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The carcasses of II deer have been dumped at a site one mile south of the Leon limits on West Virginia Route 62. The tum-in is located in close proximity .to Old Leon Road. Leon resident Betty Stover said that the problem keeps getting worse. "Everytime you go by there, · there are just more and more," she said. "Every few days, just more and more. get added to the pile." Jeff Sweeney with the of Nat\lral Department Resources says II carcasses is not a great number. He has seen as many as 50 in such dumps. "They're everywhere," said Sweeney of the dumping sites. · Dumping animal carcasses is a misdemeanor puriishable by a $100 fine and up to $2,500 per day to a maximum of $25,000. Actual enforcement of the regulations concerning the dumping would fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, ,Sy.-eeney said. r~ . As far as concerns aoout the •wasting of killed animals, Sweeney said, "We can't regulate I . , Please see DHr, A3 Ttie VIAS YOU AIOUT! THE GRIZZWELLS Sf>..'f, \='LOR II., "\'\-\\~ \\~S A~t:t>.L ~M'1oiT! . .' 1 " 1 GARFIELD E~~ ~0<=1 l • £t;YS;, . I a i I 11-l~T~ BE:CAUSE I UbtD lU~l'\..t. (665 11-(\S ~Et..~'. ~ i ~ 0 ~ I -~ -..:: ~ ~ ~ I 1 I I· '---'·--'-·---'-'---'-·--J. . DRYNAB f ~ A young man wanted to be a composer. He wasn't sure which camefirstthemusicorthewords . . He .asked a famous composer, • · . w_ho replied, "Neither. First you · _must have a • - - - - - - -!" : 8:""'"11-11 0 If-lllil-ri-TI-T'III . . . . . . === """ (;:: ~ ~ ~ I NUTU C ~ hs:-r--r.r--r----r---1 ' 6 ~ -~"""' ~ ;:: c r:I;J r:I;J :s Complete the ch"ckle quoted by filling In the miujng words '---'---'-"---'---'----' you develop from :u~p No. 3 below . . @ ~ €j rh GAHS tour eye-opener for visitors BY ANOREW CARTER News editor . GALLIPOLIS , Ohio Something needs to be done. That was the general consensus Friday following a public tour of Gallia Academy High School conducted by school officials. The tour wasn 't a typical sugar-coated, public relations event, but instead offered a hard look at poor conditions students endure on a daily basis. Most in the group of90 people - . ranging from community · leaders and residents to political fig ures - expressed some level of disbelief at what they saw during the tour. Anita Strauss, a lifelong resident of Gallia County and a 1965 GAHS graduate, was one of those who took the tour. "We've been lucky that the state has not condemned the building," said Strauss, whose daughters. also graduated from Gallia Academy. "We have prisons that are better than that. "I did not come away inspired," she added. "I thought it's a bunch of bricks with a roof on it. That 's about the most pQsitive thing I can say.' "I really admire the administration for doing what they can , but shame on us as a community for forgetting about and our children and our schpols for as long as we have," she added. Strauss said the experience left her with mixed feelings . Mostly, she said she was disappointed by the fact that residents in the . city school district have failed to support any ballot issues regarding education since 1990, when voters approved a 6-mill tssue for operatmg expenses. "I came away inspired in the sense that I think the community is waking up to the fact that we need a new school," she said. "That, to me, was· a posi- PR INT NUMBERED 1 lETTERS IN SQUARES UNSCRAMBlE fOR AN SWER BY KEVIN KELLY News editor 4 Sedlons - 24 Paps ., r:I;J S1.25 • Vol. l7. No. 44 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis • Pl Pleasant • December 15, 2002 tive thing, but I surely hope they came away not saying, 'This is okay.' I'm one of those. I live in this community. "Shame on me. Shame on us . We can db better than this for our chil dren." Wide range of problems According to infqrmation provided . by Gallipolis City School District offiCial s, no bond iss ue for new buildings has been approved by vot. ers since a 5-mill bond passed in 1956, funding construction of the·current high school building. Issues were put before voters in 1979, 1985, 1998and 1999. Joining Strauss and other area residents for the tour were U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland (DLucasville), State Rep.elect ·CJyde Evans (R-Rio · Grande), State Sen.-elect John Carey (R-Wellston) and . Mary Lynn Readey, acting director of the Ohio Fac ilities School Commission. Readey, who has been on the JOb for about 90 days and has visited 12 school districts during that time, said she was glad to have the chance to view .the building in person. '11fii'nk our al'chitects have been down here three 'times doing a technical assessment of the building, but , obviously, it's ·a good opportunity for me to look at the building firsthand," Readey said. "I really applaud, frankly, the staff of the district and board members for really trying to get public officials involved and the community involved," she added. "So they, obviously, are doing an aggressive job of looking after their build' ing." Bruce Wilson, GAHS principal and an alumnus, was a guide for one tour group that included Readey, Evans and Strickland . He said the current facility presents a wide Keith McGuire, a sci~nce teacher at Gallla Academy High School, explains to visitors who toured. the school Friday how he ventilates his classroom located on the first floor of the building. McG uire, said he .has to open the room's only window if conditiol)s become too hot or too cold. (Andrew Carter) Stu(.;Jents -sp_e~k . OY.t ,o. ~ .~sthOQI::·co.ttditio·ns · - - ·····-f . ~ ,I , BY ANDJjEW CARTER News edHor · GALLIPOLIS, Ohio~ Alan Clifford and Sara Wiseman have grown up in the Gallipolis City School District. They love Gallia Academy High .School and are loyal to it. But' its fu!Ufe leaves them concerned~ . Clifford, , _11 . se~ior, , and W1seman, a jumor, JOllied area residents, and civic and politi-cal jeac;lers for a public tour of GAHS Friday. The students have very · strong opinions about GAHS and the conditions in which they are educated each day. "I've always kind of thought we've had really great teachers, b\lt I've always thought facili- ties have been ' a problem for . . . - - - - - - , ·us," Clifford said. ."In chemistry, we can't do a lot of the! experiments we've wanted to because we don't have the facilities," he added. "It's so cramped in my honors chemistry class, we had 16 or 18 people in a lab that was designed for 12. · "We' re really crammed i.n." Wiseman saJd she never real. ized the extent of the f;!Cility's deterioration until recen!Iy. She said, ttips to other schools ,to compete in track and field and cross country made het aw~ of shortcomings at GAHS. ,, "Growing ur. in the school district, I don t think I really took the time to think about our facilities compared to dthers," . Clifford Please see Students, AJ · L-------J , Please see GAHS. A3 .. Airport funding application gets Gallia's nod BIRNON Index -. ·V"~ ,. Southern, 81 t mollutka 19 Etll out BY PHIWP AlDER 52~1or lenni a Mae West said, "A 54 Deblor'a man in love is like a · note 43 Freight ftret name clipped coupon -- it's 55 Snooze hauler 10 Of guya roamer 46 SauH 11 Bird-feeder 38 Mild onion 57 Greaayfteld time to cash in." She Mario, Mich. treat 40 Weaker · should have gQt to49 Crawling 17 Here, to 41 Tentacled gether with Zsa Zsa ,........,.....,.lii""'"To'"'"T,'i';'""T\"l".., Gabor, who said, " I'm a marvelous housekeeper. Every · time I leave a man I keep his house." . . At the bridge table. if an opponent makes a mistake, cash in. It i~ a key art to winmng. Against three notrump, West led the spade five: three, mne, queen. Declare't played a heart to PEANUTS dummy ' s jack, then called. for the dia- · ARE '(0\J 601N6 TO ~Nl7AY mond three: seven, 'mE TEAC~ER SCilOOL. TOMORROW ? WAN1ED TO KNOW jack, king. West tried the spade king, but WIN '(OIJ WEREN'T declarer won with. LAST ;,t~N.~Y.. dummy's ace and led CELEBRITY CIPHER another · diamond, by Luis Campos claiming II tricks. Celebrity Cipher cryptogramS are crealed from quotations bV famous people, past and present. Each lener in the cipher stands for another. What mistakes were · Todays clue: P equals W made, and who should have cashed in? " N .C X K X D ·G Y X G C Y P Z X North made a limit raise, showing 10-12 S F E X. W K M J Y H X W ' K L W X P support points and at THE BORN LOSER P Z Y W K M J Y C Y .N R Y I X 0 D least four diamonds. ~ ~ ~ South, who would 'l.OOK'::l UK£ RETI\IL ST~"" 1-if\P..\ r-w.f.:)'(OUTf-\INK. :JO? 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POLLAN 0 • would have been 0 cashing in his chips at . 0 Reorronge letterl of the • four .!IC:rambl"d words • the end of the deal. low to form four •implo u River Valley beats , Henri measure- 29 Coup d'- J:>a!~ disabled, Cl DOWN 1 DOE Sports Christmas on the farm, Dl 62 Clothing defect 630_,. bellperl< 22 Beach -•r aiK:cesaor 25 Earlll'a star 2 Unoi81J111 Vulnerable : N~ ither Home and Garden · Resources limited · Insect 1 Coffee, slangily 5 -tal 8 Mend!cent's cry 12 Scmage'a l(·!!OX ' Tempo NEA Crossword Puzzle Celebrations Classifieds ·Comics Dear Abby Editorials Obituaries Region Sports Weather cs 04-5 insert Cl A4 A6 A2 Bl-6 A2 e> 2002 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. SCRAM-LETS ANSWERS GALLIPOLIS, Ohio An application to the Federal Aviation Administration for funding to perform work at the Gallia-Meigs Regional Airport will soon be making its way to FAA's Detroit regional office. Gallia County commissioners approved submitting the application to obtain $475,000 in AIR-21 money for upgrades at the airport. The work will done once the funds are in hand, County Administrator Karen Sprague said. Sprague presented application documents to commissioners on behalf of Randy Sheidler, the county's consultant on the airport. The application shows a $528,333 .33 project cost for pavement rehabilitation and obstruction removal. The application seeks $300,500 through A.IR-21 · and $175,000 from the state, with a I 0 percent local match totaling $52,800. Commi ssioner Shirley Angel , who made the . motion Thursday to accept the application, said borrowing the local match would be acceptable to him so the counly doesn ' t miss out on getting the grant funding. The airport was opened in 1967. The commi ss ioners and the airport authority are also looking to revalidate a threeyear study released in 1996 considering the possibilty of relocating the airport, primarily because the current runway is not adequate for jet traffic. The study must be revalidated for the FAA to ju stify the need for a new airport. The original study found a site south of the U.S . 35/0hio Route 850 interchange was best for locating a new. airport. · Sheidler said prev iou sly he considers an airport critical to the area's economic development, especially since repre sentatives of existing local manufacturers, such as GKN Sinter Metals, frequentl y use Gallia-Meigs to visit the· plant from corpomte headquarters. A survey has been issued by the airport authority to area businesses and industries as part of the revalidation,. conducted by Whitworth- Borta and Co., a Rocky River-based · airport pllmning and engineering consultant retained by the authority and commissioners. The survey asks respondents for information about airport usage, the type of airemft used, reason~ for tlying and time and distance encountered in using the airport most frequently utilized . among other' considerations. Gunner · Await : Which - Enmity - THEY are RIGHT My friend would not budge from her original opinion on a sens1t1ve 1ssue. It seems to me that human beings are never more frightening than when they are convinced . beyond dOubt that THEY are RIGHT. ARLO& JANIS ,~ . Love Lights a Tree spc>nsored hy the American Cancer Sociely and Holzer Medical Center If ,.....r.;, 1/J 1 I fri0$t 6tU'fl 1 fpj ' IJA{r.'.' ,'(;. I/ . . A special holiday event honoring loved ones and helping oid cancer research "''1' IlL<" Wednesday, .December' 18, 2002 6:00 pm • Gallipolis City Park J1.1' . t!AJ! F.• t d , ~, MEDICAL CENTER Discove1• the Holzer Difference ~,r !IIIJI!! To donate $5 for a personalized Christmas ornament per honoree, call (740) 446-4728, (740) 446-5055 or (740) 446-5054 b~fore 4 pm on Tuesday, December 17: "· '---~~--~L..;[] _,_.·~~--~W.--~~--~ J~t.., ll!t, .,f) ,.. l.,...,,. ,/,. ,. ,. ' www.holzer .org • -· �• PageA2 A ~6_u_n_b~l'~~~im_r_•~·6_r_m_l_nr_l______________~~~~C]~»~I~I~ ________________s_un_d~ay~,D_K_e_m_~_r_ts_,2_oo_2 Ohio•W. Va. iunbap limH ·itntind Districts skeptical • c 00 u n I S h I f d ng • refOrm Will heIP Ohio weather Sunday, Dec.15 · I IToledO [41'124' I i Mansfield [40'119' I I llll. .1eoiumbus ~t'l2s' I .1 Pictured are representatives from the Gallia and Mason County organizations receiving donations from the ComJl!unity Fund. Attending the reception on behalf of the Community Fund were new committee chairman Chris Petro and members Patty Davis, Bob Hennesy, Frieda Greathouse, Cindy Johnston, Brenda Henson, Carla Mink and retiring committee chair Hugh Graham. \ OVBC employees give back to community W.VA • C2002 Ao:uWeatller, Inc. o •·-~ · Sunny Pt. Cloolt CkMxli Srow Showe!s T~ilmts •• Ice Staff report GALLIPOLIS, Ohio The Ohio Valley Bane Corp .Employee Community Fund is distributing $12,655 to 62 charitable organizations during the holiday season. The number of organizations that benefited from the fund this year, increased by nine. This marks the largest amount ever given in a single year by the fund since it started in 1985. Among the local organiza- · tions that received funding this year by the OVBC employees included Arbors at Gallipolis, GAHS Key Club, Gallia CouniL Meals on Wheels, Gallia County. Senior Resource Center Adult Day Care, Gift of Love Foundation, Gold Wing Riders Christmas Gift Giving, Holzer Hospice, Holzer Senior Care Center, Middleton Estates, Gallipolis Outreach Center, . Ray of Hope Outreach, Rodney Pike Church of God outreach ministries, Scenic Hills Nursing Center, Meigs County Community Action, Meigs Cooperative Parish, Meigs County Homeless Shelter, Meigs Human Services Angel Tree Project, Bend Area Children's ShareA-Christmas, · Homeless Shelter, Mason County Community . Action Food Bank, Mason County Deputy Sheriff's Shop with a Cop, Mason County Toys for Tots, Pleasant Valley Hospital Hospice, Pleasant Valley Nursing and Rehab . Cent~r, and the Point Pleasant F1re Department, Many similar organizations in Jackson, Franklin, Pike , Meigs, Scioto and Lawrence counties in Ohio . and Cabell ·and Kanawha counties in West Virginia received funding this holiday season. Since the fund's inception , OVB, Loan Central, and Ohio Valley Financial employees have donated over $88 thousand to assist worthwhile causes and charitable organizations in the corporation 's marketing area. Annual 'Love Lights a Tree' set for Dec. 18 Staff report and patient services, according to Bonnie McFarland and Jenni Dovyak, co-chairpersons for GALLIPOLIS, Ohio - The the holiday event. Donations in Gallia County Unit of the honor of and in memory of a American Cancer Society is special person can be made planning for its annual throughout the holiday season, Christmas project, "Love but a special ceremony to Lights a Tree." launch the project wiU be held This annual event gives area at 6 p.m. Wednesday in residents the opportunity to Gallipolis City Park. honor a special person during This year's personalized the holiday setison and aid in Christmas Ornament for the cancer research. Love Lights a Tree project, The "Love Lights a Tree" . which requires a $5 donation to project is designed to raise the .Jocal American Cancer money not only for research, Society unit, will carry the but includes cancer education name of the honoree, and be West Virginia weather Sunday, Dec. 15 PA. placed on the Christmas tree in the park, Names of honorees will be read during the special ceremonr Wednesday. 'This IS a wonderful way to pay tribute to a special person m rour life, and know you are domg something positive in the battle against cancer," McFarland said. "It is also a great way to celebrate the holiday season in Gallia County, sharing an evening of remembrance with friends and family, while fighting for a good cause." After the holiday season is over, these personalized oma- ments llllJY be picked up at the Marketing Office at Holzer Medical Center. For information about picking up ornaments, call Dovyak at 740-4465054. An open invitation is . extended to anyone wishing to attend the "Love Lights a Tree" ceremony. If ~ou would like to honor a Special person for ' the "Love Lights a Tree" ceremony, please make sure all dorialions are made before 4 p.m. on Thesday, so that their name can be included in the ceremony. For information, call McFarland at 740-446-S679. For the Record Patrol tickets drivers VA. 'o 02002 Aa:u~Vtdiir, ~ * II t Sunny Pl. CK!udy ~~ C~ Showe~ T-stonns Rain Runies y Snow ~ ~ Ice BY THE ASSOCI"TED PRESS ' .' .. ••• GALLIPOLIS, Ohio HOJ3SON, Ohio Millard M. Foley, 72, 365 Donna J. Sliong, 33, 2170 Neighborhood . Road, Ohio Route 325 North, Gallipolis, wa·s cited for failBidwell, was cited for fail- ure to yield half of the roadure to yield by the Gallia- way by the patrol following Meigs Post of the State ·. an accident Thursday on Highway Patrol following a Greelf Township Road 378 two-car accident Friday at (King). · the intersectio n of Ohio Troopers said Foley, operatRoute 7 and Hobson Drive. ing a Gallipolis City Schools Troopers said Shong was bus, was e11stbound when he westbound on Hobson · stopped to discharge passenDrive at 7:55p.m. when she gers at 4:20 p.rr1. A westbound failed to yield at the inter- car driven by Michael S. section to a car driven by McCartney, 21, 478 Paxton Wilbur L. Ward, 50, 33967 Road, Gallipolis, stopped for Jacks Road, Langsville, that the bus. was northbound on 7. · When Foley started the bus · Both cars collided, . the rolling again, it struck the side of McCartney's car, the report said. Both vehicles had nonfunctional damage, troopers said. 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Partly cloudy. 40 · Afternoon high tempera- H' h · th tures will · climb into the Ig s tn e upper s. lower 40 s. Tuesday night ... Partly A weak cold front will cloudy. Lows in the upper pu sh south across Lake Erie 305 · . h d ld . Wednesday ... Part I y . d sun ay mg 1 an cou cloudy. Highs 50 to 55. cause a few snow showers ~ in the northeas t, but gener!hursda~ ... Mostly cloudy all y dry coaditioos are wllh a chance of showers . •.. expecied through Monday · L.ows In the lower 40s and .. night. Temperatures should h1gh~ tn the upper 50s. be close to normal for the Fnday... A. chance of begi nning of the week. showers dunng the day, othWeather forecast: erwise partly cloudy. Lows Sunday ... Partly cloudy. near 40 and highs in the mid Hig hs in the upper 40s. 40s. West winds 5 to 15 mph . Saturday... Mostly clear. Su nday night.. .Mostl y Lows in the lower 30s and cloudy. Lows in the lower highs in the mid 40s. i>unbap m:tmes -~entinel Reader Services COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)·Superintendents and principals are skeptical about whether reforms will come from the Ohio Supreme Court's latest ruling that the way the state pays for education is unconstitutional. They koow better than to get their •hopes up, the educators say. ''Obviously, we've heard this before, and, once again, we're left waiting to find out what's going to happen." said Cynthia Finley, pnncipal at StowMonroe Falls High School, in a suburban Akron district of 6,<XXl students. School leaders acknowledge that some improvements have been made since the court first · ruled the system unconstitutional ftve years ago. However, they remain frustrated because there has been no complete and systematic overhaul of the funding plan. · "We're waiting for when there's goin~ to be some real change," srud Geny Griffith; principal of th~ 1,150-student Colonel White High School in Dayton. . The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 4-3 . to reinstate two of its previous rulings - in 1997 and 2000 - that ordered lawmakers to overhaul the state's school funding system so every child receives the · thorough and efficient education the Ohio Constitution requires. The court says the system creates disparities between rich and poor districts because it relies too heavily on property taxes..· The case has dragged on since Sunday,. December 15, 2002 Aluminum plant workers approve contract offer . · < Page A3 1991, when a coalition of 500 school districts filed a lawsuit in Perry O>.unty on behalf of thenschoolboy Nathan DeRolph. . Since then, the state has increased funding for primary and secondary schools by 81 percent, from $3.6 billion in 1992 to $6.5 billion in 2002. And, from 1998 through the end of this year, Ohio lawmakers will have made $2.98 billion available for school constnx;tion. Of that, the state estimates it has spent $2 billion. aecause of those improvements, Marion City Schools . will open a new high school and three elementary schools next fall under a $92 million project, of which the state is paying 86 percent. Still, Mike McCreary, principal of Marion Harding 'High School, said that while the aid helps tremendously, more money doesn't mean equality. That comes only in the distribution of those funds, be says. Other administrators agree they need a system .where schools get the same amount of money for each student no matter where that child> lives. "Right now, kids are being punished and penalized for where they were born," said William Licate, superintendent of Ashtabula Area City Schools. However, in the wealthy suburban Cincinnati di§trict of Princeton, Superintendent Don Darby said dividing current amounts of state money among all .districts will create more ; problems. RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. (AP) With layoffs already hitting their ~lummum plant, members of a Umted Steelworkers local on Friday narrowly approved a contract offer from plant owner Pechiney Rolled Prodtlcts LLC. The measure passed 395 to 324, with 86 percent of Local5668's active members voting. . Local president Billy Hendricks said the layoffs and Pechiney's bankruptcy threat, along with recent production outages, likely tipped the scales in favor of the contract. The local bad rejected two similar offers. Company officials "played a pretty good . game: I'll tell them that," l:Iendncks sa.td. ·· The Jackson 1 County company announced in October plans to lay off 202 workers, about 17 rercent of the plant's force, as part o a $9 million restructuring. At least 87 workers were laid off this week as part of the plan . With the vote, Pechiney successfully renegotiated a labor contract that had been set to end next year. The company threatened bankruptcy without a new agreement, which it said it needed to create an in-house health care facility and trim health costs. Neither the compariy nor the union would discuss detail&of the new contract, which extends through May 2005. "Reaching agreement on this labor contract is one of the critical steps we are taking to ensure the survival of the Pechiney Rolled Products plant," said Todd Ritchie, the company 's vice president of manufacturing. Workers walking into the plant on a snowy Saturday declined to give their names. Several said they . thought the union should have held out longer. •1we gave up some very important things we had, and we let them in th~ door to take away more m two years, one said. United Steelworkers di strict and international staff had prodded the local into veting for a third time on the contract. . International President Leo Gerard met . with local members Wednesday to urge approval. He stressed the dangers of a ~oss ible bankruptcy, noting that steel Industry bankruptcies ha ve cost about 175,000 retired steelworkers their health in surance . " About half of them figured it was worth the ri~k.', and the other hal f figured It wasn I, Hendncks sa1d. Pechiney is a subsid iary of Pari sbased Pechiney· SA . one of the world's largest alu mi num producers wi th 34,500 workers in 51 countries. Mercer residents fume about proposed pipeline route SPEEDWAY, W.Va, (AP) - A Dominion employee apologized Friday for failing to meet with angry Mercer County residents about the path of a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run throl!gh West Virginia to North Carolina. About 40 residents in a Speedway church heard an apology" from Romana Kanouff, a land agent for Dominion Transmission, for waiting so long to hold the utility 's first meeting in Mercer about the proposed Greenbrier Pipeline. The 280-mtle, $497 million project would run from County to Kanawha Granville County, N.C . Construction could affect about 4,200 acres in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina, including hundeeds of acres held by private landowners. · :·~~is is the first project of th1s . ,magnitude for . us,'' Kanouff said. "We selected several areas to hold open houses. Obviously we didn 't make it to Mercer. Hopefully we'll have more meetings after this." · Several residents · said Dominion's proposed route would cut through choice portions of their land and devalue their property. "I bought the property for my retirement, and now any possibilities of doing anything with the property have gone down the tubes," said Jerry Bailey, who lives in the Pisgah area. ' Another potentially affected landowner, Phoebe Meadows, said the pipeline would benefit people in North Carolina rather than in West Virginia. The · Federal Energy Re~ulatory Commission is reviewing the pipeline proposal. If it grants ·approval, Dominion would enjoy the ·· right of eminent domain 'to use private property. <.•·, Randy Hutson, Dominion's lead right -ofway agent for the project, said changing the pipeline 's path remains possi ble , adding, "The route is not carved iii stone." The pipeline is expected to enter service in mid- 2005. Dominion owns two-thirds of the pipeline partnership, Piedmont Natural Gas onethird .·· Local governments would · benefit from the pipeline 's presence , . with Mercer County alone getting $463 ,000 in property tax revenue in the first year of Road officers.face · · ·Taft generous with constant traff1c danger campaign donations .· COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - .,h. St<tte. Highway ~atrol trooper who was senously injured 'this week is one .of more than 20 Ohio lawenforcement officers in the last seven years who have been killed or .hurt when struck by vehicles while on duty. Trooper Leonard Gray was listed in serious condition Saturday at Grant Medical Center. He was struck as he directed traffic around a jackknifed tractortrailer Wednesday along State Route 93 in Hocking County. Ronald Hamrick, 61 , of Logap, was charged Friday with driving under the influence of drugs, said Lt. Gary · Lewis, a patrol spokesman . Toxicology tests will identify the substance believed to have impaired Hamrick. Doctors say Gray, 51, probably will be released within l 0 days and has a good chance of full r~covery from lower-leg ~raetures, broken ribs and back injuries. . He was injured l!ours after putting in his paperwork to retire ·from the patroL Since 1995, five lawenforcement officers in Ohio stru'ck by vehicles steered by inattentive or intoxicated motorists have '"·~~- operation , Dominion officials say. · "It appears it 's already gone through," said f rustrated Mercer resident Phil Jeffrey s. "It's li ke betting on a horse when the race is hal f qver." 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The slow down ot move over donated $45,963 in television group's · donors and the · l when approaching a public- · time to opponents of a drug amount it raised won't be ~Jfi. safety vehicle with its lights treatment ballot issue and known until it files a federal · flashmg. $403,000 to other campaigns tax return. It was inspired by the in the two weeks leadmg up . · Taft donated a total of 1998 death of Centerville to the election, campaign $50,439 to Ohioans Against Officer John finance reports show. Unsafe Drug Laws, a group Police Kala man. He and a fireTa.ft, a Republican, beat co-chaired by his wife, Hope. fighter were helping a Del1i0cratic challenger Tim Issue I, which would have We place any picture motorist near Dayton when Hagan 58 percent to 38 ~er- required judges to impose you have on china a car struck and killed cent in the Nov. 5 election. · treatment instead of jail time them. Taft raised a total of $10.7 for first- and second-time, plates & more. 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The op;nions expressed in the column be/on· are the cmrsens!ls of the Ohio Valley P!tblishing Co. :, editorial hoard. . unless oth en rise nored. DiVided .. ·wealth, .georgraphy create new gulf in educational opportunity Almost 50 years ago, a ruling by the United States Supreme Couri changed the land. In the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, a new doctrine of equality in education paved the way for equal opportunity. Race was the dividing factor then. Wealth is today. · In courtrooms on both sides of the Ohio River, a question of equality in edu.cation is raging again. Students are segregated . based on geography instead·of race. . A wealthy suburb of Cleveland colle.cted more than $7,500 which was spent on each student's education last year. By comparison, a meager S I, I 00 was spent on each student's education in the Meigs Local School District in Ohio. Because of the inequalities associated with excess levies in richer and poorer counties, school districts in West Virginia .face the same harsh realities. A child educated in a poor school district is discriminated against not because of ability, but opportunity. Consistently, Ohio's annual report card to school districts gives good grades to wealthy districts like the Ottawa Hills Local District in Lucas County (Toledo) which scored a 25 out of 27 performance standards Ii1st year. · Gallia County Local scored an 8 and is listed as being on Academic Emergency. Gallipolis City Schools scored an II and is listed as being on Academic Watch. State governments on both sides of the river have addressed this problem by supplementing local property tax revenues with grants and capnal improvements, but it is not enough. Both Ohio and West Vtrginia are currently facing budget shortfalls which are going to affect funding. West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise is considering cutting $15 million from edu'iation this year. This figure represents a 1.5 percent cutback· which will affect funding the state provides to the 55 counties through the school aid formula. The formula funds personnel,. administrative and other costs. . . Ohio Gov. Taft is considering $30 million in cuts from the Department of Education. · · . . ECJ,uality in education should not be at the mercy of eco· nomtcs because cutbacks will hurt the poorest places first. : While many educators and ciiizens are impatient about a solution, the .Ohto Supreme Court's decision to send the · . school funding problem back to the legisl ~ture is a victory for everyone; . The ideal behind majority opinion is that everyone is enti· tied to an equal education and this principle should not be dtluted based on money any ·more than it should be based on RYAN'S . VIEW TODAY IN HISTORY BYTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS · Today is Suqday, Dec. I5, the 349th dav o f 2002. There are 16 days left in the year. · · Today 's Highlight in History: On Qec. I5, 1791, the Bill of Rights went into. effect following ratification by Virginia.. On thi s date: . : In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting·Bull and J.I other tribe m~mbers were .killed in Grand River, S.D.. during a fracas wtth lndtan poltce. · · In 1916, the French defeated the Germans in the WWI . · Battle of Verdun . In 1938 , groundbreaking ceremoni es for the Jefferson Memorial.took place in Washington D.C. In 1944, a single-en gine plane carryin g bandleader Glenn Miller di sappeared over the English Channel while en route to Pari s. In 1948 , form er State Department official Alger Hiss was indi cted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges .of perj\try. (He was con,v icted in 1950.) In 1961 , former Nazi official Adolf Ei chmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court. . . In 1965, two U. S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within W feet of eac h other ·while . in orbit. In 1966, mo vie producer Walt Di sney died in Los Angeles. In 199 I,. at b st 464 people were left dead or mi ss ing when an Egyp tian-reg istered ferry sank in the Red Sea. . In 1996, Boeing Co. announced plan s to pay $ 13.3 billion :to acquire ri val aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Dou glas Co rp. · . Ten years ago: President-elect Clinton contluded a two· day conference on the economy. saying the nation lliu st tame "th e monster of spiraling health care costs" if it was ever to slash the hu ge budget deficit. IBM announced it would el.im· inate 25.000 more employees in the coming year. .. . . Quietly, .waves are being made in the classroom BY JOAN RYAN If they keep .showing up, Making solid educa~ion requires private ·as well On a sunny Saturday aft~rnoon , .17- Waves pays for' private high school and as public commitment. Schools can't year-old Sadia Morgan hunches over a guides their entry into college, secu(ing do it alone. "Education is the biggest college application in a large room that financial aid and paying for campus problem our country faces," Holsclaw had once been a PG&E office. Now the visits. Morgan, a senior at St. Mary's says. "We've got to roll up our sleeves walls. like the walls in three adjoining High in Berkeley. is leaning toward and fix it. And there aren't any short-. , · former offices , are decorated with Hampton College in Virginia. Friends . cuts." world maps and chemical chat1s and from her neighborhood long ago That is what sets Making Waves inspirational quotes. This is where stopped razzing Morgan for holing her- apart from other programs with dazMorgan and a few dozen other high self up at the tutoring center every zling mission statements. It isn't about school seniors come to study for finals night and on ,Saturdays. "A lot of them making kids and wealthy benefactors and write term papers, marki1.1g the last . wish they were here,'' Morgan says. feel good.lt'.s about hard work and sacfew months of an educational ex peri· To watch the operation in action is to rifice, day in and day out, and not just · .. ment that began for them eight years have one 's hope restored in the power from the kids. · ago, in fifth grade. of hard work and a well-designed plan. Twenty-five-year-old Wesley Jacques A . privately financed group called The new Making Waves fifth·gtaders teaches eve.ry day at Verde Elementary Making Waves chose Morgan and 49 are working quietly in groups .of five in m North R1chmond;one of the state's other kids from beleaguered Richmond . I 0 small rooms. A teacher or education lowest-ranked schools. After school elementary schools for a program that major from a local university is .teach- a[ld on Sat\lrdays, he works as academought to be studied by every low- ing them multiplication and fractions, ic coordinator at Making Waves. income school district in the countr)l. biology and literature, reinforcing, "These· kids are .so far behind they As politicians talk endlessly about how ·remediating !J.nd enhancing their pub- need more than what we can do in th6 to change lives through education, lie-school c.urriculum. ' six hours of a school day,:' Jacques Making Wa~es is quietly doing just · A I 0-year-old girl named Irvalisa, says. . · that. buckin.