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taln member(s) on the Board of
Education of Summers County," to
ndinqt sh its hearing before the stats
board concerning special ed. fund-
ing'in exchange" for an attempt to
remove him from office.
Lea said there was no truth to
this allegation whatsoever. "that
allegation has no bases of fact," he
said. "I¢, absurd."
State Board policy gives the state
superintendent the power to resolve
any problem in the state school sys-
"which have gone beyond the
normal routine remedies which are
available at the county level."
The state superintendent has the
authority to administer oaths, ex-
amine witnesses, receive evidence,
imue subpoenas, rule upon offers of
proof, take or cau depositions to be
taken, or relax and dispense with
the rul in any case where Jr strict
adherene, to the rules may be
deemed by the superintendent to be
inappropriate or unnecessary.
The state superintendent may
aim make a decision solely on infor-
mation which cannot be arose-exam.
ined by the accused, the petition
states, thereby denying the accused
"his due process right to confront
and ¢r~s-examine witnesses mak-
ing allegations against him."
"In this case," the petition says,
=the Superintendent of Schools has
become the accuser, prosecutor and
Jud ."
said this charge is also false.
The hearing, he said, would be con-
duetod the same as any hearing
before any government agency "such
as the Department of Natural Re-
sources. It's done this way all over
state government." If the decision is
adverse, Tassos can "go to the courts
for an appeal."
The petition asked the court to
order the state board "to follow those
minimum due process standards
guarenteed" by the federal and stats
Constitution, "which include proper
notice of charges, adequate time to
prepare defense, a hearing before an
impartial hearing examiner, a deci-
sion based upon competent evidence
which the Petitioner has had an
opportunity to confront and cro~-
e~t~tr~in¢~, a dad siam nmde upon Find-
ings of Fact supported by the evi-
dence adduced at the hearing and
providing some reference to the evi-
dence supportingthe finding, proper
conclusions oflaw, and a record made
of the proceedings .... so that any
action taken may be prop-
erly appealed."
The Department of Educa-
tion began an investigation of the
county special ed. enrollment tee.
ords over a year ago in response to a
request from special investigator,
Damon H. Slone, with the Secretary
o¢ Stats's office.
Allegations offalse reporting also
LETTER
Dec. 18, 1990
m
came under a federal probe early
this year.
Tmmm attributed the errors in
special ed. records as "honest mis-
takes" saying*22 teachers and 8
schools were involved in the report.
ing process along with two other
administrators. Taseca has said his
only involvement in the repca ts was
signing them.
From page 1
EARLY HISTORY OF THE C &
O RAILWAY AND THE B&O
RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Editors of the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Hawking Valley Employ-
ees' Magazine, in the May 1926
number, delved back into history for
three quarters of a century for accu-
ments to the jury, argued that the
stats failed to "prove intent" on his
part to violate any rules. "Perhaps a
law hasn~ even been broken," he
told them.
The jury of four men and 2 women
found him not guilty on count one,
but rendered a guilty verdict on
counts two and three.
Crawford told the court, prior to
sentencing, that he "still considered
these administrative ruleg' that
should have gone before the ABCC
Commissioner "but the court, the
jury, found otherwise." Crawford
said "after 23 months of going
through this, as a defendant, I have
been punished enough. I didlose my
business."
Greenbrier County Magistrate
Louis Longarmcrs said aifin fact this
did take his business he did suffer
some financial set back." But added,
"I can not ignore the fact that this
case has cost the state a consider-
able amount of money."
"I don't think a jail term is called
for in this case; however, because of
the expense to the stats," Longs-
nacre said Crawford would be re-
quired to pay a fine of $500 plus $.56
court cost and $108 jury fee.
Crawford has 20 days to file his
appeal.
Week of Dee. 19 Thru 26
LUNCH
Wed. Dee. 19
Chicken/Vegetable Stir.Fry Rot-
ini. Salad Bar. Ginger Cookies, 1%
Milk,
Thurs. Dee. 20
Turksy/Ham/Cheese Sandwich
On Rye Bread, Lettuce - Tomato,
Tomato Soup, A~orted Fruit, 1%
Milk.
rate information about the early
beginnings of the Chesapeake and
Ohio.As far back as 1851, the office
of the Company, then the Virginia
Central railroad, was located in
Richmond, as shown by a letter from
Colonel Edmund Fontaine, Presi-
dent at that time, to James Brown,
Jr., Second Auditor of Virginia. This
letter was headed "Office of the Vir-
ginia Central Railroad, Richmond,
Vs." and dated Nov. 18, 1851.
