Charleston Gazette back issues from March 1999:
Seneca Chamber Orchestra performs
Mar 01, 1999; ... For the GAZETTE Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" was the best part of a fineconcert Sunday by the Seneca Chamber Orchestra, which performed atChrist Church United Methodist. The small crowd that turned outheard not only one of the best performances of the current ...
ABC's 'Sports Night' sitcom deserves more
Mar 01, 1999; ... Spend enough time with television and you will become suspiciousof most things about the medium, including the numbingly familiarcampaigns to save another supposedly worthy series and theproclamations that such-and-such a program is bending the rules ofTVin fascinating ways. So ...
Winter takes March by storm
Mar 02, 1999; ... March made a grand entrance in West Virginia's mountains Mondaywith up to 10 inches of wet snow that shut schools in at least 10counties. The heaviest snow occurred in Randolph and Pocahontas counties.Up to 5 inches of snow fell from Raleigh County northeast toRandolphCounty, ...
Deadly silence: Industry reporting on dioxin requires vigilance
Mar 02, 1999; ... IN THE small town of Rosamond, Calif., nine children contractedcancer over the course of three years. Seven of the children died,five of a brain cancer so rare that even one case in a town so smallis unusual. When their parents, and eventually the government, begandigging for answers, ...
Time for change: Say no to anti-gay violence, yes to Hate Crimes Act amendment
Mar 02, 1999; ... WHEN my daughter was a student at Morgantown High, I would oftenfind a group of teen-agers sitting around my kitchen table when Igothome from work. These were the kids she grew up with in ourneighborhood. I have known many of them since we moved here fromCharleston when she started ...
Crime stopper: Handgun-control ordinance helped stem city's drugs-for-guns trade
Mar 02, 1999; ... IN THE 1980s, Charleston experienced dramatic increases in theillegal sale of drugs. Cooperative efforts by federal, state andcity police revealed that a major aspect of drug business involvedhandguns. By the early 1990s, the police established that in many instancesdrug dealers ...
Readers' forum
Mar 02, 1999 ... Liquor retailers want to keep selling Editor: As an owner of a state franchised retail liquor store, I feelthatwe should be able to continue on with our business.We at The Loft, as well as in dozens of other retail liquorestablishments, have worked extremely hard at our ...
Cancer deaths ?: Jarvis needs some evidence
Mar 02, 1999 ... SCHOOL board member Betty Jarvis is trying to fire Kanawha Countyschools' maintenance director Ben Shew because, she says, he"allowed" 15 workers at the school system warehouse to die of cancerover the last 12 years. Jarvis can't name these 15 workers, nor does she have ...
Infectious waste: Public input needed
Mar 02, 1999; ... IN 1992, the Legislature passed a law banning commercial medicalwaste facilities in West Virginia. There's a loophole, however,allowing construction if certain conditions, including anopportunityfor a public vote, are met. In Barbour County, W. Doyle Payne Jr. is attempting to ...
Readers' forum
Mar 02, 1999 ... Man's generosity aids travelers Editor: To the man from West Virginia who gave half of his last $4 tosomefellow travelers near De Funiak Springs, Fla.: I would like you toknow how much your kindness touched us.We were just leaving to go home to Texas after burying ...
'Moral' politicians
Mar 02, 1999; ... "When I saw headlines describing George W. Bush's inauguralspeechas a 'call for a moral Texas,' my gag mechanism almost popped aclutch. Whenever a politician draws a 'moral' line, watch it zig.Watch it zag. The moral guardians of the Reagan administration, ...
Study calls for earlier Pap smears
Mar 02, 1999 ... CHICAGO (AP) - Suburban and rural white girls in New England hadstrikingly high rates of cervical cell abnormalities, which areoftencaused by a sexually transmitted virus and can lead to cancer, astudy found. The findings argue for early Pap smear screening of all ...
MSAC teams begin regional play tonight: Girls basketball
Mar 02, 1999 ... Several Mountain State Athletic Conference schools will be out toearn girls state tournament berths tonight when the Class AAAregional basketball championship games are played throughout WestVirginia. - Huntington (21-1), the top-ranked Class AAA team in the state,takes on ...