\l every assumption about puzzling through decimals, says she is The program isn't cheap. Including what is posstble for poor and minority here on a Saturday "so I can be some- one meal a day, it costs about $6.500 a children. body." Another girl, Kia, admits to year for each child. . The kids .in Making Waves - 50 new whining to her mother that she wanted "But when you see these kids," fifth-graders almost every year since · to ·stay in bed this morning. "My mom Holsclaw says, "how .could you not 1989 - show up at the tutoring center started Whining with me until I stopped say; 'Let's do more of this?'" . at least two days a week after school and then she made me come," she says. and all day Saturday - 12 months a Family involvement is a key to the pro(Joan Ryan is a coluninistfor the San year for eight years. gram's success. Francisco Chronicle. Send 'comments "We're asking these kids to c\o some- • The organization, founded by Marin to her in care of this newspaper or send · thing pretty crazy," said Glenn businessman John Scully, believes pro- her e-mail at Holsclaw, director since 1994. viding children with equal access to a joan ryan@ sfchronicle. com.) · !.--.. ._4~, . KILPATRICK'S VIEW Turning jury room into a TV stage subverts process race. Next session, lawmak~~s should repeat the phrase "complete systemattc overhaul every ume they get a cup of coffee or answer the phone. · After all these years, lawmakers should not be allowed to continue to defy the court because political delay maintains a status quo of gross discrimination. . . . . GAHS She was preceded in death ·by her parents; her GALLIPOLIS, Ohio husband. Everett Davis, in Mary L Casto• flew to her 1976; twin sisters, Nan Heavenly Home on Moore and Elizabeth Thursday, December 12, Mourning; and a brother, 2002. . Claude Washington . . Greeting her as she Private graveside services arrived on the Golden will . be held Monday, Shore were many loved December 16, 2002, at ones and friends, including Middleport Hill Cemetery her husband. Ray R. Casto; in Middleport, with the her parents, Bert and Rev. Bob Robinson officialBlanche Moore Russell; her ing. No calling hours will sisters, Anna Gilfillen and be ob se~ved . Arrangements Nellie Russell; her brother. are by Ftsher Funeral Home · Rus~ell; her in Middleport. · Carl fath~r/mother-m-law, Perry Memorial .contributions and Laura Keefer Casto; may . be made to Heath and. a sister/brother-in-law, ._.Ynited Methodist Church, Walter and Anna Plantz. 339 South Third Avenue, Staying here for a little . Middleport, Ohio 45760 . - Paid notice while longer are her daughter, . Mary Faye Plants; a granddaughter, Mindy Rae Plants (Steve) Derenberger. a grandson, Wi IIi am Edward Plants, great CROWN CITY, Ohio "grandchildren. Erich Edwards, Anthony Edwards Shawn Mason Maynard 29, and Sarah Beth Edwards. of Crown · Cityl , died all of Gallipolis; a brother- Thursday, December 12, . in-law, Ervin "Shorty" 2002, at Holzer Medical · (lona) Casto of Inverness, Center. Shawn was born Florida; and nieces, September 30, 1973, in Stolling of Barbara Gallipolis , son ·Of Cindy Newark, Jackie (William) Waltz of of Rootstown, Martin Bryant and Bruce Helene (Bill) Heaton of W. Maynard. He was an asbestos Livonia. Mich.igan. Mary removal worker for Local Maureen ,.(Charles) Seabolt . of Belle, Wtf Virginia, No. 207 New Haven, Wesf Margaret Lynn (B.L.) Virginia. He also attended . Missionary · •James of Colorado Springs, Providence Church. . Baptist Colorado, and Darlene Surviving are his wife, of (Gene) Newcombe Paula P9rter Maynard, and Prescott, Arizona. She is also survived by son, Devin, and an unborn nephews, John Edgar daughter, Haven Shawn. · (Wilma) Gilfillen of · · Also surviving are his Columbus, Vernon (Joan) mother, Cindy (Greg) Russell of Newark, Ronald Bryant of Galhpolis, . and of his father, Bruce W. (Geneie) Plantz Gallipolis, and Larry (Jerri) Maynard of Gallipolis; a Kimberly Plantz of Chesapeake; as stepsister, · McCormick of Gallipolis; ·well as cousins, many: grandparents, friends and two special maternal Mabel and George Roush of friends, Tomme and Gallipolis, and . Edward Spooky, She was retired·from G. Cc Martin of Gallipolis; and Murphy Company and was his paternal grandfather, a member of First Families Mason Maynard of Crown · of Gallia County, and a .City. He is also survived by charter member of Faith uncles, Keith R. Spurlock Baptist Church in Rodney. of Gallipolis, and Delmas The family will recetve . Maynard of Richmond, · friends at the . McCoyMoore Funeral Homes Inc. , Virginia; and aunts, Barbara Chapel in Legates of · Wilmington, Wetherholt Gallipolis from 5 to 8 p.m. Delaware, Beatrice Claing Sunday, December 15, of Sacramento, California, 2002, with a family prayer Sylvia Kahl of Baltimore, Maryland, and Gail Perdue service to follow. of Chesafeake. . You are invited .tojoin us Severa nieces and as we celebrate her New and cousins surnephews, Life, which will be con- · ducted at Faith Baptist · vtve. Preceding him in death Church at 1 p.m. Mond&y. was a grandmother. Eunice D11cember 16. 2002. Casket will be closed at the church. Maynard. Services . will be ·1 p;m.• Committal of · earthly Tuesday, December . 17. remains with Irish blessings 2002, at Willis Funeral will follow at the Pine Cemetery in Home, with Pastor James Street Gallipolis. . · Chapman officiating. Burial · In lieu of flowers, dona- will follow at Mina Chapel tions may be made in her Cemetery. Friends may. call name . to . The Gideons at funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, December International. Mary was a special lady. 16, 2002. Palibearers will be Bill She will be greatly missed Venters, Rob Lee, Zach by all who knew her. Only one life will soon .be past, Ruff, Michael Bryant, only what's done for Christ Steve Hill and Rick Jones. The honorary pallbearer :-villlast. is Jeff Barber. · - Pai!l notice Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com for sending e-mail condolences to the family. MIDDLEPORT, Ohio · - Paid notice Lorena Davis, 106, · of Middleport, died Saturday, December 14, 2002, at Overbrook Center. She was born December 26, 1895, · in West Columbia, West Virginia, daughter of the late Robert and. . Ella Zerkle Washington. · She was a teacher in the Middleport School System until she married Everett Davis, and a lifelong member of Heath United in Methodist Church Middleport. .. She is survived by a niece, Elizabeth and Jack Hawley of Middleport. Shawn Mason Maynard OUR VIEW cronies are not amused. Who put the Lasl month a judge in .Texas grant· dead cat on· her car? ed a remarkable motion. He .agreed to The motion to broadcast deliberathe TV taping of a jury's deliberations ~ets strong support from Robert tions in the trial of 17-year-old . ·o· Net), director of the Thomas Cedric Ha(rison.for murder. , Jefferson Center for Protection of The case stems from a carjacking' · Free Expression. O'Neil is a· highly that went tragically wrong. Public · respected professor of constitut.ional Broadcasting 's "Frontline" program law at the University of Virginia. He wants to tape not only the entire trial acknowledges that. the proposal crebut particularly the jury 's role. A ates some risks, but he feels that the · good idea? r.roposed videotaping would help to My enthu siasm ranges from lukeCOLUMNIST 'demystify" the judicial system in warm to tepid to cold. In the typical action. criminal caljil!, I am reliably told, I have such admiration for O'Neil jurors reach a verdict as if they were . . . , making sausage. Ivis not an orderly become a st~g~, and the JUrors mere- that I hesitate to come down finally process . Sweet reason is. seasoned ly actors. Th!s ts showb1z. Those vo!- on the other side. We have both cam· with the prejudices of the partici- · tng to conv1~t. would ~harpen thetr paigne~ for n:tanyyef!rs in support of pants, and the orders of a trial judge arguments, m~mmtze evtdence to the televtstng tnals . The Constttution to "di sregard that testimony" are nat- ~ontrary, advance ad hommem rea- itself implicitly Sanctions such cover· urally dt sregarded . sons. Those vot1ng to acqutt would be age. In all criminal prosecutions, the · The- plan is for a TV camera 10 be e~ually. vulnerable. t?the lure of the accused shall enjoy the right to a mounted in conspicuously in the jury Silent stren tn the cet},mg. . , speedy "and public" trial. The televi· room . Th e juro rs' arguments back and Of n ecesstty, ,the Frontline pro- sion camera and tape recorder are the forth _ · whether 10 acquit or to con - ducers woul~ hdve to .edtt the ltnal natural extensions of a print viet _ mi ght add up to an award- tapes for broadcast. A JUry m~y well reporter' s pencil. winning show. The players . would be deltberate for. many hours - t~de~d, My own particular exercise in futil· de aling literally with young for se veral days -. before reachmg ity .lies in persuading the U.S. Harri son' s life 0 .,. death . At some tts verdtct or declarm.g a deadlock. Supreme Court to permit live TV point later on . after the verdict has The edlttn g process ts a selective coverage of oral argumenJ. The cases bee n a nnounc~d, the tape would be process. The edllors naturally. would often have greatpublic interest. The want to preserve the ltv e lt~st arguments last for preci sely one hour, ,edited and broadcast. · Those few sentences · pretty well exc hange s. the. most .telling . argu- a ·manageable ttme, Surely there summari ze 1ny objec.tions to the pro· · ments, the most mteresttng faces. But would be significant educational . posal. There is no such animal as an unl ess the . edtttng were done wtth value for lawyers and law students in "in co nspicuous" TV ca mera . The u.nusual sktll, t.he p~rported educa- watching Larry Tribe or Ted Olson in produ cers could conceal a camera ttonal valu.es qutte hkely would be action - a .great Harvard professor behind a hole in the chandelier, and lost or d1m1m shed. . . . agamst a sk.i lied solicitor general. I the jurors wo uld still he keenl y awa 1·e A mo~e personal ObJectton comes to have yet to hear a convincing reason of its presence. That awarene ss 1vould mtnd: rhe posHnal safety of the against TV coverage. affect their del iberat ions in ways that JUro rs. Let us s up~o se ,our Jury votes All we hear on this score in the can reasonabl y be surmi seu. . to co nvt_ct a lead1ng gangster or a pressroom is Ju stice David Souter's H.L. Mencken on ce re mitrkli!d upon kmgptn m t1he drug world . These are assertion that TV is out of the questhe uni versa l tendency of public men not tn end ly people. Let us further so long as he sits. "Over my dead to strut ltnd roll their eyes. At the end suppose th at Juror No . I 0, Mana tton body~" he said. Well, Your Ho,nor, of" spec tacular trial ~ the onl y kind Lamuel~ , had . led . the success ful wtshmg you no bad luck ... of tri<JI that would intere st charge lor convtctton. Now she ts on "Fro nt lin e" - th e j ury room would the btg-scree n TV, and the boss' s (James J. Kilpatrick is a column.ist fo r Universal Press Syndit ate.) James Kilpatrick 1 f . ., ; • I· . Lorena Davis atimn-jladbuJ • Page AS the lack of a working science lab. no cafeteria for high everschool students, decreasing classroom space and social concerns stemming from , in some cases, seventh-grade students and seniors being forced to interact due to space constraints. The high school portion was built in 1957, while the sectiol] housing the junior was built in 1916, according to City Schools Superintendent Jack Payton. Payton said the average a~e of schools within the cny district is 65. · The newest building on any cam· pus is a four-room portable behind GAHS that was purchased in 1990. • Mary I. Casto 825 Third Avenue • Galllpolle, Ohio ~ Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, Ohio • Point Pleasant, WV because of the privacy fac· tor and the outdatedness of them. "They go to the rest room · from Page A1 before they get here in the range of problems for the morning. then they hold it staff and administrators. until they leave here , or at Security and student safety lunch time when they go are the biggesr concerns for out , they use the fas t food Wilson. He said the structure restaurant fac ilities. ''Th at's how they dea l has 23 points of entry. none of which are secure. with it." In add ition to a lack of "It's a security ni ght" w·1 ·d "W · restroom fac iliti es, Wi lSon 1 son sat · mare, e sa id he and schoo l .offi cials cannot lock all doors down . It Would be great l.f y 0 u had before ·· him have bee n a facility· like the riewer forced inio using spaces for ones where they lock all class rooms that were neve r doors and channel every- des igned for such use. body through one door to a "The building, structu ral · main receiving area. Iy. has n' t changed any at all "We're not able to do since I was here in 1970... that, so it's uncommon for he sai d. " Basica ll y.. all us on a weekly basis to find we ' ve . don e, and pas t somebody in the buildin g," adminis trators haY!! done, is take.n the rooms that we re at he added. "It just might be a parent nice capacity and subdividwho knows what their kid 's ed them clow n and cut them schedule is," he added . in half to t.mtke more cl ass "They mean nothing by it. roo ms. They stop by their room to . " I guess I'm amazed at the number of areas that give their kid some money, have been . con vert ed to but sometimes those things class rooms since I was here can be ugly. We ' ve had some situations where par- in 1970." he added. ;.Ws ents have bypassed the overwhelming if you go office, gone straight to a around arid reall y look ." classroom and had a verbal Another problem is eli ·' confrontation with a teacher mate control. which Wilson because they're upset about said is vhtually non-e x.i s· something. tent in both the high school "That's the reason .and junior l1igh buildings . · · ) ( a d m1mstrators carry (d"One room might be 65 radios on .us, so we can egree s) and one room communicate with one mi ght be 85," he said. '·And another . if someone sees a lot that has to do · with someone in the building everything being outdaled. and they don't have a visi- As far as air conditioning. tor's pass with them." the coolin g end of it, it 's 'It's just a nightmare'. just a nightmare when ternBetween the junior high peratures go up . in the and· hi"h school portions of spring and the fall. If it's 85 h b l'ld' h · outside. it's going to be 95 1 e Ul mg, t ere are JUSt inside the buildin.g, and six restrooms - three for girls and three for boys. then you can't get the buildWilson said students he 's ing to cool. off in the· talked to generally avoid evening time. The you the restrooms. come back the day and start all over. "From what they tell me, · "Once you bring a thouthey just don't use them," sand kids into a building he sa1d. "If we do a survey of our kids, I'd say proba- with the body heat, it doesbly 80 or 90 percent ofthe n't take long for the temperstudents don't use the atures to rise ." restroom facilities here Other problems include Deer Sweeney said that in many cases. such as when an animal is hit along state road property, from Page A1 · the body is simply pushed out of sight and nature is allowed to what they take off a !leer." take care of the body. The carcasses, iri various In the case of the Leon site; states of decay, are mixed in some of the animals would fall with other trash and debris at within the 15 feet range of the · the site. Some have been field center line on Route 62. That dressed, but others seem to be means some of the animals rest relatively unscathed. Only one on state property. of the bodies had its head An examination of records at removed. the Mason County Assessor's Four of the dead animals still Office revealed that the proper-· had ropes and bungee cords ty outside of the state ownerattached to their hind 16gs, Stover thinks that dumping ship - where more th<111 half of the carcasses res.t ha~ occurred in previous hunt. ing seasons "but •never like belongs to a Natalie Morgan. ·· this.'' · An attempt to find a phone list- · ''Who's gonna,have to clean ing for Morgan was unsuccessthat up?" Stover asked. ful. local Briefs .Gallia wins EMA · City Commission reimbursement meets Tuesday · . GALLIPOLIS, Ohio Ohio Emergency ~anagement Agency forwarded two checks last week to Gallia County totaling $41,408 as final reimbursement for expenses aris· ing from flooding last March and April. These reimbursements were made through the state Disaster Relief Program. · A check for $25,200 was made to Green Township for the"repair of a second slip on King Road. Perry Township received a check for $I 6.208 for the repair of culverts and road washouts, and the completion of debris removaL because nobody wants · to move here because we don't . have a new ·school. . "Think about·your property from .Page A1 value, if we have a new she said. "Now that I'm school, it's going to ·raise older, I think we're really in your property value, because need of .a new school. My people are actually going to eyes have . been opened . want · to move to Gallia through competing at differ- County and we're not going ent schools or traveling to be losing the population through different organiza- .that we currently have," tions throu~hilut the school, Clifford said. it's really h1t me now. . . Wi seman agreed. adding ·"It's really hit me." that she believes some resi· Clifford was outspoken dents who have not supported over .the fact that no bond bond issues .sutler from misissue in support· of building new facihties haS been conceptions about the facili· approved by voters si nee ty's current state based on 1956, when residents of the their experience as students city school district approved at GA HS in the past. a 5-mill bond issue that fund- . ;'I think a lot the students ed construction ofthe current here at Gallia· Academy have been brainwashed by their GAHS building. "It's ridiculous, even igno- parents who are opposed to rant not to · vote for new getting a new school and schools," he said. "If your facilities because of the cost argument is, 'Oh, it's going and taxes," Wiseman added . to raise my taxes,' just think "People· think that if it 's good about in (ive years when you etmugh for their parents, that enough for. them." . can't sell your property it's. good . Students GALLIPOLIS, 'Ohio Gallipolis City Commission will meet in special session at 7 p,m. Thesday in the Gallipolis Municipal courtroom, City Manager Bob Gordon a!\IIO~nced. Chrisbnas parade set in Vinton VINTON, Ohio - Vmton's annual Christmas parade is saturday, Dee. 21 . The parade will form at fellowship Cha):;l on Keysto.ne Road at 4• .. . : -: p.m., . and .w1U amve m the village's downtown at 2 p.m. · For more information, con· tact Mayor Donna DeWitt at 388-8327, or ViUage Clerk Beth Kelly at 388-0579. ·. ----------REE HEARING TESTS . 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For mara Information please call, l304J &75~3405 ..· PLEASANT VALLEY HOSPITAL �.. •World &unba~ limrs -&tntinel PageA6 • Sunday, December 15, 2002 Some Republicans say Lott's apology should end controversy WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Trent Lou's third apology for racially charged remarks should suffice, the Senate's incoming No. 2 Republican leader said Saturday, vowing that a move for formal censure would produce a swift counter-attack again st a prominent Democrat "The first amendment (to a censure motion 1that would be offered would be amendment relating to Sen. (Robert) Byrd's comments. in 2001," said Sen. Mitch McConnell. R-Ky. . Byrd. D-W.Va.. used the phrase "white niggers" in a taped broadcast interview last year. He swiftly apologized at the time. saying "the phrase dates back to my boyhood and has no place in today's society:· Loll, R-Miss.. and in line to become Senate majority leader in Janu ary. triggered an uproar earlier this month whe n he made comments at a birthday party for retiring Sen . Strom Thurmond, RS.C., . that conveyed nostalgia. for the policies of racial segregation. · Under pressure from Democrats and Republical)S alike, Loll has offered a series of increasingly expansive apologies for his remarks, culminating in a forceful denunciation of racism and segregation at a news conference on Friday where he also asked for , forbearance and forgiveness. J';o1cConnell , ·the incoming an A long line of New Yorkers winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York on April 14, 194 7, where doctors are innoculating against smallpox. They were attempting to halt the spread of the disease after nine cases. including two fatalities, were reported. Officials said city residents were being vacci· nated at the rate of eight a minute. President Bush is announcing a plan for quickly giving smallpox vaccinations to military personnel bound for the Iraq region and open· ing a campaign to inoculate emergency teams most likely to encounter a domestic bioterror attack. He will offer the s hots to most members of the public but won't urge .them to get it. (AP) Children out on new round of shots . WASHINGTON (AP)For decades, the vast majority of smallpox inoculations were delivered to children, but in the new vaccination program now under way, chi ldren won't qualify absent a bioterror attack, federal officials said. Ethical and safety .concerns bar children from cliniqtl trials being con- · ducted now. meaning the vaccine cannot be licensed for them, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, who oversees vaccine development and bioterrorism programs at the National Institutes of Health. "If Mom comes up to one of the local and state hea lth officials and says, 'I. want vaccine lor my 5year-old.' currentl y there doesn ·1 appear to be a mechanism for then\ to get it.'' Fauci said Saturday. Adults will soon have access to the vaccine, although it is not being recommended for the general public. Smallpox was eradicated ,i.~. the 1970s and, while ~'erts fear that terrorists or hostile nations could unleash it in an act of President bioterrorism. GOP whip. said in Kentucky United States. that those remarks should be Thurmond -run a third-pany the end of the controversy. campaign that focused almost "There · are prominent entirely on the segregation of Democrats who have said blacks from whites, banning much worse things within the multiracial marriage, and prolast year and aha! f. who apol -; tecting the South from "anti' ogized one time and it was lynching" proposals. over,'' McConnell said in a Speaking at Thurmond 's reference to Byrd. "And 1 IOOth birthday party on Dec. thrnf that should be our 6. Loll said. "We wouldn't approach here." . have had all these problems Byrd's staff had no immedi- over all these years·· had ate comment on McConnell's Thurmond been elected. remarks. On Friday, Lon delivered an The Congressional Black extended apology. "My Caucus has called for a fonnal choice of words were totally censure of Lott; and sources, unacceptable and insensispeaking on condition of live," he said in Pascagoula, ano nymity, said Friday that Miss., hi s hometown. He said Senate Democrats . were con- had been "winging it'' at the ·sidering the possibility of . party for the retiring South seeking a vote. Carolina Republican , and "This is a forgiving coun- wanted only to help "an eldertry." McConnell said. "He ly_pentleman to feel goo?." (Lon) knows he, made a bjg Segreg~uon IS a stam on mi stake. It 's time to forgi ve our nat1on s soul. ~here 1,~ no him and to move on. J\nd 1. other way to descnbe It, he think he can still be a very said. effective majority leader in Sen. Chuck Hagel , R-Neb., the Senate." said Lou's apology ~as neeSeveral other Republican essary;, "He lel h1s party senators. including John ~own, . Hage l sa1d: He added, Warner nf Virginia and Peter I know of no one m our part~ Fitzgerald of Illinois, joined calhng for h1m to step d?wn. the "enough is enough" choRhode Island Sen. Lmcoln , Chafee, a moderate rus. GOP gains in the midterm elections in November will put Republicans in control of the Senate, where Lon is to replace Sen. Tom Daschle, D.S.D., as majority leader. But Loll's ability to lead his party has come into question since his remarks that Thurmond 's election as president in 1948 would have made a better Republican, told The .Providence Journal that Lon's remarks smacked of "stupidity." He did not call for Loll to step aside, saying he worries that potential successors might be even more conservative than the Mississ ippian. President Bush last week rebuked · Lou, but · his spokesman said the president did not believe Loll should step down. Some Republicans have kept silent, including ron's ·current deputy, Don Nickles of Oklahoma. · · Republicans are worried about the long-term effect of the race-based controversy on the GOP legislative agenda, . on Bush and ·on the election prospects of Senate Republicans in 2004 . . Liberal and civil rights groups have said the remarks were not an aberration, but emblematic of Lou's political career. One Democrat, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. said the GOP must decide whether Lou "represents the views of the majority of Republican,s in the Senate and in our country." Bush said Friday there is no imminent threat. The government is recommending inoculations . for about I0.5 million people on smallpox response teams, hospital emergency rooms, other health care jobs, police, 'fire and other emergency personneL Those shuts are likely to begin in late January. Bush also ordered vaccina tions for some half-million military personnel in high-ri sk parts of the world. In the civilian world. vaccinations are voluntary, and health officials worry that people may not fully understand the risk!>. In the coming week. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans a tineWASHINGTON (AP) shot up to 6 percent in hour program for people President Bu sh ended his November. being offered the vaccine, . silence on e.x tending unem· "These Americans rely on with detailed in tormation ployment insurance benefits · their unemployment benefits about benefits, risks and Saturday and urged the new to pay for the mortgage or details abOlit how to reduce Congress to extend benefits rent, food and other critical the chances of side effects. for more than 750,000 jobless bills," the president said. Polls suggest · most peoworkers soon after it con- "They need our assistance i11· ple would want the vacvenes next month . · cine. But in CDC-sponExtended federal aid for the . these difficult times, and we sored focus groups now jobless runs out Dec. 28, and cannot l e~ them down." under . way, interest "When our legislators the president said he favored dropped considerably after making the extension renewal return · to the Capitol (i n people were told of the retroactive. Efforts to contin- January), I ask them to make risks, said Dr. Julie . ue the bendits fell victim to the extension of unemploypartisan wrangling between ment benefits a first order of (Our Annual Christmas Musical Co nc·ert) Senate Democrats and House business," Bush said. Republicans in late "Yahoo -· that's great!'' Sunday Morning, December 15th November's final days of -the exclaimed Maria Sen. beginning at t0:35 a.m. last congressional session. Cantwell , D-Wash. , who is Democratic leaders had from the Pacific Northwest, "Christmas at Hope Central" urged Bush to ask House where unemployment has (Our Annual Children's Chri stmas Program) Republicans to pass the more been the nation 's highest. ·•r generotts Senate extension Sunday. Evening, December 15th pl an. The White House definitely wish the president · beginning at 6:00p.m. · remained on the side lines wo!lld have pushed the Congress on this earlier," she throug hout All are welcome! White House press secre- said. "We would have people WASHINGTON (AP) official said there was no possi· For more information or directions calt 446- I 863 President Bush is withholding bility Russia would provide tary Ari Fleischer, questioned having a much merrier a public appraisal of Iraq 's troops to help in any connict by reporters traveling with Christmas." recently submitted declaration with Iraq but other possible Bu sh to Russia in late on its weapons programs, but forms of aid were an open November, refused six times to clearly state the president 's aides say he may respond next question. week. probably in a forn1al Britain, France and China position on extending beneDEADLINE FOR PURCHASE OF 2003 DOG LICENSE IS JANUARY .31. Fees are Four Dollars speech. also have seen the declaration fits. ($4.00) for each dog, male or female. Kennel Fees are Twenty Dollars ($20.00). To obtain Jobless workers have beneWhite House spokesman Aii and are ii_Sessing it. Early next license by mall, complete and return application to: Nancy Parker Grueser, Meigs County Fleischer said Friday the week, c~pies will be given to fited from the 13-week extenAuditor, 100 E. Second Street, Pomeroy, OH 45769. Enclose a self-addressed, stamped administration's review of the the I0 other, nonpermanent, sion in federal unemployme.nt 9nvelope with a check for the price of the license. · declaration had not been com- members of the U.N. Security · atd that Congress approved --~--------------------------------------------------------------------------------OWNEROFDOG--------------------~----------------pleted, and Bush would speak Council, with sensitive sections last March. That extension is tn n1n out fo r people who only after he has received more ·deleted. ADDRESS--------------------------------------------have exhausted the 26 weeks -information. Next Thursday the council is TELEPHONE--------------------- TOWNSHIP ------------• The '~tate Department, to hear from chief U.N. of payments they typically . HAIR AGE COLOR SEX meanwhile, dismissed the dec- weapons inspector Hans.Biix at receive through ·states. . BREED FEES The Republican-controlled t: laration as shon of facts . "We a meeting that could launch • >c ~ ~ c"' 0 Hou s~ and Dem(lcratic-run Year Month Male Female """ :E ~ "·cc . ~ e IF KNOWN PAID .c 0 know that Iraq has weapons of consideration of using force to Scn:ue· (.!) (/) iii"' · :;:: ..J Ill ne ve r resolved their < ID ~ mass destruction and has pro· disann Iraq. substantial differences over grams to create more,'' Sen. Richard Shelby of how much longer the benefits spokesman Richard Boucher Alabama, the top Republican sho uld continue. Bush 's said. on the Senate Intelligence change of course, announced ''What's not' in the document Committee, called the Iraqi in his weekly radio address, may be as imponam as what is declaration "a bogus rep011'' ca me after Republicans in the document," he said. and said : ··r don't know how retook the · Senate, which The 12.000-page declaration you could put any credibility in , hould make passage easier to the United Nations does not it." for .the GOP model of jobless · account for a number of mi ss• , ln. Vienna, Austria, the head benelits. · ing chemical and biological of the U.N. nuclear control The Democrats' $5 billion weapons and fails to explain agency. Mohamed E!Baradei, plan· would h.ave extended purchases of equipment for a said there was little new in the benefits an additional 13 ' nuclear arms . program, U.S. 2.400-pagc nuclear ponion of weeks for people currentl y . · of1icials said . Iraq\ repo11. He told repo11ers receiving· them. The House's Russia. wh ich submitted its the only new materi•d was CO il· would provide five extra own assessment of the Iraqi taincd in about JIXJ pages of weeks of benefits for workers '· report. sent a delegation headed Are~bi<: lext. which had not in a fL'W :-. tatcs '\vith high by Dmitry Rogozin, chainmm. been fully translated. uncmployt.ncnt rates. at. a cc~s t of the intemational affairs comIraq used the lengthy docu· of $900 million. millee of the Russian parlia- ment to support President Bush ind icated he was NOTICE : Ltcense must be obtatned no later than January 3t. 2003, to avo1d pay111g penalty. After this ment. to Washington lor talks. Sacklam Hussein's content ion inlluenccd to take hi s foot otf date, penalty will be $4.00 for single tag and $20.00 for Kennel license. After calling on lhal he h:ts ,no hidden weapons th e brak e hy Nove mh ~r's 100 E. Second Street NANCY ~ARKER GRUESER U ndcr~ecre rary of State Marc o1·· 111a'' tbtntction. US oni· Llllcmp loymcnt rale. Metgs County Auditor GnhsmLtn. another Russian . citth .,;tiel. announced Thuml:1y, which President asks for quick act~on .on jobless benefits".