Charleston Daily Mail back issues from February 1999:
EDITORIALS
Feb 01, 1999 ... Olympics - Game officials and host cities have tarnished the Olympic idealTHE International Olympic Committee makes the West VirginiaLegislature of a decade ago look like a Sunday School.In the 1980s, a Senate president was bought off for a mere$10,000. That looks ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Feb 01, 1999 ... Stocks - W.Va.'s decision to enter the stock market is paying offWEST Virginia's political leaders connectedwith voters in acritical way in 1997. Voters' decision to allow the state to investsomepension money in the most successful economic engine theworld has ever ...
news in brief
Feb 01, 1999 ... Girl's body found 5 miles from drain BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Searchers have found the body of a 4-year-oldgirl who fell into a storm drain full of surging floodwaters and wasswept through a sewer system into a rain-swollen creek.Jasmine Moore's body was found by searchers using ...
today's people
Feb 01, 1999 ... Hamilton says legend status has a price NEW YORK - Success for actors is nice, but it comes with a heavycost, says Linda Hamilton."Never create a legend, my dear, because either you have to liveup to it or you have to live it down," Hamilton tells the Feb. 6edition of TV ...
LOTTERY numbers
Feb 01, 1999 ... * WEST VIRGINIA Daily 3: 882 Daily 4: 5357- OHIOPick 3: 120Pick 4: 3123Super Lotto: 3-25-26-28-34-38Kicker: 200249- ...
This week at the Legislature
Feb 01, 1999 ... SPECIAL DAYS - TUESDAY State College Systems Dayat the Legislature- WEDNESDAYChildren's Day at the Legislature- THURSDAYEMS Coalition Dayat the LegislatureBUDGET HEARINGS- TODAYSenate: None scheduledHouse: 1 p.m. Geological/Ecological Survey1:30 p.m ....
The underinsured find fewer options: Number of patients too much for some clinics to handle
Feb 01, 1999 ... Behind her desk at West Virginia Health Right, administrator PatWhite types a memo she doesn't want to write. Starting today, Health Right - one of the state's few freeclinics- will stop filling prescriptions for new, underinsured patients. Current patients, children and ...
, Two Marines killed, third hurt in wreck
Feb 01, 1999 ... ENCINITAS, Calif. - Two Marines were killed and a third wascritically injured Sunday when their car slammed into a highwaydivider and landed upside down. The 1987 Mazda RX-7 was traveling north on Interstate 5 when itveered across all four northbound lanes and landed in a ditch, ...
New computers community effort
Feb 01, 1999 ... Daymark Inc. has new computer equipment thanks to a combinedcommunity effort. Daymark is the umbrella organization for three programs.Patchwork is a residential crisis intervention center for runawayandhomeless youth. New Connections is for young people learning to liveon their ...
AARON
Feb 01, 1999 ... Donald L. Aaron Donald L. Aaron, 73, of Charleston died Saturday, Jan. 30, 1999,in Thomas Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was the retired vice president and secretary of Aaron TheatersInc., which included West Theater, Kearse Theater, Capital Theater,Village ...
STATE DEATHS
Feb 01, 1999 ... Allen - Dorothy Woods, 85, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly ofFayetteville, Fayette County, W.Va., died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1999.Dodd-Payne-Hess Funeral Home, Fayetteville. Bowyer - Dennis E., 55, of Alderson, Greenbrier County, diedFriday, Jan. 29, 1999. Longanacre Funeral Home, ...
Alcohol and drug abuse hurts kids: We have to deal with addictions to cut child abuse
Feb 01, 1999; ... PARENTAL alcohol and drug abuse is producing a populationexplosion of battered and neglected children, overwhelming thenation's child welfare and family court systems and shattering thetraditional disposition to keep children with their natural parents. From 1986 to 1997, the ...
Letters to the editor
Feb 01, 1999 ... Circleville beat many new schools I respond to the Daily Mail's Jan. 19 editorial, "Schools: 3,000students are too many, while 130 students are too few."We talk about too many students or too few for our schools. Wetalk about new buildings. The way new buildings were built, ...
