Charleston Daily Mail back issues from April 1999:
Editorial
Apr 01, 1999 ... Kids count - Stressing education and a job for parents reduces child povertyKIDS Count released its seventh annual report on childhood povertyin West Virginia. The numbers were abysmal. In 1996, nearlyone-third of the children in the state lived in poverty.But there is ...
news in brief
Apr 01, 1999 ... Serial killer sentenced to death KIEV, Ukraine - The worst serial killer in Ukraine's modernhistory was sentenced to death today for killing 52 men, women andchildren in a ruthless rampage that shook this former Sovietrepublic.The death sentence for Anatoliy Onoprienko, a ...
today's people
Apr 01, 1999 ... Magic Johnson scores in business BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Magic Johnson the business mogul seems tobe as versatile as Magic Johnson the hoop star.Johnson's newest entertainment venture, Magic Johnson/Music/MCARecords, announced the signing this week of R&B singer Myron ...
dailyquote
Apr 01, 1999 ... "I always like getting away from Washington." Hillary Rodham Clinton As she and daughter Chelsea on ...
High court may side with states: Can state workers sue over
Apr 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is controlled today by justiceswhoavoid bold strokes and resist rulings that would dramaticallyreinterpret the nation's laws. But one area remains an exception:the boundary between the powers of federal government and thestates. A resolute ...
New York judge cuts woman's payments
Apr 01, 1999 ... NEW YORK - A judge has trimmed a woman's marital support paymentsfor badmouthing her estranged husband in front of their son. The wife, identified in court papers as S.B., "had so vilified"her husband that their 17-year-old son has refused to see him forfive years, Judge Jacqueline ...
Obituaries
Apr 01, 1999 ... Masil A. Slaven OAK HILL - Masil Ann Crawford Slaven, 94, of Oak Hill, FayetteCounty, died Wednesday, March 31, 1999, in Plateau Medical Centerafter a long illness. She was a retired Fayette County elementary school teacher, ahomemaker and a member of Oak Hill Baptist ...
OBITUARIES
Apr 01, 1999 ... Elsie B. Balser Elsie Barnett Balser, 81, of Pond Gap, Kanawha County, diedTuesday, March 30, 1999, in Pleasant Valley Hospital, PointPleasant,after a long illness. She was a homemaker and a member of Pond Gap Advent ChristianChurch. She was a lifelong resident of Kanawha ...
Weather ripe for wildfires: Backyard burning spreads rapidly to forest fire status
Apr 01, 1999 ... A backyard fire that spreads is like being in a car that goes outof control, a state forestry official says. "It's not a pleasant thing. You've lost control and you don'tknow where it's going to go. The smoke and the heat, the firedoesn't respect anything," said Phil Wygal, ...
, Berkeley publisher posts $60,000 bond
Apr 01, 1999 ... MARTINSBURG - The publisher of a former Berkeley County weeklynewspaper has been released from jail after posting $60,000 bond. Judith Carlberg spent a week in the Eastern Regional Jail afterher March 19 arrest on charges she defrauded employees out of morethan $300,000 in pay. The ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Nuclear power, Blair Mountain tourism?
Apr 01, 1999 ... I respond to the column by Denise Giardina, "Mountains are WestVirginia," in the March 22 Daily Mail. She stated, "Coal is not the only way to provide electricity."She is right. Let's examine the alternatives: - Natural gas? The boilers can be converted. I don't think AEPwill ...
Surface mines beat deep mines
Apr 01, 1999 ... I respond to diehard people on both sides of the mountaintopremoval struggle. Coal companies do need to be courteous tonext-door neighbors and make restitution for damages caused. We have been fighting coal companies for the past century. Somehave exploited the state and our ...
Abortion leaves a legacy of death
Apr 01, 1999 ... Germany left a legacy, Auschwitz and Anne Frank. There was Pol Pot in Cambodia, in Rwanda when Hutus massacredTutus, Bosnia, Kosovo and the rape of Nanking. Their pain was great. No one heard their cries. Or maybe weheard and closed our eyes.But of all these atrocities there ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Apr 01, 1999 ... Will Kosovo be the next Vietnam? He who fails to learn from his past is condemned to repeat it.Once more I am hearing the same Vietnam era words used to justifyour involvement in another country's affairs - words like "thedangers of acting now are clearly outweighed by the ...