-~...... 1 Bush administration rejects Iraq's weapons declaration N071CE ,.0 DOG OWNERS Q) • Inside:. iunba~ ltmtl -ientintl Scoreboard, Page 82 NFL previews, Page B4 Rookies make an Impact, Page 85 . Outdoors, Page 86 Page Bl Sunday,~ernber Buckeye LB found innocent of charges · ·COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)Ohio State linebacker Fred Pagac Jr. has been found innocent on charges of persistent disorderly conduct. Franklin County Municipal Judge Bruce Jenkins ruled earIier this month following a trialthat Pagac did not cau~e a fight involving two women outside a campus-area bar that Jed 10 his arrest. . The fight at 3:45 a.m. Oct. 13, about 12 hours after the · Buckeyes' homecoming victory over San Jose State, resulted in his suspension from Ohio State's Oct. 19 game against Wisconsin. Pagac, 21, a senior backup, did not testify. Police accused him of disobeying their orders to stop fighting. Two defense witnesses said he was jumped on from behind. "He's glad to have this put behind him to be able to concentrate on a pretty big game that he and the team have coming up," his attorney, Matt Copp, said Friday. Ohio State plays Miami on Jan. 3 for co llege football's national championship at the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz. Pagac's father is a former Ohio State player and assistant · coach who is now a defensive coach with the NFL's Oakland Raiders. Herd players ·· avoid Heisman MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - The Heisman Trophy awards showed boomed on a television in the lobby at the Marshall team hotel Saturday night . No .one was watching. None of the Thundering Herd players were interested in who voters thought was the best player in America . In their hearts, they already knew. Quarterback Byron Leftwich, who fought through an injured shin to throw for 4,019 yards and 2(j tou.chdowns, was lefl off the list of finalists invited to New York. So he joined his teammates for weekend practices for Wednesday's GMAC Bowl against Louisville. When the ·name of Southern California quarterback Carson Palmer was announced as the Heisman winner, Marshall players weren't around to h,ear .II. ' "My boy -isn't up there, so we'll just forget it,'' said wide receiver Demetrius Doss: "If he wouldn.'t have gotten hurt; he would have won that thing three weeks ago." While the Heisman show went on, the center. of activity at the hotel was a second-floor game room. Players and the children of Marshall coaches and te am staff mingled ainong the video games . Graduate assistant Chanston Rodgers and offensive lineman Joey Stepp tested their skills in a football video game (49ers vs. Seahawks). Wide receiver Darius Watts was shooting · down bad guys in a war zone. Doss sat at a tab le waiting for some teammates to show up so they could go to a movie. Many players were already at a college basketball tourn ament nearby. · . "I've been coopeo up in this hotel all day," Dos s said. "We're going to go out and ha ve a good time . I want to see the people of Alabama." Leftwich, who finished sixth in the Heisman voting, wasn't available for comment. His name wasn't listed at the team hotel. I 15,2002 parby dazzles again in Ohio State win Associated Press Alabama and No. 3 Duke. Ohio State hadn't played since a 71-64 win over Tennessee :Tech t:ln Dec. 7, giving the players a chance COLUMBUS, Ohio - Brent Darby con- .to take final exams. tinued his strong play, scoring 30 points Morehead State, which had scored I00· Saturday to lead Ohio State to a 74-60 victo- points in two of its three victories, never got ry over cold-shooting Morehead State. tts offense untracked. Darby, who had a career-high 35 points . The Eagles hit only 36 percent of their against Duke on Dec. 3, .hit 11-of-16 shots, shots and committed II of their 17 turnovers including 5-of-7 3-pointers, and made sever- in the tirst half while the · Buckeyes built a al key baskets in the second half after .36-22 lead - with half of the points coming Morehead State threatened to make it ·a from Darby. game. Morehead State leading scorer Ricky Sean Connolly added 12 points for the Minard had nine points, 14.8 below his averBuckeyes (3-2), but hit only 4-of-13 from . age. Marquis Sykes had 12 points and Chad the field and missed eight of his nine 3-point McKnight scored 10 for the Eagles. attempts. . _ Darby had 15 of the Buckeyes: first 22 Zach Williams scored 10 points for Ohio points. He hit 7-of-9 shots, including 4-of-5 State, which led by as many as 20 points in 3-pointers, in the first half while playing the . the first half before the Eagles (3-3) made a entire 20 minutes. run to get within ·JO after halftime. . Ohio State guard Brent Darby (4) drives The Buckeyes wop their second straight between Morehead State's Marquis Sykes since losing consecutive games against No. 2 · (11) Saturday. (AP) Raiders top Southern BY BUTCH COOPER Staff writer CHESHIRE, Ohio - In the end, River Valley's inside presence was too inuch for Southern to overcome. Jay Jenkins made five out . of his last six free-throw attempts in the final minute of .the game Saturday to help the Raiders hold off the Tornadoes, 56-53. . "Anytime you win is great, but with a young team, it's very important, and in a tight game," said River Valley head coach Gene Layton. While Jenkins' foul shots kept the Raiders ahead, it was the River Valley big men that made the difference. · The 6-foot-5 duo of junior Dakota DeWi(t and sophomore Steve Harder were difficult to contend with. DeWitt finished with 24 points and nine rebounds, while Harder scored nine and hauled down eight boards. "The keys was transition defense and taking advantage of our size inside and I fel I like we did that," said Layton. "That's what we did earl>' and we got back to that m the fourth quar- .BY ANDREA SZULTZTEYN Associated Press · ter." Also for River Valley (II), Jenkins finished with 13 points and Jared Swain added eight. Craig Randolph led the Tornadoes (1-2) with 13 points, while Curtis Neigler, with four )cpoirll goals, and Jordan Hill each had 12 and Curt Crouch scored nine. Early on, the Raiders used. their size well as DeWitt had 14 points in the first quarter as the Raiders · led 17-8 going into the second period. But the Tornadoes managed to adjust and keep the ball away from DeWitt and · Harder, . while making big Please see Raiders, B.l Palmer wins the Heisman River Viilley's Dakota DeWitt (42) reaches over Southern defender Justin Connolly (20) for the basket during the Raiders' 56·53 win Saturday. (Doug Shipley) NEW YORK Carson Palmer capped his rise from mediocrity to stardom by winning the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night, taking the bronze .statue back to the West Coast for the first time in jl f years. · The Southern California quarterback became the first player !he from region to win college football'~ mos.t prestigious award since .running back Marcus Allen did it in 1981. Palmer received 242 Palmer f i r s t- pI a c e . votes and easily won by 233 points 'over Iowa quarterback Brad Banks. Palmer went 16-16 as a starter before his se nior season, unable to live up to all the expectations he brought with him when he joined the Trojans. . He turned around his career dramatically this year, leading the Trojans to a I0-2 record and a spot in the Orange Bowl against Iowa and Banks. Palmer's season highlights included a stunning performance again st Notre Dame on national television, crucial for a · West Coast Heisman hopeful who doesn't get as much expo; sure as other candidates. Palmer completed nearly 63 percent of his passes for 3,639 · yards and 32 touchdowns with 10 interceptions this year. · : He is the fifth winner frotn USC, joining "Allen, Charles White (1979), O.J. Simpson (1968) and Mike Garrett (1965): USC now has the third most winners, behind Notre Dame (seven) and Ohio State (six). In what was expected to be one of the closest races iri Heisman history, Palmer topped Banks, with Penn State's Larry Please see Helsman, Bl Hot Marshall blows by punchless Radford: Blackshear nets 18 points to lead Herd . HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) Ronald Blackshear scored 18 points Saturday and then couldn't stop raving about the new player who kept giving him the>-hall. Six Marshall players scored at least 10 points', but A.W. Hamilton grabbed' Blackshear 's auention in the Thundering Herd's 90-65 win over Radford. Hamilton, who transferred from Wake Forest, had six assists in his first,start for Marshall (4-1 ). "I love playing with A.W. • H a m i Ito n;" Ronny Dawn Blackshear said. scored II, and "It's like we're a Enoch Bunch and different team out Ardo Armpalu each there . It's nice to had I0 for the Thundering Herd. get open looks.'.' Marvit{ Black "When (Dawn) and Monty Wright gets squared up, scored 12 points you mi ght as well apiece for count it,'' White MarshalL which White said. made 59 percent of Marshall put the it s shots while holdin g the game out of reach when it s 18-6 r.u n Highlanders (2-5) to 31 perce nt. in the second half pushed the lead to· •· Any time you1 hold a team to 31 62-33 . The Herd led by as many as 31 percent shooting at the Division I points in the second half. level, it's just an outstanding job . Raymond Arrington Jed Radford defensively," Marshall head coach with 16 points but made just 6-of-19 · shots. Greg White said. ' "We've got to make more shots,'' Radford coach Byron Samuels said. "Marshall 's just too good." The Highlanders closed to 36-27 with 3:04 left in the first half. But Marshali answered with an 8-0 run to end the first trait'. Blackshear made two 3-pointers in the spurt. Marshall also used a 16-2 run early onto set the game's tone . Aarun Gill had 12 points and II rebou nds while Wt.it Holcomb-Faye scor~ d II for Radford, which lost its third straight game. 1 Marshall plays at Morehead State on Friday. Radford is at Akron next Saturday. f -1--- �Sunday, December 15, 2002 Page 82 • ~ QI::ilMi -*'tntind Scoreboard Boys Basketball River Valley 58, Southem 53 Soulhem .... ................ 8 20 9 16 - 53 R'-Valley .............. 17 9 13 17 - 56 SOUTHERN (1-2) - Curtis Neiglor 4 0<> 12, Craig Randolph 60<> 13, Jordan Hil16 Q-1 12, Curt Crouch 4 1·2 9, Justin Connolly 2 2-2 6, Wes BurrQW!I 0 1-2 1. TOTALS- 22 ~7 53. RIVER VALLEY (1-1) - Damoo Clam 0 0.1 0, Jay Jenkins 3 5-e 13, Jared Swain 4 0.1 8, Tn1C9 Fraley 0 2-2 2. DakD1a DeWi11 10 4·5 24, S1oYe Haruer 4 1-2 9. TOTALS - 21 12-17 56. 3-poin1 goals - Southern 5 (Nelgler 4 , Randolph), RV 2 (Jankins2). ' · College Basketball Men'a Major Scorn Soturday EAST Canisius 71 , Buffalo 65 ' Cent. Michigan 88, Marist 66 Dartmouth 85, Worcester Tech ~ Loutsvltle 91 , Se1on Hall 70 · Maasachusetts fi7 , Fla. International 62 MisSissippi St. 71 , Xavier 61 Navy 85, Gettysburg 36 Niagaran, Akron 71 Penn St. 79, Northeastern 67 Pittsburgh 69. SE louisiana 55 Rhode Island 69, Maine 63 Rtder 10, Delaware 60 Rutgers 76, Princeton 70 si. Frorw:ls, Pa. 75, Robert Morris 66 St. John's 84, Hofstra 59 St. Pete(s 72. Monmou1h, N.J. 53 Syracuse 94, Binghamton 58 Towson .53, Nortolk St. SO West Vlrg+nia 79, Wofford 69 SOUTH Alabama 72, Bowling Green 63 Alabama A&M 85, Morrts Brown 56 . Alabama St. 79, Montevatlo 61 Arkansaa St. 64, Southern Miss. 48 Auburn 72, MurraY St. 53 · Belmon175, loyola ot Chk:ago 57 Chattanooga 107, MUIIgan 57 Clemson 71, Gardner-Webb 61 Delaware St. 70, Wagner 63 E. Kentucky 109, Ohio Weslyn 56 ETSU 1CJ!3, Vlrglnia·Wise 70 East Carolina 90, Mount Olive 62 Florida 69, Maryland 54 Grambling St. 74, Northwestarn St. 71 , OT Jacksonville 76, S. Carolina St. 68 Jacksonville St. 74, Alcorn St. 57 lSU 95, Te<as A&M·Corpus Chnsti 50 Marshall 90, Radford 65 McNeese St. 87, Uberty 74 Michigan St. 71 , Kontuciry 67 Mississippi 82\ Va. Commonwealth 68 N.C. Sla1e101, N. Carolina A&T 63 N.C.-Ashavllla 99, Campbell89, OT NichOlls St. 51 , Southern U. 48 Old Dominion 82, Md.·Eastern Shore 62 South Alabama 81 , Georgia St. 68 Tenn.·Martln 116, Bethel, Tenn. 57 VMI100, E. Mennonite 57 · VIrginia Tech 71, Morgen St. 54 Wis.·Milwaukee 63, MVSU 75. MIDWEST Bell St. 76, Indiana St. 66 Buller 59, Miami (Ohio) 42 Cincinnati 65, La Salle 62 Crelghlon 101, Tennessee Tech 72 Drake 72 , W. Illinois 62 III.·Chlcago 73, S. Illinois 71 Illinois 70, Templa 54 Indiana 66, Purdue 63 Kansas 113, Emporia 51. 61 Kansas Sl. 79, Wlcnlta 51. 66 Ken1 Sl. 91, Cleveland Sl. 68 Marquette 63, Wisconsin 54 Michigan 84, Charleston Sou1hern 53 Missouri 93, Memphis 78 Nebraska 63, lnd.-Pur.-Ft Wayne 46 Notre Dame 102. DePaul 71 Ohio St. 74, Morahead 51. 60 SE Mluourl 66, UMKC 58 Saint Louis 63, Dayton 55 Tolado 80, Oelroll 72 Tulsa 62, SW Missouri St. 46 UNLV 65, Bradley 63, OT Valparaiso 67, Samlord 79, 2CT W. Michigan 72, Centenary 52 Wright St. 69, Sou1h Florida 56 SOUTHWEST Ark.-li111e Rook 63. Ark.·Pirie Bluff 71 Baylor 65, Mqntana Sl. 56 Lamar 86, Loyola, N.O. 67 Louisiana-Monroe 90, TCU 79 Oklahoma 69, Coppin Sl. 47 , SW Texas 89, Hardln·Simmons 43 . Slephen ~Austin 71, Oral Robarts 56 FAR WEST BYU 66, Utah St. 56 Colorado St. 90, Washington St. 79 Denver 76 , Chicago St. 49 E. Washinglon 62, Washington 58 N. Arizona;]i!._S. lhah 56 UCLA ·105, ·P't!tnland 67. Utah 75, N. Iowa 53 . l.telgs ......................13 20 15 15 - 54 Belpre ..................... 21 21 20 18 - 80 ·MEIGS (C>-3. 0.1) - John Bcbtl 0 1·2 1, Buu Fack19r 7 2-5 17, Brooks JohnSOI) 6 2-5 14, F1yan Hannan 1 o.;> 2, Ce" WOlfe 3 2-3 8, Doug 011 4 2-3 10, Zach Bush 5 o-2 10, lY Auh 1 1).;) 2, David Boyd 0 1).;) 0. TOTALS 27 9-20 54. . • ' BELPRE (1-0, HI)- Brian Adamo 8 2-2 ~.Nathan Ea10n8 3-419, Guy Ear1ey41 4 9. Abe Ha~w 3 1-2 8, Doug Parsons 2 1-2 5, Alkire 5 3-5 16, Jay Helgesen 1 0<> 3. TALS 30 11-19 80. 3-point goals- Meigs 1 (Fodder). Belpre 7 (Alkire 3, Adams 2, Reningshaw, Helgesen). ·. Ohio • Satunloy'o -una • Bowling Green 63, Defiance 62 : Buoyrus 53, lucas 50 · Cas1alla Mlllg8rot1a 63, Pert<ins 34 Cle. S. 72, Flndtay 53 Clyde 87, Milan EdiiiOn 33 Coldwater 56, Haviland wayne Trace 44 Convoy Cmtvtew 62, F1. Recovery 49 Dahon 70, Medina 11uc1<oye 37 Defience A)'OIIIIIIo 58, Coiumtlus G""" 48 Delphos Jalfanlon 51 , Kalida 46 , OT · E. Can. 48, Henovorton Unitad 37 · Edgerton 54, Pioneer N. Cent SO Elmore WOOdmere 52, Eastwood 42 Fairview 55, -Bryan 51 · Fostort& 80, Tiffin Columbian 62 · FraOkJin Furnace Green 68. Elliot, Ky. 64 Gallon 74, Betl011ue 61 HIDksviMe 54, Stryker 53 Holgate 48, Fayette 29 · Kenton 69) Urbana 67, OT • leesburg Fairfield 48, Pelnl Valley 43 ' Leipsic 40, Miller City 36 · lewlsiOwn Indian lake 57, W.,Ynesfleld 54 Liberty Benton 44, Lima Bath 41 Lima Cent. Cath. 51 , Ottawa·GiandOrf 46 Lima Perry 85, Cory Rawson 69 lima Shawnee 77, Tol. Start 65 Lou isville Aquinas 69, Perry 49 Massillon Jackson 56, Can. GlenOak 39 N. Baltimore 66, Oregon Strhch 44 New Boston 59, Western Latham 57, OT New CertlsteTecumoeh 60, SprinQ.Ceth. 51 New Concord John Glenn 71, Phllo 54 New Philadelphia 54, E. Liverpool47 New RlciYnond 72, Greenfleld McClain 56 Orrville 41 , Ashland 29 Ottawa-Gtandor1 51, Lima Cent. Cath . 46 Petllsvllle 55, Montpelier 30 Poland Seminary 56, Can. Cent Cath . 43 Port Clinton 41 , Huron 40 Ridgeway Rldgemonl 69, Arcadia 54 Sandusky St. Mary 44, Oak Harbor .41 SpencerviMe 58, Dol a Hardin N. 41 Sl. Francis 66, Sylvania Northvlew 45 St. Henry 56, Wapakonela 36 Sugarcreek Garaway 42, Zoarville Tuscarawas Valley 24 Tiffin Calvert 70, Danbury 65 Tol. Cent. Calh. 46, Elida 47 Van Buren 67, Hopewell loudOn 57 W. Jefferson 67, Williamsport Westlall 65 W. Unity Hilhop 51 , Delta 42 Warren Harding 63, Umontown lake 56 WeshlngiOn C.H. Miami '!l'aoe 56, Adene 41 Wauseon 64, Napoleon 51 Willard 58, Upper Sandusky 47 Youngs. Austtnt~n·Fitch 59, Wooster 44 Zanesville 44, Cols. E. 34 Girls Basketball Himnan 43, Grace Chr. 38 Hannan .............. .. ... 10 10 9 14 -43 Grace Christisn'.........5 12 10 11 -38 HANNAN - Mayes 10 0·1 21, Messer 4 6-8 ~4 . Einarsson 2 Q-2 4, Miles 1 0.0 2, loomis 1 0·0 2. TOTALS 18 6·11 43. GRACE CHRISTIAN - Williams 7 2·4 16, Hornbury 4 4-7 . 12, Carter 2 Q-1 4, Serganl 1 0·2 1, Ward 1 0·0 2, Elder 1 Q-2 2. TOTALS 16 6·14 38. 3-p oint goals- none. Women's Malor Scores Solunloy . EAST Binghamton 66, Manhanan 65 Buffalo 68, Niagara 64 Florida A&M 72, Hofstra 68 Maine 65, Rhode Island 58 Massachusetts 77, Northeastern 61 Monmouth, N.J. 63, Fairleigh Dickinson 52 Mount St. Mary's, Md. 65, UMBC 60 PiHsburgh 92, Pann St. 68, OT Ouinnipiac 65, Cent. Connecticut St. 43 Sacred Heart 59, Wagner 43 St. Francis, Pa. 81, Robert Morris 42 SOUTH Auburn 73 , N. Carolina A& T 37 BYU 56, N.C. Slale 57 Belmont 76, N.C.·Asheville 62 • Bethune-cookman 60, Savannah St. 32 Charleston Southern 88, Voorhees 51 Clemson 91 , Furman 58 CoiL ol Charleston 63, Jacksonville 57 Fla. International a1, Miami 70 Georgia 87, Tennessee Tech 56 Georgia St. 89, Morris Brown 30 Loul9iena Tech 93, Nicholls St. 50 Middle Tennessee 70, S. Carolina St. 57 Mississippi 83, Birmingham-Southern 44 Radford 77, Marshall 74, OT Samford 47, Alabama St. 44 Stony Brook 61, Morgan Sl. 4'1 Tennessee St. 67, Lipsc:omb 64 Troy Sl. 74, III.·Chlcago 53 UNC·Greensboro 64, Elan 51 Virginia Tech 53, liberty 50 W. Kentucky 67.· Murray 51. 60 Winthrop 83, Converse 49 MIDWEST Bowling Green 62, Cleveland St. 59 Cent. Michigan 57, Detroit 54 Creighton 72, Kansas 58 Drake 59. Wisconsin 49 Michigan 59, Seton Ha\141 Mississippi St. 72, Illinois 67 Northwestern 75 •.8. Illinois 62 Notre Dame 84, Temple 61 Purdue 53, Indiana 51 SW Missouri St. 72, W. Illinois-55 W. Michigan 86, Butler 75 Wis.-Green Bay 81, Wichita St. 73 Xavier 78, Indians St, 65 , SOUTHWEST Baylor 99, Grambling St. 40 N. Arizona 69, Te)(as-Pan American 56 Oklahoma 68, TCU 64 Texas A&M 72, Texaa·Ariington 70 Tulsa 80, Ark.-Pine Blutl46 UTEP 84, SW Te<a& 51 FAR WEST Boise St. 66, Portland St. 56 Cal St.-Fullerton 76, San Diego 74 Fresno St. 61 , San Francisco 57 Loyola Marymount 58, Long Beach St. 50 Montana 57, Washington St. 53 Montana St. 74, Rocky Mountain 44 Pepperdlne 86, UCLA 67 Stanford 67, P'aclflc 56 Tennessee 71, Southern Cal 39 Texas·:rech 64, Wyoming 64 UC RIVerside 65, Sacramento St. 56 Utah 91 , Idaho St. 52 Weber St. 67, New Mexico St. 64 Ohio Sa1urday'a Aeautta Applecraek 'l'laynedale 56. W. Salem NW 47 Arcadia 66. Ada 30 Beloit W. Branch 62, Can. S. 37 Benin Hiland 58, W.l.alayeHe Ridgewood 45 Caldwell 57, Bellaire 43 C!¥rlxDge 53, Byeovllle MeadoY.Ilrook 50. OT Can. GlenOak 50. Massillon Jackson 42 Canal Fullen NW 84, Marlington 2~ Carrollton 53, Louisville 44 Cedarville 5~ , MechaniCsburg 40 Chillicothe Huntington 86, leesburg Fairfieild 41 C~lhcottle Zane Trooe 55, WheelerW.Jrg 43 Columbus Grove 62, Waynesfield 43 Convoy Crestview 47, Ottoville 39 Copley 58, Lodi Cloverlea143 Coshocton 41 , New Philadelphia 39 . Dallon 53, Rittman 26 · Danbury 45, Tal. Emmanuel Baptist 36 ' Doylestown Chippewa 58, Creston ~ o rwayne 30 Dresden Tri·Valley 52, McConnelsville Morgan 37 Fayette 51 , Haviland Wayne Trace 45 Greenfield McClain 61, New Richmond 39 Hillsboro 50, Waverly 47 • Jamestown Greeneview 67 , Spring. Cath. Cent 45 · Kalida 57, Ft. J~nnlngs 32 · lewistown Indian Lake 49 Jackson t;enter 41 ' • lima 49, Day. Belmont 26 · Lima Bath 59, Coldwater 34 Lima Shawnee 63, Delphos StJohn 's 58 louisville Aquinas 44 , Akr. Co11entry 29 lynchburg Clay 62, Peebles 23 Magnolia Sandy Valley 47, Bowerston Conot1on Valley 42 Malvern 45, N"ew Philadelphia Tuscarawas Cent Cath. 41 • Maria Stein Marion Local 60. Russia 41 o Milan Edison 75, Brooke, W.Va. 54 . Millbury Lake 43: AOS$ford 30 Miller City 55, Fairview 38 Millersburg W. Holmes 69 , Medina Buckeye 23 · Minerva 62, Akr. Spring. 23 · N. Can. Hoo11er 75. Uniotown Lake 30 New Concord john Glenn 65, Zanesv'ille Maysvilla 45 · New Lexington·29, Warsaw RiverVIew 28 • Northwood 50, Ottawa Hills 38 ' Old Washington Buckeye Trail 54 , Beverly Ft. Frye 41 . Oregon Stritch 55, Tol. Chr. 54 Pandora-Gilboa 51 , leipsic: 19 Perry 53, Grove City 47 Piqua 44, Wapakoneta 35 Portsmouth W. 59, Franklin Furnace Green 19 S. Charleston SE 60. Spring. NE 44 Smithville 61 , Jeromesville Hillsdale 39 St. Paris Graham 47, Sidney Fairlawn 23 Strasburg Franklin 59, Newcomerstown 38 Thornville Sheridan 68, CrookS'tA!Ie 36 Uhrichsville Claymont 38, Gnad. Indian Valley 35 · w. liberty Salem 88, N. Lewisburg Triad 30 Wooster 61 , Altianc:e 39 Zanesville sa. Dover 47 zanesville Rosecrans 43, Cols. School lor Girls 42 Zanesville W. Musk1ngum 64. Duncan Falls Philo 30 · o Pro Basketball National Buketblll Auocllltlon EASTERN.CONFERENCE Allonllc Dlvlolon lllturdoy•o RHulta W l Pet. GB ( Beaver Local. Ohio 64, Unaty 37 BaSion ............... 16 7 .696 Edison, Ohio 75, Brooke 84 New Jersey .... .. 16 7 69~ . Fairmont Senior 58, Spring Valley 51 6 .852· 1 Greenbrier East 76, Woodrow Wilson 38 Phllsdelphla ....... 16 'Orlando ............. 13 11 .542 3.5 · Huntington 66, Princeton 44 washlng1on ........ 9 13 .409 6.5 James Monroe 51 , Nicholas County 26 Lo~an 74, Bluefield 56 · New York ............. 7 14 .333 6 We•t VIrginia ' ' S .College Football , · tMount Union I J h 0 pp es 0 n' GMAC Notebook Martinsburg 52, Chapmarwllle 32 Morgantown 72, Part<ersburg 38 ·Mount de Chanlat 70. """""Christi1111 36 St. Maria Goreni, Md. 61 , Berkeley Springs 55 St. Merys 51, Hundred 48 Totsla 90, Ryle. Ky. 63, 30T Tyler Consotidalad 77, liberty Raleign 34 Wlltiamstown 61 , Sissonville 52 Winfield 54. Cebell Midland 55 Wyoming East 54, PikeView 39 Belpr. 80, Melg• 64 Sunda~Oecernber15,2002 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis • Point Pleaaant Mlaml.. .................6 17 .261 10 Control Dlvlolon WLPctGB lndiana ..... .... ...... 17 s .n3 New Orleans ..... 17 7 .708 1 Detroil ... ..... ........ 15 7 .682 2 Adanta .......... ... .. tO 13 .435 7.5 Milwaukee .... ..... 10 13 .435 7.5 tO Toronto ................7 15 .318 Chieego .. ......... ... .7 16 .304 10.5 Cieveland ............. s 20 .200 13.5 WESTERN CONFERENCE Mldwoot Dtvt.ton W l Pet GB Dallas ................ 20 3 .870 San Antonio ....... 14 9 .609 6 Houston .. ......... .. 12 10 .545 7.5 U1ah ........ .. .... .... t 2 10 .545 ' 7.5 Mlnnesota .......... 13 11 .542 7.5, Denver .:...............6 18 .250 ·14.5 Memphis. . , . 6 19 .240 15 Poclttc Dlvtolon WlPctGB Sacramento .. ..... 18 6 .750 Phoenix ............. 13 10 .565 4.5 Seattle ...... . .... 13 1 1 .542 5 Portland ...... .. ..... tt 11 .500 6 L.A. Ciippers ...... 10 14 .417 8 L.A. Lakers ........ .. 9 15 .375 9 Golden State ....... 6 15 .348 9.5 Satun;tay'a ·aamaa Phoenix 102, Atlanta 88 Detroit 91 , Seattle 78 Boston 113. New York 90 Cleveland 111 . Denver 104 Miami 101 , Golden State 92 · Portland 98, Minnesota 92, OT L.A. Clippers 94, Houston 83 Dallas 104, Memphis 87 Chicago 97, Milwaukee 95 Sacramento at Utah. late Today'• Gamel Washmgtan· at Toronto, 1 p.m. Philadelphia at Indiana, 5 p.m. New Jersey at Detroit, 6 p.m. NeW Orleans at Sacramento, 9 p.m. Orlando at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. Monday'a Gamel ~ Seattle at Clell91and, 7 p.m. Denver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Houston at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Memphis, 8 p.m. Boston at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. ' Orlando at Phoenix, 9 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers. 10:30 p.m. Pro Football National Football t:ugue AFC Eaat WLTPctPFPA Mlam1 ............. .8 5 o .615 314 237 New England ... & 5 0 .615 330 268 N.Y. Jels .........7 6 0 .538 274 . 282 Buffalo ............ 6 7 o .462 332 385 South WlTPctPFPA Tenneseee ...... 8 5 o .615 302 304 Indianapolis .. .. 8 5 0 .615 274 233 Jacksonvme .... 5 8 o .385 276 252 Houslon .......... 4 9 0 .305 181 294 North W L T Pot ' PF PA Pittsburgh .. .. ...7 5 1 .577 309 293 Cleveland ....... 7 6 o .538 283 263 Baltimore ........ 6 7 0 .462 249 287 Cincinnati ...... ,1 12 0 .077 235 387 Will WLTPctPFPA Oakland ..... ..... 9 4 o .692 381 · 285 San Diego ...... 8 5 0 .615 270 292 Denver ............ 7 6 0 .538 308 285 Kanses Clty .... 7 8 0 .538 419 322 NFC Eaot WlTPctPFPA Phlladelphla .. 10 a· 0 .769 347 207 N.Y. Giants .... .7 6 o .538 229 238 Dallas ... .......... 5 6 o .385 193 245 Washlng1on .... 5 6 0 .385 240 307 South WlTPclPFPA Tampa Bay ... 1a 3 o .769 301 159 New Orleans .. 9 4 0 .692 '382 326 Atlanla ............ 6 4 1 .654 326 245 Carollna .......... 5 6 o .385 21'0 252 North WLTPctPFPA •-Green Bay... 10 3 o .769 351 272 Chlcago .......... 3 10 o .231 247 327 Detroit... .......... 3 1o o .231 235 354 Minnesola ...... 3 10 0 .231 300 358 West · WLTPclPFPA x-&o-1-...9 4 0 .692 316 286 Artz!lna ....... :.........5 ·a o .365 213 333 St LD..is ................5 8 o .365 245 291 Seenle ................. .4 9 0 .3J8 264 :»/ x-cllnched dlvlalon Today'a Games Seattle at Atlanta, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Chicago. 1 p.m. 08kland at Miami, 1 p.fl;l. Tampa Ba~ at Detroit. 1lp.m Baltimore at Houston ,·! p.m. San Diego al Buffalo, 1 p.m. Carolina at P'ittsburgh, 1 p.m. Minnesota at New Orleans, 1 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. · Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Kansas City at Denver. 4:05p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:15p.m. Green Bay at San Franc1sco, 4:15p.m. Arizona at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. Monday's Game New England at Tennessee, 9 p.m. Saturday's Games Miami at Minnesota, 1:30 p.m.· San Francisco at Arizona, 5 p.m. Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30p.m. Sunday, Dec. 22 DetrOit at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Butfalo at Green Bey, 1 p.m. Houston at Washington, 1 p.m. Chicago at Carolina, 1 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Indianapolis. 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 P·!T'· San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Seattle, 4:05 p,m. · Denver at Oakland , 4:1:; p.m. Cleveland at Baltimore, 4:15p.m. N.Y. Jets at New England , 8.:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 9 p.m.. College Football Bowl Schedule AIITimuEST llleodoy, Dec_17 · Ntw Orleans Bow1 $750,000 North T8J(8S {7-5) vs. Cincinnati (7·6), 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Tulane (7-51 vs. Hawaii (1D-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) ThurocS.y, Dec. 28 llotat Ct1y Bowl AI Ponlllc, Mich. $710,000 Totado (9-4) vs. Boston COllege (8... ). 5 p.m. (ESPN) tnalghl Bowl At Phoenix $750,000 O•egon State (B"'l vs. Pittsburgh (ll-o4), 6:30p.m. (ESPN) F~dlly. Dec. 27 HouatonBowl At Houlton $750,000 Souther.n Mississippi (1·5) vs. Oklahoma Slate (7·5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) lndtptndenc:e Bowl AI Shrovoport, f,f. $1.2 million Nebraska (7 -6) vs. Mississippi (6·6), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Holldlly Bowt At san Diego $2 million Kansas State (10·2) vs. Arizona Stale (85), 6 p.m. (ESPN) saturday, Dec. 26 Alemo Bowl At Sen Antonio .. · 51.35 million Colorado (9·4) vs. Wisconsin (7·6). 8 p.m. (ESPN) ContiMntal Tire Bowl AI Cha~DI18, N.C. $750',000 Wes1 VIrginia (9-3) vs. Virginia (8·5), 1.1 a.m. (ESPN2) Monday, Dec. 30 Mualc City Bowt AI Naahvllla, Tenn. $750,000 .. Minnesota (7·5) vs. Arkansas (9-4), 2 p.m. (ESPN) Seattle Bowl $1 mlltlon Wake Foresl (6·6) vs. Oregon (7-5), 5 p.m. (ESPN) lllaadoy, Dec. 31 Humenltllrlan Bowl At Boiae, Idaho $750,000 Iowa State (7-6) vs. Boise S1ale (11 · 1). Noon (ESPN) Sun Bowl •At El Paoo, Tlx11 11.35 million Washlng1on (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6), 2 p.m. (CBS) Liberty Bowl At Mamphla, Tenn. . $1.3 million Colorado State (10.3) vs. TCU (9-2), 3:30 p.m . (ESPN) Silicon Voiloy Clo11lc AI Son Joaa, C.IH. $750,000 Fresno S1a1e (6·5) vs. Georgia Tech (7-5), 3:30p.m. (ESPN2) I'Hch Bowl At Altonta $1.1 mltllon Maryland (10·3) l.ls. Tennessee (8-4), 7:30p.m. (ESPN) · San Francl.co Bowl saoo.ooo Air Force (8-4) vs. VIrginia Tech (9..), 10:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Wldn•adoy, Jan. 1 Ou1baok Bowt A1Tampa, FIL 1:1 million Michigan (9·3) vs. Florida (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Cotton Bowl AI Dellll $3 million lSU (8·4) VB. Texas (10·2). 11 a."). (FOX) Gator Bowl At Jocl<oonvlllo, Fla. $1.6 million Notre Dame (1 0·2) vs. North Carolina Slate (10·3), 12:30 p.m. (NBC) Copllat One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. $5.125 million Penn State (9·3) vs. Auburn (8·4), 1 p.m (ABC) Roee Bowl At Paeadena, Calif. $11-13 million Washington State (1 0·2) vs. Oklahoma (11-2), 5 p.m. (ABC) Sugar Bowl At Naw Orlean• $11-13 million Georgia (12·1) vs. Florida SIBle (9-4), 8:30p.m. (ABC) Thursday, Jan. 2 Orange Bowl AI Miami $11-13 mtlllon .. Southern California (10.2} Vs. Iowa (11 1). 8 p.m. (ABC) F~doy, Jan. 3 Flaata Bowl AITompe, Ariz. $11-13 mtlllon Miami (12·0) vs. Ohio Stale (13·0), 8 p.m. (ABC) Volleyball · •• 0.0. Mcintyre Park District Women'• League Bv JoHN RABY Associated Press ·' MOBILE, Ala. - Marshall's Curtis Head grew up in the hean of Kentucky, so playing Louisville in the GM~C Bowl gtves him and other Bluegrass State natives extra mottvat10n. "I don't want to lose this one because when I go home for all Christmas break, I'm going to have to hear about it," said Head, the Thundering Herd's punter and kicker. . '~ Louisville (7-5) and Marshall (10-2) play tn the GMAC Bowl · on Wednesday. . Head is a native of Shelbyville, ·Ky., about 25 rrunutes from Louisville. He wasn't recruited by the Cardinals - . not that it mattered. "I would have come to. Marshall over Louisville. anyway," Head said. ."My grandfather played basketball at Kentucky. I've always been . a Kentucky fan growing up. "A lot of people from back home are Louisville fans, and a lot of people from back home are also Kentucky fans and they hate Louisville. So we' II have people on both sides of it." In all, .10 Marshall players hail from Kentucky. "I can't wait. It will be a big time for me," said freshman -backup punter Klint Rose, from Lexingto.n, Ky. "My whole family s coming. I've got family from Louisville coming. So it will be fun." Marshall offensive lineman Nate McPeek played with a halfdozen Louisville players in the Kentucky-Tennessee high school all-star game. McPeek, who is from Russell, Ky., fondly remembers Rick Pitino leading Kentucky's basketball team to three Final Fours and the 1996 national championship during eight seasons in Lexington. Pitino is now the coach at Louisville. "I was never a big Louisville fan. It doesn't seem right that Pitino's there right now," McPeek said. ••• . Louisville and Marshall last met four years ago the Motor City Bowl in Pontiac, Mich. The Thundering Herd capped a 12-1 season with a 48-29 victory behind 411 yards and four touchdown .passes from Chad Pennington. ·. · .,. . Marshall's Byron Leftwich, now .the· Mid-American· Conference's all-time passing leader, was still two seasons away from his first start. · "I just remember that we won. That's it," Leftwich said. "I was so young. I knew there was 110 way I was going to play, so I was just out there having fun." The win was special because it was Marshall's first in a Division I bowl. "The first of anything is really good," coach Bob Pruett said. "It was certainly a great feeling for us, and we were, an underdog in the game." Yet that victory seems so long_ ago. Marshall has. become accustomed to winning- it had the most wins in the nation in the 1990s - and enters the GMAC Bowl on a four-game bowl winning streak. "You remember the last thing you did," Pruett said. "Four stra1ght bowl w.ms will be talked about 20 years from now. Our · people will be talking about a win." Steve Sciullo is the only player on the current Marshall team who played in the 1998 game: In fact, he started. · Other players who were on the sidelines back then remember Louisville's athleticism. Pruen argues that Louisvme's defense is better this time·, while some Marshall players believe the 1998 version is better than this year's team. "They don't have the offensive line they had back then," defensive back Chris Crocker said. "All you hear about now is " (quanerback Dave) Ragone. It's going to be tough oh him to carry that load." . · . Ragone was named the Conference USA offensive player of the year for the third straight season. · ••• Marshall coach Boh Pruett spoke positively about West Virginia University, touting the fact that both the state's Division 1-A schools are going to bowls. · · . No. 15 West Virginia (9-3) meets Virginia (8-5) in the Continental Tire Bowl on Dec. 28 . "A small state like us, we've got two teams going to a bowl?" Pruett said. "''m bam and raised in West Virginia. That's something we've go< <o be proud of. All of us, Marshall fans and West Virginia fans. You can quote me on that now. That's awesome." 