bottles, cold Adams A- Storage Mr. Booth has penned his years of .. service on the railroad that is continued in this issue. 4 - A COLD WINTER ""  CHAPTER 7, PART 2 •' Another instance where similar -"weather occurred at Cincinnati ' "Terminal he called me and stated we -*were going to Cincinnati the -:following morning on train #1. This "'was in December 1967 and the merger with the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) was imminent. At a staff meeting at Huntington about July 1967, committees were set up to investigate the consolidation of facilities at the major terminals into :@here both railroads operated. I 'was directed to head the committee :to investigate Cincinnati but the *Supt. of Motive Power spoke up and said since he had been Master Mechamc at Stevens he was thoroughly familiar with operations there and he would chair the ommittee and I could assist him. ere was to be a general meeting t Washington in January where these investigative reports would be scussed.  After about 5 or 6 attempts to get m to go to Cincinnati on this study determined it was useless. Then e the call at 10 a.m. December th to go to Cincinnati and study e terminal. There was about six :ches of snow on the ground and :.-tJae temperature was about 12 grees below zero. I knew what ose people at Cincinnati were oing through just to keep their , ains moving. I asked him what he pected to see in that kind of eather. His reply was to see the tuation at its' worst. I then told him that if he told me to do I would, but in lieu of that decision I would ot. He replied that he was going. ./¢hen train #i arrived at Cincinnati he General Foreman at Stevens as there to meet him and informed ]im that he was to return to untington immediately. When the general meeting was held in January in Washington there vas no report on the Cincinnati Mechanical Officer becoming Assistant Chief Mechanical Officer, H. J. Baker, Superintendent Car Department becoming Assistant General Car Superintendent and Mr. M. P. Winston becoming Assistant to the Assistant Superintendent Motive Power who in reality was Mechanical Engineer. Thus, Mr. Winston was without a power base except for two Motive Power Inspectors and two Traveling Firemen. He was given an office adjacent to mine at Huntington and I was directed to have my Secretary handle his minimal correspondence. Almost immediately after this move, Mr. Winston began to move into my areas of authority going to some of my terminal shops and changing or negating my instructions or issuing new ones to the point my on-line supervisors didn't know or began to wonder who they worked for. This even went so far as to try to commandeer my Secretary which by job description and advertisement was Secretary to the General Master Mechanic. I called a General Staff Meeting and with all my on line supervisors present, including Mr. Winston, I outlined to them that their responsibility was to me. There could be no nullification of or issuing of any new instructions unless it was done over my signature. I emphasized that each officer would be held accountable to these instructions. I had approached the Assistant Superintendent of Motive Power to outline to Mr. Winston his responsibilities but he was reluctant to do so. After fighting this situation for approximately two years, there arose a situation that brought this matter to a head. It was a Sunday and after I had returned home from church, I received a call from Russell. The Master Mechanic stated they were extremely short of power and in order to not delay an important east bound manifest train, they would have to use a locomotive in the tudy. He was berated in front of consist that had about three or four on line shut dow.ns due to fuel starvation, Ik Ildtdi:iri shop at Russell but they were reluctant to use it unless the Motive Power Inspector was he committee until it was mbarrassing to l!of ui "i  ' In November 1§62 m/ssi'stant neral Master MeChaniC retired. m elaborate going away party was planned with me acting as Master bfCeremonies. After all plans were completed, ! thought it would be an act of courtesy to invite our former Chief Mechanical Officer, Mr. J. E. McLeod to attend. An invitation was sent to him and immediately turned stating he would be happy attend and he asked if I would meet him on arrival of train #3 the day of the party. This I did and rode him to Huntington Back Shop, ]ussell Terminal, and Car Shop so lie could visit with old friends. He iformed me he must return to li:chmond that night on the George Washington that left Huntington at 9:45 p.m. : The party was a huge success but at approximately 8 p.m. a terrific ltlizzard hit Huntington dropping bout 4 inches of snow and causing tmperatures to plummet. About 9115 p.m. I informed him we had better get to the depot to avoid any clay that could result in his missing te train. Upon arrival at the depot, e found the train was running about 30 minutes late due to the WJeather. The depot was crowded ghd warm so that in a few minutes h was sweating profusely. ' Mr. McLeod was a huge man eighing about 285 pounds and one at would perspire in zero weather. avoid the heat he asked that we g out on the platform to wait on the tiain's arrival. When we had moved the platform he turned to me and sted =Larry, I recognize only three istakes I made as Chief lechanical Officer. The first was ,when I appointed E. E. Slack to head Work Simplification, the second was when I ceded all the authority to him a the expense of my line officers wiCh really cost me my position on tlie railroad and the third and best mistake was appointing C. D Allen as Superintendent of IVlotive Power? He continued, "He wasn't at Richmond a week until I realized I had blundered butit was to late. I couldn't at that time return to the Vice President and aamit that I had moved too quickly off him so we decided to live with hm. Our only recourse was to control him? WI-IO'S IN CHARGE? CHAPTER 8 :After Mr. Teuhy's request at the G}eenbrier that an immediate plan to:integrate the Pere Marquette into tlre C&O be made, the consolidation was quickly consummated. The officers in the Mechanical Department were moved to the C&O with Mr. E. A. Kuhn, Chief riding it. They had called him but he refused to go unless it was authorized by Mr. Winston who was out of pocket and could not be reached. I immediately called the Motive Power Inspector and informed him I would not entertain an argument about who