It was nine years later, in June,
1860, that an annual report of the
Company gave some idea of the
number of employees in the General
Office. This report cited a list of four
officers, three Agents, and two As-
sistant Agents and six clerks, which
seem to be the total office force in
Richmond in 1851. At that time, the
total employees of the Company were
520.
By 1868, in spite of the Civil War
in which the Virginia Central played
a valiant part, notably in Valley
Campaign in which Stonewall
Jackson won immortal fame, the
personnel at Richmond had grown
toinclude the President, ChiefEngi.
neer, General Superintendent, As-
sistant Superintendent, Treasurer,
Assistant Treasurer, and General
Ticket Agent, Secretary, Agent, five
Assistant Agents, four Clerks,
twenty-nine Laborers at the depot,
one Laborer at the Main Office, five
Night Watchmen, one Storekeeper
and one Telegraph Operator.
The shop, then designated the
' "Machinery Department", boasted a
"Master Machinist," one Car Re-
pairer, one Master Smith, twelve
Machinists, six Apprentices, two
Stationary Engineers, eight Smith
and Boiler Workers, twenty-three
Car Builders and Painters, seven
Inspectors, twenty-two Laborers and
two Watchmen.
It was in the year 1868 that the
railroad was first known as the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Company. For eight years "Railroad
Company" was adhered to as the
legal name of the growing transpor.
Dee., 21 tation system. At the new christen-
ing in 1876, ~oad" gave place to
Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Peas ,way~ and it became, and has re-
Or Green Beans, Roll, Fruit Salad, mained The Chesapeake and Ohio
1% Milk.
Dec. S4 Thru Dee. 81 Railway Company.
NO SCHOOL HOLIDAY. The first report of the Company to
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
TO THE EDITOR sion made in 1889, showed 269
In
Dear Sir. ues. And the Lobby where all the had been removed. I decided this
I wish to use your medium to kids congregated every evening for desk was the logical place for me to
report to the citisens of Summers talk, pinball shooting, cokes, etc. settle.
County my initiation as a delegate. Gone as well. I deposited my belongings there
elect of the West Virginia Legisla. The people were gone also.George and went to join a line of new dale-
tufa. Moses, the happy proprietor of the gates waiting for the Gazette pho-
IleftearlySun.morningDsc.2,to Lobby; the Wittor girls, onelovelier tographer to snap a picture. The
attend the Democrat Party caucus than the other; the Grubb brothers; Gazette wants a picture on file in
in the Hotme Chambers of the Capi- Lawrenca Carter from Talcott, who order to better publicize the compe-
tol. Intarstato 64 was relatively lived in the California Apts.; Char- tence or incompetence of legislators.
empty. No periodic breaking of the les Yeager, my perennial buddy. All A few minutes before 11:00 a.m.
soundbarrierbytractortrailm~.Sun, gone or elsowhere, the Sergeant-At-Arms, Ocie Smith,
morning was pouring down: the citi- I continued toward the entrance began calling for order and exhort-
zens at home with coffee and Sun. ofthe Capitol. I looked at the formi- ing legislators in the hall to enter
paper, dable facade with its gigantic col- the chamber and to come to their
ImdtedatGreenbrierSt.,astreet umns and Grecian capitols and at seats. At a few minutes after eleven
I once roller skated on, and parked the multi-dozens of 50-yard.wide o'clock,hecalledthecaucustoorder,
in what was once part of Washing- steps to the porch, enough steps to introduced a Mr. Martin, a delegate
ton St. E. allowaregimentoftroops tomarch with high seniority, as chairman,
I walkedtowardtheWashington in ranks to the entrance. I wondered and took his seat as Mr. Martin
St. entrance of the Stats Capitol. I what the politicians were thinking began to preside.
looked for a landmark familiar to my in 1932. I concluded they were think- In short order, with a minimum of
tmnaga memory and finally noticed ing big. They built a capitol impes- cotton-candy oratory and a welcome
a bank of lawn where I and my ing enough to satisfy the most ex- sprinkling of humor, matters were
buddim used to sit and loaf, watch- travagontofthebig.and-bettsrtasta dispatched. Chuck Chambers was
ing Washington St. traffic go and in Tx. voted again Speaker of the House;
come, and competing in the identifi. AsIopeuedtheoutardoorIgota Donald Kopp, Clerk; Ocie Smith,
cation ofcar makes, blast of hot air in the area between Sergeant-At-Arms, and a person
Acre~ the street from the lawn the outer and inner doors. I shud- whose name I missed, doorkeeper.
was 1904 Wuhington St. where I dared thinking about the monthly Whereupon, the caucus ofthe 71th.
lived and leR to go to war in Dec., gas bill. I walked into the rotunda Legislature was concluded.