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Meigs stayed within striking dispowered by a I 0-0 ftTSt period run broke lance behind the scoring of Fackler, open a close game and defeated the Johnson and Carl Wolfe in the second quarter and wept to intennission facing a Marauders 80-64. . nine point deficit 42-33. The trio of Brian Adams, Nathan Eaton Belpre unleashed the long range ~arne and Tyler Alkire combined for 55 Of the 80 on the visitors in the third period hitting Belpre points on the night The Marauders five of eight li:om long distance in the placed four players in double digits, led by quarter. The Eagles were able to maintain a 17-point effort from Buzz Fackler. a ten to twelve point lead throughout the Brooks Johnson scored 14 with Zach quaner as each nme the Marauders would Bush and Doug Dili adding I0 each. cut into the lead the Eagles seemed to .hit Belpre got off to a quick start jumping to the clutch shot. a 7-0 lead less than two minutes into the Despite s_:tarting the fourth period down game . After a Meigs timeout, the 62-48 the Marauders hung tough. A Doug Marauders fought their way back eventu- Dill three-point play cut the lead to nine ally tying the game at 11-11 on a three- early in the fourth ~riod. The Marauders point play by Buzz Fackler. · then went on a 2:5 scoring drought. The Eaton then went to work scoring the Eagles in the meantime were increasin~ games next 10 points in just over one their lead to fifteen points. Meigs cut tt Sports correspondent ~~f::s~~~r~o~~~:-=~::: and ~~~~rg~?J:~~d~n~:.~~ig:di~9a;i: four rebounds, Alkire 16 markers and I Guy Earley played well for the Eagles with 9 points and seven rebounds. Fackler hit for 17 for the Marauders,· Johnson 14, Bush and Dill had 10 each. Wolfe added 8 with Ryan Hannan and Ty Ault scoring 2 each, John Bobb had 1 point. Johnson and Bush each grabbed 7 rebounds for the Marauders with Fackler hauling in 5; Bobb, Dill and Hannan had 4 each. Metgs · wen t 26-51 from two-pom · t range and just 1 of 9 from long distance. :rhe Marauders went to the line 20 times convening 9 times. Meigs held a 35-28 rebounding edge. . The Marauders (0·3, 0-1 ) will host the Wellston Running Rockets Tuesday night. · · Belpre won the JV contest, 53-43. Hannan girls defeat Grace Christian Bv DAN ADKINS. Sports correspondent ASHTON, W.Va. - Battling back and forth with never more than fpur points separating them from .their opponents, the Hannan High School Lady Wildcats posted their tirst win of the 2002-03. campaign Friday night, ~efeating the Lady Soldiers 9f Grace Christian Academy, 43-38, in a home court bam-burner. Sophomore Sarah Messer, who finished out the duel with 14 points, secured the win for the locals in the fourth quarter with a little more than a minute remaining as she drove underneath and scored and then nailed the extra shot on a foul for a three-point play. By the end of the night, Messer had posted six. out of eight from the stripe, two assists, three steals and five rebounds. Fellow 'Cat Christy Mayes lit up the scoreboard, also, posting a game-leading 21 points for Hannan while grabbing down eight rebounds. For Grace Christian, Beathany Williams led with 16 points while Maribeth Hombury added 12, Priscilla Carter four and Andrea Sergent and Lianna Ward two each. 'This game was definitely won by playing team ball," said Hannan coach Carolyn Cooper. "Our shooting was a little off earlier this week, but I think the girls came in tonight a little more connected and it showed on the court." Hannan jumped to an early 10-5 lead behind three buckets by Mayes and one each by Messer and senior Heather Miles. Grace Christian's Williams hit one of two from the stripe and added another bucket while Carter tossed in another shot for the visiting Soldiers to close out the first eight minutes. . However, the Soldiers, Hombury hit the court with a vengeance in the second stanza, helping the visitors battle back to within three points with three buckets of her own and two of three from the stripe. Mayes, proving she had the hot hand, tossed in another three deuces while Messer and Loomis added one each as the Lady Soldiers closed the gap and finished the frrst half trailing 20-17. . Last season, the Lady 'Cats suffered losses to Grace Christian twice, surrendering their frrst game in Huntington, 56-40, and taking a home court loss Utter on, 46, 27. . "I'm very pleased with the · girls tonight," said Cooper. "Kayla and Martina (Einarsson) were aggressive and effective under the post and got us some key rebounds when we needed them and I _think that as the season goes on, they're ·going to get more and more consistent and give us what we need." Einarsson, a senior foreign exchange student who,s been a little nervous about playing, calmed her nerves ·long enough Friday to post four points for the Lady 'Cats. . · Grace's Williams and Hombury made pointers off the bench and Crouch nailed a basket as the Tornadoes went into halftime with a 28-26lead. from Page 81 ''Curtis Neigler came into the game and did an excellent job," plays on the offensive side of said Rees. "He was a bright spot there in the first half." the ball. Both teams exchanged the "They were hurting us with (DeWitt)," said Southern lead in the third quarter, as head coach Jonathan Rees. the Raiders regained some 'of ''We were having trouble their inside advantage, then rotating, so we switched into in the fourth, River Valley a zone and we thougl!t we opened with the first six ·kept the ball away from him a points, including a pair of little bit better with the zone." baskets by Swain, as Down by six. with less than Southern never regained the two minutes left until the lead. "It was our legs," said Rees half, Southern 's Curtis Neigler nailed a couple of 3- of his team's difficulties in Raiders another aggressive attempt at gaining a lead in the third quarter, with Williams going for three consecutive buckets and Hombury two of four from the line as the visitors continued to close the gap in the see-saw battle. Messer and Mayes, though, combined for seven points as Hannan held the lead through three quarters of play, 29-27. The fourth quarter proved to be the true test for both teams as the lead constantly went back and forth before Hannan,s Messer shucked and jived her way to· the three-point play that opened the proverbial gate and gave Hannan some safety space with I :34 remainin~. · The Lady Soldiers, trailing by four points, came -as: close· as two points with Williams, Hornbury, Sergent and Ward combining for II points in the final eight minutes. In reserve action, Coach Jackie Hancock's Junior Lady Wildats notched a 25-20 win over Grace Christian in sin)i.lar nail-biting style, with Jessica Bowcott leading all scoring with 10 points while Tabitha Payne added four, Summer Stover three and Alicia Cornell and ·Jessica Powell two each. For Grace Christian,s reserves, Ashley Weber led with·seven points while Jessica Smith added six, Megan Pack four, and Kristen Lawless and Olivia Koontz two and one, respectively. The Lady Wildcats varsity (1-2), hit the road Monday en route to a hopeful win at Buffalo-Putnam beginning at 7 p.m: the fourth quarter. "And we missed a lot of easy ones. And, we shoot six foul shots for the game." "We were able to take the le<td early in the fourth quarter and we did get the ball where we needed to get it," added Layton. We took the ball into the paint and we felt like we kind of controlled the boards," Justin Connolly was the top rebounder for Southern with eight as River Valley'won the battle under the ~lass, 40-19. · "River Valley ts a different team at River Valley and we knew that," said Rees. "We knew they'd be ready. Gene 2,000 yards when he finished back Chris Brown, Texas with 2,015, had 108 first- · Tech quarterback Kliff place votes, 130 second- Kingsbury and Oklahoma place votes and 142 third- running .back Quentin from Page 81 place votes for 726 points. Griffin. ' McGahee, who broke the In a race that was unpre· Johnson third. Miami's Willis · school record with 27 touch- dictable, perhaps Palmer's McGahee was fourth and downs and also set school performance against Notre · teammate Ken Dorsey fin- records for yards rushing Dame in the season finale put (1 ,686), total yards (2,036), him over the top. In a 44-13 ished fifth . and I 00-yard games (I 0), victory over the Fighting It was the ftrst time all five finalists received more than 100 · received 101 . first-place Irish, he passed for 425 yards first -place votes. Palmer won votes, 118 second-place votes and four touchdowns - the five of the six regions. Banks and 121 third-place votes for most passing yards ever · allowed by the Fighting Irish. won the Midwest with 289 660 votes, Dorsey, 38·1 as a starter, Palmer was at his best durpoints, I00 more than Palmer. ' When his name was called, received 122 first.place ing USC's final eight games, Palmer kissed his fiancee. . votes, 89 second-pace votes passing for 2,676 yards and and 99 third-place votes for 27 touchdowns wtth seven Their wedding is in July. · interceptions. · . heart's about to come 643 votes. Last )lear, there was no . He is the Pac-10 Offensive out o my shin," Palmer said. "This has been amazing, this clear favorite for the Player of the Year and won whole .Joumey through this Heisman and only four final- the Johnny Unitas Golden ists were announced, Arm Award as the nation's season . Voters list three choices on Nebraska quarterback Eric top senior quarterback. This year, he set USC seatheir ballotS, and -players are Crouch ended up beating Florida quarterback Rex son records for yards passing awarded 3 points for ftrst place, Grossman by 62 points, the (3,639), passing TDs (32), 2 for second and I for third. Palmer, the first USC quar- fourth-closest vote in the 68- pass attempts (458) and total terback to win the award, had year history of the Heisman. offense (3,513). He also 242 first-place votes, 224 sec· · This year's result was a (lis- threw a school record 147 ond·place votes and 154 third· appo.inting end for the straight .Passes without an place votes for I,328 points. ' Humcanes teammates. It was mterceptton m 2002. · "I couldn't be more hon· Banks, who led the nation the first time teammates finished in the top . five since ored to take this trophy back in passing efficiency and . went 155-of-258 for 2,369 1994, when Penn State's Ki- to share with my teammates yards, 25 to.uchdowns and Jana Carter was second and in Los Angeles," Palmer said. "This awardjs as much theirs four interceptions, had 1.99 Kerry Collins fourth. tirst-place votes, 173 secondMarshall quarterback as it is mine. "A lot of people have been place votes and 152 third Byron Leftwich was sixlh; place-votes for 1,095 points. followed by Washington talking about the East Coast Johnson, who became the Suite quarterback Jason bias and I think this takes ninth player in Division 1-A Gesser, Colorado runnjng care of that." history to rush for more than does a good job." · River Valley will face Gallia Academy on Friday in the first of two games between the two schools at the University of Rio Grande. River Valley also won the junior varsity game, 73-28, as Trace Fraley scored 15 points. Also for the Raiders, Allen ·Pope scored 12 points, and Chris Roush · and Colby Reese added II each. Derek Teaford led Southern with seven points. Carroll 57 19: · · ' · • · ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) Embarrassed with his lackluster perfonnance the first time Mount Union played John Carroll this season, Dan Pugh saw Saturday's playoff rematch as a chance for redemption. He gotran it. for a career-high Pug:h 254 yards and five touchdowns as Mount Union reached the NCAA Division 111 national title game again by defeating Ohio Conference rival John Carroll 57-19 Saturday. The Purple Raiders ( 13-0) extended the nation's longest winning streak to 41. They' II go for their third straigh< national championship - and seventh in 10 years - in the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl on Dec. 21 in Salem, Va. Pugh ran for just 72 yards the ftrst time the teams played this year. "I took it personally that the ftrst game was my only blemish this year," .said Pugh, who now has 2,050 yards rushing and 37 touchdowns for the season. "I wanted to come back and play well today." "Going to Salem never gets old," Pugh said after scoring on runs of 4, 10, 14, 8 and I yard for Mount Union, which has won 95 of its last 96. The Purple Raiders' last loss was 24-17 to Rowan in the 1999 ·semifinals, ending an NCAArecord 54-game winning streak. "Everybody tries to knock us / off," Pugh said. "We take that as a challenge." Mount Union will play St. John's of Minnesota, which defeated .Trinity of Texas 4134 in the other semifinal. Tom Anh passed for 246 yards to lead John Carroll (122), but the BIue Streaks. were outgained 516 yards to 278. Rob Adamson completed 12 of 17 passes for 225 yards and three TDs for Mount Union, which struck quickly to begin each half, then used long drives to extend its lead. · Pugh's first TD run came on the Purple Raiders' second play, following a 37-yard pass from Adainson to Derrick Leach. On John Carroll's nex.t possession, Matt Caponi intercept-· ed Arth's pass at the Blue Streaks 25. ·That set up a 21yard TD pass from Adamson to Nick Sirianni. "We wanted to run the ball and conlrol the clock, but all of a sudden we're down early," Blue Streaks coach Regis Scafe said. John Carroll had just 32 yards rushing on 27 attempts. Pugh's 10-yard run made it John Carroll's Joey Hunt (30) intercepts a pass intended for Mount Union receiver Randall Knapp during the third qua'rter of an NCAA Division Ill semifinal game in Alliance. Ohio , Saturday. Mount Union won 57·19. (AP)" 21-0 with 30 seconds left in the first quarter. He carried five times for 48 yards on the 80yard drive, then ran 10 timt:s on a 14-play chjve that con- . sumed 7:24. Adamson 's 4-yard . pass to Josh Liddell made it 28-0. . The Blue Streaks finally scored when Arth hit An<oine Dunklin for a 47-yard TD pass 90 seconds before halft1 me. Arth later found Bri'an Shellito for a 15-yard TD pass and Ryan DeGeorge ran for a 5,. yard score as John Carroll tried to catch up. Mount Union went 63 yard~ in three plays to open the second half. Adamson passed to Randall Knapp, who broke several tackles to complete a 44-yard play. Pugh scored from 14 yards on the next play: Mount Union has beaten John Carroll 13 straight times since the teams tied 20-20 in 1991. "In our conference, we know how great a team Mount Union is," Scafe said. "Other paris of the country, they say, Mount Union is slippin~ . they 're vulnerable.' Well, I d like to see the team thai can beat them." . Heisman SECURITY PRODUCTS I' "TH£ MOST TRUSTED NAME IN SECURITY " BAUM LUMBER St. Rt. 248 Chester 985·3301 YOUR DEALERSHIP FOR LIFEI Hare atllarrls Norlhup Dodge, Inc. W8 WIRIIO be tb&IISI DIICI VOl Will aver bUV another carl No Glmmlcksr No Deduct:lblesr No worrlesr No ·cost .To Your wa onar awldalllactlon ot over 225 new, used and tactorv proaram vehicles In stock .at all dmas. . In house nnanclnu tor all cradh tvuas with .Interest rates as low as 0% now available. . ., ...... - Gill Ltfl li'i1 ~ Owntr: MIM Northup CH~SLLA. . 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More_ than a dozen joined in, slapping · hands to thighs to provide the beat. • "This little light of mine," they sang, 'Tm going to let it shine!', Yes, it's the most woeful time of the year for NFL teams with· out playoff dreams. They'll try anything - even off-key harmony - to get through another •• practice and another game, looking forward to the day that the season final Iy ends. The Bengals (1- 12) and the Jacksonville Jaguars (5-8) can't wait to shine their little light at the end of the tunnel. "I hate losing.':· Jaguars runl ning back Fred . Taylor said. ''It's a bad feeling in your gut that you:re losing. I'm pretty sure a lot of guys up there in Cincinnati understand that same type of feeling." Do they ever. . The Bengals have known ·little except losing since 1991, when they started their run as the NFL's worst team. They entered this sea,on with their annual hopes of a turnaround, Cincinnati Bengals' JoJuan Armour (33) covers his head as he sits on the bench in the closing and lind themselves once again moments of the Bengals' 52-31 1oss to the Carolina Panthers at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, playing in December for noth- N.C., Dec. 8 . (AP) ing more than a tiny shred of thing they' ve never had before. last three home games, they changes at season's end. dignity. . One more loss would match · "What·you have to do is you had a chance to score the win-· Kitna needs to keep playing the franchise record for a sea- have to give your team reason ning touchdown in the final well so he can get in as many son - the Bengals went 3-13 to believe that things could be seconds, but bumbled instead. . plays as possible in the last It' s nothing to sing about, but three games. If he's in for 80 in 1991, 1993, 1994 and 1998. different, and we could be better," coach Tom Coughlin said. it's better than being blown out percent of the Bengals' plays Two more losses would stamp them as th worst team in the "And that's what I keep trying like they were last Sunday. this season, he gets a $1.65 milThey gave up a franchi se- lion bonus. At the current pace, history of the league's most to do." Both teams are trying to take record 52 points to Carolina, he'll fini sh close to the mark. woeful franchise. and coach Dick LeBeau gave Othe1wise, both teams are in a little bit of consolation Is that enough motivation to "what if?" · them an extra day off to pull just looking forward to getting win' It's hard to say. The Jaguars knew they were themselves together. I t over and getting on with "At this point of the season in for a tough time this season "I don 't think this team is things. The one that tries .the with the record and the way nearly as far ·away as the season hardest will probably be the ¢ings have gone, it's 1Joing to because of their salary cap come down to.each man's indi- problems. At the midpoint, they would indicate it is," LeBeau one that wins. ".I think what you 'll see here vidual motivation for playing were 5,5 and thinking postsea- said. "I think that it's very son. Three close losses have ip1poi1ant that we understand is guys that are excited, guys the game,'' quarterback' Jon that and try to get a positive that want to win out this year Kitna said. "What is it? And are snuffed those hopes. Jacksonville lost its last three sta!l back to where we need to and go ahead and get it over you willing to go out and perIDrm to the best of your ability. games by a combined fi ve get. Our games have been very with, put it behind us, because t!ven though things haven 't points. The last one was the competitive.'' the past is the past," Taylor worst - Tim Couch threw a gone the way you want?" There are some personal mat- said. "Then hurry up and get The Jaguars also are 5 0-yard touchdown pass on the ters at stake Sunday. · through the offseason so we approaching uncha!led territory tina! play, giving Cleveland .a Both head coaches have can show what we have next for their franchise. One more 21-20 win. come under intense criticism year." , defeat will give them a third The Bengals have had their from fans. A strong finish could There's always something · ~raight losing season, some- share, as well. In each of their soften the calls for coaching lyrical abou·t next year. Browns' season, pressure on Couch Peppers, Portis, Shockey lead strong group I admits he's compounded matters by forcing passes that Associated Press have been easily intercepted . "I think a slow start has. CLEVELAND Tim been probably the bigrest Couch isn't hiding, ducking . hurdle for me at. home,' he or scrambling from the said. "I've had. something go oncoming rush. bad early in · a game. Maybe more thim anyone, Hopefully, I can come out and Couch understands what he 's get off to a good start and get fac~ng in Sunday's game a little conf1dence gomg, . against the Indianapoli s move the ball early, get a couColts. It's the biggest game of pie of early scores." hi s NFL career - and the And hopefully, Couch can Bmwns' most important get the boobirds off his back. He has become a target for game since returning to the league. fan abuse in Cleveland. The "This is the reason that I city's radio sports talk shows was brought here and picked are inundated with callers No. 1,'' Cleveland's quarter- scream'ing for Browns coach back said, "to go out and win Butch Davis to bench Couch these type of games." in favor of backup Kelly Couch, sacked 141 times in Ho1com b. . four pro seasons, has never Manning can appreciate his been under pressure like .this. friend's plight. He heard the The Browns (7 -6) probably boos last season when he: need to win their final three. ihrew 23 interceptions and: games to make the playoffs. the Colts finished 6- 10. , One loss, and . in all likeli"Quarterbacks ... nobody' hood, they're done. There is knows what it's like except' for the guys nlaying the posi -: 'little or no margin for error. "We· win, we stay in it," ·rion," he said. "It's a very; said wide receiver Kevin humbling position. I pull for Johnson . "We lose, we' re quarterbacks. I don't like to: gone." see quarterbacks get booed or' The Colts (8-5) are in a pulled from a game or have a. similar bind. They ' re tied four- or five-interception day: with Tennessee for first place I know what it's like out, in the AFC South and among there." · , 13 teams still in contention Facing Manning for the; for the postseason. first time as a pro could be a: "There's so much riding on problem for Couch, too. this game,'' Couch said . · Last year, Couch tried sO: And so much of it is hard to impress Green Bay's: focu sed on Couch, who has Brett Favre, one of hiS: had a maddeningly inconsis- favorite players, that he threw: tent 2002 and has been in the three interceptions in a 30-7, eye of a personal ·storm most Joss. .. "· · ; of the season. "When you're young, you; Complicating th,ings for try to prove yourself too hard· Couch are several factors - sometimes,'' Couch said. "I: · all converging at once- that think I've learned to be just: he' ll have to overcome if the myself, and be patient You' Browns are going to win this don't have to wm the world week .· over with . every throw and, He :s been slumping badly just go out and be a sman: at home. He' ll be facing good player." friend Peyton Manning, and Couch and Manning . have Couch has the added burden met on the field once before. · of keeping Cleveland 's seaJn 1997, Couch was a ' son alive . sophomore at Kentucky and "This is when we' ve all got Manning a senior at to step it up," cornerback Tennessee when the two Corey Fuller said: . hooked up in a memorable Beginning with the Oct. 6 SEC shootout. Manning debacle against Baltiriillte passed for 523 yards and five when he was booed inces- TDS, and Couch threw for weeks, ·increasing his seljson built on sho~i' passes that leads 'Til have to get a picture or santly by Browns fans , who 476 yards and two scores in a then cheered when he sus- 59-31 loss to the Volunteers. ' total to 1,500. Another round the league io total yardage. something." "It would be kind of neat to number is within reach: 2,000, And although the Dolphins Williams happens to · be a rained a concussion, Couch has played miserably in home go out and hav~ one of those a milestone achieved just four rank fourth in pass defense, camera buff, but he'lllikely be games. games again,'' Couch said. times. they' ve been susceptible to too busy Sunday to take any He·~ just 1-3 with a 62.' 8 That's uniikely, especially "To·have the leading rusher breakdowns. Buffalo's Drew photos. His 310 carries are the rating at with the way the Browns have in the NFL, it's awful excit- Bledsoe threw for 306 yards most in the NFL, and he's the quarterback Cleveland Browns Stadium, run the ball lately. Cleveland ing," coach Dave Wannstedt · and three touchdowns to beat first player in ~2 years to rush and has thrown just four of has posted four straight 100said . "Let's see how he finish- them two weeks ago, and for 200 yards m back-to-hack his 15 . TD passes there. ranf rushing games, an . ··es up. Every week will get · Trent Green torched them for games. tougher now. The more sue- 328 yards and five scores in He defers all credit .to tackles Worse, he's averaging just Improvement that has helped cess you have, the more a team September. Mark Dixon and Todd Wade, 169 yards passing at home take some pressure off will zero in on stopping that." Gannon is on pace to throw guards Todd Perry and Jamie compared to 229 per game on Couch. He wouldn't mind if the The Raiders rank third in the for. 5,175 yards, which would Nails, center Tim Ruddy and the road. NFL in run defense and have surpass Dan Marino's 1984 tight end Randy McMichael. · Two weeks ago, Couch Browns made if five in a row. "If we ran the ball and ate been at their best this month, NFL record of 5,084. But "I don't thmk I' m doing threw three interceptions and had a career-low 19.0 QB ratup all that clock and kept holding LaDainian Tomlinson defensive end Jason Taylor anything special," Williams ing in a 13-6 loss to Carolina. Peyton and that offense off to 57 yards and Curtis Martin said protecting his former said. "We're doing the job up Couch 's problems at home the field, I would be more to 26. teammate's record won' t be a front. ... When I'm hitting have caused him to press. He than happy," Couch said. Williams is accustomed to source of motivation. ·'holes, there's nobody there. "There 's plenty of other It's nice." registering such totals on a single play, breaking touchdown motivation out there," Taylor Williams said he hasn't setruns of 45, 55 , and 63 yards in said. "If Gannon throws for tied on a gift for his linemen, the past two games. 310 yards and we win the ball - but despite a passion for cars, "He commands your atten- game - sorry, Dan ." he; ruled that out. tion," Oakland coach Bill Gannon and Williams are "I make the league mintCallahan said. "He has the top contenders for MVP hon- mum right now," he said with complete package - the size, ors, but they' re hardly the lone a smile. "So I don't think I' m speed, vision, quickness, offensive stars on the teams. going to be able to affo rd power, elusiveness. You name The game will feature the only cars." it, he's got it It's a full agen- three NFL players to catch Williams' base salary is the da." 1,000 passes: Oakland's Jerry NFL minimum $400,000. But ••u••r. Auto, , , I power windows, locks, & , 7 passenger, Williams gives the Dolphins Rice ( I ,448) and Tim , Brown he has already earned $1.2 roof rack, sport wheels. a shot at playing keepaway (I ,007), and Mmm1 s Cns million in incentives, and that '7995 against the NFL's hottest quar- Carter ( 1,097). figure is climbing rapidly .; - . ;,. terback. Oakland' s Rich · "It 's special," Caner said. just like his rushing total. · Gannon threw for 300 yards J .. .. , for a record IOth time last week, and he leads the league .!J!' with ·4,205 yards passing. His . 1999 JEEP GRAND average of 323 per game is a CHEROKEE LAREDO record pace. ~109a1 , 4x4. green, 45.000 m1 1es, auto, air, ''Mind-boggling," Miami 11n. cruise. VB, towpkg. , power windows& speed, quarterback Jay Fiedler said. locks, power seat, sport wheels. windows & "You just don't do that in the "17 995 *1 NFL." . SOUTHEAST IMPORTS The Dolphins held Gannon SUPERSTORE to 125 yards in an 18- 15 victo'93 Columbus Road - Athens, Ohio ry at Mi ami early last seaso n. P ho n e 592-2 4 97 But that was be fore the W e Don't Pressure The Customer . .. . The R<iiders.-.perlected an offense BY BARRY WtLNER BY TOM WITHERS • ' ''River Life'' ·~'i! _, ' ~ut Help create riverfront memories ... Raiders will try to stop Williams' streak MIAMI Everything about Ricky Williams inspires !\Uperlatives, even his locker !ltall, which just might be the liiFL's messiest. : He leaned into it one day this week, standing on a chair as he searched the top shelf for something, then emerged with a grin. . : "Hey, look'" he said, holding up a checkbook. : It could come in handr. l!ecause Williams says ht; s thinking about buying gifts of appreciation for his offensive. linemen, who have helped make him the NFL's leading rusher. He' 11 try to become the ~rst player to run fm 200 yards m three consecuttve games Sunda ~ when his Miami Do_Iph1n s play the Oakland Ra1ders. . · . More than Williams' streak is at stake. The Raiders (9-4) liave the best record in the AFC thanks to fi ve consecutive victories, but the Dolphins (8-5) and four other teams are just a game behind with three left "We have nothing secured right now," Oakland linebacker Eric Barton said. "We .know we have to win t.he rest of these games. We haven 't even clinched a playoff spot. " Sti II, at the moment, the Raiders are the team to beat. "An y team in t he AFC that wants to go to the Super Bow l ~~ s to go through Oakland," will iams said. And a·ny tea m that wants to beat Miami must start by trying 10 stop Will i<!ms. He has gained 444 ya rds the ~ast two "He is going to be one of the great ones at tight end," Redskins cornerback Champ Bailey says. Eagles CB Bobby Taylor adds: "He 's a young hothead coming out of Miami." Shockey might not be the be st . rook!e out of the Hurncanes powerful pr?,gram. That probab!y IS Po111~, a second-round p1ck who IS the late,st young sensat10.n 1.n ~enver s backfield. Portts 1s stxth among AFC rush~rs With 1 ,09~ yards and has mne TD,s rushtng, one recetvmg. He s made Broncos fans accept the m_ove of 2000 of~ens1ve rookte of the year M1ke Anderson to fullbackand _forget the loss of Terrell Davts. . . . Is Portis Impressed by hts own numbers? h "C orey D'll t on a1ways as until you have huge guys breathing down your neck, and you have a split second to make a decision, you're not Julius Peppers approaches going to learn." the rookie sacks record . One thing Carolina oppoClinton Portis surges past 1,000 yards rushing. Jeremy nents learned before Peppers was suspended for the final Shockey leads NFL tight ends in catches. four games for violating the league's substance abuse pol Antwaan Randle El makes sensational plays as a receivicy was to design game plans er, runner and passer. to block him. Peppers was a Marques Anderson ·solidifies main reason for Carolina's an injury-ravaged secondary. vast improvement defensively Ben Leber holds his own in a and finished with 12 sacks, linebacker corps with Junior one short of the rookie record. Seau and Donnie Edwards. The suspension could be There 's even a choice of costly, however: If he fails to Williamses: Dallas safety Roy make the Pro Bow I and does William s hils had a huge not win honors as defensive impact as a tackler and a rookie of the year, he would leader; Tennessee safety Tank stand to lose $1.1 million in Williams has been a starter all oonuses. on· Buffalo tackle Mike Coach John Fox . says se~s. • Peppers deserves both honors. WJiltams has been a strong . "I can only say that Julius has played outstanding for us and I' ni very pleased with his performance,' Fox says. "I think he's deserving, in my opinion." His main competition could Carolina Panthers rookie come from Colts DE Dwight defensive end Julius Freeney, who has been more Peppers, above right, b attles inconsistent, but has had a Tampa Bay Buccaneers' s~on~ impact in Indianapolis' Rickey Dudley earlier this stmgter · defense; season . New York Giants Jacksonville's John rookie tight end Jeremy Henderson, who has been Shockey, right, stiff arms steadier than Freeney, but. less Tennessee Titans safety Tank spectacular; Leber, a versatile Thanks to the linebacker with pass-rushing salaryWilliams. cap and injuries, NFL skills; or a safety such as one newcomers have taken on of the Williams, Baltimore's added responsibilities in Ed Reed or Green Bay's 2002. (AP) Marques Anderson. Roy Williams has produced some highlight-film hits, and his interception for a touchdown on Thanksgiving vs. Washington . gave him addi. tiona! national exposure. Williams has played his best since star safety Darren Woodson was losi for the season, · further evidence of Williams' leadership. "His play shows that he 's a · Denver Broncos running back Clinton Portis eludes a defender playmaker," Cowboys coach Dave Campo says. "He 's getearl(er this season. (AP) ting more confidence in what blocker and a massive pres- l,OOO yards, and nobody talks he's doing and where he's ence. about him because , he · plays supposed to be. When you ' re Quite an impressive rookie for the Bengals,''· Portis says. not thinking, that's when you crop. "If the team is successful and make plays." Thanks to the salary cap everyone can benefit from it, Like Roy Williams, · · · NFL ewcomers Tennessee's Tank Williams d an mJunes, n then it's something good. have taken on added responsi- Having 1,OOO yards and being also has achieved something The Gallipolis D(lifi Tribwze; the Poim Pleasant Register and The Daily Sentinel, bilities in 2002. Has any team the only player on the team is few rookies manage: successin Pomeroy/Middleport, are banding together to produce a hard cover book that benefited more from the per- no good. Ask Corey Dillon." fully taking on a regular role. we know you ' II cheri sh for years. The book will be coffee table ·style, oversized, formance of rookies than The Bengals, who draft "That's one of the hardest 100+ pages of hi storical photos and printed on high quality paper. The planned Buffalo? high if not well every year, things to do back there," After finishing 3-13 last actually came up with two Titans linebacker Peter release date is early next fall . season, the Bills had a strong pretty good rookies: tackk Sirmon says. "He's making a draft that brought Mike Levi Jones and Matt Schobel, lot of calls. He's involved Williams, wideout Josh Reed yet another developing tight with the run front. He 's and safety Coy Wire. d involved with pass coverWilliams solidified a weak enJ~nes was taken lOth over- ages, and he blitzes. I think area and is a main reason all, for which Cincinnati he's doing a great job, a,nd Travis Henry is among the received plenty o( criticism. he's continuing to get better." ' league leaders in rushing. He became a starter after Anderson, a third-rounder, will b e a hi storica l photo collection from the Ohio riverfront counties ofGallia, Reed is a superb th1rd rece1v- Richmond Webb tore chest supplanted Antuan Edwards Mason and Meigs. er and, should free agent ·muscles in the fourth game as a starter and is a ballhawk. Peerless Price leave, easily and has steadily improved. He's been the NFL rookie of In order for thi s book to be a treasured keepsake, we need to borrow your best old could slide into the starting "Levi's playing . great," the week three times. pictures. Here are the guideline s for submitting photographs for publication in this lineup. Wire has been less quarterback Jon Kitna said. "He has a ton of responsibook: impressive, struggling in cov- "He's surpassed expectations bility right now, and he 's I) Pictures must be black and white. erage, but is a solid hitter w1th from anybody. He went tn doing a good job with it," 2) Photographs must be unframed. huge .upside. after not playing the first four Packers coach Mike Sherman 3) Pic.tl.jfes must be betwee n 3"x5" and 18"x24" · · "We expected him to ~ a games and got thrown in says. "He still makes mis4) Photos should be clearly identified with the names of the people pictured left to big-time player, and I thmk against some of the best pass takes, but he is a guy who's in right and any identification of buildings or areas. The photographer's name would he's developing that way,'' rushers in this league. If the right place at the right be helpful. . . · Bills personnel direct<?r Tom you're going to play left tack- time and has a nose for the Modrak says, refemng .to Ie in this div1sion. you're football." 