SLIM'S PICKINS
Feb 01, 1999 ... Race 1: 2, Ss Profit Green; 5, Js Butternut; 7, Love Train Race 2: 3, Heya; 5, Prima Four Aces; 7, Ditto Taylor Jet Race 3: 2, Jams Dooley; 4, Kelsos Reflex; 7, Ac Grand TiptonRace 4: 5, Mohican Quezada; 1, Cajun Mandy; 8, Three Kids DogRace 5: 6, Ragtime Rebel; 4, Andy ...
Wake Forest lashes out, whips Maryland
Feb 01, 1999 ... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest's Demon Deacons left Coach DaveOdom shaking his head again, but this time he did it while smiling. Three days after Odom gave his players what everyone agreed washis biggest tongue-lashing in years, the Demon Deacons snapped afive-game losing skid ...
Bruins focusing on defense
Feb 01, 1999 ... BOSTON - The Boston Bruins may have found the way out of theirslump: Focus on defense, even if the offense suffers. That's what happened Sunday against the Carolina Hurricanes, butfor the first time in five games the Bruins didn't lose. The gameended in a 0-0 tie, the first time ...
BRIEFLY
Feb 01, 1999 ... GOLF - Rocco Mediate, fully recovered from back surgery in 1994, wonthe Phoenix Open on Sunday, closing with a par 71 for a two-strokevictory over Justin Leonard at Scottsdale, Ariz. Mediate, who earned $540,000 for his third PGA Tour title, had an11-under 273 total on the ...
Sizing upstate's top prep hoop athletes
Feb 01, 1999 ... THE list of NCAA Division I prospects in West Virginia is not a36-long. But it isn't a 29-short, either. Yet, when it comes to measuring the number of potential D-Irecruits in the state, everyone always seems to shorten the list'sinseam.Take the current football crop, for ...
Two much!: MVP Elway leads Denver to back-to-back titles
Feb 01, 1999; ... MIAMI - It began 16 years ago with unrealistic expectations: "Allthe way with Elway." But the conflict with his head coach and thedisappointment of losing three Super Bowls threatened to downsizethelegacy of John Elway. A change in command, Mike Shanahan replacing Dan Reeves, and ...
Elway reaches highest levels
Feb 01, 1999; ... MIAMI - This was not about Denver. This was not about Atlanta.This was not about Miami. This was about Montana. Of all the places represented here on a glorious evening Sunday,John Elway clutched and tugged and dramatically dragged us to theonemost unimaginable.To the man ...
WVU concludes rough January: Loss at Rutgers made Mountaineers 2-7 in month
Feb 01, 1999; ... PISCATAWAY, N.J. - At first the "hip, hip, hooray" might seem outof place. Maybe some of the Coke toasts on the plane ride back toPittsburghseem inappropriate. Party hats and noise makers, well, it does notseem right. Yet West Virginia University's basketball team, despite ...
Levy:: Reeves inconsolable, but he'll survive
Feb 01, 1999; ... Editor's note: Marv Levy, who coached the Buffalo Bills to fourconsecutive Super Bowls and lost all four games, analyzed Sunday'sgame between the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons for theAssociated Press /FD:"Lead"Myself and Bud Grant are the only men in the world who knowexactly ...
POLICEBLOTTER
Feb 01, 1999 ... Pa. woman dies in Turnpike accident GHENT - A Pennsylvania woman died in a single- vehicle accidentonthe West Virginia Turnpike in Raleigh County. A passenger in the car, Annabelle Shutsy, 81, of Brownsville,Pa.,was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, said Trooper ...
FACES ABOUT TOWN
Feb 01, 1999; ... VARSHA VAGHELA - Home: Charleston, originally from India - Birth date: Aug. 27, 1959- Occupation: Bank One personal banker- Secret ambition: Be a millionaire- Favorite TV show: "General Hospital"- Who would play you in a movie: ...
Denver 'D' stymies Falcons
Feb 01, 1999; ... MIAMI - The Denver Broncos' 15-point margin of victory ismisleading, because the Atlanta Falcons came close. Six times, in fact, they came close. Denver stopped half a dozenAtlanta drives inside the 30-yard line, and that was the differencein Sunday's Super Bowl. "That's what ...
Robinson maintains his innocence, but apologizes
Feb 01, 1999; ... MIAMI - The Prophet spoke with his usual passion. For the firsttime, though, Eugene Robinson faced a skeptical audience. After a Super Bowl that went terribly wrong, the Atlanta Falcons'Pro Bowl safety paraded in front of a horde of media Sunday todiscuss his arrest on charges of ...