was to instruct him to ride the locomotive but the diesel unit would be in #94's consist out of Russell and he had better be on it when it left the terminal. Naturally when he returned Monday he appealed to Mr. Winston who called the Assistant Superintendant of Motive Power at Richmond who went to the Superintendent of Motive Power, Mr. Allen about the conflict of authority arising between me and Mr. Winston. That afternoon I received a call instructing me to be in the Master Mechanic's office at Russell at 1 p.m. Tuesday for a meeting between me, Mr. Winston, the Master Mechanic, and the Motive Power Inspector. When Mr. Allen opened the meeting he commented that he was aware of the conflict of authority between me and Mr. Winston and he was there to clarify and see that all understood where each authority began and ended. To begin he stated that it was to be clearly understood that there is only one man designated with responsibility to run that territory and that is the General Master Mechanic. =He has the authority to use and develop whatever means he can to keep trains running with as little on line trouble as possible even to the point of overriding your instructions to the Motive Power Inspector or Traveling Fireman Mr. Winston! I do not hold you or anyone in this room except the General Master Mechanic responsible for these requirements. Yes! he has the authority to instruct Mr. Fuller to be on that locomotive and you, had he not gone, would have unwittingly have been the cause for him to be demoted back to Fireman. Now, If everyone understands what I have said and there are no questions this meeting is adjourned." Continued next week. BIG BEND PSD Big Bend Public Service District will hold their monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at the water plant at 3:45 pm. Big Bend PSD serves the areas of Talcott, Hilldale, Pence Springs, and Willowwood Road. The public is invited to attend these meetings. Tues. Nov. 4, 2003 Hinton News - 7 Many of us were raised to think that there are'such things as good drugs, such as different types of medicine and prescription drugs, and bad drugs, like cocaine or heroin. The simple fact is that they are all still drugs. In order to understand the issue of drug addiction, it is important to know exactly what a drug is. All drugs are essentially poisons; the degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount typically acts as a stimulant, while a greater amount acts as a sedative. A large enough amount of any drug acts as a poison and is lethal. Most drugs simply mask the pain and discomfort for which they are taken and don't actually "cure" anything. Aspirin, for example, doesn't cure a headache. It simply "short circuits" the person's ability to get the pain messages coming from the cause of the headache. The nutritional deficiency or physical problem that originally caused the headache is still there, but it is simply temporarily no longer perceived by the drug user. Usually, • when the drug wears off, the body is often in worse shape because the original problem was masked or hidden and not directly addressed or handled. Looking back at the history of drugs, we find words from ancient Greece such as pharmakon, meaning medicatio and poison. There is also the Latin word venenum,.which translates to drug, potion and poison. Either way, the commonality of the definitions is that they are both considered to be poisons. Even as late as the end of the 19th Century, we saw the use of over the counter medications using drugs that are the most illicit today, such as heroin used in Bayer aspirin and cocaine toothache drops. At the time these drugs were considered to be useful to aide in the treatment of ailments. Now we spend billions of dollars trying to prevent them from even entering the country. Though it is true that there are many drugs that seem to help a person live with a condition or malady, it does not negate the fact that even those drugs have adverse effects. These "side effects," as they are often referred as, areprevalent *** Never take anything for granted. ---Benjamin Disraeli medicines and even the many television commercials promoting the latest legal drug. Unfortunately, the approach to covering up the problem with another drug is even applied to substance abuse. This is clearly evident in the case of methadone and other substitute drug therapies designed to get the person to stop using heroin or something similar, remembering that even that was at one time perfectly legal and used for other "cures". This form of treatment obviously doesn't cure drug addiction either, for the addict is still taking another drug. There is a drug-free alternative to ending addiction though, and it is called the Narconon® Drug Rehabilitation and Education Program. In fact, Narconon literally means narcotics-none, and happens to produce a success rate more than three times the national average for ending addiction. Founded in Arizona State Prison in 1966 by William Benitez. For more information on how to effectively end drug addiction or to find help for a loved one in need, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 1-800-468-6933 or log on to www.stopaddiction.com. Storage Space Now Available Hilldale - Hinton Ph: 466-5990 / 466-5706 Flea Market Opening in the Spring: FRY., Sat., & Sun. I I00AIIUV CUIEIPN HOME OF THOSE Breakfast from 6 a.m. to ii a.m. Open : 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. On the Hinton By-Puss Ph: 4dd-77oo Corner of 2nd Ave. and Ballengee St. (Basement of HRDE McCreery Center) Mon., Tue., Thurs., Fri. .... :., ....... ...................... .,5to,79...: , HINTON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER 10:16 a.m. Thursday Reading aloud brings words to life and encourages a child's imagination to soar. AEP recognizes the power of the spoken word and enlists the time and talents of its employees in West Virginia to read aloud to more than 15,000 students on Read to Me Day. This effort is just one of the ways we encourage learning. Each year thousands of students visit our power plants to see how we make electricity. And we use theater performances and animated characters to bring electrical safety education to elementary schools across our service area. AEP is there, always working for you. Read to Me Day is November 13, 2003. AMERICAN ® ELECTRIC POWER To/earn more about our work in communities, visit aep.com to request a Community Connections report.