5) Pictures should have your name and complete mailing address on the back. Williams. :·Yeah, we're excl!- going 10 have to be pretty While the 2002 rookie col6) Yo u do not have to be a newspaper subscriber to submit pictures for ed about htm. · darn good." · lection is formidable , that publicati on. . . · "I think Josh is in an excelWhile rookie quarterbacks doesn't make the guys who . 7) 4 photo submissions per address please. Every picture may not be used. Our lent situation. We've ~ot .a ·haven 't been all that good, at do the scouting and selecting Photo Review Team will select the photos for the book. third receiver that I th1nk_ IS least they are . getting an any more comfortable about 8) Photographs can be. delivered to one of our 3 offices or mailed. . . ·. one of the better · t~1rd oppo!lunity. David Carr has the process. All they need to · Gallia residents can drop their submissions off at the Tribune office, wh1ch ts receivers in the lea~u~. nght taken every snap for Houston do is watch the other games located at 825 Third Avenue in Gallipoli s, Monday through Friday from 8 am- 5 now, and. he's a rookie. . _ sometimes painfully, con- and questions arise. pm . Other nnpress1ve recerv~rs sidering he's on pace to set a "You don ' t only keep - Mason citi zens can deliver their selections to the Regi ster office at 200 Main - a posttton where rookies record for being sacked. Joey report cards on your guys, but tend to perform well - are Harrington has started most on the guys you think that Street in Point Pleasa nt, Monday through Friday from 8 am- 5 pm. Denver's Ashley Lehe, of the season in Detroit, and maybe you missed some- Meigs res idents can drop their entries off at The Sentinel office at Ill Court Pittsburgh's ~andle El, New Chad Hutchinson has where else that are doing Street in Pomeroy, Monday through Friday from 8 am - 5 pm .. England's De10n ,Branch an~ replaced Quincy Carter in well," Buffalo's Modrak - If you choose to mail your pictures, please send them to Den Dickerson , New Orleans Dante Dallas. Patrick Ramsey fig- says. "It's 'Why didn't you Gallipolis Daily Tribune, P.O. Box 469, Gallipolis, OH 45631. Stallworth. There are also ures to start the rest of the ·like him better?' - After publication, pictures can be picked up at the. office where they were subti~ht ends Shockey. of the year for Washington. Randy "You put on 'Monday mitted. In the case of mailed pictures, they can be picked up from the Tribune G1.ant~, Randy McMtchael of Fasani even got a start, by Night Football,' and you say, office after the book is publi shed. Mtaml and Doug Jolley of default, in Carolina. 'Geez, that guy's doing better Oakland.. "I'm 100 percent glad that than I thought he would.' I The G1ants have been rav- I'm playing, because I' ve guess you have to be a midaged by IllJUnes at receiver. so learned thin~s and seen things die-class neurotic . ~al!ipolil l!atlp 1!I:ribune · The Daily Sentinel Joint Jlttulant 1\tQ:ilttr "Let's assume we had a. "Shockey's r_apid development that 1 could ve never teamed 675-1333 446-2342 992-2155 ~as essen~1al. He leads all from the sideline," Harrington good draft, and we did. It t.1ght .ends m catches (54) - says. "When you're on the only lasts as long as the next ~nd m outrageous celebra- sideline, you can say, 'He one comes, so we better get ttons, should' ve done this or that.' ready for that one." ,. . I Associated Press Game of the Week BY STEVEN WINE i;>unbav i!::imtU -itnttlnd • Page 85 Resourceful Rookies - .4ssociated Press Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis • Point Pleasant '• l ., �• Page B6 tdoors Inside: 6unbap tltime~ -&entintl 'Dear Abby', Page Cl Sunday; December 15, 2002 Page Cl Charleston man takes unicycle into mountain bike territory Bv JoHN McCov ui"teady of balance. Fuentes - an Charleston Daily Mail avid skateboarder, unicyclist, moun- -- ----''---------, tain biker and distance runner for decades - had the neeessary physiCHARLESTON, W.Va. - If you cal tools and coordination before he happen to .see Marc Fuentes riding ever realized unicycles could be ridalong one of Kanawha State Forest's den off-road. mountain-bike trails. don't bother "I'd been riding unicycles for 24 asking him where his other wheel is. years:· says the 38-year-old auto He 's heard that.line already. salesman _ "Every person who sees .~ne has "So 1 ~asn't starting from scratch some sOil of comment, saP..., when 1 bought my tirst 'MUni' Fuentes. · that's what people in the sport call Small wonder. After ali. who mountain unicycles. 1 had the balwou l~ ex~ect to lind a umcychst ance and coordination down pat, at pedahng h1s s mg~e-w heeled machme least for road riding:· on trails that, until recently, had been Ftientes' interest in unicycling the exclusive terntory of hikers and began in J978 , when he got curious go~zo mountam bikers? . after seeing unicycles ridden in a cirFor Fuentes and a growmg number cus and bought one at a local bike of extreme-sports. enthusiasts, how- shop. . ··1 had good balance from skateever. mountam umcyc!mg ts the !atest. hottest new hobby. . boarding, but it took me. a month of Devotees of one-wheeled cyclmg constant. everyday practice to begin have discovered they cao get t~e to -fee l comfortable on a unicycle," sa me adrenaline rushe s mountam he recalls. bikers get by ridin_g. cr\)ss-country, "But pretty soon, I was riding it all chmbmg narrow hikmg . paths and around my neighborhood. sometimes careemng through downhill courses. for miles at a time." .. The sport is especially ne.w i_n the Until. recently, he was content to Charleston area. Though he s nddcn ride on paved streets. Then he ran umcycles 111 and around the cny across an ad on ebay. the popular Since the late .1970s. Fuentes Internet auction site. Marc Fuentes rides his unicvcle on a believes he's the only mountain uni" lt . was the tirst MUni I'd . ever trail in Kanawha State Forest in West cyclist tc1 show up so far. . ' seen." he says. " It was on sale for Virginia, Nov. 8, 2002, For Fuentes "I' ve ncverseen anyone else doi ng $300. so I bought it and started riding and a growing numbe r of extreme- it.'' he >ays. it." sports enthusiasts mountain unicy- Perhaps that 's becau~e mountain · Unli ke Fuentes' standard unicycling is the latest, hottest new unicycling is not for the faint of · cles, which have thinne.r tires and reihobby. (AP) heart. the weak of limb or. the atively light-duty components, the Sunday, December 15, 2002 mail-order MUni turned out to be some mountain bikers. built for strength. ''You should see the looks I get Its hub was created for a heavy- when I pass them," he says. duty BMX bike. It sported a wide, As if the constant hard pedaling knobby-treaded · mountain-bike tire weren't enough. unicyclists also mounted on a heavy-duty downhill must be able to handle the innumermounta.in-bike rim. Its beefed-up able little bumps and gullies they · crankarms were longer than standard encounter. for increased climbing leverage . In · Coming downhill, mountain unishort, it wasn't exactly a toy. cycles are relatively easy to keep " New, it would have cost me rolling. But uphill, each rock and $900." Fuente s says. "One with root becomes a potential stopping point. brakes costs $1,400." :'You're leaning toward the .hill, That's right. Fuentes' off-road unicycle has no brakes. When he rides it and are pedaling hard trying to keep downhill, he rehes on leg strength to up your momentum," Fuentes says. slow the wheel' s rotation. "You have to pick your route carefui"You can 't coast on a unicycle." he ly. because if you hit an obstacle says. "That's one of the things that without enough momentum to roll makes them a little challenging to over it , you fall off." · ride." Mountain unicyclists call such Unicycles' single-speed, direct- tumbles "dumping the load." drive pedal mechanisms also require "Everyone dumps his load in this considerable leg strength, especially sport," Fuentes says . "Pretty often, in on uphill stretches. fact. " Mountain bikes have "granny Like many adventure-sports enthugears" that allow their riders to climb , siasts, Fuentes would like to test his steep pitches with minimal effort. · skills against those of other off-road · Each revol ution of the pedal s propel s unic yclis ts. To do that, however, the bikes forward roughly one-sixth he ' II probably have to travel. of their ti res' circumference, a signif"For some reason, most of the · icant mechanical advantage. competit ions seem to take place in On unicycles, each revolution of New Jersey," he says. "But even the cranks turn the single wheel its there, the turnout i§n't as big as entire circumference. To riders, the ,you'd expect. At the last one, only I 2 feeli ng .is similar to riding in one of a · people showed up." mountain bike's more diffi cu lt-toSuch is the world of the mountain pedal gears. unicyclist. Right now, the_ir pursuit is · Even so, Fuentes says he can go up as solitary as the wheels on their a relatively smooth trail faste r than machines. •· 'Nellie May' Point woman needs help that's not always availabJ (Editor's nofe: Nellie May is not the real name of the woman depiCted in the following story. Her name was not used in orrier to protect her privacy). . ., BY KANDY BoveE Staff writer POINT PLEASANT, W.Va.- Nellie May was a regular visitor at the.comer store. She would come in regularly to ask for help fixing her broken eye glasses or figuring out how to work the remote control for her television . Nellie May is mentally retarded . .• · Roughly 1 percent of the American pdpulation has a form of 'mental retardation, according to· the . Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood · and Adolescence. · According · to the American Health Care A~sociation , before 1971 , .facilities for the mentally retarded and developmenwere tally disabled financed solely by state, local and private funding , and many fpcilities were plagued by overcrowding and poor conditions. An amendment to the Social Security Act was W.Va. hunters bag large numbers of deer •' 150,814 deer killed in two.; week season CHAR LESTO N. W.Va. (AP) . Hunters killed I 50,8 14 ·deer dming a recent two-week season in wh ich they we re allowed to shoot both males and females, the state Divi"sion of Natural Resources repo ned Friday. Preliminary fi gures for the Nov. 25- Dec. 7 seasQ.n show that 96,435 buck s were killed and 54.379 fema les. In an attempt to thin West Virginia's deer population, hunters had the choice of shoo ting females during the traditi onal two-week buckson ly hunt. "Harvesting female deer is the most important tool that we use to effec ti ve ly manage deer population s." · sa id ON R Director Ed Hamrick. Antlcric ss hunts were permitted on 'pri va te land in 40 counties. The season bac limit also was increased to three in se le cted counti es. Hu nters still have the chance to bag an antle rless deer this year. The state \ tradi tional antl erl ess hunt started Dec. 9 aiid runs until Saturday in sclecied counties. Between Dec. 25-28. hunters wi ll be allowed to hunt an tl erless deer on priva te land in .selected coun ties. Desp ite thi s year's kill s, Hamrick satd so me areas of the stat e are st iII over ly popu Iateo . · Agency biologists say thj s year 's buck kill was down by about 3 percent from las t year 's. when 99,380 animals were killed. The kill was the seco nd highest si nce 1998 . The Top I0 coun ties for buck ki ll s this year were : Rando lph , 3·.87 1: Preston . 3.514; Hamps hire. 3,501 : Ritchie . 3,4p2: Gr_eenbrie r, 3,234: Hardy. 3.200: Lewil. 2,9 19: Monroe. 2.7 14: Braxton . 2.703': and Wetzel . 2.657 .. E-mail your ·outdoorsNews to: \f){Jr/s(g' nl_\-daih'l ri/Ji111e. 1 11111 • .If101 ., 10 :111.1-da ih. 'l q'isle 1: r. ., m1. or .If''m .r@ 1/l\-d(li~' ·.re111i1 wf. mm passed that year, establish- because SOJTI.eone told her mg special facilities she was not supposed to financed with federal dol- hang onto the money. litrs. These facilities were Born to a poor, single called Intermediate Care mother ·- her father left Facilities for the Mentally soon after he found out her Retarded. mother was pregnant Today, lCFs/MR form a Nellie May learned early in .· longterm care and training life to accept her lot. delivery system for indiIt was a hard life, with victuals with mental retar- an influx of new "daddies" dation and/or qevelopmen- coming and going like the tal disabilities. ebb and flow .of the tide. The ICFs/MR were ide- Most of them ignored her, ally designed to help the but one gave her something mentally retarded mix in to remember him by. Nellie the community more and May still carries the scar on not be secreted away in an her '· head that left her institution: It was meant dependent upon others.· fonhe mental! y disabled to "My new daddy didn't live more normal lives and like me," Nellie May says, have a better quality of life shrugging her . shoulders - which it has done. It and looking blankly away. . also has saved the governThe injury left her with ment millions of dollars. neurologicaf damage and On the ·. other hand, caused her to have seizures though, those who previ~ regularly. She had to take ously were institutional- medicine to control the ized are not monitored seizures that ·left her unre~aily. They are-taught basic sponsive and dull. It was hvmg skills, but ·many are hard to think straight and unable to 111¥e wise deci- even harder to learn. sions iq. handling finances . That was only the beginand everyday situations. · ning of her troubles. Nellie May is able to She lost her mother clean her apartment, as she when she was about 10 was taught. But she cleans · years old. the floors with a tooth"They took her to the brush. hospital one day and she ·She receives a weekly didn't come back." check and buys the things With no one to care for she needs, · but she spends the ·entiJ:e cbeck in one day Plua• ... C:h•llltlp,CI ' ~ ' ,.~M.@~.9n.'J_:~-!' )'.~!!"~,:~_,:.li!f.. BY KAN6v BoveE Staff writer POINT PLEASANT, W.VA. _;_,;_ Selirices available for people like Nellie May are limited in Mason · ~ounty. Since Nellie May IS not severely retarded, she is not eligible to stay in an institution. Because of state and federal budget cuts, few supervisory programs are available in the community. According to the American Health Care . Association, adults with developmental disabilities , ' .,>'""' . ' . fig~res sometimes make in excess of $75,000 a year, )'lorkers at federally . centers for the mentally _handicabped like this make less thar) $20 a day doing "m'""i"l JObs that give them a feeling of accomplishment. Jimmy Cheesebrew wipes excess water from bottled water jugs and Brant Gardner loads them onto a pallet ih the bottled water P(ant where they work at Green Acres Regional Center near Huntington. t heesebrew and Gard~er are from Mason County. (K 0mdy Boyce ~hotos) . Rf!sQ.urces li • • ! ' t.liJ~ .• : ..t~,.;~'~"".t::-~ ·-.-. ,._ .... ·~c ..,............ -~·~""' 1~~~i;:~~~:m~~~~~;,, ~-: . . 0 ' lh~tnselves · adeq\lately, ' .· t·.~- ,;~;.,,_ there are others Who) f11ll · through the cracks of tlie system. "There should be some- • one that comes to check on Nellie May daily to make sure that she is taking her m~dication correctly and to be sure she is OK," says local store ·owner . who be£riended Nellie May.. · She has no family, so she needs someone." There are three agencies that provide services in Mason County for the mentally retarded:Autism Services Center, Green "'l"'" are highly dependent on public programs to finance their long-term.care needs. With resources dwindling, care for. the mentally retarded is being severely reduced. Recipients are carefully screened and all -but the worst cases are weeded out. The W.Va. Bureau ·for - Behavior Health and Health Facilities has been sued in federal court over the MRIDD Waiver for denying services ~~d keepmg people on wmtmg lists too long. . . Although there are mentally disabled · people out there able to take care of · . PleiSe see Limited, C& · ., a WE'RE NOT WST PEOPLE WORKING AT A BANK. WE'RE PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU WORKING AT A BANK. . Susan enjoys her Free Checking Account at Peoples Bank. She likes not having to pay monthly fees or per-item charges. As . an added benefic, Susan does not have co wo.rry about maintaining a minimum balance and has che comfort and security of Overdraft Privilege:". An offer like this may sound surpris ing to most people, but Susan expected norhing less from Peoples Bank: That ·s because Sl!san works at Peopl es. When you approach banking like you'd want it co be done, you come up with a lot morerhan just a bank. Because life demands more than merely checks and deposits. How do we know what kinds of things matter and can help rhe most? Because the peop le who work here are no different than rhe people who don ·t . Every Bank Has Assets. We Named Ours After The Most Important One, www. peopl esban corp.com , Peoples BankFDIC 1-800-37 4 -6123 Clovis "Junior" Johnson Jr., from Mason County, puts a garland on a miniature tree in the "Craft Shop" where he works five days a week. He and five other workers for Green Acres Regional Center receive $17 a day for working on craft items for the store and waiting on customers. The money that their craft shop makes goes back to that department to help !pay for more craft .supplies, the building that they work f(om and to offset costs incurred by their department and supplement diminishing federal funding. Daniel Perry, from Cabell County and Robert Sidler of Mason County prepare an order of Polnsettas to be shipped to Point Pleasant. They work in the vocational agricultural department at Green Acres Regional Center near Huntington. Green Acres helps train Mason County's menta lly handicapped with employment skills. (O i'\~l - .\ll:K /(m !J\ 1 J.RCI Al.1I~~ l I( t\ ~ Uill\ VI ST,\1 EI\T M1\ NAG E,\1 f:Nl/ T RL'S'rS/ f li\ ANC IAI. PLi\i\ N 1.'\<;/R EII!\ rm NT Pi.tl NS .., l .,., �Page C2 6Uttba, ltmti ·6tntinel sunday, December ts, 2002 Holiday food workshop showcases best of the best found the giblets still inside the little bag, cooked perfectStaff writer ly," she chuckled. . Fowler said years ago she POINT PLEASANT, used to have parties and cook W.Va. - Some of Mason a Jot, but since her husband County's best cooks gathered died she doesn't cook much in an upper room at the anymore. .. Mason County EX:tension ''I'm 80-years-old, so I office on Dec. 4 · to share guess it's time 1 slowed recipes and mouth-watering down," she said. dishes at the Holiday Food Judy Chapman, a mem~r Workshop. of the Wohelo CEOS .club, Members · from Mason said that her mother taught County · Community her to make cornbread when Educational Outreach she was I 0-years-old. Service clubs brought their Although she acknowledged finest fare to the workshop. that her mother was a very Over 30 dishes were spread gQ.od cook. she said that her out for sampling, with such mother did not like to bake. names as Smoked Salmon "If my brothers and sisters and Egg Salad, Taco Roll wanted cookies or anything Ups, Orange Marmalade like that, we had to make Drops, Turkey -B~rry them ourselves, so we Stuffing Balls '!fld Hohday learned out of necessity," said Bell Salad. Rectpe and gtft Cha man. · mix booklets w~re handed · diapman said that she out, as well as _duectmns to · likes to try new recipes that make several crafts that were . are already tried and true. demonstrated at the work"I like to try recipes that shop. . I've already tasted," said Mason County Extenston Chapman. Agent Rodney Wallbrown · Chapman said that her was on hand to sample the cooking is not anything spewares. cia!. "I think they shpuld do this "It's just down-home courtevery week," Wallbrown ·try cooking. My daughters joked, trying a variety of like me to fix pinto bean, dishes as he moved through fried potatoes, cornbread and the line. bacon," said Chapman. Anna Lee Douglass, a "If anything, 1 guess that's . . member of the Leon Cf;OS, my specialty." It was hard to ptck Just said that she didn't know how to cook when she got three cooks from the many married. - · wonderful cooks who "When I was young, I was brought their sumptuous spea tomboy and followed ·my cialties, but these three cooks dad around. I didn't care emerged and agreed to share about what was going on in their recipes with readers. the kitchen, but after . four well, that's the . Golden Fruit Punch children reason I 'learned to cook," Yield: 64·1 cup servings . by Lucille Fowler said Douglass. Douglass' family is scatProcess in a blender (do not tered now, but she still cooks drain fruit) for her family at Christmas. . 1-30 oz. ,ran fruit cocktail She said that home-made , I-29 oz. can peaches · noodles are her specialty, 1-20 oz. · can crushed "My daughter has already pineapple . put in her noodle request for l'rocess 4 medium bananas Christmas," said Douglass. , !!lith 2 cups each of sugar and Douglass said that she • water. made a few mistakes over the Add 10 pureed fruit along years while cooking. . with "One tim~ I m~de a beauul-12 oz. can frozen orange ful pecan p1e, usmg a frozen juice concentrate, thawed Tblsp. lemon juice crust. The only problem was that I left the pa~r betw~ . · .- Mix well. Pour into freezer ~e two crusts, put the filhng container, cover and freeze. m a~d bake? It that way. I Remove from freezer 2 hours dtdn ~know tt was th~r~. un~tl . before serving. Just before we tned to ~ut the pte, swd . serving inash fruit slush with Dougl_ass, With a laugh. a potato· masher or a large . Luctlle Fowler , a member n For each serving comof, the Pleasant CEOS_ Club •..• ~up of fruit slush 'with~• satd she has been cooking for ' · p chilled lemon-lime soda. as long as she can remember. cu "I've always liked to cook. Ham and Swiss Casserole My h~sband hked JUSt about Yield: 6·8 servings My~ed Hot Chicken Salad Yield: 4·6 servings by Anna Lee Douglass 2 cups cubed cooked chicken . 2 cups chopped celery y, cup chopped almonds or cashews 1 jar (2 oz.) diced pimentos y, tsp. salt ';, tsp. pepper 2 Tblsp. lemon juice 1/ cup mayonnatse 2 1 cup sour cream 1 cup crushed crackers (Ritz) 1 clip (4 oz.) shredded Swiss cheese · In a .large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Blend lemon juice, mayortnaise and sour cream. Stir into chicken mixture. Spread in greased 9-in. square baking dish. Mix crackers and cheese and sprinkle on top of QSIIerole. Bake at 330 depee1 for 25 mil'lutes or ilntil heated through. 2 cups (16 oz.) shredded Swiss cheese · I can (I 0-}, oz.) condensed cream of celery soup,. undi- Blueberry Angel Dessert Yield: 12·15 servings by Judy Chapman 1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream z ·= Y. ' Fowler. She mistakes, . "I left the giblets inside the first turkey I ever cooked. It was browned beautifully and looked so nice, but inside we Sausage Potatoes Au Gratin Yield: 4 servings by Judy Chapman . I lb. fully cooked smoked sausage, . halved lengthwise and sliced 1 medium onion, chopped I Tblsp. vegetable oil 4 medium carrots, julienned I pkg. (5-Y. oz.) au gratin potatoes 21, cups water Y, tsp. pepper · J pkg. (I 0 oz) froze'n broccoli cuts, thawed and drained I cup (4 oz.) shredded cheddar cheese In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, ' cook sausage · and onion in oil until lightly browned; drain. Stir in carrots, potatoes with contents of sauce mix, .water and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for I0-20 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in broccoli,; cover and cook 5 minutes longer or until heated through. Sprinkle with cheese; cover and let stand until cheese is melted. ~oy Are you weary from standing in long checkout lines? Have you considered not putting up a Christmas tree this year? Have you overspent your Christmas budget and dread the January credit card bills? If you answer 'yes' to any of these, you might enjoy John . Grisham 's 'Skipping Christmas' In this slight, light novel, Luther and Nora Krank , whose only daughter has gone to South America to work for the Peace Corps, decide to skip Christmas and take a cruis.e instead. No spending huge amounts of money on gifts people don't really need, no contributions to the police or firemen who come to tile door, no hoisting a big 'Frostie ' to their chimney, no tree, no lights and no fruitcake! ... Some scenes in the ·book might • remind you of 'Holiday Vacation.' In a less-than-serious narrative ·, Graham does draw attention to myriad things we do to celebrate the birth of Jesus - that ·have nothing to do the coming of the Christ Child. Nev10rtheless, this is an enjoyable, humorous look at the commercialization and craz.-iness Christmas has become. Bossard Library has dozens and A~na Lee Douglass' Hot Chicken Salad is good enough to make you crow. She is a member of . ' Proud to be a part of your life ~ .... ~ •j!?. Very Easy Cheesecake Yield: one 9x13-in. · or two 8-in pies by Judy Chapman Crust: 2 packs of graham crack- Judy Chapman said she borrowed the recipe for these Mlniatu~e Cream Puffs with Chicken Salad from a fellow CEOS ers, crushed member, Betty Farmer. Chapman shared her own recipes that Y, C\IP sugar 1. stick of butter or mar, sounded yummy, though. Chapman is a member of the Wohelo CEOS. garine, melted Combine all ingredients. Put into a 9x 13-in . baking dish, pressing evenly over bottom and up sides of pan. aake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Allow to cool completely. Filling: . - ·'. 1 3-oz box lemon gelatin .mix 2-8 qz. pkgs. cream cheese I Tblsp. lemon juice few grains of salt I container of whipped -.-.pping, either large or small depending on serving · size Make $elatin with one · '.. cup of botling water. Allow ' 'i ' \. ~ to cool to room tempera. ·it. ture. Whip cream chee~e 'It- ' -· ' " with milter and add gelatin mix, lemon juice and salt. Beat until smooth. Stir in container of whipped top· ping. Pour into prepared graham cracker crust. Serve topped with canned pie fill· Lucille Fowler brought Seafoam Pear Salad that her daughter ing and a dollop of whipped . said Is so light that It melts In your mouth. Lucille Is a memtopping . ber of the Pleasant CEOS. ... . _, ., ' We have the latest in digital technology, and alse the latest In TV and telephone amplifiers. Tell your loved ones you care. I the, auuiopfiil, e in ' • ·~~~~~~:~~~\~i~!f~~,~~:! . been diglt!IIY sound with-the latest, hair catch fire when· Fox lips 1\ome,.via lightning rod. But eve11 if you • · are s'tjll pl9w,\ng a!o!'lg with yotir simple q~.on9 , · system.. don·t~espaJr; Santa remembered you, too, via tfnivetsai's decision to throw in a.triv· . ·•. • ia featl)~~,el\l\'be,tnjoye,dJI~ th_e fi1J'!Is toll ,,, .<$•) ruc)[se it'~ hl'eJj ~~l\ile slniii!·youl\le'llee'n' :~> Baok•i cel)ter'ed.on Fo~, as Many'McFLy, .rra.v- ,.,. · ~ling i~advc.;rtenJl~ J:jack~n tili'i~ to ~ ~5.5, W.hen ·. his parent~ were 111 ihigil slihoo.I, leadmg; to a , comedic twist on the old Oedtpus. Complex. · Tlle PO,Ratinti· WI!S a good ca!Hor tbi~ o~e, · and ~ wa~ed - yoll d,on' t wat)t your kids · watchthg one of the Deleted Scenes for .Back' t · it's a bit over the iop, and likely would have ., 1tad parents' ~owling .mad had it made the final Croco~lle, ', c11t in th,e onginal version. . · •13ack·2 has Fox and Chnstopher Lloyd (as his Eiqsteiri/Nutty Professor mili, Doc B~own) . Yaknow, 1 can't help but wonder how many blasting first forward mto tne Y.ear 2015, then tigers we'd have left in the world if Steve back 'to l955 again to ' fix yet ano~her mess · Irwill'S family had moved him to Siberia or , in~oivipg M~tty havi!J-g ~ differe,nt father thaf Ipdia,: at a young age. I don't know if i~at was 'fgreor.aamed, as It were . •~hts one doesn I wholp "cover-his-eyes" thing would work wllh :· skirt~thci' edge~ of a PG·13. ratm~. as•much as. thein, but you have to·adli)it, anyone who can ', the ftr-s! ~ne · d1d, so. essentia,lly, 11 s a safe bet make people nearly swoon over a crocodile .all. around; and shU funmer than B~ck-3, has a gift. Steve and Terri Irwin are those peo- whtch arguably was the we,akest of the trilogy. pie, and in tllis DVD, they are at their best. The beauty of the Irwin 's from _I?own Un~er . S~eak~n.g of Back-3, YOI! lll~arn th~ reas?ns behmd 1t s old west setun_g m an mtervtew is their obviously genuine - yea - ftery pass10n with Mic~ael _J. Fox on Dtsc C?ne! where he _ for the beasts most fear and loathe. While reveals hts chtldhood dream of bemf1 a cowd . Marlin Perkins and seemingly disposable sideboy. Though the performance~ are a -aroun kick Jim made the rounds for Mutual of great in !his_ one! it isn't as htlanous (except Omah<~'s Wild Kingdom in the 60's and 70's, for Fol' s mevltable pratfalls and little did any of us suspect that in Queensland, attacks) as the fJTst two. . But, ary A stralia · the' foundations were being ·laid -.' Steenburgen (as Clara Clayton) ts awful~ ~rd (s~eds·'·s~wn?) ·for' the most-watched animal ' to beat for w~oles,ome, and she an , oc rq ram on .television: The Crocodile Hunter. B~own .. ... well , JUSt m case you forgot,, I 11 not p ~e wondrous thing -about this movie is it's 0 rut1i1t _for fi ~he special features are worth the complete Jack of pretension . It cares .not about ,9 95m a ; · h . . d h k a delivering a believable, dark, consp1ratonal $2 · t>·~ ~I Jflhi~{ Jt Fo~e~ia~~ng ~~chfeJ . plot!ine, or filling the screen with COf!lses , and JgotFta a mt e all reme~Jber him is always a what have you. Rathe~, Jn typical Irwm-e_squ~J · ox as w . fashion, The Crocodtle Hunter: Colhs10n good lime. Course is an absolute, unashamed blast to watch, and truly, the entire family regardless Grades: Trilogy: B of age can't find a single thing to be offend~d Special Features: a+ over. Yet, oddly, without sex, violence, or evtl, 'Hunter: Collision Course DVD Ktmc. www.holzerclinic.com • 740-446-5135 .. ·- --· -~~-~- -----·----........