Denver revelers riot ... again
Feb 01, 1999 ... DENVER - For the second year in a row, a Denver Bronco Super Bowlvictory ended in clashes between unruly celebrants and police. "It was a smaller crowd than last year, but a more rowdy crowd,"said Andrew Hudson, spokesman for Mayor Wellington Webb. Police used tear gas to break ...
, Samaranch calls attacks 'rubbish'
Feb 01, 1999 ... LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Describing as "rubbish" some of thepersonal attacks against him, IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranchsaid Sunday only the committee's members are in a position to judgewhether he should stay in office. Facing continuing calls from outside the IOC for him to ...
Ohio star making all the right moves
Feb 01, 1999; ... ATHENS, Ohio - LaDrell Whitehead should next move to Las Vegasbecause all his gambles are paying off. The Ohio University guard first did the almost unthinkable bytransferring from Wyoming with just one year left in his collegiatecareer. Sitting out one to play one - with the ...
Armstead's scoring streak over
Feb 01, 1999; ... PISCATAWAY, N.J. - It happened to Cal Ripken Jr. in 1998 and toLionel Armstead in 1999. The streak is over. Although modest by Ripken's standard, Armstead, West VirginiaUniversity's freshman guard, had established career-high pointtotalsin the past five games. The topper ...
Rutgers 87,West Virginia 61
Feb 01, 1999 ... West Virginia (9-12, 3-8) Player Min FG 3-PT FT R A PT M. Goree 35 8-17 3-4 7 1 19E. Scott 34 1-6 0-1 0-1 1 3 2C. Moss 29 2-9 6-8 5 0 10L. Armstead 27 3-7 1-3 0-0 1 0 7J. Kearse 31 6-10 2-5 0-0 4 4 14K. Murray 9 0-2 0-0 2 0 0J. Rogers 1 0-1 0-0 1 0 0B. Berry 7 0-0 ...
Superbowl XXXIII summary
Feb 01, 1999 ... Denver 7 10 0 17 - 34 Atlanta 3 3 0 13 - 19 First QuarterAtl-FG Andersen 32, 9:35. Drive: 10 plays, 48 yards, 5:25. Keyplays: Dwight 31 return to Falcons 37; J.Anderson 13 run; 25-yardpass interference penalty on Atwater to Broncos 21. Atlanta 3,Denver 0.Den-Griffith 1 ...
LOCAL SPORTS
Feb 01, 1999 ... WVU swimming - George Washington High graduate JoEllen Scheirmanfinished first in the 1,000 freestyle for West Virginia University'swomen's swimming team in its victory of St. Bonaventure Saturday inMorgantown. Scheirman's time was 10 minutes, 39.53 seconds. MU tennis - Marshall ...
Tourism growth costly: Agency officials seek more funds to promote the state
Feb 01, 1999; ... The state's tourism hotline now receives more than 600,000 callsayear, a sign of growing interest in West Virginia as a vacationspot,lawmakers learned. But as that interest grows, so does the need to fund the stateTourism Commission. "The more successful we are in ...
Workshops on quilting planned for retreat
Feb 01, 1999 ... A variety of quilting techniques will be explored during theannual Quilt Retreat to be held March 19-21 at Jackson's Mill nearWeston. Eight different workshops will be offered, each having 13 hoursofinstructional time. Topics and instructors are: DimensionalEmbroidery and Crazy ...
Picking windows can be a pane: Fixing a leak right away can still cause utility bill to increase
Feb 01, 1999 ... Q. Our old windows are leaky, hard to clean, ugly, etc. We needreplacement windows, but there are so many styles, materials andglass options, that I am confused. Please help me decide what toget. Ron H. Dear Ron: There are more replacement window options than therearenew ...
HOROSCOPE
Feb 01, 1999 ... FORECAST FOR TUESDAY eARIES (March 21-April 19). Personal growth makes your goalseasier to obtain. An opportunity to invest with friends is tempting,but better uses for your money are found. Even when you try tocompromise, your independent spirit prevails. rTAURUS (April ...
Mother's letters parks criticism
Feb 01, 1999 ... DEAR ABBY: Please tell me the letter from "A Loving Mom" was anold one, dredged up from the 1950s. This woman needs a reality checkif she's concerned with her daughter, at age 19, marrying a man whocan keep her in the lifestyle to which her parents have accustomedher. She should be more ...