Schedule
Mar 02, 1999 ... Senate 9:30 a.m.: Finance Committee 10 a.m.: Judiciary Committee11 a.m.: Floor session1 p.m.: Health and Human Resources Committee2 p.m.: Education Committee3 ...
Highlights of Senate domestic law bill
Mar 02, 1999; ... Here are some highlights of the domestic law bill endorsed by theSenate Judiciary Committee on Monday. The bill would: - Require parents of minor children who are divorcing to takeparenting classes unless a judge finds reason to waive the class.Courts also could order people ...
LEGISLATURE 1899: Bill would abolish primary caretaker rule
Mar 02, 1999; ... The parent who is the primary caretaker of a child would notnecessarily get custody of that child in a divorce under a bill theSenate Judiciary Committee endorsed Monday. The bill would abolish the law that automatically grants custodyto the person who usually takes care of the ...
National
Mar 02, 1999 ... Anchorage 25 15 Cldy Atlanta 63 43 Cldy Boston 43 32 CldyChas., S.C. 66 42 ClrCharlotte 59 37 CldyChicago 43 32 RainCincinnati 43 31 RainCleveland 37 25 CldyDallas 80 51 CldyDenver 63 30 CldyDetroit 39 23 CldyElkins 34 25 PCldyHonolulu m m MsngHouston 79 58 ...
World
Mar 02, 1999 ... Amsterdam 50 46 rn Athens 62 42 clr Beijing 54 34 clrBerlin 52 41 snBermuda 69 60 rnCairo 69 51 clrCalgary 55 20 cdyDublin 52 44 rnHong Kong 77 62 cdyJerusalem 60 40 clrLondon 56 49 rnMadrid 61 35 clrManila 90 75 cdyMexico ...
Regional
Mar 02, 1999; ... * Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Putnam,Wyoming: Today, cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs inthe upper 50s. Tonight, an 80 percent chance of rain. Lows in thelower to mid-40s. - Cabell, Mason, Wayne: Today, a 40 percent chance of rain. Highsin the ...
SNAPSHOTS Of The 20th Century
Mar 02, 1999 ... During World War II, Lance Hudnall operated a bus line from hisTexaco station at Cedar Grove up Kellys Creek to Blakely. Hisoriginal intention was to provide transportation for miners to gettowork, but others along Kellys Creek needed rides, too. So Hudnallsoon went from a panel ...
GAZETTE 1899
Mar 02, 1999 ... Taken from the pages of the Daily Gazette in the months and daysprior to the turn of the 20th century. Each item corresponds withthe same week in 1899. Italic type denotes actual text from 100years ...
corrections
Mar 02, 1999 ... The e-mail address was incorrectly listed in Viewpoint inMonday'sGazette for Nathan Wilson, director of the West Virginia Council ofChurches. The e-mail address is ...
NBA
Mar 02, 1999 ... EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GBOrlando 11 4 .733 -Miami 9 4 .692 1New York 9 5 .643 11/2Philadelphia 9 5 .643 11/2Boston 6 6 .500 31/2Washington 4 8 .333 51/2New Jersey 3 10 .231 7Central DivisionIndiana 9 4 .692 -Atlanta 8 6 .571 11/2Detroit 8 ...
W.Va. ski report
Mar 02, 1999 ... State ski report The latest West Virginia ski conditions as supplied by SnoCountryMountain Reports. Conditions are subject to change due to weather,skier traffic and other factors. Be aware of changing conditions. * Canaan Valley - 3 new, machine groomed, 20-60 inch base, ...
Latest line
Mar 02, 1999 ... NBA Favorite Points Underdog INDIANA 11 DenverATLANTA 6 WashingtonCLEVELAND 3 1/2 BostonNEW JERSEY 3 MilwaukeeMIAMI 3 New YorkMINNESOTA 8 Golden StateHOUSTON 4 San AntonioDetroit 8 ...
College tennis
Mar 02, 1999 ... At Philadelphia Saturday's results Pennsylvania 4, West Virginia 3Singles: Sobotka, Penn d. Dektas 6-3, 6-2; Szekely, Penn d.Shaffer 6-2, 6-3; Kent, WVU d. Zupan 7-6 (6-0), 6-2; Meringoff, Pennd. Vlad ...