EDITORIALS
Apr 01, 1999 ... Auditorium - How much would keeping it cost, and where will that money come from?CHARLESTON Mayor Kemp Melton once suggested selling theMunicipal Auditorium to help the city fund its contribution to thecoming Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia.As the ...
Don't underestimate this six-girl squad
Apr 01, 1999; ... DuPont High School's six-girl track team has the ability to scorepoints in bunches. Junior sprinter Ciara Chic finished second in the 200- and 400-meter dashes in last year's state meet. Added to this year's Panther team will be talented sophomoreMichelle Calvert, who will ...
Tomko will start in opener
Apr 01, 1999 ... CLEARWATER, Fla. - If opening day is the only thing Pete Harnischmisses, the Cincinnati Reds will consider themselves fortunate. With one of their top starters already on the disabled list, theycan't afford to lose another. Harnisch never got his troublesome back loose during ...
No fudging allowed Underclassmen get first NFL test
Apr 01, 1999; ... There was no fudging of heights and weights in Huntington onWednesday morning. Not with the professionals in town. Around 50 of Marshall University's returning football playersworked out for representatives from the Minnesota Vikings, theCleveland Browns, the Detroit Lions ...
for the record
Apr 01, 1999 ... * Bankruptcy filing The following people filed petitions in U.S. Bankruptcy Court forthe Southern District on March 25, 1999: - Melissa Dawn and Richard DeWayne Belcher, Rt. 6, Box 275-9,Charleston. Chapter 7. No schedule provided.- Janet and Roger Dale Hite, 8219 State Rt ....
Sewage plant owner indicted
Apr 01, 1999 ... The operator of a Raleigh County sewage treatment plant has beenindicted on charges of violating the federal Clean Water Act. A 10-count indictment released Wednesday accuses James Bragg ofdischarging sewage waste into a tributary of the New River without apermit from April 1996 to ...
POLICE BLOTTER
Apr 01, 1999 ... Men charged with robbing city store Two Kanawha County men were arrested early today after theyallegedly threatened a clerk while taking beer and potato chips froma West Side convenience store, police said.Henry Olan Bullough, 22 of the 200 block of Kenna Drive, ...
LOTTERY numbers
Apr 01, 1999 ... WEST VIRGINIA Daily 3: 222 Daily 4: 5042- OHIOPick 3: 901Pick 4: 9959Super Lotto: 6-15-16-18-20-40Kicker: 969215- ...
Clinton says strikes need time to work: President says NATO,
Apr 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - President Clinton says NATO allies and the Americanpublic need to show resolve with the air campaign againstYugoslavia,now in its second week. Despite a growing humanitarian crisis,Clinton remains opposed to sending in U.S. ground troops. "This air campaign is not a ...
, Man gets life sentence
Apr 01, 1999 ... IRONTON, Ohio - A West Virginia man has been sentenced to life inprison without parole for killing his estranged wife. Prosecutors had been ...
Rabies cases surge in state, Officials urge people to avoid wild animals, vaccinate their pets
Apr 01, 1999 ... Pet owners and wildlife enthusiasts should protect themselvesfroma strain of the rabies virus that is migrating westward from theAppalachian Mountains, state health officials say. The number of confirmed rabies cases - on the decline for severalyears - now seems to be surging, ...
, Construction worker crushed by bricks dies
Apr 01, 1999 ... WHEELING - An Ohio construction worker has died at the samehospital where his wife gave birth the night before to the couple'sfirst child. Pat McIntire, 32, of Belmont, Ohio, was crushed by bricks whenpart of a four-story building collapsed on him Wednesday. A work crew was ...
NBA Report
Apr 01, 1999 ... EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB L10 Streak Home Away ConfOrlando 22 10 .688 - 7-3 Lost 1 16-2 6-8 19-7Miami 19 9 .679 1 6-4 Lost 2 11-3 8-6 17-7New York 17 14 .548 41/2 5-5 Won 1 13-4 4-10 14-12Philadelphia 15 14 .517 51/2 4-6 Lost 3 9-7 6-7 ...