-- ~ ... -- • HILTON HEAD, S.C. -A doctor believes that a natural formula con- taining the exlnct of a small Asian fruit can help cause sianificant weight losa. Anthony A. Conte, M.D. reported in an American Medical Journal that the fonnula, now .called BioRex 3000®, Clllled patiCIIts to lose more than twice u much weight u those in a control 8JOUP on tho , same Cat reduced diet. Neither group was instructed to decrease the amount of food they ate or to increase their exercise levels. An article published in the American . Journal of Clinical Nutrillon ' , the movie is amazing for it's ability to make you smile non-stop. . · . . The Special Features, too, are fabulous , real· ly. Again, we don' t get truly, pqre· entertainment much these days. Don.'t have a DVD Rom? No worries, Mate - the Irwin' s have you covered. Rather than make you boot up to enjoy their included games, you can do it with your DVD player's remote - including a section where you get to 'bomb' poachers. Ah, but parents- even that is.har.mless, and makes ·a Disney cartoon look like it should be rated PG-13 for violence. The outtakes , the Behind-the-Scenes footage, all nine features, are just plain, oldfashioned. fun. This DVD should be in every household with kids. period. And: 'well, yeah - even for those simply yOti))g at heart, it's complete.Jy rewarding, More than that, it's flat-out fun. I couldn't think of a better Christmas present (hint, hint). Grade: Movie : · A Special Features: A . by Donna VanLiere (St. Martin's) I0. "Reversible Errors" by Scott Turow (Farrar Straus & . 1. "Prey" by Michael Giroux) Crichton (HarperCollms) 2. "Four aJind Mice'_' by Jame s Patterson (L1ttle, Brown)' . , 3, "Skipping Chnstmas by 1. "Bu sh at War" by Bob John Grisham (Doubleday) Woodward (Simon & 4. "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) Schuster) 2. "Portrait of a Killer: Jack ·:. , 5. "The Christmas Train" the Ripper-Case Closed" by ::, :by David Baldacci (Warner) · •.;.. 6. "Hornet Flight" by Ken Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) 3. "Leadership" by Follett (Dutton) Rudolph W. Giuliani (Talk 7. "Esther 's Gift" by Jan Miramax) Karon (Viking) 4. "The Sopranos Fa mily 8. "Visions of Su~ar Cookbook" by Allen Rucker; . Plums" by Janet Evanov1ch (St. Martin's) , rec ipes by Michele Scicolone 9, "The Christmas Shoes' (Warner) -·-------~--,. ··--·-~_;_---+ ·- . · Nonfiction/ General ,, ' Santa will be here SaturdaY December 21st 11 :30am - 1:30Pm BROWN'S HARDWARE 8997 St. Rt. 160 • Bidwell says that you don~ have to reduce the amount of food you eat to lose.weight, provided thai you limit thefat. Dr. Conte says that animal studies suggest the mechanism behind the weight reduction is due to interruption of the "Krebs Cycle", an important step in the body's fat ' · storage process. He says it may work the same way in humans, According to Dr. Conte, "The best part of this unique discovery is that it is not a drug, but a dietary food supplement The Asian fruit, called. garcinia, is similar to citrus fruit found -in the United Slates with one big exception- it may help som_e people fight obesity! While Dr. Conte's study may be preliminary, the exclusive Nonh American distribuior, Phillips Gulf Corp., is callling the Bio-Rex 3000 supplement "Nature's Ideal Diet Aid." Suggested retail price for a four weeksupplyofl!io-Rexisjust$19.99. Available through pharmacies and nutnlion stores or call 1-800-7298446.www.hcdsales.com 02100PGC . Blo-Rn 3000 Is available at: (Sco tt Watkins is the Ed-,ifor of The Story Dispatch, an onlin e Enrertaimnent News Service. He ,can be reached at scott@ storydrspatch.coni) Publisher's Weekly bestsellers ·:·Hardcover fiction Qi:imr!i -S5>rntintl Doctor's discovery may end obesity 1 HOLZER CLINIC . ' Cowlfy) gi_ve_ Medical Excellence. local Caring:· -~ (Beverly Gettles is a retired: school teacher who lives in Gallia ~unbar Kimberly D. Swisher, M.S., CCC-A Clinical Audiologist Loretta L. Lauder, M.A., CCC-A Clinical Audiologist - when they volunteer for parts in the. Christmas Pageant ! They hit little kids, cuss and smoke cigars (even the girls) so they seem unlikely actors for the nativity scene. Imogene Herdman as Mary looks bewildered and nervous and is ready to clobber anyone who mi ght lay a hand on her baby. The threeHerdman Wise Men clump down the aisle bringing a ham. Gladys, as· the Angel of the Lord, turns and ye lls at the assembled crowd, "Hey._ unto you a child is born!" The author, Barbara Robinson •. was born in Portsmouth, Ohio. Publi shed in 1972. thi s book has become a perennial favorite. I hope you wi ll enjoy it too. Of course, don't forget the dozens of versions of Clement Moore 's_ 'The Night Before Chri stmas,'· . Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' and the many, many beautiful versions · of the story of the birth of the Christ· Ch ild . Have a very • merry Chri stmas. Hope Santa brings you something wonderful to read! Special to tlie Times:Sentinel Stop by and talk to one of our Clinical Audiologists todayt • Beverly GettIes by Jan Brett is gloriously painted like a Ukranian Easter Egg. Teeka, who lives in 1he Arctic. has the task of gelling the reindeer ready for their Christmas tligh1. Border paintings, counting down from December I to Christmas cjay to add to the interest. A real feast for the eyes! Breit has done several other Christmas books. each as beautiful -as this one. . One of my friend> suggested 0. Henry's short story. 'The ·Gift of the Magi ,· about the poor young couple who could afford no gifts. He sold his beloved watch to buy her a beautiful comb for her hair. She • sold her magnifice nl hair to buy a chain for his watch. Ironic, touching and containing the true meaning of giving, this story has been a favorite for many years. Several readers have selected 'The Best Christmas Pageam Ever' as their favorite. If you have not read this. do yo.urse lf a favor and get a copy to share with your fami ly. A movie has been made of this. but it does not nearly capture the charm of the book. (Don't judge a book by its movie!) The Herdmans are a nasty bunch and the entire church ·is shocked BY ScOTT WATKiroii .· . ' . ' the sounds·of the season. ·-·----- ~----~-- -":"-'--- . --... urge her to come with them as they follow the star. This is a tiny, charming book with a message 'Don't get too busy to do the really important things.' I Jove Chris Van Allsburg's 'The Polar Express.' It tells the story of a special train which picks up chi!1 - - - - - - - dren and takes them on a magical ride to the North Pole, to an indusBOOK REVIEWS trial city where all the toys are made. The illustrations are dozens of lovely and entertaining absolutely beautiful! Van Allsburg Christmas books for children. 'The uses light like Rembrandt. ' Mr. Willoughby's Christmas Last Straw' by Frederick Thury~ Tree' by Robert Barry is written in illustrated by Vlasta van Kampen is the story of Hoshmakaka, an old rhyme with black , white and gre~n camel who is chosen to carry gifts illustrations. The huge tree 1s to the new baby king in Bethlehem, brought into the house and is too They pile him high with all sorts ot; tall. A bi ~js cat off the top and g1ven gifts and a small child pleads with to the upstairs maid, where she cuts off the tip and so on. The bears, the him to carry one straw for the foxes, rabbits and the mice baby 's bed. That last straw brings (back inthe the original house) all have the old camel to hi s knees in the sta- a bit of the tree to complete the1r bl e. Lovely illustrations, sweet . Christmas. story. 'The Feathered Crown' by An old favorite of mine, Marsha He)lles tell s of the birds' 'Baboushka and the Three Kings' is migration to the Holy Land, where a Russian tale, illustrated with they prepare a soft, -downy nest for onion domed buildings and an old the newborn King. Slight siory, but woman who is too busy cleaning lovely illustrations. · her to accompany three kings who 'The Wild Christmas Re indeer' ' cheese, softened I cup confectioners' sugar ·1 carton (8 oz.) . frozen whipped topping, thawed I prepared angel food cake (14 oz.), cut into l-in. cubes 2 cans (21 oz. each) blueberry pie filling In a large mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar; fold in whipped topping and cake cubes. Spread evenly into an ungreased 13x9x2 in. dish; top with pie filling. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before cutting into squares. off all heating aids. -----~--------·-- • .'Back to the Future' and the.e·rOcodile Hunter blast onto DVD · the Leon CEOS. This holiday season, give the people on your list the gift of hearing. Take $50 orr our entire selection of hearing aids, save $100 on a pair. Sunday, December IS, 2002 Take time to enjoy some holiday books' luted • I cup (8oz.) sour cream Y, cup ·chopped green pepper Y,cup chopped onion In a greased 13x9x2 in. baking dish, layer a third of the noodles, ham and cheese. In a small bow!, combine soup, sour cream, green pepper and onion; spread half over the top. Repeat !ayers. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until heated through. · Taken from Premiere issue of Taste of Homes Quick Cooking magazine. • BY !<ANDY BoYCE Entertainment iunba~ Ott me~ ·itntinel Page C3 299t St,Rl 160 • ~20 786 N, 2nd Ave, • 992-6491 • Mkld~i)Oit 2042nd Ave. • 441-0781 AJOtfo1 Ntrtl .1\11 HIMittiiiiU .. I bltl....aa. atltl ~ tltt FDA. a-.an3000 Ia l•t l•tllldtd to d\qUM. uo-. e•re. tr pm"t ..,. 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" "I can 't believe I admitted that ," he says on the show. Viewers also tlnd out Doug ·E. Fresh and Cuba Gooding Jr. can sing "The Love Boat'' song, and Alice Cooper and Def Leppard 's Joe Elliott we re addicted to the movie . "Caddyshack." . Actress Solei! Moon Frye, who played the title role in the ·80s sitcom "Punky Brewster," is an admitted pop culture junkie and participated in the maki ng of the series. "Who doesn't love the '80s''" she said ·in an inter,, view. "The '80s just seemed The cast of "The Love Boat. " from left, Fred Grandy, Patricia Kious, led McGinley, Gavin. so happy. The most traumatic MacLeod , Bernie Kopell , Jill Whelan and Ted Lange pose in this June 1984 publicity photo for' thing was if you turned on the the ABC series. Pop cu lture of the 1980s, including "The Love Boat, " will be celebrated in' radio and found out there was VH1 's " I Love the '80s," a 10-hour, five night miniseries beginning Monday, on the cable chan-• a new Cure album out and nel. (AP) you didn't have it. " ' . LOS ANGELES (AP) - ABC , faced with the llaLtnting prospect of starting three new mi dseason dramas on Monday next month , will move its popular lega l se ries "T he Practice" to anchor the night. Beg inning Jan. 27. "The Prac tice" will air at 9· p.m. EST. between new dramas ·· veritas: The Quest" at 8 p.m. EST and "Miracles" at 10 p.m. EST, the network announced Wednesday: Moving into the I 0 p.m. EST . Sun day time slot currentl y he ld . by "The Practice" will be "Dragnet.'' an updated ve rsion of the 1950s Jack Webb poli ce seri es .from producer Dick Wolt: (the .three "Law & Order" shows). ''Drag net ," debuting Feb. 2, initially had been schedu led for the Monday slot now going to "The Prac tice." . The change, which follows the end Of ABC's "Monday Night Football" season. was not welcomed by David E. Kelley Productions , · produce r of "The Practice." "We are very concerned about this move ," the co.mpany sa id in a sta tement. "1.\'e are hoping that ABC will do everyt;lJing in its power to support · the show, which has garnered cri tic al acc laim sin ce its inception and has continu all y wo n its times lot." "The Practice" received two consecutive best drama series Emmy Awards (1998 and ' 99) and has been one of ABC's best-performing series this season. Moving the series is a ri sk, but the network clearly fe lt it needed a prove n co mmodity on Mond ay. Veteran . writer-producer Kelley ("Picket Fences ," "All y McBeal") already rece ived one blow this seasoJ]., when hi s new Fox drama "g irl s club" bombed in th e ratings and was quickly canceled. ABC, which has been doing se riou s tri age on its schedule since a sharp ratings slide last season, has the difficult task of attracti ng viewers to a large number of new shows. ABC also announced that the prized MTV to ring in 2003 with pajama party post-Super Bowl slot oi1 Jan . 26 will go to an epi sode of "A li as," th e critically acclaimed spy drama thai ha s yet to catch fire · in the ratings. The post-game spot has helped boost other NEW YORK (AP) - The the visibility of other series. dress code for MTV 's New The network 's two Monday night newcomers share elements of mys- Year 's Eve party gives a whole new meaning to the tery. . "Veritas: The Quest," is about a phrase "casual chic." The cable music channel rebellious teenager who embarks on dangerous adve ntures with hi s father, will ring in 2003 with a pajathe head of a foundation seekin ~ "the m<) parw. with perfo rmances truth behind the my sterie s of h1 story from the Foo Fighters, Avril Lavigne, Busta Rhymes and · and civilization." Good Charlotte. "Miracles" stars Skeet Ulri ch as a man irivestigaiing strange eve nts that could. point to a "larger my stery" possibly affecting the fate of the world. The new "Dragnet" will star Ed O' Neill ("Married ... With Children") SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) as Joe Friday and Ethan Embry as hi s - "Computer Chronicles," a junior partner, Frank Smith. The original serie s ran from 1952-59, and resurfaced from 1967-70. A 1989-90 sy ndicated version aired briefly. • ings , as well as "cu lptures. .print:-; and drawi ngs va li.1ed at $43 mill ion. The museum wi II use the money to hire a Pierre Daura curator of Europem1 art and estab lish· the Pierre Daura Center for the Study · of European An. Other university museums have received examples of Dauru 's works under his daughter's disbursement elfons. 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Tim is also a Marshall graduate with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, He is a software consultant for NetPe<iple in Westlake, Ohio. The couple honeymooned in Las Vegas and now reside in Brooklyn, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rondall Walker II 436 Sl. At. 7, Gallipolis, Ohio (740) 446-2240 PEA-:oRMANCE FIAIST .., Ohio ¥'446-1615 • NEW YORK (AP) Recovering from a broken didn't stop Justin :'lnl~:tu~ from dan<:ing stage in front of thousands of screaming fan s at radio station 's ZIOO's · annual Jingle Ball concert. Though his choreography wasn't as fast as usual , Timberlake gingerly . _, r David Lee Roth files lawsuit Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lemley MORE LOCAL NEWS. MORE LOCAL FOLKS. Special Loans! Everybody seems to need more cash on hand this time of year, so Farmers Bank is offering a special limited tiine "Holiday _J~..,ou,•u" with fantastic rates and terms. You can get anywhere from $500 . to $1,500 at these special rates, or . even more if you qualify! Get$1,000 for as little as $88.36* per month! Justin Timberlake recovering from broken foot ' River Front Honda 1-877-779-5465 VINTON, . Ohio - · Anna and Roy Lemley will celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary on Thursday, Oec. 2. · A reception in their honor is planned tor· Sunday, Dec. 22, for family and friends. LOS ANGELES (AP) David Lee Roth has filed a lawsuit against his ex-Van Hafen bandmates, accusing WELLSTON, Ohio them of conspiring to keep Ashley Joy Wilson and money from him. William Glenn de Vault II . The lawsuit .filed Thursday were joined in marriage in Superior Court alleges that Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002. They Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van were married at City Hall in Halen and Michael Anthony Wellston. The bride is the divened royalties and breached daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. .their fiduciary duty to Roth. Keith Wyatt of Jackson and The singer claims the band Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Wilson of signed a deal with Warner Wellston. She is a 200 l gradBros. in ·1996 without his of Jackson High School knowledge or authorization for Mr. and Mrs. is employed by Jerry's increased royalties from album William Glenn de Vault II Market, Jackson. The groom sales. He claims his financial is the son of Vicki de Vault of Rodney and Keith de Vaul.t of Center and is emplyed by losses were estimated to be at Gallipolis. He is a 1999 grad- Henkle and McCoy. The cou- least $200,000 at the end of 2001. uate of Buckeye Hills Career ple will reside in Jackson. WOW PLAN! We now have high speed wireless in Portsmouth and Gallipolis Lemley 60th GROVE CITY, Ohio ._ Jennifer Ann Taylor and Robert Matthew Easter were united in marriage Sept. 7, 2002, at 2:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Grove City, with Father John · Sw1ckard officiating. The bride is the daughter of Gerald and Margaret Taylor of Grove City, and the groom is the son of Charles and Verna Easter of Vinton. Mr. and Mrs. Susie Michael was the · Rober Easter matron of honor, Jaime Antoloak was the maid of The couple reside at their honor, and the groom's brothin R10 Grande. home . er, Chuck Easter, was the best man: .. Other attendants were ·Misty Antolak and Holly Stanzeski, Heath McKinniss, Justin and Ryan Taylor, brothers of the bride, and Michaelyn and Malayna Brace were the flower g•rls. Kyle Stazenski was the ring bearer. Robin Ward and Jodi Pagot were the program attendants. Music and vocals were provided by Kim Nocera. A reception was held at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School Hall, Grove · City, where a buffet dinner was served, followed by a tradi. tiona) Polish reception featuring music by Charlie Tansec and the Chicago Tradition . The bride is a 1995 graduate of Grove City High School, and a 2002 graduate of the · University of Rio Grande. She is employed by Jackson-Vinton Community Action Inc. Head Start as a · teacher. .. Her husband is a 1993 graduate of River Valley High School. He attended the University of Rio Grande and is employed at Gallipolis Developmental Center. Glenn de VaultWilson ACCESS SJ2. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Clendenen OAK HILL, Ohio. Wendy Unroe and Rondall Walker II were united in marriage at the Wedding Chapel in Catlettsburg, Ky., on Oct. ~8.2002. • The bride is the daughter of Lynn Mingus and Windel Unroe. She is employed as a paramedic for the Gallia County EMS . The groom is the son of Randall and Donna Walker. He is employed by AP Green in maintenance. The couple resides in Oak . Hill with their three children, Daniel, Rebecca and Katie. . Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wright GALLIPOLIS, Ohio Lester and Molly Plymale recently celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. They were married Nov. 27, 1957 at Fairfield Methodist Church, Gallipolis. They are the parents of two child ren, Carol (Stephen) Williams of Beavercreek, and Andy Plymale of Richland, Wash. Carol, Stephen and Andy wish to congratulate them on this milestone. ·Mr. and Mrs. Lester Plymale · Easter-Taylor Walker-Unroe 3:00,6:45,9:50 ALL AGES ALL TIMES daughter of the late Shellio and Narie (Queen) Slone. Both are retired for Gallipolis Developmental Center. The couple resides in Crown City, in the Cox faniily home where Pete grew up. ASHTON, W.Va. - Amy Elizabeth Fowble, daughter of Robert and Stephanie Fowble of Apple Grove, and Tim Clendenen, son of Ginia and Sh:awn Huffman and Tim and Kay Clendenen of Point Pleasant, were united in marriage .at Ashton Baptist Church Oct. 12, 2002. The Rev. Max Spurlock officiated. Music was provided by violinist Shelly Pembleton and pianist Ann Kelly. . The .bride was escorted by her father. Her matron of honor was friend Abbie Withers Parsons . Bridesmaids were Julie Fowble and Jeannie Fowble Teichm~;~n, sisters of the bride and Kristen Hammack Leport and Nicole Hammack, friends of the bride. · Best man was Jon Burris, friend of the groom. Groomsmen were Jeremy . I arrell, Chris Kapp, Chris Williams, and Dennis Brumfield, all friends of the groom. . Emily Parson~. friend of the bride, was the flower girl. Ring bearer was Zayne Williams, the groom's godson. Carrie Payne was the wed- FIRST GRADUATION PRESENT. Artist's daughter-donates to Georgia museum ATHE:--<S. Ga. (AP) - The da ughter of the late mti st Pierre Daur.t ha' donated $6.3 million ir1 cash and artwork to the University of Georgia's Museum of An. Manha Daura of Vero Beach, Ra .. has given the museum $2 . million and <obout 4!Xl paint- · DIE MMITHER DAI GALLIPOLIS, Ohio Donald E. and Hazel Evelyn Wright Wright of Gallipolis observed their 48th wedding anniversary Dec. 15. The couple was united in marriage Dec. 15, 1954 at Donald Wright' s mother 's home in Gallipolis. The ceremony was performed by Rev. . . Venz. The couple has five children, Donald, Floyd, Terri, Cherri and John. Donald's parents were Lena and Eugene Wright. Hazel Evelyn's parents were Claris and Floyd Cox. They also have six grandchildren, Sheena Definbaugh, Jamie King, Alex King, Tessi Siders, Ryan Wright and Kristyn Wri ght. Mr. and Mrs. "Pete" Cox ClendenenFowble TV series shutting down Spider-Man. the X-Men and on the Howard Stern radio quite figure out what makes the Incredible Hulk. The Kid show and a television writer. the gunslinger ... different. In made his debut in 1955, when Artist John Severin, who his previous incarnation, the com ic book sexuality was not worked on the original an iss ue and Marvel was Rawhide Kid, will handle the Rawhide Kid . was very shy around women. Nothing looking to cash in on the suc- drawing . cess of the classic TV show The Rawhlde character will about that will change in the "Rawhide.'' not walk out of the closet and new version. The times have certai nl y into a saloon - not that Among the c Illes to the changed. there's anything wrong with Kid's sexuality will include · " It 's not a book solely for a that. "He doesn't come out and his reaction to other characgay readership." said Joe Ques ada. ed itor-in-chief at say he's gay," explained ters from the comic book, Marvel. "Who watches 'Will. Quesada. "But it's obvious including Wild Bill Hickok and Grace'? Evc;rybody I through his actions and the and The Lone Ranger. know. This is the same. If vou things he says that his prefer" I th ink that mask and li ke a good story and a good ence is men, not women." laugh, thi s is for you." Part of the comedic slant powder-blue 'outfit are .fantasIn keeping wi th tht; light will come in the Rawhide tic," he says of the Ranger. "I theme, the writer will be Ron Kid's asides to the reader can certainly see why that Zim merman , a frequent guest afte r the townsfolk C:)n't Indian foll ows him around." Plymale Weddings Comic book out of the old West, and the closet NEW YORK (AP) - · The Rawhide Kid, a longtime Marvel Comics charac ter. is coming out of the closet next year. A new story line wil l reveal the Kid 's keen fas hion se nse - including a stylish leather outfit - in what one Marvel editor boasted wou ld be "the firs t gay Western." Th~ · Kid \ orientation. along wi th hi s whi te gloves and a whi te cowbov hat fashteinecl from Can(tuian beaver pelts. will be unvei led thi s February in a Man·el series called "Rawhide Kid Slap Leather." Marvel is the home of more old-school . comics like Wright 48th GALLIPOLIS, Ohio Ranfond "Pete" and Ella Mae (Slone) Cox will celebrate their 55th wedding anniversary, DeC. 17. They were martjed by the late Rev. Charles Lusher. They are the parents of six children, Wanda E. (GeraJd) Cox of Gallipolis; Donna (Ronnie) Waugh of Crown City; Marsha (Marvin) Wickline Jr. of Pensacola, Ra.; Randy (Darlene) Cox . of Gallipolis; Linda (Daniel) Smith of Milton, Ra.; and Loren (Jane) Cox of Crown City. There are 17 grandchildren and one deceased greatgranddaughter. ·. Pete Cox is a US Army World War D veteran and is the son of the late James Earl and Almira (Layne) Cox. She is the .. ABC ·shifts 'The Practice,' new series 'Dragnet' Entertainment Briefs Sunday, December IS, 2002 Anniversaries VH1 looks back at '80s pop culture with 10-hour miniseries ~• LOS ANGELES (AP) Wall and the election of Remember the 1980s? AIDS. President Reagan. But even Iran-Contra. the end of the those are addressed in musiCold War. cal terms. such as Reagan 's No. the Qther ·go,- Atari . jingoistic use of Bruce Rubik 's Cube. the Brat Pack. Springsteen's. "Born 'n the !Jret!k-dancing. U.S.A.," a song abuut the .· It's Pl' P culture t.hat's cele- problems encountered by a brateu in YH l 's "I Love the returning Vietnam veteran. :SOs." a 10-hour. five-night In spired by a successful ininiseries beginning BBC series that examined the Monday that examines the 1960s.. 1970s and 1980s. "I good. the bad and the bawdy Love the '80s" bre;tks down·· that dctlned the decade. the decade by year. · Each Abse nt is serious retlec- night looks at two years. tion . Pan documentary, pan The miniseries opens with mu,ic video, with a bit of Ino. the year that spawned se lf-mockery thrown in, the the biggest TV question: se ries takes a tongue-in- Who shot J.R. in ''Dallas'"? cheek look back at fashions , It also produced the prep-. falls and trends as well as pie look. the designer jeans music.movies and dances. battle- between the likes of Comb.ining clips from tele- Jordache and Sassoon - ·and vision. films and mu sic the mov ies "Caddyshack ," yideos with celebrity imer- "A irplane'" and "The Empi re ·views and an '80s sound- Strikes Back ." . track, the result is an offbeat Musically. it offered Air . nostalgia trip that reminds Supp ly's "A ll Out of Love.'' viewers of the fun pan of a Sugar Hill Gang's ''Rapper's decade that continues to Delight" and the split evoke mixed fee lings for betwee n fans of Pat Benatar many. and Deborah Harry. · "Thi s is a retro show that The first episode also highiocuse ~ on the middle-brow. lights I 980\ biggest babes low-brow stuff that real ly . and hunks. fo rmed wlio we are as people Among the women, it was now.'' said Michae l Bi·ooke Shields, Princess Hirschorn, the shriw's execu- Leia (Catrie Fisher) of "S tar tive producer and VH I senior Wars" fa me, Suzanne Somers · of "Three 's Company" and vice pres ident. The series doesn't de<tl Charlene Til ton of "Dallas .:· with issues that politically Among the most popular and economically defined the · men were Richard Gerc, who '80s. such as AIDS and the . starred in the film "American Cold War. And there's just Gigolo"; Erik Estrada of telepassing mention of such vision's "C HiPs"; Greg evems as the fall of the Berlin Evigan of TV's "B.J. and the Celebrations 6unbap ~tmH -6enttnel Page CS danced and sang two songs at Thursday night' s soldout show at Madison Square Garden . Destiny 's Child, Kylie Minogue , John Mayer, " American . Idol " winner · Kelly Clarkson, Ja Rule and Avril Lavigne were among th e performers. Timberlake, 21, broke his ·~·· -·-·· For a term of 12 months. I Pomeroy G31lipnlis 446-2265 • Tuppers Plains 667-3 161. foot last month ·while rehearsing for an awards show in London. "The doctor said I shouldn't even be here," sai d the ' N Sync star, who recently released "Justified, " his first 1solo di sc. "But you know what? 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I I �.. ,. . . ,. ... .. ~ ., .. . - . • , • Sunday, Dece!Tiber 15, 2002 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, Ohio.• Point Pleasant, WV • No Paradise City for Guns N' Roses , Woman loses daugther secon~ fans as promoter pulls plug on tour ~ime after missed phone call ••' • • NEW YORK (AP) - When Philadelphia, and fans g01 Guns N' Roses announced unruly. they were going on tour this By then it became apparent fall after a nine-year hiatus, that the "Chinese Democracy" .fans of the heavy metal band tour was finished. On snapped up tickets. Ax! Rose Wednesday. promoter Clear was back and there was talk of Channel Emen<~inmt·nt made it a new album. official: The rest of the tour has The comeback has been no been scrapped. Clear Channel "Paradise Cit)'." didn't offer a reason. Rose, the mercurial frontThe group's management, .man whose disappearing acts Sanctuary; referred all call s ·have long irritated fans, failed Thursday to Guns N' Roses' to show up for the ·opening label,lnterscope Geffen A&M. show Nov. 7 in Vancouver, which declined comment. prompting .thousands of ticket "In a strange way, thi s tour holders to riot outside the has been very rene.ctive of venue. The band was a no- pretty much everything that show again last week in has happened to the band since about 1992," said Chuck Klosterman, a senior writer at Spin magazine. Led by Rose's screeching vocals and Slash's tiery guitar, Guns N' Roses broke onto the scene in 1987 with the hugely successful "Appetite for Destruction." Containing the hits . "Welcome to the Jungle," "Paradise City" and "Sweet Child 0 ' Mine," the album was filled with rage, paranoia and profanity, and provided a glimpse into the excesses of a band rising through the ranks of Los Angeles' burgeoning metal scene. 'Star Dates; E!'s blind date show, matches ·singles and celebrities with mixed results · NEW YORK (AP) - Love may have been exciting and ·new when 'The Love Boat" ruled Saturday nights in the 1970s and '80s. Now, the actress who played Capt. Stubing's daughter is among the stars on the latest blind date show trying to prove it's just as exciting - if not new - to watch strangers struggle for small talk over Cobb salad. Jill Whelan - Vicki from "The Love Boat" - is one of the celebrities on "Star Dates," which matches stars and singles with mixed results. The series premieres at I 0:30 p.m. EST Sunday on E! Entertainment Television. . You're thinking. another dating show?! And you· re right.. Between "Blind Date." "Shipmates," "Dismissed." "Eiimidate," "EX-treme Dating," ''Taildaters," 'The 5th Wheel" and the biggest of all, "The Bachelor," there's no shonage of this genre. You 're also thinking, another celebrity reality show?! And you're right again. Between "The Osbournes," "Cribs" and "Diary" on MTV, and E' 's own :'Anna Nicole Show," there's no shortage of stars willing to share the most intimate details of their lives on camem. "Star Dates" combines the ny-on-the-wall element of those programs with the whereare-they-now nostalgia factor, Besides Whelan. Gary Coleman from "Diff' rent Strokes," Dustin Diamond from "Saved By the Bell" and Kim Fields from 'The Facts of · Life" go looking for love. The tirst episode features Butch Patrick, who · played Eddie Munster on 'The . Munsters" from 1964 to ·66. (Without the widow's peak and pasty skin from his child actor days, you 'd never recognize him - he has wavy reddish hair and freckles.) Limited teach skills · such as eating tern for emergencies," Sayre properly, self-cleanliness, said. how . to take their medicaSayre said that people tions, how to pay bills, pre- have misconceptions about from PageC1 pare meals and clean a home. the IUentall y retarded. Green Acres teaches clients "There are different Acres Regional Center and . elementary job skills' so they degrees of mental retardation Prestera Center for Mental can work in the community. · and people are unaware that Health Services. friends, A community living program inost clients There also is a program is available in Huntington. families , go to·have the store and offered through the West The clients live and work in socialize at places like the Virginia Bureau for Behavior the community, but are superCommunity Action Center. health and Health Facilities Most are able to care for their Division for Developmental vised. Green Acres hopes to own needs," said Sa.Yre. Disabilities called a MR!DD establish a similar program in The MRIDD Hq,me and Waiver that provides eligible Mason County soon, but Community-Ba~ed Waiver clients with in-home serright now one is not avail- Program· has more stringent · vices. guidelines..than some of the Autism Services Center is able. · Prestera Center for Mental · other 12 rograms available, but located in Huntington and Health Services treats clients it provides in-home tliore··· has no office in Mason County, · but does serve that are mentally ill and·men- services, case management Mason County residents. It tally retarded, but it only pro- . and four levels of hoinemakvides outpatient · services er care in the home, dependprovides service coordina~ which include case manage- · ·h · f h1 tion, connecting clients with ment services, structural and mg on t e seventy 0 e p" skills lessness. ·the services that they need, . behavior therapy, living · · D Recipients of the waiver and case management, which trammg and Ul, AA and must have both a diagnosis of provides an ongoing record AIAilon classes. d . d! of the client and schedules There are two caseworkers menta1 retar atwn an or a :services as needed. It also · to handle about 400 clients related condition to be eligi.provides client advocacy that are treated at Prestera, ~ ble. It IS avmlable through . :which interVenes for a client according to Site Supervisor · Green Acres and the Prestera when services are denied. Its Catherine Sayre. She added Center. . . services are provided for that only about 30 of those Because Nellte May ts able children as well as adults. are mental!