CBA leaders
Mar 02, 1999 ... Continental Basketball Association Through Sunday's games Scoring G FG FT Pts AvgJones,IDH 30 244 90 687 22.9Edwards,IDH 38 338 139 815 21.4Page,SFS 28 203 102 561 20.0Griffin,CON 36 242 165 663 18.4Ford,YAK 26 170 55 443 17.0Mott,LAC 23 129 129 391 17.0Bailey,FTW 33 ...
YMCA basketball
Mar 02, 1999 ... Tri-County YMCA Men's open division The Boys 101, Toyota 3 50Toyota 4 56, Floor Runners 52Hickory 80, Ikon 38Slammers 96, Toyota 2 43Boys high ...
Meetings, etc.
Mar 02, 1999 ... - ROWDIES TRYOUTS: The West Virginia Rowdies, an under-14 boyssoccer team, will hold tryouts at 2 p.m. Sunday at the ...
Fullback who looked like defensive tackle moved to that spot
Mar 02, 1999; ... ODDS AND ENDS and a few things I think I think: * Remember watching Wes Ours play fullback for West Virginia lastfall and thinking to yourself, "Now there's a defensive tackle ifever I saw one?" Well, congratulations on your astute football sense.In WVU's spring prospectus, a ...
Names in the games
Mar 02, 1999 ... All-around night earns Godfrey honor East Bank senior Philip Godfrey recorded a rare quadruple-doublelast week and was named The Associated Press high school boysbasketball player of the week Monday. Godfrey scored a career-high 44 points, including eight 3-pointers, had 11 ...
New start for Tech: School introduces coach, boosters show support
Mar 02, 1999; ... Senior Writer MONTGOMERY - Mike Springston on Monday got off to a $40,000 starttoward revamping the fortunes of the West Virginia University Techfootball program. Springston was presented a $40,000 over-sized check for thefootball program from Mike Bell, who was representing ...
Goree gets conference recognition: WVU forward second-team All-Big East, up for award
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER As far as bright spots and highlights are concerned, this hasn'tbeen much of a year for West Virginia's basketball team. So when theBig East Conference passes out its individual awards tonight in NewYork, the Mountaineers figure to be on the outside looking ...
Spring training
Mar 02, 1999; ... Sammy Sosa finally arrived at spring training Monday and - in asurprise, so did Yogi Berra. The Hall of Fame catcher, who had boycotted the New York Yankeessince George Steinbrenner fired him 14 years ago, attended anintrasquad game in Tampa, Fla. "It's tremendous. It's a ...
Rijo set to try one more time
Mar 02, 1999 ... CINCINNATI (AP) - Once Jose Rijo's baseball academy in theDominican Republic is complete, he intends to try to resurrect hisbaseball career one more time. Despite nearly four years of elbow operations and waylaidcomebackattempts, Rijo isn't ready to retire. He said Monday that he ...
Sports briefs
Mar 02, 1999; ... Testaverde signs for 3 years, $19.5 million NEW YORK - Vinny and the Jets have extended their marriage by atleast three years. Vinny Testaverde, who led the New York Jets within a victory ofthe Super Bowl last season, Monday signed a three-year contractworthnearly $19.5 ...
Parkersburg South jumps into top spot
Mar 02, 1999 ... Parkersburg South unseated Woodrow Wilson as the top team in theClass AAA final regular-season Associated Press state high schoolboys basketball poll Monday. The Patriots (19-3) received five first-place votes and 103pointsfor the No. 1 rating. The Flying Eagles (16-6) only ...
Transactions
Mar 02, 1999 ... AUTO RACING LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY-Named Howard Nemenz vice president ofsales and marketing. BASEBALLAmerican LeagueANAHEIM ANGELS-Agreed to terms with RHP Pep Harris on a one-yearcontract.TORONTO BLUE JAYS-Agreed to terms with 2B Homer Bush on a ...
College baseball poll
Mar 02, 1999 ... Collegiate Baseball Div II Top 25 TUCSON, Ariz. - The top 25 teams in the Collegiate BaseballDivision II poll, with records, and point totals through Feb. 28(voting by coaches, sports writers and sports informationdirectors): Pos-Team Record Pts1. Florida Southern 14-1-0 ...
