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Letter to the Editor
Great American
Smokeout Day
Dear Editor:
November 20, 2003 is the Cancer
Society's Great American Smokeout
Day. On this day America goes
smoke-free.
My father-in-law smoked until he
had a heart attack. His doctors told
him to stop smoking. He stopped,
cold turkey, and lived to be 100, only
to die of lung cancer that had started
years earlier.
Tobacco use is the most
preventable cause of death and
disease in this country, killing more
Americans than AIDS, alcohol, car
accidents, fires, illegal drugs,
murders, and suicides combined.
One in every five deaths in West
Virginia is due to smoking. Tobacco
kills one in every three who start
smoking in high school. Second hand
smoke can kill others, also. Stop
smoking, and withi n 24 hour s your
chance of heart attack decreases.
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preventing them from functioning
normally without continuous
medical treatment. For others, it is
a mild but debilitating condition
causing discomfort but not severe
suffering.
Signs and symptoms of SAD are
sleep problems, lethargy, over
eating, depression, social problems,
anxiety, loss of libido and mood
changes.
Light therapy has been proved
effective in up to 85% of diagnosed
cases. Exposure for up to four hours
per day to very bright light, at least
ten times the intensity of ordinary
domestic lighting is helpful. In early
autumn, light treatment should be
used daily when the first symptoms
appear. Medication may be helpful.
Check with your health care
provider if you feel that you could
be suffering from this disorder or
contact the Society for Light
Treatment and Biological Rhythms
for more information ((303) - 424 -
3697 or www.webscience.org).
Lynn Stowers RN
Princeton, WV , ,.
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$1,642.50 per year, or $16,425 in 10 -- C:Y--
years, of $32,850 in 20 years going
up in smoke. Productivity loss and
health care cost the state of West
Virginia $9.20 per pack of cigarettes
sold.
Stop smokingon November 20th.,
the Great American Smokeout Day.
If you need help, call the West
Virginia Tobacco Quitline, 1-877-
966-8784. Help is free for tobacco
users who want to stop, and 30% of
all who really want to stop report
remaining tobacco-free at 6 months
after enrollment. If you are age 18
or oYer, you may get nicotine patches
for 8 weeks.
Teenagers should call 1-800-328-
0417, or contact the local RAZE
group. They are a statewide team of
teens "tearing down the lies of Big
Tobacco."
Stop tobacco addiction once and
for all on Thursday, November 20th.,
America's Great Smokeout Day.
Ronald S. Seaton, M.D.
Hinton
Letter to the Editor
Seasonal
Affective Disorder
Board of Education
Regular Meeting
Nov. 19 @ 10:00 a.m.
1. Roll'Call
2. Invocation/Pledge of Allegiance
3. Approval of Agenda
4. Approval of Minutes
5. Personnel
6. Approve Employment of
Professional Personnel
7. Accept Resignation Request of
Coach
8. Approve Employment of
Substitute Bus Operators
9. Approve Employment of
Substitute Teachers
10. Approwe Employment of
Coach
11. Approve Policies
12. Review of the Summers
County 2003-2004 Unified County
Improvement Plan
13. Informational Items
14. Approval of Bills
15. Transfers and Supplements
16. Adjournment
NOTICE
Pastor Cecil Welch wishes to
announce Hinton Church of God
now has a 15 passenger van and will
pick up anyone wishing to attend.
Please call Don at 466-4081 or
466-5570 for times available.
LETTERS POLICY
Letters are welcome, but no more
than one letter each month will be
accepted from the same writer.
Preference will be given to letters of
300 words or less. Longer letters
may be shortened or rejected.
Letters must be signed and must
include an address and phone
number. The telephone number will
not be published. Letters will be
edited for grammar, spelling, taste,
syntax, and libel. Names will not be
withheld.
Address them to Letters to the
Editor, P. O. Box 1000, Hinton, WV
25951.
Dear Editor:
Seasonal Affective Disorder
(SAD) is a type of winter depression
that affects an estimated half a
million people every winter between
September and April, with the
greatest incident during December,
January and February.
It is caused by a biochemical
imbalance in the brain due to the
shortening of daylight hours and the
lack of sunlight in winter. It can
affect any age but most commonly
occurs in the age range 18 to 30
years. If symptoms appear for 3
consecutive winters, a diagnosis of
SAD is given.
For many people, SAD .is a
seriously disabling illness,
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By Roy C
In 1925 the Hinton Daily News
published an article written by
William Hinton concerning an
interesting trip down New River he
made and a review of early progress
of the C. & O. Railway through this
section. The article was published
again by Mr. John Faulconer March
16, 1942 in his "Hinton Around"
column.
Believing the article will prove
interesting to our readers, it is
republished below:
"I was born May the 27th., 1844
in an old log house near the crossing
in Avis. My father was a poor man
and it didn't seem as through he
wanted to get rich very fast. We had
to work hard for a number of years
to keep soul and body together.
