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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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TtIE CRACKED CORN
SPECIAL AND ITS SKIPPER:
It would be interesting to learn
the many different names given
trains throughout the country and
the reason they were [,riven such
appellations.
We remember the Hinton-Frazier
rock train turn in the 1940s named
"Gravel Gertie" by someone after a
comic strip character. There was the
Piney Branch local passenger train
named"Fannie" and the Loup Creek
train sometimes called the same
because of its likeness to Fannie.
The Sewell Valley local passenger
train was called "The Doodle Bug"
and the Greenbrier River passenger
train, "The Cracked Corn Special."
I never heard the train called The
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
. It Is
Consider The Facts..
Sickening
Dear Mr. Long,
It is sickening to think that three
Summers County Board of Educa-
tion members have their priorities
so confused when it comes to pro-
gressive education. That's not to
mention the value of a modern high
school and what it would mean to
the entire community. It would
not pass levies." Defeat of this levy
could ibrove this statement to be true.
FACT: If this levy is defeated,
some communities will lose their
schools. As a result of school clos-
ings, employees, both professional
and service personnel, will be termi-
nated.
In my opinion, should this levy be
defeated, SBA funding will NEVER
be awarded for construction of a new
Dear Editor
Summers Countians will be given
a chance to decide their own educa-
tional fate in the upcoming school
levy, Dec. 14th. I urge each voter to
consider the FACTS before voting
on this most important school levy.
FACT: Summers County WAS
NOT chosen to receive SBA funds to
build a new county high school last
year.
FACT: Summers County does not
have a school levy. The last time a
school levy was run in the county it
was for five years with a large per-
cent of the levy going towards sala.
ries.
FACT: The proposed Dec. 14 levy
is for three years and zero percent
for salaries.
FACT: Last year, Monroe, Mer.
cer, Fayette, and Greenbrier Coun-
ties were selected to receive SBA
funding. All four counties have
passed levies in recent years. This is
not true for Summers County.
FACT: At the presentation in
Morgantown last year, the SBA
Committee was told by former Supt.
Jim Tassos, "Summerscountiansare
not interested in education, they will
funding? I believe Summers
Countians are interested in educa-
tion. We must show them WE CARE!
REMEMBER THIS,
You can fool some of the people
some of the time
You can fool all of the people
some of the time
But, you cannot fool all of the
people all of the time.
DON't BE FOOLED BY NEGA-
TIVE LETTERS AND OPINIONS.
THINK FACTS !
John Win. Bilff Dillon
Pres., Summers Co. Board of Ed.
P.O. Box 123
Talcott, WV 24981-0123
county high school. If our county (draw)industryandnewpeople.The
can't pass a levy, why expect SBA present high school was well worn
when I graduated from there about
50 years ago.
A recall of those three men is in
order.
Anna Lou Beam
7702 S. 41st. Ter.
Omaha, NE. 68147
The News Is In The
Newspaper
Dear Editor,
W.Va. Poll, sponsored by the AP,
:the Charleston Daily Mail and
, WSAZ-TV was wrong when it found
,that 61 percent of West Virginia's
:get their local news from television.
: W. Vs. has only 11 commercial
:television stations: WSWZ and
WOWK in Huntington; WCHS,
i Charleston; WOAY, Oak Hill-Beck.
Hey; WDTV, Bridgeport; WVAH,
:Hurricane; WBOY, Clarksburg;
::WVVA, Bluefield; WYVN,
: Martinsburg; W'TAP, Parkersburg;
:and WTRF, Wheeling.
One WVAH does not even have a
local news staff.
: The Steubensville, Oh. station,
:WTOV, gets about a 7-8 share of the
:Wheeling area market, just about
:what the Wheeling station, WTRF
:claims. Both operate under the
:shadow of the Pittsburgh stations
:and both split their =local" news
'coverage between Oh. and W.Va.,
• with even Washington County, Pa.
news thrown in. Scratch off the
Northern Panhandle, too.
- Martinsburg's WYVN splits its
: coverage over four states; Bluefield's
i WVVA splits its coverage between
:Mercer Co., W.Va. and Giles and
Tazewell counties in Va.
Parkersburg's WTA_P covers local
Oh. news as well as W.Va. news.
Huntington's WSAZ and WOWK
cover the "Tri-state"-Oh., Ky., and
W.Va.
Five of the nine station TV sta.
tions with local news departments
are within spitting distance of the
Ohio River or the Va. line.
Ladies Auxiliary To
The World War l
Meet
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Vet-
erans of World War I Barracks No.