~ retarded. · to care for herself and take Green Acres · Regional Sayre smd caseworkers are care. of ma~y. ot her nee~s . .Center is a rehabilitation cen- in 1contact with their clients she.ts not ehgtble for the mter located in Huntington that two or three times a week and home program. ' has a bus that comes to Point that they h.elp clients make With al~ the help that is Pleasant Monday through arrangements for doctor and ava1lable 1~ Mason County,. Friday to take clients to its dentist visits and other needs Nelhe mays fnend Is sttll not facility for day service s. that they have. · . convinced that .the mentally There, they learn basic li vShe said that most of the retarded are bemg cared for ing skills. vocational training clients are within walking properly. and pre-vocational training. distance of a store and do "It's just a shame that in a They have on-site jobs such their own shopping and are country as rich as ours. that .as bottling water, able to attend to most of their we can't afford to take care of groundskeeping , gardening own needs. · people like Nellie May,'' she :and craft production. "There is a 1-800 number said. Green . Acres also offer to call after hours and they "There's no one that cares. rehabilitation services and are all aware of the 9-1-1 sys- It's just a shame." · :Challenge from PageC1 her, Nellie May was put in a foster home. She was hard to place, stigmatized with the :label mentally retarded. She wasn't able to learn like other children, but finally, with the monthly payment from the government attached, she was placed in a foster home. · She was there for about a .year before she started to receive more attention than what she wanted. When she told her caseworker about the sexual abuse, she was removed from the home . She. drifted in and out of other foster homes, never fitting in anywhere. until she was finally placed in an institution. ~ At the ·institution, she learned how to take care of herself. She learned to cook and cle$1. to shop and count money, to wash clothes and tal;e care of personal clean li- · ness. She received training to be out on her own. She. was 16 and would be able to live by herself when she was 18. but first she had ered that there were two botto know the basics of life. tles of medicine that were Her schooling was equal to identical. She called .the pharthat of about a second,.grader, macist and learned that someso she could function by her- how Nellie May had goiten a self even if her abilities were new prescription filled before limited. With federal funding her old one had run out and getti ng ever scarce, she was taking double the medwould not be able to stay in ication that she was supposed the institution after she came to. of age. Nellie May was rushed to a At 18, she was placed in an hospital. Her pulse and blood apartment, given a weekly pressure were dangerously check of $50 for her personal low. Her condition was stabineeds and Sl27 a month· in . lized and she was observed food stamps. Her apartment for two days before she was rent was paid for by the gov- . returned )lome. ernment. About a month later, the She knew how to take care store ownet discovered that of the basics of Iife , but she Nellie May had suffered from was still lacking something. One day she came to the · repeated seizures in her comer store looking strange. home, undiscovered for about Her mouth was drooping on two hpurs. A neighbor eventually one side and she was drooling heard her moaning and called as she hobbl ed crookedly up 9-1-1. She was again taken to the sidewalk . Her feet dragged and her speech was the hospital for observation, then returned home. slurred. Concerned for her welfare, The store owner, noting that something was terribly the store owner cal led several wrong, asked her about her agencies to lind out what help medications. Nellie May was ~ vailable for Nellie May. She learned was that sertrudged slowly home to get them for the store owner to vices for the mentally retardinspect. . ed are almost non -ex istent in The store owner discov- Mason County. DEAR ABBY: Thirtysix years ago, I gave birth and placed my baby girl for adoption. The father was going away to school and had no interest in me or the child . My parents were about to divorce, and my brother was in trouble with the law. I knew there was no way I could keep my daughter, . so with a heavy hean I signed away my parental right s. and tried to go on with my life. Eventually I lnarri.ed and had a son. who is now 32 . . My mother has since moved in with my hu sband and me. Two weeks ago, a call came to . the house while I was at work. Mom answered the phone. The woman calling was looking for her birth mother, and had information that I was, indeed, that woman' Mother explain ed al l thi s to me when I got home. As I was becoming more and more excited, she gave me the devastating news that she ha'd told the woman that I had only ONE child - a son -. and ·that I was NOT the person she :was looking for. The caller continued to ask questions, but Mother denied all of the facts, and finally ended the call by hanging up on her. I am crushed. For years, I have hoped for a call like that, but had not searched for my child because I did not want to invade her life or the live s of her adoptive parents. My mother was extremely. judgmental and non- supportive when 1 was pregnant that first time, and the day my Dear Abby ADVICE daughter was born , she pointed at my baby and said, "She is NOT co ming home with us. I am NOT raising any more children. " Now I am de sperate for my daughter to call again. I must find her! I have filed with the state adoption registry and private bureaus, called an attorney, and sea rched online. I pray that she will call back, so I can assure her that I love her and have thought about her every day since her birth. My hu sband is anxious to welcome her into our lives . We are both heartbroken we mil¥ never have the chance. Mother has since come to understand what a grave injustice she performed - for a second time. Abby, please help. What more can I do? HEARTBROKEN IN EAST KANSAS DEAR HEARTBROKEN: Unfortunately, there is nothing more you can do. l hope your daughter sees this letter, puts two and two together and calls you agai1f. DEAR ABBY: Every year as the holiday s roll around, my husband and I get the same speech from • • certain elderly relativesi "You HAVE to spend th~ holiday s with us because it might be our last." I arg so tired of this guilt trip being laid on us - ant;! I' m sure a lot of other people are, too. .• Just because someone IS old doesn 't mean he or she is next in line to kick the bucket. When I explain tO relatives that my husban4 and I wish to stay home and make only short visi~ ~ to them during the hoh: days , so meone always guilt-trips us and we cave . Inside: &unba~ ltmts -ientfnel Classified ads, Pages D4-5 Home Page Dl Sunday, December 15, 2002 . ln. J What can be done? ....::t TRAPPED IN BRAN : DON, FLA. DEAR TRAPPED: . have a response for the people you feel are manip: ulating you, but before I offer it , I should remind you ·that what they ar~ saying will at some poiri' be true. When that hap: pens, can you handle the guilt? If the answer to thai is yes, then proceed: The response to the statement, " You have tQ spend the holidays with us because it might be our last,', is: , "Then it's all the more . important that we start NOW to establish our owd holiday traditions; because it will le ssen our heartbreak when that hap~ pens. Please join us a OUR home ." • Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, a/sa known as Jeanne Phillips; and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips; Write Dear Abby ar www.q~prAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. I ! Monon Sinal Jackson, Ohio · Staff writer POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. - Decking the hall s. and putting up lights at ,Morgan's Mount Vernon Farm can take more than a month said Sherri Morgan, wife of Dr. Breton Morgan and co-owner of the farm . . . . Sherri. said she couldn't even begin to guess how many lights were strung up around the farm for Christmas. Dr. Morgan said that he was not sure how many had been used either, but he was willing to guess that there were more than 7,000. The Morgans bought the farm in 1992, soon after they were married. Sherri said it was in sad shape. "We basically gutted the house. You wouldn't believe how much trash we took out of here. There were even frogs in the pool," said Sherri . . You wouldn't know it by looking at the house now, though. Sherr! Morgan pauses from her busy schedule to have a In the kitchen, a long row of cherry cabinets - every cook's spot of tea. dream -glow with polish. A chandelier sparkles above an enormous Queen .Anne style table that will easily seat I0 in the dining room. A smaller table sits apart in an alcove at the back of the room. It overlooks the patio out back. Please see Farm, D2 A life-sized Santa and Mrs. Claus look down from the sec· onq floor' landing to greet visitors as they arrive at the front door. Sherri Morgan arranges Santa's beard to prepare for guests . 140·286-2101 I BY KANDY BOYCE History ofMorgan~ Mount VernonFann Morgan's Mount Vernon Fann has quite a histo- · ry. The land was originally part· of a package of · more than 10,000 acres that was owned by George Washington and archeologists speculate that the 14th lost colony of Vandalia is located on the fann. A team of archeolo~ists came to the farm last summer to dig for artJfacts, but they did not tind the lost colony. · Sherri Morgan said. that her husband and son have found evidence of Indians on the property, though. . "Justin loves to walk with his dad on the property hunting for Indian artifacts. They have found quite a few," said Sherri. . The original house, Blue Grass Farms W<l$ buift in the1 188,0s. It was just a shadow of. wb.~ the house .is today. It was much smaller, only about a third the size.of the present house. In 1924, the /ropeny . was bought by . Harry Shadle. He adde the majority of the house, incorporating the old house mto the design. Be~ause Shadle was born on George Washington's birthday, he fashioned it after Washington's home and named.it Shadle's Mount Vernon Farm. . ·. Shadle owned a lumber company in Charleston and at the end of World War I, found himself with leftover lumber. Shadle floated it down the · Kanawha River to remodel the house and build . . . outbuildings. Dr. Morgan said that he found it ironic When they were. J:Cmodeling."that the !umbel" totn-frum .• :the.". house • was stlimpe!l with '· "MorgaH t.liinb~r 1· Company". The Shadles later sold thl;l property. It passed through two more owners before bein.g purchased. . by Dr. Morgan. The house and outbuildmg~ were Pl..se see History, DJ A baby grand piano is decked out for Christmas in the living room at Morgan's Mount Vernon Farm. Sherri Christmas tune . Morga~ plays a • Serving the area's housing needs since 1977 Sherri Morgan prepares to fix a drink for guests at an antique bar in her home. Mount Vernon Farm, near Point Pleasant. -· 28x64 Patriot Crystal Valley with finished drywall throughout, 5/12 roof pitch, · ' 30 yr. architectural shingles, oak cabinets & window sills, 6 panel doors, LowE Vinyl windows, real wood trim, and much more!! ' DISCOUll 01 OISPIA'I MOOll SIIGll-WIDlS OfUP10 '6,500.00 Offt ./ FREE DELIVERY & SOUP ./ FREE CONCROE SUPPORT RUNNERS ' ./ FREE SKIRTING ./ FREE DIRECT TV ON All NEW DOUBlEWIDES 'NO SINGlEWIDESI Decorating with pets can be a challenge OK, OK, so I'm just a big Scrooge . So I haven't put up a single twinkling icicle light, not one dancing Santa Claus singing Rudolph the · Red-Nosed Reindeer - not hi n', nada. 1 don' t even have plans of putting upa Christmas tree. . . HOME AND I know, I know. Please don't GARDEN WRITER call my boss and tell her to fire the Communist Columnist. I just don't see the point of Christmas tree that l don't have going through all of the trouble to dig through my already room for anyway. cramped garage to find a Besides, my dog would proba- Millissia Russell ar Hours Mon- Fri 9-7 . Sat 9-5 Sun 1-5 Dnibil~ ii ·1000 Morton Street ~ D&W Jet. St. Rt. 93 & us 35 • Jackson, Ohio c: North 740-286·2101 Photos by KandyBoyce The the fireplace at Morgan 's Mount Vernon Farm is decorated with Santa, his reindeer and Santa bears in preparation for Christmas. · bly eat all of the ornaments. For those of you who haven't met my dog, Andre - a.k.a., the dog who will eat anything he's a 138-pound Yellow Lab/Golden Retriever mix ·that l brought home from the animal shelter in February. He is my faithful companion, bed-warmer, and garbage disposal. I have bee11 very lucky - He has never attempted to eat one of my shoes or any of my "expensive" furniture, but anything sparkly that looks like it might be a treat to decapitate the angel tree topcould be fair game. Anyone who has pets knows per. what kind of special challenge it Tinsel has the intoxicating lure is to decorate for the holidays of catnip, even as .it's being with them around. dragged across the living room They ' re like really hairy kids floor in some stra11ge ritual that that drink from the toilet. only cats seem to understand. Though, I will admit that dogs And if you have more than one are better than cats. At least with dogs you can so cat - my prayers' are with you. So, if you're · faced with the "NO" in a very stern voice a couple of times and they might get same dilemma that I am and have any suggestions, please feel free the picture. Not cats. By the time you think to call me and share them - for about saying· "NO" they ' re the sake of the me, my dog, and already up in the branches trying the Christmas spirit. ~ ... ,. I -- --------· ·- . - --·. - - . �' Page D2 • 6nhp t:f11tf -6eatfal Sunday, December 15,2002 Pomeroy • Middleport • GallipOlis • Point Pleasant Sunday, December 15,2002 Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipo.lis, Ohio Point Pleasant, WV Fort Worth's Modern Art Museum reopens FORT WORTH, Texas too cramped at 38,000 (AP) The oldest art square feet and no parking. museum in Texas, founded The new building is the same year Butch Cassidy 153,000 square feet, includhid in downtown Fort Worth ing 53,000 square feet of after robbing his first train, gallery space to display the is showing off a new, $65 museum's varied collection million home with room for of postwar art, which its 2,700 paintings, sculp· includes Picasso' s tures and other pieces. "Reclining Woman The Modern Art Museum Reading" · and Andy of Fort Worth, reop~ning Warhol's "Twenty-f iVe Saturday, boasts more Colored Marilyns." gallery space than any "Coming to the building repository of contemporary today, the installation of the an except New York's artworks brings a new life to Modern Museum of Art, the building," Ando said officials say. through a translator as he The glass, steel and con- toured the finished museum. crete building near down- "I was surprised at how town was designed by Tadao handsome the collection is An do, who captured archi · and how well it was ., lecture's most prestigious installed." award; the Pri!zker Prize,' in Construction began in 199 5. Officials hired the 1999 on the structure, which · Japanese architect in 1997 features three 40-foot-high · after deciding that the muse- glass wall bays rising out of um' s 1953 building was just a 1.5-acre reflecting pond . An outdoor sculpture garden the Jackson Pollock oil painting "Masqued Image," is part of the 11-acre site. One upstairs gallery is Michelangelo Pistoletto's devoted to painter Sean bronze sculpture , "The Scully's "Catherine" series. Etruscan," Bernd and Hilla paintings named for his Becher 's photographs of then-wife, artist Catherine water towers, and Dan Lee . In one downstairs Flavin's fluorescent light, gallery, Martin Puryear's "Diagonal of May 25, "Ladder for Booker T. 1963." The museum traces its Wa shington" as~ends toward the high ceiling. roots to 1892, when 20 local Tucked away around anoth- women who wanted to bring er corner downstairs is Eastern culture to the Wild Anselm Kiefer 's "Book We st . founded the Fort Worth Public Library and With Wings" sculpture. " It is a light-filled build- Art Gallery. Its name and ing, but darkness was just as location have changed sevimportant to him (Ando)," . .er<\1 times over the years. In 1904, the museum said Thomas Feulmer, the museum's assistant curator made the first purchase for of education. "Along the its permanent collection way he gives you intimate George Inness' landscape moments. And there is a "Approaching Storm." · In the 1970s. the museum rhythm of the galleries small and large, light and reached an agreement with Fort Worth' s Kimbell Art dark." Museum patrons can see Museuin and the Amon Study: Carbon dioxide·may limit some plant growth in climate change ' ' WASHINGTON (AP) Global climate change is expected to include a rise in the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere, and laboratory studies have suggested this will stimulate plants to grow· more abundantly. But apparently that is not the whole story. New research in California has found that when other elements linked to global climate change are added to the environment of plants, carbon dioxide actually may act as a drag on growth. The study, appearin~ this week in the journal Sctence, mimicked the conditions expected to result from global warming on 128 plots of land in a California grassland. It found that the effects of carbon dioxide, which plants use to produce food, can be either good or bad, depending on other elements of the environment. "Most studies in the past have just looked at a single element, such as an increase of C02 or warming temperatures," said Rebecca Shaw, a Carnegie Institution of Washington researcher and first author of the study. "Our study looked at the effects of all the climate change elements'' and in all possible combinations. Farm from Page 01 Next to the dining .room is the den. It is much the same as it was back in the 1920s. when it was built. It is octagonal in shape, with a fireplace built into one wall, partially hidden by a hand-painied Chinese screen. The Chinese theme is continued in the hand-painted wallpaper, that is original to the house. A huge mahogany desk which dominates the room, shares space with a large Christmas tree, making the somber room more fes: tive. Oriental rugs adorn the gleaming hardwood floors throughout the home. In the foyer, Santa bears wait patiently on antique benches to greet guests as the~ arrive. A small, round ant1que table and two chairs wait for a mid-day chit-chat below the massive burnished wood bannister that adorns the staircase leading to the second floor. On the landing a Most environmental California. researchers believe that the · When carbon dioxide levburning of fossil fuels is els alone were increased, slowly causing the climate to plant production · increased change. Exhaust from the about eight percent, she said. fuel burning increases the "But when carbon dioxide level of carbon dioxide and was applied in combination nitrogen-linked gases and . with the other expected particles in the atmosphere. • changes, we found that the This, in turn, causes the Earth C02 actually reduced . the to retain heat, warming the stimulation that we saw when globe. The climate is affect- the other elements were used ed, causing increased rainfall alone," she said. in some areas and less in oth, · In plots where the added ers. enhancement was carbon In · the new study, the dioxide and more water, there researchers artificially was an 8 percent decrease in applied the four major eli- production when compared mate change elements at the with untreated grass plots, levels they are expected to Shaw said. When enhanced tempera· achieve' by the year 2150 if the current use of fossil fuels ture, nitrogen and water were world wide is unchanged. applied to a plot, the producThese elements include: tion soared by 84 percent, she - atmospheric carbon said. But when carbon dioxdioxide, expected to double ide was added to this mix, the the current density. production dropped by 40 -temperature, expected to percent. · rise by a degree or more. "This · was unexpected," · -nitrogen, deposited in Shaw said. "We think that by .the soil when it is washed applying all four elements in from the atmosphere by rain. combination in a realistic sit-precipitation, expected uation, some other nutrient to increase by 50 percent in becomes a limiting factor to some areas. growth." She said the researchers are Shaw said every combination of the added elements trying to understand why ' was applied many times over . enriched carbon dioxide is a several years· on the various drag on production in some plots of grassland near ·conditions. · Stanford University in Richard J. Norby, an envilife-sized Santa and Mrs. Claus reach out as if to take visitor~ outer garments. · The rare handpainted wallpaper lining the walls of the entrance and stairway depict scenes from a bygone era. Scenes from the Boston harbor, New York harbor, Westpoint and the natural bridge of Virginia adorn the walls with the same French .imported wallpaper that Jacqueline Kennelly Onassis had. removed from a house in Mary land and hung in the blue Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House. Dr. Morgan managed to restore the rare wallpaper that was originally in the home and had it sealed under several coats of preservative to :protect it. A huge arched doorway just below the stairs leads into the parlor which is decorated by a baby grand piano, curio-filled cabinets, a large sectional and an . unusual square antique grand piano. A miniature, lighted Christmas village sits atop the piano, nestled in a bed of cottony snow. A small pond can barely been seen through a door leading onto the sun porch. Bright yellow cushions beckon guests to enjoy the sunshine while lounging on the white wicker furniture. There is also a game room and gym on the lower level. One can get lost on the second and third floors. There are a total of eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, 16 fireplaces and countless storage closets. At the tip-top of the house is a widow's walk, accessed by a flight of stairs and a door. ·sherri said that the whole lay of the land can be seen from up there. "It's a beautiful view," she Said. Dr. Morgan recently had a business party at the home . and one of his guests gave a glowing compliment to the effort that has been put forth for Christmas. · "I thought I'd seen Christmas decorations until I saw this," said Charles Lanham, executive vice president and government relations at Ohio Valley Bank. ronmental scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said the Stanford study "is a surprise." "We don ' t really understand . the responses of the plants (in the study)," said Norby, who is doing similar research in his lab. "I think this challenges some of our assumptions about global climate change." He said some conclusions have been based on studies that. tested one or two ele: ments of · global change in laboratories. "What happens when all these conditions change at the same time is much more difficult to interpret," he said. Carter Museum to ensure their collections wouldn't compete with one another, Feulmer said. The Modern Art Museum decided to focus on pieces after World War II. The Modern, as local arts devotees call it, will begin charging admission to special exhibitions. Museum officials hope to increase membership by offering bonuses, such as exhibition tickets and bookstore discounts, and to raise more money from outside Fort Worth. · " I hope this museum becomes the heart of Fort Worth," Ando said. "I hope it will be a crucial part of everyone's life." ;. ----· Checking on ·leaky water heater ______.--- Bv JAMES AND MORRIS CAREY FOR AP WEEKLY FEATU RES no t been fiH , hcd in Ut!. C" inl! o n Jls cor11 ,\ 'll1lll l ((Jil l' . 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The American Gent Society .is an association of fine jej.Velers dedicated to prove·n ethics, knowledge and consumer protection. The AGS awards the title to member jewelers who obtain ·advanced professional training and skill through hands-on experience, gemological courses and ·annual examinations. For more information regarding the American Gem Society, please call 702255-6500 or visit the AGS website at www.ags.org. ~ay Merry Christmas to_, &meone 8pecial with a Tribune Holiday Ornament ~ONLYN I ~..._- :~ I ~~ ~ ~- If . . ' /- 1)!1 II":' - -.,__ __ ---""._.l. r·_cf,jt ] il r-- __.'., "----' Pacifica's indoor, exterior excel SUNDAY PUZZLER Bv MoRRIS AND .lAMES CAREY ~ooo Per Pictune Prepai0''· 'l t ' Getting the odor out of water supply Evan Bryce Ra<jgers "Merry Christmas" Mommy &... Daddy * Actual Size 1x3 * 1Child f' er Ad *Runs luesday, December 24th * Deadline for entty December 16th at noon Mail or drop off at the Gallipolis Daily Tribune 825 Third Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio 45631 History mouldings were not available house," said Dr. Morgan. anymore, so 1 had to have The Morgans hope to eventhem specially made to dupli- tually turn the house into a from Page 01 cate th;. ones already in the bed and breakfast. "Next summer. 1 am plan: house. 'When we added on a &econd garage, we duplicated ning to rent sections of the · pretty run down by the time that Dr. Morgan gained pos- the original one so that the house out for parties, . such as new one was consistent with weddings. We had one here . session (?f it in 1992. "I considered tearing down · the old one," Dr. Morgan in 1996 and it was beautiful," said Sherti. the old part of the house, it said. "If that goes well, eventualthey repaired the Outside, was in such disrepair," said buildings, replaced fencing ly we would like to turn the Dr. Morgan. and replanted the property farm into a bed and breakfast. He eventually decided that with new bushes and trees. Many people stop and ask for he would keep everything as They mowed and trimmed a tour, thinking that it is a original as possible. and painted, trying to-make mu seum. The house has so '.'1 wanted to .make the renmuch historical significance. ovations on.the property with the hou se presentable again. . We would like to be able to . "There are 700 plants just as much historical accuracy as possible. Some of the in the circle in front of the share it." ..-- iJ>unbap t!i:intrs · &rnrinrl • Page 03 Child's Name:-~-----...:..._----'---From: __________~-----~--------~--~ YourName: ·- --------------------~---T---- Address: Phone:---------'-----,-------Ads must be pre-paid it is available for your brand of water healer. The alumiFOR AP WEEKLY FEAWRES num rod produces JO percent Q. Tami asks: The hot wa- Jess current and therefore genler in my home smells l1ke erates less hydrogen gas, rotten eggs.h do~ s n · t seem to while causing enough current affect everyone m my ne1gh- to adequately protect the glass borhood. but has shown up all liner. over town from time to tunc. . Solution 2: We do not recOur water company says 'that om mend this alterna1ive. Dowhat they are producing is ing so will void the manufacsafe . but thai they can't do turer' s warranty . Complele reanylhing about the smell. moval of the metal rod can be A. The problem occurs accomplished by unscrewing when the metal rod tn glass- it from the tank and replacmg lined water heaters (used to it with a threaded plug. improve the life expectancy . Solution 3: Find the poim of of the glass lining) combmes origin of the su lfate-reducmg with waterborne sulfate-re- bacteria (SRB ) and eliminale ducing bactcna (n~t harmful it. SRB is most prevalent in to consume), resulting 10 lhe new water-supply pipes conpyoductwn of hydrogen . sui- laminated by so d during confide . The water IS not danfe~- struction. Th e soi·J carrying ous to consume, but IS dlffl- the SRB eve.ntually ends up cult to swallow because of tlte as solids at the bollom of the odor. water healer . A 1horo ugh Solution I: Replace the flu shing to rem ove the dirt, magn es ium metal rod then a second flushing with a (cathodic protect ton ~node) . dash of cl1lorine. and fin:~lly a with one made of alummum If third flush to clean should do <. 66 Run off to marr y 149 Ibsen heroine 48 Aid and- 70 Spiny plant 72 Mi ster. in Mexi co 73 Candles 75 ''Lorna - " 77 Doctr ine 79 River in Fran c e 80 Sketch again 491 Kind ol energy 152 Wapiti 50 l~ange 154 That gi1l 156 Do wrong 157 Turf 1he Irick . Hydrogen Ras without the presence of SRB will go unn o1iccd . SRB is not so e:~sy to remove if your water company pumps the bacteria into your home right along with the water. This will. in fact. be the case as increas- 91 Ruffian · 95 Zenana in!!.ly water districts continue 97 Placed OI\B wit1"1in to "reduce or cease lheir use of chlorine. Sulfate-reducing bacteria are dev astated by chlorination, but will thrive otherwi se. It is possible ·to inadverlently contaminate your own water supply by allowing sul fate-red ucing bacteria (not to menti on other more dangerous bugs) to enter your water system at your own propeny (through your sprinklers. for example. when you fail to use anti-siphon sprinkler valves that prevent "back wash"). Backwash could uls·o result when a water main in your neighborhood is turned off while your garde n hose is runmng in a muddy puddle. 46 Put up 68 Liquefy 52 Emi1t1ng figrit 54 Delay~r"s motto 56 Ancient garment 5 7 Origmated 58 Nothing but 82 Incorrect 84 Brightness 86 Iridescent stone 88 Spud 60 63 65 67 Mirn1cked Of !he moon Sign ga s Ac tor- Flynn 90 Be In a fury 69 Wrongrut act 70 Crea ture of my.tl1 71 7d 76 78 81 another 101 Joker 102 Storage place 1 04 Eskimo boat Car'lype Flavorful Ark bu1lder Woods the golfer Condu cted 83 Virus 106 laughed loudly ·108 Shelter or vines 85 Noted fabulist 110 Eal ag Check 91 A MarK brother 92 Satettile "s path a7 112 Muses' number 114 Demonstrate Jac~et part Home improvement is still tops, but not9v DAVID much reason for celebration . . BRADLEY tinction shivers the timbers of needs to clean h ouse of fasiFOii AP wEEKLY FEATURES The home improvement business just got whacked upside the head by a 2x4. . The reason? Home 1mprovement sits u10p the heap when it comes to consumer compl:liilts . Not even auto re, pairs, pyramid sc hemes or telemarketers proved more irksome to consumers in anational survey by the National Association of Consumer Agen cy Administrators and the Consumer Federation of America. No dou9t this dubious dis- carpenters, plumbers. contruc- buck artists whde 11 overhaul s tors and everyone else who th e errant public percepllon le~i. timately makes a living thal the only . entree •.o the with tools . And th7u·.custom- bt1s1ness ;, o p1ckup t1uc" and ers clearly fee l vlct1m1zed. cell phone. · Bolh side s of the issue have Vel as with many problem?, much at stake m the results . mucl1 of lhe :m sw~r I ~J th1s Survey sponsm:s pomt to fmd- cnsiS ol conf1de nc e ll e.s. 111 ings as the baSIS. to encourage educut1on. bolh for pr,acllllnregulatory acllon. to ste m ners and custome r.' ali~e .. complamts. Home-Improvers Btll conSL~mers aren I 'coimay feel the 1mage-wreckmg free frn m blame. enher. , crew is a smal l number of l oo ollen the y llx,\lc on on: shoddy here -today -go ne-to- · th1ng - low pnce. Home morrow contractors. owners seldom LH~c the tunc Of course. the 1rnproveme nt to supply potenu,il bidders and remodeling indu stry complete specs lor lhc JOb Answ~r on page AS I I I ��Page D6 • 6unbap 1timH·6mtind •• Sunday, December 15,2002.: · Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, OH • Pt. Pleasant, WV Alabama ' s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail .. .378 '·'. Holes Of Mind-Blowing, Heart-Pounding, Adrenaline-Pumping Golf! . . ' I ' Load up the SUV and head out lor the golf trip of a lifetime . .. People who've played the Trail call it the '"NumberOne Value in the world as a golf destination •.. "-Go/fDigest consumer survey. ·· ... "one of the top 10 trips in the world." -Freq11ent Flyer Magazine . . . . ... "some of the best public golf on earth." -The New York Times. "The Judge is beyond belief..... Next to Bethpage Black, the Judge·offers more golf for the money that any other course in America." -. . Golf Magazine 1.800.949.4444· .11'1111/ ( rtj.~ol(co nl I .