EXHIBITION BASEBALL
Apr 01, 1999 ... STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct.Kansas City 21 7 .750Seattle 20 9 .690Boston 17 9 .654Chicago 17 14 .548Baltimore 12 10 .545Detroit 14 13 .519Tampa Bay 13 13 .500Texas 12 13 .480Oakland 14 16 .467Anaheim 13 15 .464New York 13 17 .433Cleveland 12 16 ...
Local Sports
Apr 01, 1999 ... NCAA gymnastics - Women's gymnastics teams from West VirginiaUniversity, Alabama, Ohio State, Maryland, North Carolina State andTowson will compete in the NCAA Region 6 championships April 10 atthe Coliseum in Morgantown. The top two teams will advance to the NCAA meet April 22-24 ...
Baseball
Apr 01, 1999 ... HIGH SCHOOL Today's games Beckley at Capital, 4:30South Charleston at DuPont, 4:30Marsh Fork at Charleston Catholic (DH), 4:30Gauley Bridge at Fayetteville, 4:30Poca at East Bank, 5George Washington at Ripley, 5:30Nitro at Hurricane, 6Sissonville at Winfield, ...
Coffin buries Bombers
Apr 01, 1999 ... Brodie Coffin of Huntington scored two goals in the Blizzard's 3-2victory over the Dayton Bombers on Wednesday night. Rob Stanfield scored the Blizzard's other goal before 1,699 fansin the East Coast Hockey League game at the Huntington Civic Arena. Huntington never trailed ...
Jordan return rumors debunked: NBA bylaws would present a major roadblock anyway
Apr 01, 1999; ... Michael Jordan will not - and cannot - play for the CharlotteHornets if he gets his wish and buys a 50 percent share of the team. "There's absolutely no truth to it," Jordan's agent, David Falk,said of a report that Jordan was considering coming out ofretirementand becoming a ...
Racers: Start your mowers!
Apr 01, 1999; ... APRIL Fools Day is here, but here are a few items I'm not kiddingabout- The United States Lawn Mower Racing Association announced itsschedule today. Yes, today. On April Fool's Day. Gotcha! Greatjoke, huh? Well, yeah, except for one small inconsistent detail. The USLMRA isn't ...
Capital boys team young but talented
Apr 01, 1999; ... Capital High School's boys track team will depend oninexperiencedathletes this season. "It will be a slow start for us," Capital Coach Dennie Love said. Among the Cougars' departed personnel are competitors who scored511/2 of their 76 points in last year's Class AAA state ...
State officials crave more visible program
Apr 01, 1999; ... One rooster could not accomplish what Bryce Casto and Hazo Carterwant to at West Virginia State College. A goal of the imminent hiring of a head men's basketball coach atthe Institute-based school is to wake the Kanawha Valley up. "People had a tendency to ignore it," said ...
Tourney change still has backing
Apr 01, 1999; ... Despite dispatches from the Secondary School ActivitiesCommissionoffice that say otherwise, there is indeed considerable interest inchanging the boys and girls high school state basketball tournamentformat. SSAC officials continue to dispel any notion that West ...
Harrick believes Dawgs within reach of a title
Apr 01, 1999; ... ATHENS, Ga. - Jim Harrick figures he can win another nationalchampionship at Georgia. After spending the past two years at Rhode Island, where herehabilitated his reputation, Harrick was hired Wednesday as coachofthe Bulldogs, who haven't made the NCAA Tournament since ...
Indians plaster E. Bank
Apr 01, 1999; ... A much-anticipated battle between unbeaten teams turned into arout as Sissonville pounded East Bank 15-0 in high school softball. Renitta Taylor limited the Pioneers to just one hit over fiveinnings Wednesday as Sissonville improved to 4-0. Sissonville's Angel Bailey collected ...
Poca pitches by DuPont, 4-1
Apr 01, 1999; ... Poca got an early-season confidence builder with its 4-1 victoryover visiting DuPont in high school baseball. "It's definitely a big boost for us," said first-year Dot CoachGary Sigman. "We knew DuPont was an outstanding team." Poca (1-1) got outstanding pitching from sophomore ...