3336 met in the Memorial Building
on Nov. 7th. at 3:o'clock. Meeting
was called toorder by President Irene
Lilly.
Prayer by Marguerite Higgen-
botham. Pledge to the Flag by Helen
Turman.
We plan a Christmas dinner at
Helen Turman's Dec. 5th. at 2: o'clock
and gift exchange also. Meet at 3:
o'clock. The meeting was closed by
Prayer by Marguerite Higgen-
botham.
Members present: Irene Lilly,
Virginia Lilly, Marguerite Higgen-
botham, Helen Turman, and Katie
Humphries.
SAVE OUR MOUNTAIN
Save Our Mountains meeting
every first Thurs. of every month.
Apart from the three Charleston-
Huntington TV stations, the news
staffs at the state's TV stations are
quite small and quite limited in the
number of separate news events they
can cover.
Add to this picture the two big-
gest problems.with regularly sched-
uled TV news; it's available to the
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Below Bluestone Dam
Cracked Corn Special while work-
ing on the Greenbrier Subdivision in
the 1940s and only learned recently
it had once been given that name.
Mr. John Faulconer, in his "Hin-
ton Around" column of Jan. 25, 1959
had some nice things to say about
the Greenbrier line between Ron-
ceverte and Durbin. He said, =No
where in our limited experience is
there a train ride to compare with
the thrill of a ride in a swaying coach
behind a smoke belching locomotive
than a trip from Ronceverte to
Durbin.
When we made the trip some 35
years ago every turn of the wheels
was a new experience, for even then
we could appreciate the scenic beauty
of the river as it rushed to the ocean
between towering mountains cov-
ered with trees and shrubs. It was
not uncommon to see an occasional
deer or some other wild game rush-
ing to cover as the train passed.
"Our trip on the scenic Green-
brier Division was made during the
winter when a light covering of snow
was on the ground and ice chunks
were floating down the river, but I
have been told that the trip was just
as exciting in spring, summer or fall
and I can visualize what this rough
rugged countryside would look like
regardless of the season. It was
nature in the raw.
Mr. Faulconer said his comments
were prompted by a column in West
Virginia News written by Norman
Blake in his "Downstream" column
in reference to the first train run
from Ronceverte to Marlinton Oct.
26, 1900 and the last run, Roncev-
erte to Durbin and return June 8,
1958. Mr. Faulconer said, "Many
Hinton residents have worked on
the Greenbrier Division and for many
years it was the run of Mr. Sam
Pollock, one of the oldest conductors
still working for the C&0. For 18
years starting in the early 1920s
"Mr. Sam was the conductor on the
Greenbrier and he made the trip so
often that the late Cal Price, one of
West Virginia's famous editors,
dubbed him "Skipper of the Cracked
Corn Special.
Continuing he said, "The name
was derived for the reason that the
train would stop at any farm house
to deliver corn for the chickens or
any other freight that was aboard. It
was the only means of getting sup-
plies in those days."
The following is Mr. Blake's com-
ment in the West Virginia News:
=At least two people have the honor
of having ridden the Greenbrier on
both its first and last trips.
=The first trip was made from
Roneeverte to Marlinton on Oct. 26,
1900. The last round-trip to Durbin
was Jan. 8, 1958, after which the
Greenbrier River train (then a die-
sel known as Nos. 142 and 143) was
retired by the C&O as an unprofit.
able operation.
=Julian Cobb, local historian, was
among about 30 who made the last
trip. On the way he talked to two
people who made both the first and
last runs. One was Mrs. Ada Dovie of
Elkins and the other was a Mr. Nyles
who said he was only six when he
boarded the Greenbrier the first
time.
J.N. Cackley of Roneeverte was
on the first run and remembers it
well. He, like several others, also
intended to make the last trip but
missed the train.
=Mr. Cackley said the C&O did
not charge anything for the first run
and the train was loaded. C. R.
Graves <then 86> was among the
first passengers as were the mem-
bers of the Sinks Grove Band.
Those aboard thought the train
would return the same day, but for
some reason it didn't so the passen-
gers had to spend the night of Oct.
26, 1900, in Marlinton. The hotels
and rooming houses of Marlinton
were so full, Mr. CacKley recalls,
that 12 had to sleep in one room (he
among them)."
We remember tall, thin but mus-
cular Sam Pollock. Although ad-
vanced in age we believe he could
carry a knuckle and keep up with
many trainmen much younger. He
was nearinghis 87th mile post (birth-
days) when he retired in the fall of
1958.
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