1941.Ilcokedatwherelg04ue lto room and up the circular balustrade The delegates rose and grouped
be.Isawthewholeblockoccupiedby all shineygrardtefrom the rubbing for parting words. I went to con-
an emormous high-rise beehive of of a host ofvisitors looking below at gratulate Chuck Chambers and to
offices I began to remember other the ground floor and above at the wish him well, and I left.
places: Oney St. where Stanley Pre- magnificant rotunda chandelier. As I walked to the parking lot I
iser and Sam Sil in lived. Gone I was aloue. I had arrived early. I stood and looked again at the famil-
.~a, eet and houses. DuffySt.whers have never forgotten the story ofthe Jar bank of lawn that once over-
Rotty Lou lived and where the East little pig who wisely went to the looked Washington St. where Dickie
End Tennis Court was. And where orchard a half-hour earlier than the Noel, Guy Erwin, Bill Slack, Bill
the Corner Store was that had a time scheduled by his invitor, the Hanna and I used to sit, wrestle,
fountain, tile floors, booths and sold designing wolf. I walked to the east talk and cut up in immemorial teen.
cokes with straws, western paper- end of the Capitoi where the House age fashion. Where will be those
backs and skookum apples for a Chamber is. The door was open and dayswhenallwhohavememoriesof
fiickal. Gone. The i~rber shop next lightson, a]l ready for tha caucusing themaregone?Whennooneis]eftto
door where a quartsr bought a hair. legislators. Iknewfrom aprsvious reconstructinhismindtheoldneigh-
cut. Gone, McClung St., gone. The visit the location ofthe 22nd district berhood as it was.
California Ave. sandlot football and desks. I went there and saw name Icou]dthinkofnobi]ltointroduce
lmmlmll fields beside Sanitary Gro- plates for Wootsn, Kiss, Roop, that would resurrect them.
eery gone. Now all parking lots, of. Susmanandsawthenextoneb]ank. Sincerely
flee buildings, monuments and stat- The name plate of my predecessor Perry E.Man
y y ng
SELLING WRAPPING PAPER
Avis School is selling wrapping
paper, Christmas or All-Occasion,
for this year's fundraiser. The cost is
$4.00 for a 12 sheet pack.
You can purchase a pack ofwrap-
ping paper from any Avis Staff or
student. Also, you may stop by the
school. Please support us as we raise
money for our extra-curricular ac-
tivities.
Clerks employed on the System, most
of them being General Office Em-
ployees.
In a report from the General
Superintsndent of Transportation to
the President, dated Oct. 1, 1861,
attention was called to the need of
shop buildings, while the founda-
tion for a Smith Shop of brick with
slate roof is recorded, this building
to be completed by the following
spring. This report also says that
most of the repairs made on equip-
ment up to this time, had been done
in the open air, causing the work-
men to lose much time. A subse-
quent report shows an appropria-
tion of $11,145.93 for the construc-
tion of a new Car Shop in Richmond,
designating this amount as an ex-
traordinary expenditure.
Upon opening of the B&O RR to
the public, P. E. Thomas, President
of the road, issued the following
report on May 20, 1830 which was
published in the National Intelli-
gencer and Telegraph, Washington,
DC:
~Notice is hereby given that the
railroad between Baltimore and
Letter To The Editor
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Dear Sir,
I'm mad at Fannie! Oh no. It's not
a woman, it's a passenger train.
Her home was at Quinmont,
W.Va., and she ran from Quinmont
to Beckley, at Lester, on the Piney
Branch. She made two round trips a
day.
The reason I'm mad at her is this.
I patronized this train about once a
week. When I worked in the coal
fields.
I was working in the Winding
Gulf Coal Fields during the early
days of this century. I began about
1914.