Cruz contacts Marshall about transferring
Apr 01, 1999 ... Former Wheeling Park standout Rafael Cruz has contacted Marshallbasketball Coach Greg White about the possibility of transferringfrom Massachusetts. Cruz, the 1996 West Virginia high school Player of the Year,played about seven minutes per game in his sophomore season. Heaveraged ...
,Steelers opening in Cleveland
Apr 01, 1999 ... PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers will open the 1999 seasonagainst the Browns in the new Cleveland Stadium. "This will be a great way to open the 1999 season for our fans byrenewing one of the great rivalries in the NFL," Steeler PresidentDan Rooney told the Pittsburgh ...
, Ravens land Purnell from Patriots
Apr 01, 1999 ... FOXBORO, Mass. - Tight end Lovett Purnell was traded to theBaltimore Ravens in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in thisyear's NFL Draft, the Patriots have announced. Purnell, 26, has started seven of 34 regular season games duringhis three years with the team. He had 17 ...
NBA report
Apr 01, 1999 ... Wizards 84, Magic 73 Juwan Howard scored 20 points and Washington used a record-settingdefensive performance to beat Orlando 84-73 Wednesday night. The 73 points by Orlando were the fewest ever allowed by theWashington franchise. The previous record was 74, by Cleveland ...
LOCALBRIEFS
Apr 01, 1999 ... Underwood plans his fourth trip to Japan Gov. Cecil Underwood plans to leave Friday for a five-day trip toJapan, his fourth journey there since he became governor in January1997. Underwood will meet with representatives of several Japanesecompanies which his staff would not ...
Gubernatorial hopeful is own largest donor
Apr 01, 1999 ... Jim Lees' biggest donor in his campaign for governor is himself. The Democrat has loaned himself about $415,000 so far. That'salmost all of the $428,000 total his campaign has raised. Lees says his self-sufficiency is a good thing."I am determined to begin this campaign in ...
Business briefs
Apr 01, 1999 ... Small business workshop set in Lewisburg A workshop aimed at helping small businesses develop theirmarketswill be conducted April 14 in Lewisburg. The workshop will be from 10 a.m.-noon in Room 208 of theGreenbrier Community College Center, 101 Church St. Sponsors are ...
ATM surcharges spread, increase: Consumer group calls practice 'gouging'
Apr 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - More than 90 percent of banks charge people to usetheir ATM machines if they aren't customers of the bank, up from 71percent a year ago, according to a new survey. The U.S. Public Interest Research Group was releasing the surveytoday, the third anniversary of the ...
BP Amoco buy makes second-largest oil firm
Apr 01, 1999 ... LONDON - BP Amoco Corp. announced today that it has acquiredAtlantic Richfield Co. for $26.6 billion in stock, paving the wayforthe creation of the world's second largest oil company. The combinedcompany would rank second in size behind the planned Exxon-Mobilcombination and would be ...
Corporate profits down for first time in nine years
Apr 01, 1999 ... WASHINGTON - The economy finished 1998 with an explosion ofgrowthbut it wasn't enough to prevent the decade's first drop in corporateprofits. The gross domestic product surged at a seasonally adjusted 6percent annual rate during the last three months of the year, theCommerce ...
Celebration of Spring
Apr 01, 1999; ... Spring is in bloom at Elk Elementary Center in Crede. Homemade multicolored caterpillars climb the walls and paperfireflies dangle from the ceilings. Real-life butterflies are breaking from their cocoons and thekindergarten/first grade multi-age classroom students are there ...
911 dispachers run through 2000 scenario: Dispatchers prepare to run office without using computers
Apr 01, 1999; ... Eeegump. "Did you hear that big that noise?" Carolyn Karr Charnock,director of Kanawha County's Metro Communications Center, askedtodaywhen the center's emergency generator kicked on. Charnock scurried around the center, asking the 911 dispatcherswhether they were prepared ...
Drug-sniffing dog makes another bust: South Charleston High student arrested on marijuana charge
Apr 01, 1999; ... Two days after three South Charleston Junior High students weresuspended for alleged marijuana possession, a senior at SouthCharleston High School was arrested when a drug sniffing dog foundmarijuana and money in his locker and car. Charles Anthony Parker, 18, of 5420 Ohio St. in ...
