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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.
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