Pro hockey
Mar 02, 1999 ... National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic DivisionW L T Pts GF GANew Jersey 33 20 8 74 181 153Philadelphia 30 17 13 73 187 137Pittsburgh 32 20 7 71 187 163N.Y. Rangers 25 28 7 57 169 170N.Y. Islanders 19 35 7 45 143 183Northeast DivisionW L T Pts GF ...
Pro tennis
Mar 02, 1999 ... Copenhagen Open COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Results Monday of the $240,000 CopenhagenOpen ATP tournament: Singles/first roundFrederik Fetterlein, Denmark, def. David Prinosil (7), Germany,6- 1, 6-4.Fabrice Santoro (4), France, def. Thomas Larsen, Denmark, 6-3, 6-0.Daniel ...
BOYS BASKETBALL
Mar 02, 1999 ... Monday's state sectional scores Doddridge County 54, Notre Dame 39 Gilbert 49, Baileysville 48Wirt County 47, Wahama 45Monday's boxCalvary Baptist 19 9 14 24 -66Teays Valley 13 12 26 17 -68C - Carr 23, Rollins 13, Campbell 9, Burton 7, Fagan 10, Green 4T - Bartlett ...
The Top 25
Mar 02, 1999 ... The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's collegebasketballpoll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb.28,total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through onepoint for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pv 1. Duke ...
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Mar 02, 1999; ... Robert Wilkins, a black, Harvard-educated lawyer, could see thiswas no ordinary speeding ticket. The Maryland State Police officerswere taking too long. So he climbed out of the rented Cadillac that drizzly dawn in1992to find officers questioning his cousin, the driver. Wilkins' ...
Hospital chapel fire investigated
Mar 02, 1999 ... A suspicious fire damaged an organ in the chapel at St. FrancisHospital in Charleston on Monday evening, authorities said. Assistant Fire Chief David Javins said someone apparently set amusic book that was setting on top of the organ on fire.Firefighters received a call about ...
Tax chief wants revision of obscure 1905 land law
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER Tax Secretary Robin Capehart said he hopes lawmakers will revampalittle-known excess acreage tax dating back to 1905 to provide a newrevenue source from large absentee landholders. "We didn't even know about it until about three months ago,"Capehart said. "Not ...
Bill splits children between agencies: Juvenile officials fear change means more harm than good
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER Legislators are trying to figure out how to sort out the 1,500troubled children and teens who end up on the state's doorstep. The current plan before the Legislature would give all the abusedand neglected kids to the Department of Health and Human Resources,the ...
Senate places limits on new rafting licenses
Mar 02, 1999; ... The number of new companies licensed to operate raftingbusinesseson the New and Gauley rivers would be limited under a bill theSenatepassed on Monday. The bill would allow one additional permit to be issued on theGauley River. It also would put into law an industry compromise ...
Van Horn's jumper helps Nets get past Celtics
Mar 02, 1999; ... BOSTON - Keith Van Horn's short jumper from the right baselinebounced straight up off the rim and fell through as time expired tolift the struggling New Jersey Nets to a 99-97 win over the BostonCeltics on Monday night. After Boston tied the game 97-97 when Andrew DeClercq hit ...
MAC: Herd freshman VanHoose honored
Mar 02, 1999 ... TOLEDO, Ohio - Marshall University forward J.R. VanHoose wasnamedto the Mid-American Conference all-freshman team Monday. Miami of Ohio's Wally Szczerbiak was selected the MAC player ofthe year in balloting by media representatives. VanHoose, 6-foot-10 native of Paintsville, ...
Offseason foreign word for Man standout
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER No, his uncle's name is not Jim McBeam. And yes, Man High School's three-sport star Jack McDaniels gets alot of ribbing about his name - which he inherited from both hisfather and grandfather."Whenever people first hear it, they want to know if the Mc iseven ...