Police say driver in fatal accident was intoxicated
Apr 01, 1999; ... The driver of a car involved in an early-morning accident thatkilled four people was legally intoxicated but did not appear to bedrag racing, police said. After talking to witnesses, police have decided that ScottHudson,the driver of the car killed in the accident Tuesday in ...
Let's Go
Apr 01, 1999 ... Music KANAWHA FORUM: Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, 1009 VirginiaSt. E. University of Charleston Guitar Ensemble, 12:05 to 12:30 p.m.Wednesday. Free but donations welcome. Lunch, $6, follows concert.For reservations, call 342-6558 by Monday. OPEN STAGE: Unity of Kanawha ...
DJ takes a turn spinning tunes here
Apr 01, 1999; ... A career spinning records has kept Justin Maynard out of localcircles for a while. But the ever-rotating turntable of life will bring the Huntingtonnative back home this weekend. Maynard, who's built a DJ career in Philadelphia under the nameJustin Paul, will appear at 10 ...
Current
Apr 01, 1999 ... Gospel group coming to town Rising Christian music superstars Point of Grace will bring theirangelic harmonies to Charleston's Municipal Auditorium at 7 p.m.Saturday. The quartet - which includes Denise Jones, Heather Floyd, TerryLang and Shelley Phillips - formed in 1991 ...
Relax, it's just a review
Apr 01, 1999; ... You remortgage the house to get tickets. You watch Rod Stewartthrough binoculars as he shakes his 54-year-old bum. You go homehappy. And then you read the paper the next day, and some Daily Mailcritic is ripping Rod the Mod. You're, um, angry."Why do your reviewers give ...
It takes a dead man to bring Regatta back to life
Apr 01, 1999; ... Alternative rock icon Kurt Cobain has been booked to headlinethisyear's Charleston Sternwheel Regatta Festival, organizers announcedtoday at an April Fool's Day press conference. Cobain, who died in 1994, will headline the river festival'sfinalFriday night, on Sept ....
Goo Goo ga-ga didn't come quickly
Apr 01, 1999; ... You can't say success has spoiled Robby Takac's taste for thesimple pleasures of life on the road."Hey, it's just like theold days. I've got the shades down. I've got the TV on. I've got atowel over the lamp. I'm in great shape," joked the Goo Goo Dolls'bassist/vocalist, via phone ...
They were babes when 'Dark Side' was born
Apr 01, 1999; ... Floyd fans, rejoice! Members of local bands Five Fathoms Down and Scarlett Threshold,backed by several guest musicians, have come together for a one-shotlive performance of the Pink Floyd album that gave classic rock itsname - "Dark Side of the Moon." The show dubbed "The ...
NEWS FROMSCHOOL
Apr 01, 1999 ... Rotary Club receives Head Start grant The Upper Kanawha Valley Rotary Club has been awarded anational grant of $9,000 to fund a preschool reading awarenessprogram for Kanawha County Schools Head Start. The program will provide 450 "readiness backpacks" to be used at16 Head ...
Rose Society begins flower sale Friday
Apr 01, 1999 ... Miniature roses will be sold by the Mountain State Rose Societybeginning Friday. Many different ...
California finds itself running out of prison space: Official warning
Apr 01, 1999 ... TRACY, Calif. - They sleep nearly head-to-toe, sit elbow-to-elbowto use the toilet and wait in lines even for water. They swelter insummer and freeze in winter. They are prisoners, sullen young men who mill about in the dimlight of a converted gym, wandering along narrow aisles ...
readers' vent line
Apr 01, 1999 ... * People in Kanawha City didn't want a Wal-Mart, and now theydon't want a Lowe's. Tell Ed Maier that he should bring a paper millin or waste treatment plant, and then let the people call 1-800-CRY-BABY. - The Saturday Daily Mail is a joke. Three-fourths of it issports and ...
Counter vigil held in Gauley Bridge
Apr 01, 1999 ... Less than a week after a candlelight march by supporters who saidformer Gauley Bridge Police Chief Lee Edward Jones is innocent ofsexual assault charges, a candlelight vigil was held to "support thevictims." About 20 people gathered in Gauley Bridge Wednesday night, someholding ...