Expert offers growing tips: Gardeners can see new gadgets on Web
Feb 01, 1999; ... If you are looking to brush up on your plant propogationtechniques, Mike McGroarty has done most of the leg work for you. In addition to his gardening book, "Free Landscape Plants!,"McGroarty has designed a Web site that covers propogation and othergardening techniques. With ...
Event to benefit program for kids
Feb 01, 1999 ... "Mardi Gras Spectacular," a black-tie fundraiser for Keep A ChildIn School, will be held Feb. 20 at Berry Hills Country Club. Entertainment for the 8 p.m. to midnight affair will be providedby Santa Cruz in the ballroom and Kai Haynes, Jim Lange, Lisa ThomasPeery and Brian Young in ...
Luncheon to honor community leaders
Feb 01, 1999 ... Four community leaders will be honored at the 1999 Women ofAchievement luncheon at noon Feb. 11 at the Charleston Marriott. They are Charlene Byrd, state Supreme Court Justice Robin ...
Kanawha Valley Building
Feb 01, 1999; ... POSTCARDS offer snapshots of history.Take a glimpse ofCapitol Street in downtown Charleston with a crowd of bustlingshoppers and horse-drawn carriages. Study a 1908 card with a picture of the state Capitol. Take apeek at towns throughout the state with the time period marked ...
Al Bundy not the best role model
Feb 01, 1999; ... "THE Jeffersons" are moving on up to Nick At Nite. The returnof this series upsets Gregory Kane, whose columns in the BaltimoreSun are occasionally reprinted in the Daily Mail. Kane dislikes Sherman Hemsley's portrayal of George Jefferson asapimp-walking, jive-talking, ...
The Super Bowl's real selling point
Feb 01, 1999 ... NEW YORK - Add a desperate lobster, a goggled mouse and two cutepups to the cast of critters that Super Bowl advertisers pressedintoservice in hopes of catching the eye of TV's biggest yearlyaudience. Celebrities, musical scores and the Internet also played a roleinthe ads on ...
They say you won a contest, huh?: Be wary of winning sweepstakes and such you didn't enter
Feb 01, 1999 ... DEAR BRUCE: We are senior citizens. In July, I received a phonecall - supposedly from Georgia - telling me I had won a"sweepstakes." I asked how much I had won, and they said $70,000. Ididn't remember entering a contest, but they said it was because Ihad a certain credit card. They ...
Books offer tips for boosting business
Feb 01, 1999 ... NO matter how many salespeople you employ, you still have to beyour company's best salesperson. Luckily, two veteran salespeopleand two marketing consultants have shared their secrets in three newbooks. Harvey Mackay is a tough person to interview. Not because he'sevasive but ...
Business people
Feb 01, 1999 ... BANKING - Alice Cosgrove of Smithers officially retired Friday from BankOne with 40 years of service. She retired as senior vice presidentand director of loan operations. EDUCATION- Douglas Leech, president and chief executive officer ofHuntington Banks in West Virginia, ...
Business briefs
Feb 01, 1999 ... Chamber of commerce plans breakfast The Putnam County Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its firstchamber breakfast of the year on Feb. 11. The event will be from 7:30-9 a.m. at the Rock Branch CommunityBank.Breakfasts sponsored by the chamber provide an opportunity ...
All's not well: It gets tricky:; As prices fall at pumps, the Mountain State's oil and gas industries also take a hit
Feb 01, 1999; ... Gasoline priced at a dollar a gallon pleases motorists, but lookpast the pumps and you'll find some folks who are wondering if theycan survive. Oil is selling at prices that have not been seen since the GreatDepression. Oil companies are merging, reducing exploration ...
Will your job be here in 10 years?
Feb 01, 1999; ... The West Virginia Bureau of Employment Programs has issued astudythat projects where the jobs will - and will not - be through theyear 2006. According to "Occupational Projections: 1996 to 2006," WestVirginians will be in demand if they're telemarketers orknowledgeable about ...
Had it with haggling
Feb 01, 1999; ... In a country where everything seems to be on sale most of thetime, Ford and General Motors are experimenting in some parts of thecountry with a concept made popular by G.M.'s Saturn unit: no-hagglepricing. According an article in the New York Times, the automakers arereacting ...