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Mar 02, 1999; ... The Detroit Lions' traditional Thanksgiving Day game is underfireagain. Vice chairman Bill Ford Jr. was informed Monday that NFL owners,meeting March 14-18 in Phoenix, will discuss a proposal to take theThanksgiving game away from the Lions and Cowboys and rotate itamongall ...
Committee blames IOC scandal on 'gift-creep'
Mar 02, 1999 ... NEW YORK (AP) - An ethics committee Monday blamed the Olympicbribery scandal on leaders who turned a blind eye to corruption thatwas "flourishing" even as the games grew into a billion-dollarempire. The panel, headed by former Senate Majority Leader GeorgeMitchell, urged the ...
PARENTING: Son's friends are older? Stay calm
Mar 02, 1999; ... Q. Our 14-year-old son looks at least two years older and is moremature in many ways than most boys his age. He recently startedhanging around with a group of boys who are two and three yearsolderand have driver's licenses. These boys don't have bad reputations;in fact, they're all ...
Bulletin board
Mar 02, 1999 ... TODAY Sissonville Branch Library will offer IRS/VITA tax preparationfrom 6 to 8 p.m. today and on March 11 at the library. Preceptor Alpha Chapter, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority will meet at7:30p.m. at Bethel Baptist Church, 5028 Kentucky Ave. S.W. DianeDimaschko will ...
Thumb-sucking husband should seek counseling
Mar 02, 1999; ... Dear Ann Landers: I have been reading your column for a longtime,hoping someone would write in about my problem, but it hasn'thappened, so here I am. My husband is 52 years old. We have been married for 15 years.Although I was a willing and responsive partner, I realized early ...
Eeeew !
Mar 02, 1999; ... Earl Wiman, principal of Alexander Elementary School inJackson,Tenn., eats a stir-fried worm in front of a crowd ...
Horoscope
Mar 02, 1999; ... Tuesday, March 2, 1999 Your birthday today: Another person can provide just what youneedthis year, and it might be supportive coaching. Listen to one whoannoys you in March. By April, you should see the value in what thisperson's trying to teach you. Practice makes perfect in ...
Corrections must rehire fired guard
Mar 02, 1999; ... RANDOLPH County Circuit Judge John Henning Jr. has said theDivision of Corrections must rehire Larry McCauley as a correctionalofficer at the Huttonsville Correctional Center. Henning's ruling last month upheld a decision by the WestVirginiaEducation and State Employees Grievance ...
Libraries failing, consultant says: State is letting towns, counties get away with underfunding substandard facilities
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER West Virginia communities spend less per person on their publiclibraries than all but one state in the country. And unless local governments start allocating more money forlibraries, some may have to close, a consultant told the stateLibrary Commission ...
Family takes hill with no shots fired: Small cemetery is a monument to generations of the (mostly) fighting Childress family
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER Four generations of the Childress family are buried on a hilltopoff Corridor G. The Childress who stands out is James Childress. For one, heproved a prolific producer of children. He and his wife had 14offspring.But it's what James Childress didn't do that is ...
Handicap inaccess?: The Cultural Center can be difficult to get to, but no one complaining
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER Unless they finagle an invitation to the loading dock, there's noeasy way for the handicapped to visit the Cultural Center. The same is true of the elderly, or people who just can't getaround very well.You can't be dropped off at the front door. Access to ...
Feds come to probe for abuses by police
Mar 02, 1999; ... STAFF WRITER Investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice arrive inCharleston this week to review allegations lodged against the city'sStreet Crimes Unit by Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney BillForbes. - Race profiling, 8BThe Special Litigation Section of the ...
Dunbar Council wants more info from city's sanitary board
Mar 02, 1999; ... FOR THE GAZETTE Dunbar council members said Monday that they want moreinvolvementwith the sanitary board. "We want to be more familiar with the plans and expenses so thatwe can be able to answer citizens' questions," said Councilman DanaHayes.The sanitary board is working ...
SUCCESSFUL INVESTING: Lack of profits plagues Amazon.com
Mar 02, 1999; ... Q. I own 145 shares of Amazon.com Inc. and haven't been happywiththeir performance lately. Are they worth holding, or shall I selland accept my losses? - U.K., via the Internet A. It's always difficult to put an accurate price tag on thefuture, as investors in volatile, ...