• I ,- - •• -- --~----··-~··•·-• . ·~·- ·~ -·-· -· ~""' ·e•- 'J .. , - -- . . ; ~ .' ' ' � https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/2c683505e3a935ae44bc821124b396e8.pdf 1400796844a60e1f2d27242c5ed54c13 PDF Text Text Page D6 • 6unbap 1timH·6mtind •• Sunday, December 15,2002.: · Pomeroy • Middleport • Gallipolis, OH • Pt. Pleasant, WV Alabama ' s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail .. .378 '·'. Holes Of Mind-Blowing, Heart-Pounding, Adrenaline-Pumping Golf! . . ' I ' Load up the SUV and head out lor the golf trip of a lifetime . .. People who've played the Trail call it the '"NumberOne Value in the world as a golf destination •.. "-Go/fDigest consumer survey. ·· ... "one of the top 10 trips in the world." -Freq11ent Flyer Magazine . . . . ... "some of the best public golf on earth." -The New York Times. "The Judge is beyond belief..... Next to Bethpage Black, the Judge·offers more golf for the money that any other course in America." -. . Golf Magazine 1.800.949.4444· .11'1111/ ( rtj.~ol(co nl I .• I ,- - •• -- --~----··-~··•·-• . ·~·- ·~ -·-· -· ~""' ·e•- 'J .. , - -- . . ; ~ .' ' ' �. PAGE2 PAGE3 Work helped.Carolin Harris Tragedy remains · endure loss of son, husband a vivid memory 35 years later .Marking time Bv BETTE PEARCE Managing editor · T raffic was bumper-tobumper that December night 35 ye'ars ago. Truck drivers were transporting their goods, families were coming home from shopping trips and individuals were heading home from work. It was a typical holiday-season rush hour. · And then came that horrible "snap." The Silver Bridge, connecting Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, collapsed into the Ohio River on Dec. 15, 1967. Forty-six people were killed. Two of the bodies were never found. Rescue workers and ordinary folk alike feverishly tried to help victims fighting for survival in the dark and cold. Rescue attempts soon became around-the-clock recovery work. Today, the only visible evidence of the bridge are an eyebru: . and memorials near where the Ohio and West Virginia approac hes once · I t had been a typical pre. Christmas Friday at the G.C. Murphy store i11 Gallipolis . · on Dec. 15, 1967, when employee Carotin Harris was · stood. preparing to go home. As news of the tragedy And then the store's lights spread across the nation, the went out. At that moment, two communities exempliCarotin Harris's life was forevfied courage and r~siliency. er changed. . Eventually, new standards "I went downstairs to see ' for bridge construction and what had happened to the lights inspecti'on would be put in .-----_..;.-..., when someplace. one told me Survivors of the tragedy, the bridge friends and relatives of vicrememfell. I tims, and descendants of vicber thinking tims, even today find it diffi'that just cult to talk about Dec. 15, doesn't hap1967, without shedding a pen' as I ran tear or choking . with emoto the rivertion. Others decline to speak ·bank." at all about their memories of Severa.l that day. James Meadows hours later, she It was a day that left an · would learned indelible mark on two small .------...,that her extowns in middle America. hu sband, This special section is dedJames F. Carolin Harris lost both her ex-husband James Meadows and 3icated to the memory of Meadows, 32, those who died and to the year old son Timmy when the Silver Bridge collapsed on Dec. 15, their 3-year- 1967.. courage of the residents old son whose lives were forever Timmy · and "People will just never know "But that turned out not to·be changed. neighbor Alma what it was like. There were true. - Bette Pearce, Duff were on people were in the water, . "All three of them were still Ohio Valley Publishing Silver screaming. Some were holding in the car. Mrs.' Rllff's arms the managing editor Bridge when it on to bales of hay and cotton wer5 still around pmmy. One Timmy Meadows collapsed. that had fallen in and were of the rescue worl(ers told me J a m e s floating in the water," she says, long time later that her arms Meadows had been a city pausing when she chokes with were. frozen around Timmy and policeman whose arm had .been emotion. that t~ey had to 'break her arms paralyzed in an accident~ He Several truck trailers also to get him out." · · ' had returned to the police force were in the . river; bobbing Oltly two yearS 'before the as a dispatcher. around like giant boxes. Silver Bridge tr~g~dy, Mrs. The ·three bodies would not "People were trying to climb ~arri$ lost ano~~r ~ltild - art be recovered until days later, onto them, and the city Ice and mfant who'd been born premaDec. 18, 1967. Fuel boat was out there trying turely and succumbed to medMany people waited for word to help people." ical problems. · ' ' . ' about loved ones on the riverbank. Some scenes, she continues, She eventually remarried. Her "I didn't. I couldn't handle it she tried to block from her husband died 14 ~ears ago, and there. I waited at home." memory. Yet, there has not been she continues to nin their busiIt wasn't until hours after the a day in 35 years that she hasn't ness, Harris's Steak House. bridge fell that Harris learned · thought about the tragedy. "I work all the time," she her ex-husband, son and neigh- . At some point in the confu- says, adding that working is por, whom he was taking to a ston, she was told that her that how she's endured the tragedies her ex-husband's car was seen at in her life. store, were on the span. She dbysrl'\ know to thi s df!Y the very top of the span, ~'\alled . So111e people, she says, left ' 1 who it was . who called' her ' by the heavy holiday traffic, the area after the Silver Bridge hou~e · with the news . that the when the bridge $11apsed. collapse. . three bodies' were found. At another time, someone But Mrs. Harris, Who recentlr ' "I couldrr't ·talk. ,My sister told her husband's car was seen turned 60, had ' no desire to took th,e ~al!.'' ' · · , , · falli~g from the bridge and it;~to leave. When Mrs: Harris first heard the nver. 'This is my home: I'm a peothat the bridge 'had falten she At . Y.et· an~ther point in her ple person, and I' needed and 'cduntless oth~rs rush6d to agomzmg watt,•she was told her family, thy friends~ my people. the riverbalnk : · ' · ' · ex-husband and son .were seen '"And I had to· stay 'Where my on land. son is buried." my Broken eyebar cited in bridge collapse New span opened in less . nuity" when it wa~ opened, connecting Point Pleasant, W.Va., with Kanauga and serving as the main artery of traffic and commerce for the river communties for almost four decades. First called Hoover Bridge when dedicated May 30, 1928, Bv KEVIN Kruv in a gala ceremony attended by News editor more than 20,000 people, the span was the first of its design in cracked and broken. eye- the use of heat-treated eyebar bar has for the last three chain suspension. decades been cited as the · It was the first bridge coated official .reason for the coUapse with aluminum paint, prompting of the Silver Bridge, and lacking its more popular nickname as further solid evidence, will the Silver Bridge. The Gallipolis remain the cause of the disaster Daily Tribune reported that John that took 46 lives on Dec, 15, Leonard "Jack" Cheney of 1 1967. Gallipolis was the only man The eyebar was in the chain who applied the paint. between the Ohio shore and the 'The unique suspension Ohio bridge tower on the lipriv- 30-foot eyebars resembling er side of.the span. elongated dog bones pinned The bar, found by West together in a chain- was never Virginia and federal officials discredited from an engineering probing the disaster in early standpoint," UPI reported ·on 1968, had broken clean at the Dec. 19, 1967. The Silver Memorial Bridge, shown just prior to its opening in the faU of the 1969, was completed in The bridge, owned . by West less than two years after the coUapse of the original span. (Gallipolis Dally Tnbune) eyelet, the part of the bar with a . doughnut-like hole where .it VIrginia, was inspected by the connected to another bar in the state's Road Commission in suspension chain of the bridge. 1965 and determined to be safe. · United Press International A few deficiencies were noted found that at the middle of the and were corrected. "State road officials did not broken piece was a 3- to 4-inch crack. deny that Silver Bridge wobbled At the time, officials declined and vibrated the past few years," to speculate on the eyebar being UPI said. "But, they said, this the cause of the coUapse, but it does not necessarily indicate later became the focus of the weakness. Suspension bridges official finding on what caused are designed flexible." the coUapse. . On Dec . .21, UPI's Columbus The . eyebar was part of the bureau reported that the Ohio wreckage recovered by officials Department of Transportation, as they reconstructed the bridge then known as the Highway was seeking in Henderson, W.Va., as part of Departqtent; $340,000 from the state to the investigation. "(The eyebar) is one of the inspect three bridges Ohio things that has been discov- owned on the Ohio River ered," W.C. Foster, the chief Pomeroy-Mason, East federal investigator, told UPI in Liverpool and Fort Steuben, .all March 1968. "We are trying to of the~ suspension-type spans weigh everything before tnak- like the Silver Bridge. West Virginia also planned ing any deci~ions. "What we are trying to deter- immediate inspections, while mine about that bat, and it will nationally, President Lyndon B. This photo, taken from the West Virginia side of the Ohio River, shows the original Silver Bridge, which take metallurgical examina- Johnson . ordered a survey of connected Kanauga, Ohio, to downtown Point Pleasant, W.Va. . tions, is when it (the break) ha!)T bridges around the country to that a four-lane, cantilevered · colnmu11ity. The old bridge beca11se 'it was a "special •. spepened," he added. . .. 1 dete~ne .d!trir safecy,. 1 r . • Accordi~ 1 ~o . news as;~qqnts · . ln tht; jlf;tetmatlt <;If lht;.dtslll!- bri<,lge , was .be~\ ,fpr thj: ~a. e' itied in~o downtowh .Point . cia I" project for Prestdent Johnso9. who appointe;d a. task dl!-YS after, tl)e ~hsaster, a fiteo!'Y t(fr, 9ffici* 1soon lqp~q~ \qward O~io.Gpy. JaD/es A. Rl10des.!old PI ant, I ; . \ ~qgillt;erS "~o proce~d a~ rapt!il)( · 6e t 9ew• I' pan, named the , force (o, ~P,eed up con!\t~ctton . that the bridge was ovef.J,qad~ replacipg, tt.e·Silvcrr;· ~n!lge ~dqe as possiP,le. ~ f\l~msy , tp. ~e:st SiM~r : Me Mal· Bridgo, i w~ Ir.spPt;:nln~ -:vas fT!et .~tfh ~ra!­ w~en tijq' F9ll1JpSI! oc'<une<f. ~as tq ~ts impo~ to 11!11 ~a. V\rginia any, . a v.ll\l~~IF iitd . m co~ · lett: tci,r( taj'iet,at·<t ost qf if~qe Jitt~. f'tll!t1 fo~ a~ fe~l­ quickly~~~ 0\1~· J J I !.1 • We.s' .Vil&inia,'~ s~~ ~<J,i!i planning the projeCijlnd rc:rad\11 $14 ~ ' mllliO)l. lln Nov P'!bey de:n.ts, ~ .h!ld · r~ldl~ the "Our tests indicated we .Gou14 ~ 1 qe-..y 1~n.ctp, was llr'illlY~~i' ifPIcqmpletion ~e of fat) 1~69., 196 JoM t..' :swe b~ , •P.qmflqvrMasoh bn ge, ll' erry 110~ oved~q, ~~ bripg~," 1 .West lowing a meeting with Pt~as!~r Secretary 1 1~f ,set~ice, and in the ~ays f~llow­ Yjrginia xoa~ ,ComJI)J~~~ont:f C,Qmf11i~~e . I Jlje,Illpet;s, ' m ; ,T he ~~~ 0 ~ 9)e.' ~ridge \<yent 11 • tartt ' U.S. Burl .A. S!I"VYe~s said Dec 1 I~- ; Ch~le.stqn, the Qa;J)jpqljs. Oaily &1\y ff:g in w 1 ~ a, rt;JP«&tJon c,'lf Transportation, said the new~ 1ing the collapse, r~1l serv1ce to US . . · 5 to Hen derso,n, Wv. .. a.,, a b ridge "would set a wocldl .make .the . connectiOn d p · PI ~tween , A pict)Jrt; wstcard oftt¢,time Tribune.repoljle(!!Dec,. 2~ . ·: move that prompted opposition record in the time in which it . Gallipolis an omt easant. described the Silver Bridge as a Mountain State and Ohio offi"shining example of man's inge- cials agreed March 22, 1968, from Point Pleasant's business would be completed," in . part than 2 years . A ms-' I. Pft �PAGE4 BY KEVIN KEUY News editor n the days and weeks that followed the collapse of the Silver Bridge linking Kanauga and Point Pleasant, VII .Va., stories of survival, personal courage and heroism above and beyond surfaced amid th•! rief and shock that gri pped Gallia, Meigs and Mason counties. The late Paul Scott of Middleport, one of the survivon, of the tragedy that took 46 lives, was one of three occupants of a car that reached the high middle of the bridge just before the span fell. "I remember that I was looking down from the bridge observing the area where the new Gallia-Meigs Regional Airport was built' when the bridge began shaking," he told Robert Wingett of the Sunday Times-Sentinel from his bed at Pleasant Valley Hospital the day after the collapse. The next thing he knew was that the right side of the sp<.~n , where he and his friends who were returning from Institute, W.Va., on a job for their employer, New York Central Railroad, were riding began to slip. "I remember it going down," Scott said. "But I don't know how I got out of the car. After the bridge went down, the next thing I knew was that I was struggling toward the surface in the cold water. " It seemed like forever before I was finally rescued," he told Wingett. A City Ice and Fuel Co. boat picked up Scott 15 minutes after the bridge had fallen. For another man, John Fishel of Petersburg, Va., it was the alertness of an Ohio Highway Patrol trooper that rescued him from fhe wreckage of a tractortrailer enmeshed in the remains of the bridge after the collapse. Fishel, who had been traveling with the rig's driver; Leo Blackman of Richmond, Va., was resting in the cab's ~ leeper section . when the · truck approached the Ohio side of the bridge. I PAGES Fishel told Dick Thomas of the Gallipolis Daily Tribune staff that he awoke to feel the truck "dropping and rolling." · Then something fell on the truck, he said. "I heard the driver yelling and some people came," said Fishel, then 42. "I heard them say, 'There's no pulse,' and they went away." Fishel was trapped in the sleeper, in an upright position, but pinned between two .mattresses. Fuel oil from a saddle tank and battery acid poured into the cab, causing Fishel to suffer burns on hus legs and feet. Blackman was pinned and died of his injuries. Rescuers worked more than two hours to free Fishel from the sleeper, thanks to Patrol Cpl. Carl Boggs of the Gallia-Meigs Post, who had found Fishel alive and summoned help. . "Cpl. Boggs was the hero of the disaster, as far as I'm concerned," "Fishel told Thomas. "He and the others who dug me out of the wreckage." Among those who helped Boggs in the rescue were Gallipolis Police Chief John Taylor, Gallipolis Patrolman Gary Wallace, Gary Bane, and tow truck operators Tom Damron and Don Baird. Ohio . Bell Telephone Co. reported a month after the disaster that Kanauga truck driver Roy Sayre was the first to get a call through to report the bridge .collapse. The company said Sayre, who witnessed the collapse from his back porch, didn't waste time looking up the highway patrol's phone number, but instead dialed 0 for operator and said excitedly, "Ring me the State Patrol." When a trooper who answered the call initially doubted Sayre's report, Sayre responded, "No, no. I' m not joking. I wish I was. The whole bridge is gone. It crumbled." Bell operator Nancy French, who connected Sayre's call, said two minutes after making the call, the switchboard lit up "like a Christmas tree" and remained active for the rest of that fateful night. For 13-year-old Jimmy Wal~er of Gallipolis, news of the collapse caused a,maelstrom of worry since his father, Lore, a purchasing agent for the Panasote Co. plant at Point Pleasant, had not yet returned Media blitz followed bridge collapse Former newsman shares vivid memories of tragic event BY KEVIN KELLY News editor I Wreckage from the collapse of the Silver Bridge is shown from the Mason County side of the Ohio River the day after the bridge fell. from work. He went to his church, St . Peter's Episcopal, .and contacted the wife of the pastor, the . Rev. Albert H. MacKenzie. Sobbing, Walker related his concerns to Mrs. MacKenzie, and then went about setting up the church as a relief site for relatives of the disaster's victims. An hour later, Walker's father called. He was safe. He had just crossed the bridge to the Ohio side and was waiting for the tr;lffic signal on Ohio Route 7 to change. when he heard the crash of the bridge falling behind him. ,. His son's actions impressed MacKenzie so much that at ser'I vices that Sunday, he devoted '. I his sermon to the actions of "a I I brave young boy." I ' "This is the time not for helpI I ' ing but for loving, and Jimmy I I loved others," MacKenzie said I I in a story filed by United Press I I ( International's D1ck Wheeler. This aerial photo taken ftom the West !Virginia .side· Of the river 1 ·1 'I shows bridge footers and the entrance to the bridge, lower portion of photo , from downtown Point Pleasant. l· · . : "111e night we put out £\" eXtra, .we didn't have to call ~nyo.ne,;they ~II .JUSt showed up "..·Yo.u. JU.st ~ t 'f. r;tht re"ahze d hOW muph Of an 1mpac I . a ~ " I • • -· . t was "like a toy a child had thrown down and broken" was the way Hobart Wilson Jr. remembered his first glimpse of the scene when the Silver . HoilirtWi~ Jr.,- ex.Cuth~elldJtor tot: ~G!'III~t D,-i~'nibune Bridge linking Kanauga and "' · Point Pleasant, W.Va., collapsed Road to the former Evans Sohio · Tribune editorial department to 35 years ago this Dec. 15. service station on~ the north compose his stories and period~ Wilson and another veteran edge of Gallipolis. ic updates. member of the Gallipolis Daily He parked his car there .and "After he had his notes, he began ,--------. Tribune staff, walked to wher~ t~e bndge typing, I swear, with his eyes Dick Thomas, began on the Oh10 s1de of the closed," he said. "I'd look over his were among river - to find ·empty space copy when he was finished and the first news- where the span ha~ once ~een, Dick never missed a keystroke. · men on the and on the shoreline, twisted .. . ·scene after girders and the remains of cars The mg~t v:e put out an the Ohio and trucks that had been on the extra, we d1dn t have to call River span bridge when it fell. anyone, they all JUSt show~d fell in the "There were already a lot of up," Wilson said of the Ohw gather i n g people there, and I remember it Valley Publishing Co. staff who darkness of a was colder than all get out," worked on the edition. · . Wilson "We didn't have a headline late Friday said Wilson, who observed that afternoon. rescue o~rations had started by size big enough for 'disaster, ' so And while decades have river towm$ firms th~t saved Jim Danner, the advertising elapsed since the disaster, its numerous. hves by takmg peo- manager took the letters out of images remain imprinted on pie out of the water. d ' · art bo k " 0 s: Wilson's memory. The bridge, opened in .192~. the a vert1smg · Wilson, who retired as e~ecu- was packed with traffic gomg m The story wo~ld .contmue _1° tive editor in 1998 followmg a both directions when it fell , the affect both Galhpohs and Pomt "45-year career with the Tribune, result of a weakened eyebar Pleasant for some time to come, said it was the beginning of a supporting the structure. Wilson recalled. · news story - and more signifiAlthough Wilson estimated he The last of the. victims were cantly, a period of trauma, grief had not been over the bridg~ for recovered from the river the foland change - that lasted for more than a year at that t_1me, lowing May, while·construction years afterward., · . . . , Th.omas had cn;>ssed. the .Sil.ver of the Silver Memorial Bridge "I just couldn t behe~e It, he Bndge from Pomt Pleasant JUSt started not long afterward. said. "The ramp sectiOn was an hour before the collapse. .. . . , r h Hobart Wilson Jr., former executive editor for the Gallipolis Daily gone, and when I looked up, the . After shooting · photos and You JUSt c~n t rea ~ze 0 ~ Tribune has vivid memories of the Silver Bridge disaster. The vetwhole bridge had disappeared. I gathering available inf~r.ma- m~ch 0 ~. an Impact It had, eran n~wsman covered the event for the newspaper. looked across the river and all I tion Wilson and Thomas JOmedW ·~•:'s::o~n~s::ru:.:::d~.--...:_------:---~--"---7""-:------:-~-;:---:--r;rcould see was the wreckage." oth~r staffers at the · Tribune .,, :. , For Wi Ison, it had been office to begin putting out an f., i ' another routine day at work, extra edition of the Tribune and and he returned home in the late The Daily Sentinel. The 'Point afternoon to prepare to attend Pleasant Register was then the annual Christmas party for owned by Ogden Newspapers. Evans Packing Co. employees. Ah extra was produced, but not It was just before 5 p.m. when beforedozensofphonecafisbeg;m · Thomas called to inform him coming in from outside media. the bridge had fallen . Then reporters from other newspaWilson planned to take pho- pers, wire services, television ~et­ tus at the party, and Thomas works and even Time magazme knew had had editorial's cam- ·descended' on the building; era, a Graphic ; dubbed "Old "The)( dust . took. ov~r the Betsy" that took one shot on a office," ~ll.ll!;d · W1lson, who photograph.ic negative and had said-that_newsgatheri~fforts to be replaced ~th anoth~r for were bn~fl~ J!f!mpe.r when . un additional shot. · 1 the demand for.i telepli . serWilson .said he told Tho s vice cause{ a. S)'~tern f: i,lyre. a to head to the~scene a~d ·fie . few hours.. fte~ ~e diw 4! el ~· . . '' would meet Thomas U{ere. Wils n e¢alled , ~tck Realizing Ohio Route 7. waul~ Whee1et, e~6t'ter,fr6 Uluteo be blocked or jam me~ Wlfh ~rat- Press Internatwnal s Columbus tic, Wilson took what was then bureau, was allow~d to· use a known as GSI (now Airport) desk and typewnter at the .. 1 �PAGE6 PAGE7 Silver Bridge: Then and ·now Remembering those who were lost Memorials built in Ohio and West Virginia Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va. Staff report Thomas A. Cantrell Gallipolis, Ohio The original Silver Bridge shown from the West Virginia side of the Ohio Rivet. The bridge was built in 1928. orty-six people lost their lives when the Silver Bridge collapsed on Dec. 15, 1967. The bodies of 44 people were recovered; but two were never found. · Two memorials were erected to honor those lost in the disaster one in Ohio and one in West Virginia. The Ohio monument is located at a rest area on Ohio Routb 7 in Kanauga about one mile north of where the flfSt Silver Bridge crossed the Ohio River into Point Pleasant This memorial features an eyebar similar to the one that fractured and caused the bridge to coUapse·in 1967. The eyebar for the Ohio memorial was donated by Maxie Jarvis and restored by Larry's Painting <md Services, Inc. Architect Mruk T. Epling designed the Ohio memorial. An etching of the bridge on a plaque at the memorial was drdwn by Earl Tope. The second monument was erected in downtown Point Pleasant near the entrance to the old bridge. It features a plaque with the names of Point Pleasant · city officials who were in office at tlte time of the disaster. The main feature of the West Virginia memorial is a row of bricks bearing the names of Mason County residents Who died when the bridge collapsed, . The following is a list of those killed in the disaster not. mg those wht>~e bodie I \\!elf recovered from the Ohio- River and the two w~ose bo~\ef!'t'~~ never recovere<l: F . The .Silver Memorial Bri~ge w~s ' completed in just' under two years, opening to traffic ·i~n the fall of 1969. I ' I l . l ' j ' I J \ J I I I II ~ j ' I l j f : I J \ d ti il ~ K~i~l! ~oggs vlr1tbn,' Ohio ' 1 •l -, I !- ' ) ) !t i ' HH Those recovered Albert X Adler jf. 1 : Gallioolis, Ohio , I", ~ ~~ . Julius 01111er "J. O." Behnett Walnut Cove, N.C. L~o Blackman Rjqhmqnnd, Va. J 1 , ; •I ~ Margaret Boggs Vinton, Ohio Hilda Byus Point Pleasant, W.Va. ·f Kimberly Byus Point Pleasant, W.Va. Melvin Ca.ntrell I : ! Donna Jean Casey Gallipolis, Ohio Cecil Counts Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va. Horace Cremeans Gallipolis, Ohio Harold Cundiff Winston-Salem, N.C. Alonzo Luther Darst Cheshire, Ohio Alma Duff Point Pleasant, W.Va. James Hawkins Westerville, Ohio Bobby L. Head . Gallipolis, Ohio Forrest Raymond Higley Bidwell, Ohio Alva B. Lane Gallipolis, Ohio Thomas "Bus" Howard Lee Gallipolis, Ohio G.H. Mabe Jamestown, N.C. Darlene Mayes Kanauga, Ohio Gerald McMannus South Point, Ohio James Richard Maxwell Gallipolis, Ohio The Silver Bridge Memorial, above, is located at a rest area on Ohio Route 7 near Kanauga in Gallia County, about one mile north of the original location of the Silver Bridge. The memorial in Mason County, right, is located near the entrance to the old bridge in downtown Point Pleasant. (Photos by Andrew Carter and · Dan Polcyn) Maxine Sturgeon Kanauga, Ohio Denzil Taylor Point Pleasant, W.Va. James F. Meadows Point Pleasant, W.Va. Timothy Meadows Point Pleasant', W.Va. . . f,rederick D. Miller ' Gallipolis, Oliip ' 'J I 1 Rohnie G. Moore • • I ~GaHipolis.~o~ib' · ,N~:~ isabelle ~ ibe~ Ga'll!iiolis Ferfy, Vii.Va. Darius E: Northup Gallipolis Ferry, W.Va. James 0 . Pullen , Middleport, Ohio Leo "Doc" Sar'lders Point Pleasant, W.Va. Ronald Sims Gallipolis, Ohio Charles T. Smith Bidwell, Ohio. bma Mae Smith Bidwell, Ohio Glenna Mae Taylor Point Pleasant, W.Va . Robert' Eugene Towe Can.a, Va,. Victor William Turner i :Point Pleasant,, W.Va. : ,: :II -; • • ' .. j Marvin Wamsley Point Pleasant, W.Va. Lillian Eleanor Wedg~ Point Pleasant, W.Va. Paul D. Wedge Point Pleasant, W.Va. James AHred White Point Pleasant, W.Va. Still missing I Kathy Byus Point Pleasapt, W.Va. Maxine Turner Point Pleasant, W.Va. �Browns, Bengals lose, B1 Middleport • Pomeroy, Ohio 50 CENTS • Vol . 53, No. 85 MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2002 www.mydailysentonel com • !Jeput!es Scipio benefits in ODNR program Investlgate Sunday Shooting • · · BY MIWSSIA RussELL Staff writer ...·- This Special Silver Briqge Edition GALLIPOLIS - A Toledo man was found lying in a pool of his own blood about 9 a.m. Sunday at the entrance of Holzer Clinic on Ohio Route 160. The man 's son has been charged in connection with the incident. Richard L. Duncan, 57, of 827 Yates Street, Toledo, was found by cli nic employees. He had been shot three times in the torso area. About 9:20 a.m., the Gallia County Sheriff's Office received a call from Holzer Medical Center that a male victim with multiple gunshot wounds was being treated at the facility. The man was flown to Cabell-Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.Va., where he remained as of press time today. His condi tion was unavailble. Duncan's son, Richard A. Duncan, 35, . was questioned by detectives until · late Sunday night and then booked into the Gallia County jail on a charge of felonious assa ult. The victim's son, also of Toledo, told deputies that he is currently li ving out of his van. Detectives from the sheriff's affi<,;e and the Ohio Bureau of Cr'hninaf - tdentificati?!n and Investigation were at the clinic collecting evidence. . The incident is sti ll under ·· investigation . . Staff report . POMEROY - Scipio Township Volunteer Fire Departmeru in Meigs County has received a Chevrolet truck with an original value of more than $14,000, according to a release from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR). The fire department previously received a 3,0()0-watt generator through the same program. The equipment is being made available by the U.S. Forest Service's Federal Excess Personal Property program which provides vehicles and ot4er fire fighting equipmem to rural fire departments at no charge. The program is administered in Ohio by ODNR "This program helps local tire officials obtain important fire fighting equtpment they mtght not otherwo se be able to purchase," said John Dorka, chief of the ODNR Di vision of Forestry. "The average budget for an Ohio rural fire departmem is $24.000 per year with mal)y fire departments operating on $5,000 or less annual' ly." · Of the nearly 1,300 fire depart" ments'· within Ohio, some 900 are classified as rUi al and are pnmarily staffed by vo lunteers. The Di vision of Forestry currently has cooperative wildfire suppression agreements with 325 fire depart111ents located within tl.le di vision's fore protecto on area (e astern and southeastern Oho ). The program is available to lire departments located within thi s fire protection area. Since July 1996 more than $6 mil lion worth of equipment has been acquired and loaned to local fire departments by the ODNR Di vision of Forestry. Item s obtained through the federal program are prov ided to fi re depart· ments under the loan ag reement, When the equipment is no · longer useable or desired. the fire department must return it to the Divis.ion of "Forestry for dis posal or reass ignmem. Fire departments interested in additional information or in pariicipaling in the .Program need to com" plete a Federal _Exce>s Propert,Y reyucst form available at their local stmc forest office or by contacting Rick Maier. FE P~ program coordinator. ODNR Division of Forestry, 345 Allen Ave., Chillicothe 45601 , or bY. phone at (740) 773- 1574. Train's maker takes top honor~ in toy contest Bv CHARLENE HOEFLICH News editor POMEROY - Winners of a holiday contest sponsored by Pomeroy Merchants Association were chosen over the weekend . The handmade wooden toys were displayed in the lobby of Farmers Bank over the past week as a part of a holiday contest. They were · judged Saturday by Scott Walton and George Wright, local woodworkers . Considered In the judging of the dozen or so items entered were workmanship, uniqueness and imagination. . The display featured both large and smnmroys , ranging from a trai~ to a tricycle, from a working carousel to a marble rolling machine. Selected as the first-place ' winner was a train made by Brent Zirkle of Pomeroy. "The workmans hip is out· standing ," commen ted . is sponsored by these local businesses: Walton as the two agr,eed it deserved th~ top award of a $50 savings bond from Farmers Bank. Second. place went to Roy Grue ser of Rocksprings Road for a marble game he created , while third place went to Bill Radford of Pomeroy for a small rocking horse he made. T~ e prize for second place is a $25 gift ce rtificate whi le the prize for third place is a $15 gift certificate , both from the Merchants Association. Ne ~ t Saturday, the merchants will sponsor a candymaking contest at Peoples Bank. Entries are to taken to the bank between 9 a·. m_. ltnd noon when the jud ging' will · ' ·' begin . Five pieces of candy are to be placed oh a paper plate for the judging. A card with the name, address and lele- . phove number along with a copy of the recipe used are to be submitted with the entry. RaY!llond Smith is Santa Claus to youngsters like' Christopher Chaney, pictured here with Santa at Peoples Bank in Middleport, where Smith makes one of many annual appearances as Santa. (Brian J. Reed) I Appalachian Tire Charter Communications City of .Point Pleasant City Ice &.. Fuel Co. City National Bank Crow Hussell Funeral Home Daily Sentinel Dairy Queen, Point Pleasant Deal Funeral Home Fruth Pharmacy . Gallipolis Daily Tribune Gene johnson Chevrolet . Gino's Holzer Clinic Holzer Medical Center . ,. .I """ . James Rossi, CPA Jon Parrack, Nationwide Kipling Shoe Co. Mason Furniture Co .. Norris Northup Dodge Ohio Valley Bank ~eoples Bank Pleasant Valley Hospital Point Pleasant Register Smith Buick Pontiac Terry Pyles, State Farm Tudor's Biscuit World Turnpike of Gallipolis Village Pizza Inn Wilcoxen Funeral Home 'Ho, ho, ho!'.Pomeroy's ·Santa lifts holiday spirits for many Sponsored by · SMITH BUICK- PO 1900 Eastern Ave. BY BRIAN Gallipolis, Ohio . Staff writer J. REED 446-2282 Used Car SuperstoreNext Door To Wai-Mart Index 1 Sedions - 11 Pa1es Calendar Classifieds Comics DearAbby Ed itori{lls Movies Obituaries Sports Weather A2 64-5 BG A3 A4 A3 A3 Bl-3 A2 POMEROY - By por!raying Santa Claus at community events, Raymond Smith of Pomeroy has given boys and girls in the community an opportunity to file their Christmas lists early and sometimes, often. At age 77, Smith is a perfect personification of St. Nick. He appears annually in Pomeroy- and Middleport Ch ri stmas parades, at Head Start centers and nursing homes, . church programs, and privale parties, and children clearly delight in his abili· ty to relate one-on-one. "I love children," Smith said. "!.really enjoy them, and I love to see them · happy, and Santa Clau s makes children happy." Retired from the Philip Sporn plant, Smith began his extra-special holiday work in the early 1980s, with the help of his late wife, Lydia. When she died in 2000, his c!aughters, Debbie Rose of Long . Bottom and Janice Grimm of Pomeroy took over their mother's role, not as "Mrs. Claus," but, perhaps, as "First Elves." "Our mother was like 'Mrs. Claus,' but didn 't dress . for the occasion," Smith's daughter, Debbie, said. "When she passed away, my si ster and 1 took over where she left off, because we felt it was · something she would have wanted my dad to continue - · making kids happy '" Debbie even takes vacation time during the holi day season to help her father wi th his enl'agements. She drives hun to each appearance, because the costume, . wig and beard make driving a car ne:jrl y impossible. "We're booked up through Ch ri stmas." Debbie .said. "Once Dad has· been somewhere as Santa, they want him back every year, and things get busier every.year." Smith attends the Rtotland Church of the Nazarene , and is an Air Force veteran. He also is a member of the FeeneyBennett Post I 28 , American Legion . Please see Santa, Al C\ 2002 Ohio Valley Publishing Co. 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