Then after several years, I met
and married a young lady at Fireco,
W.Va. on July 4, 1920.
On July 5th. we started, on our
honeymoon, to Hinton. We caught
the Virginian to Raleigh, then trans-
ferred to the C&O and old Fannie
came rolling by right on time.
When we stopped at White Stick,
Fannie's two back wheels got stuck
on the tank, on the ground. A crew of
section men were near by and they
came to offer help.
Aftercuttingthe engine loose, and
moving it, forward a few feet, they
put a piece of timber under the
drawbead. When the engine backed
up, we found we had 4 wheels on the
Ellicotts' Mill s will be opened for the
transportation of passengers, on
Monday the 24th. instant.
~A brigade or train of coaches, will
leave the Company's Depot on Pratt
St. and return making three trips
each day - starting the following
hours precisely, viz:
"leave Baltimore 7 a.m. and Elli-
cotts' at 9 a.m.
"Leave Baltimore 11 a.m. and
Ellicotts' at 1:00 p.m.
"Leave Baltimore at 4 p.m. and
Ellicotts' at 6:00 p.m.
"The price for the trip of twenty-
six miles will be seventy five cents
for each person. Tickets to be had at
the Depot. Should the demand be
found to exceed the present means of
accommodation, passengers will be
under the necessity of going and
returning in the same coach, until a
sufficient additional number of car-
riages can be furnished. As soon as
this can be effected of which due
notice will be given, provision wdll be
made for traveling a shorter dis-
tance than the whole trip."
Source of information Hinton
Daily News July 13, 1930 and April
29, 1926.
annie
ground. The only thing to do, then,
was send for help from the tool car at
Hinton.
In a short while, a yard engine
pulled in from Quinmont with one
coach, to help us get back on track.
By the time we arrived at Quin-
mont, Train #14 was long gone. The
yard engine & coach brought us to
the Hinton depot.
Hintonians were still celebrating
the 4th., and after milling around
the crowded streets, Charlie Crook
took us to where our road left the
main road. From there we had to
walk a mile, carrying our luggage,
since there wasn't any horse & buggy
to haul us.
After all this, we finally arrived
where we were goi ng & lived happily
ever after.
Old Fannie hauled me many trips
from Hinton to Raleigh and she had
been on this run for many years.
After some thought,maybe I'm not
as mad as I first thought. I was.
My last trip on old Fannie was
about 1923. I say to you "Goodbye,
Old Fannie: "You've been a good ole
pal to me down through the years".
I too am getting old and heading
for the depot.
Sincerely,
Oscar B. Yancey
Letters are welcome, but only a
selection will be published. Prefer-
ence 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 ad-
dress and phone number. The tele-
phone number will not be published.
I~tters 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.
COR. 3rd AVE. & TEMPLE ST.
HINTON, WVat, PHONE 4t4~-11523
Parkinson's Disease:
Several Therapies
Parkinson's disease is a neuro-
logical condition which was first
described in 1917 by Dr. James
Parkinson. This condition, which
most often strikes people over the
age of 60, results in uncontrollable
tremors of the arms and legs, a
shuffling gait, and tightening of
ccnain muscles.
Parkinson's disease usually is
not fatal, but it often causes the
person affected to be more suscep-
tible to other health problems.
Some persons with Parkinson's
have difficulty standing or walk-
ing. Others may become depressed,
expericncc swallowing problems,
or experience ~h problems,
drooling, or constipation. Possible
causes of Parkinson's disease in-
clude head trauma, infection, or
exposure to toxic chemicals such.
as. lead, mercury, or mang~ese.:
Generally, it is believed that Park-
inson's symptoms are caused by
low levels of dopamine and other
transmitter chemicals in the brain.
Thc mainstay of Parkinson's
disease is ievodopa, a medicine
that helps the brain manufacturer
its own dopamine. Bromocriptine
andperdolide stimulate dopamine
receptors in the brain. These medi-
cines can be used in conjunction
with levodopa. One of the newer
medicines is selegiline, an enzyme
inhibitor that causes a prolonged
effect of the dopamine that is pres-
ent in the brain.
Sale Starts Wed. thru Christmas Eve
Open 9 to 8 - Closing at 5 Christmas Eve
t Last"
TEMPLE ST., HINTON, WV
HINTON'S OLDEST STORE
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