Skating ballet smoothly beautiful
Feb 01, 1999; ... IT was kind of like an upscale version of Holiday On Ice exceptthat instead of having Bert, Goofy and Big Bird, there were kings,queens, storybook characters ("Little Red Riding Hood" and "Puss andBoots"), plus the ubiquitous evil fairy. The St. Petersburg Ice Ballet performed ...
Group deserves support: Area musicians do sensational job in chamber concert
Feb 01, 1999; ... I went to the absolute best Super Bowl warmup party that I haveever been to, and I've seen some great parties. It was given Sunday afternoon by the Seneca Chamber Orchestra atChrist Church United Methodist and included the cream of the cropfrom the local orchestra, who brought ...
FOR THE RECORD
Feb 01, 1999 ... * City crimes The following crimes have been reported to the Charleston PoliceDepartment: - Malicious wounding and destruction of property were reportedabout 3 a.m. Jan. 23 in the 1300 block of Roseberry Circle.- Destruction of property was reported between 1:50 a.m ....
Insurance matters worry congressman: In a letter to Clark, Wise worries many will be unprotected
Feb 01, 1999; ... State law offers numerous protections regarding managed care, butmore than 670,000 West Virginians may be left out in the cold, U.S.Rep. Bob Wise cautioned. The congressman sent a letter to state Insurance CommissionerHanley Clark, warning that when Clark told legislators of the ...
All Putnam schools are accredited
Feb 01, 1999 ... WINFIELD - Putnam County public schools made the grade for thesecond year in a row, the board chairman said today. "A letter came in the mail Saturday," Sidney Linville said. "Allschools are fully accredited." The annual state report card on county schools will be presentedto ...
Beckley health clinic under investigation
Feb 01, 1999 ... BECKLEY - The state has terminated the contract of a healthclinicserving nine Southern counties for possibly misusing federal funds. Beginning Sunday, the Appalachian OH-9's was no longer able toprovide services for the federal Women, Infants and Childrenprogram,said Joan Ohl, ...
Changes advocated in lawmaster system
Feb 01, 1999; ... Representatives of the state's family lawmasters and circuitjudges told lawmakers today that the very nature of domestic casesfosters unhappiness. "Domestic disputes are so deeply personal and so emotional thatinmany instances, even the winners are unhappy with the results," ...
Logan hospital gets purchase offers: Some worry that for-profit chain would alter makeup of center
Feb 01, 1999 ... As Logan General Hospital remains in bankruptcy protection,officials are sifting through offers from national hospital chainswanting to buy the 132-bed facility. The hospital must prove to a bankruptcy judge and its creditorsthat it can solve its financial problems on its own or ...
daily quote
Feb 01, 1999 ... "The sense right now in just listening to members talk is thatthere are Republicans who either are not going to vote for ...
Iraq rejects U.N. initiative as bombings continue
Feb 01, 1999 ... BAGHDAD, Iraq - A senior Iraqi official today dismissed effortsbythe United States to depose Saddam Hussein as acts of "a loserlooking for failure." Deputy Information Minister Hamid Saeed said the people of Iraq"in the south and in the north, in Baghdad and in villages" ...
Starr under new attack from Dems
Feb 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - House prosecutors and the White House legal teamquestioned Monica Lewinsky under oath today in the impeachmenttrial,while President Clinton's lawyer renewed his complaints in courtthatIndependent Counsel Kenneth Starr was violating grand jury secrecylaws. Rep. Ed ...
Spending plan sails on to Congress: Clinton in for a fight with Republicans over government priorities
Feb 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - President Clinton sent Congress a $1.77 trillionspending plan today for 2000, beginning a new century with recordbudget surpluses that he would use to shore up Social Security andshower billions in new spending on a range of initiatives from childcare to the ...
UC, residents may have reached compromise on dorm
Feb 01, 1999; ... Bill Schwartz and his neighbors breathed a huge sigh of reliefwhen University of Charleston officials disclosed yet another sitepossibility for a new residence hall. Now, he said, they look forward to doing something productive forboth the community and the university - and to ...
Minority whip called to serve: Hall brings conservative touch to matters of money
Feb 01, 1999; ... A former Presbyterian pastor, Mike Hall now shepherds proposalsinthe Legislature as minority whip in the House and a member of somekey committees dealing with financial matters. "I seem to have an aptitude for finances," said Hall, 50. Hisundergraduate majors were philosophy and ...