"It is true, however, we had a
great deal of fun swimming in New
River, killing wild ducks and chasing
and killing deer. I killed the first
deer that I ever shot at, and I was
only thirteen years old.
"My father died in 1858, when I
was but 14 years of age. Three years
later the terrible Civil War broke
out. I was not of military age when
the war began - being but 18 years
old. I had my choice of going North
or South. Somehow my head was
inclined Southward. I served nearly
three years in the Southern army. I
don't know whether I did my share
of fighting or not - ifI didn't I at least
did my share of running. Sometimes
it was run or be left on the battle
ground. The war didn't go exactly
the way I wanted it to go and I was
very blue for a time. I suppose I felt
about like Lasarus felt - as though I
had been licked by the dog.
"Shortly after the Civil War ended
there was strong talk of the C. & O.
Railroad being built westward from
White Sulphur, the point which it
then extended to. In July 1868, C.
P. Huntington and ten other
gentlemen came to Hinton's Ferry,
General Echols, General Wichem
(sic) [Wickham] and General Ewing,
being in the crowd. They were
looking over Lhe proposed routs £or.
the new extension of the C. & O. and
said they wanted to hire someone to
run them to Hawk's Nest in a boat.
They wanted to know if we knew the
river. We told them we didn't but we
knew how to run a boat. Some of
them said it was no use to hire us as
we didn't know the riven Others said
they wanted to hire us and take the
chances. They hired me, Joe Hinton
and Parker Adkins and gave us a
$2.50 a day, which we gladly
accepted. We left Hinton's Ferry
about 3 o'clock and landed on
Sandstone Falls that evening. We
went down to old Aunt Sally
Richmond's and stayed all night.
Next morning John and "Tuck"
Richmond joined us and we cut skid
poles and pushed over the falls,
which took us about three hours.
After having gotten safely over the
falls, we all got aboard and floated
on down the river. When we arrived
at Richmond's Ferry, Aunt Sally was
there waiting for us. We landed and
she stepped aboard. She said she
wanted to take a seat by the best
looking man on the boat, and I
suppose she did for she had her
choice of ten fine looking men. Aunt
Sally rode with us about one mile.
We landed and she went ashore,
bidding us good-day and wishing us
about one mile. We landed and she
went ashore, bidding us good-day
and wishing us good luck, and that
was the last we saw of Aunt Sally.
John Richmond took the front
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Map drawn by R. C. Long of the New River Gorge between
Lowell on the Greenbrier and SandStone.
steering oar and I took the stern, and
we were offfor Hawk's Nest. We had
rough sailing some places, the water
flew high enough to hit me on the
head standing straight up in the
boat. We landed that evening at
Bowyer's Ferry, now called Sewell.
We camped on a sand bar, drank five
whiskey and ate catfish half cooked.
The party had some of the finest
whiskey that you eve stuck a tooth
in. They gave us small drinks, and
fa betwe, e , h' h w most
aeiblethi $key could hy,¢dotq,,
Parker Adkina sjaid ii vas li.ttte
drinks and long time 'between
drinks, but that which he did get,
did him a sight of good. The next
morning we still had eleven miles to
go to reach Hawk's Nest, over the
most dangerous parts of the river.
At the bad places we had to get out
and make a survey of the water
before we run through. In looking
out of the boat we saw a rattlesnake
which we killed. Mr. Huntington
could hardly wait for Joe Hinton to
pull the rattles off the snake before
he had them in his pocket.
"We landed at Hawk's Nest at
about 2 o'clock and tied our boat and
were paid off. Mr. Huntington
thanked us for our work and offered
to give us all a free pass to Richmond
and back. We all rejected the offer,
saying we didn't want to go. We then
had to walk home - a distance of not
less than 50 miles.
"We reached home the third day,
tired out and with sore feet, but we
felt good with a few dollars in our
pockets.
"Shortly after I got home, a party
came along, surveying on the C. &
O. route, and I hired to them for one
month to hack brush. I went with
them to Sandstone and quit. That
was <the> last railroading I have
done. I have often thought if the C.
& O. could have been built in one
night, and the iron horse came
snorting along about daylight next
morning, that half of the 'people on
New River would have taken to the
woods and never stopped running
and never looked back until they
crossed the Rocky Mountains.
"If anyone disputes this account
of our trip down the river I can prove
it by Joe Hinton and Tuck
Richmond. Signed William Hinton."
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Meetings are held every 2nd.!,
Tuesday of the month at 3 00 pm at
the PSD Office. .
The public is invited to attend.
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The regular monthly meeting of
the Jumping Branch-Nimitz PSD is:
held the first Monday of each month
at 5 pm. the meetings are open to
the public.
FREE THANKSGIVING " "
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The Hinton Church of Ged will b6
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November 22nd. from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. in the Church Fellowship Hall:
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