Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from June 1999:
The rarity of common sense: Collection of columns shows how Mike Royko is missed
Jun 06, 1999; ... FOR THE SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Something very telling happened when Mike Royko died in April1997. As might be expected with the death of any beloved columnist,messages from bereaved fans poured in to the Chicago Tribune, thenewspaper he wrote for. But what was significant was ...
The rarity of common sense: Excerpt from "One More Time"
Jun 06, 1999 ... From Mike Royko's Aug. 16, 1967, column on the unveiling ofChicago's Picasso statue: That is all there is to it. Some soaring lines, yes. Interestingdesign, I'm sure. But the fact is, it has a long stupid face andlooks like some giant insect that is about to eat a smaller, ...
Top 5 Books
Jun 06, 1999; ... Rankings reflect sales for the week ending May 22 at almost 4,000bookstores plus wholesalers serving 50,000 other retailers (giftshops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets), statisticallyweighted to represent all such outlets nationwide. Hardcovers Fiction1. STAR ...
Area Classes
Jun 06, 1999 ... This is an occasional roundup of area classes and workshops. Tolist something, e-mail beat@wvgazette.com or mail to AREACLASSES/Douglas Imbrogno, Charleston Newspapers, 1001 Virginia St.E., Charleston, WV 25301. Sunrise Museum's Summer Workshop Series Sunrise Museum is taking ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... Ultrasound treatment can give short-term relief to people withpainful tendinitis in the shoulder, one study found. The study, published in the May 20 New England Journal ofMedicine, looked at the effectiveness of ultrasound in breaking downthe calcium deposits in the rotator cuff ...
HEALTH Q&A Few X-ray precautions are needed
Jun 06, 1999; ... Q. Are any precautions needed when taking X-rays? A. Some people worry about radiation, but when doctors anddentists order X-ray pictures they take into consideration theminuterisk - and have decided that the value outweighs the risk. X-rays are used to detect injuries to ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... "Shaping Up America's Green Thumb," a 16-page booklet by New Yorkfitness consultants Tucker and Eugenia Bradshaw, is designed to helpyou through the garden season in comfort. Illustrations and shortdescriptions for 12 strength exercises and 13 stretches help form 10-minute programs for ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... Q. Recently, our son needed an operation and had his blood typeidentified as type O. Yet my wife and other son, as well as myself,are type B. How is it possible that both parents having the sameblood type can result in a child having a completely different bloodtype? - A.H., Patterson, ...
Health experts hope we walk, bike more
Jun 06, 1999; ... WASHINGTON - Americans are not getting enough healthy physicalactivity, and would be better off if walking or biking were a biggerpart of daily life, federal health experts say. One way to get Americans on their feet is to get them out frombehind the wheel. "Nationally, 7 ...
Calling all correspondents
Jun 06, 1999 ... FlipSide needs you for next school year. If you like to write,take photos and/or illustrate, here's your chance to show us yourstuff. Call 348-4881 and ask for a correspondent application. Once youreceive it, complete it and return it with a recent photo (yourschool mug shot is ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... When it comes to travel bookings, the millennium-party bandwagonisn't living up to its original promise, according to Travel Weekly,a publication for travel agents, tour operators and others in thetravel business. In a front-page article, the newspaper noted that several hotspots ...
More-lando: If you go to Universal Studios
Jun 06, 1999 ... Universal Studios Islands of Adventure adjoins Universal StudiosFlorida, southwest of downtown Orlando, Fla., on Interstate 4. Hours: Universal park hours are 9 a.m.-7 p.m. through July 1;open9 a.m.-10 p.m. daily July 1-Aug. 31. Admission: One-day/one-park pass $46.64; $37.10 ...
Yellowstone: Vistas of wonder
Jun 06, 1999; ... FOR THE SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL OUR son, Doug, had finished college and was celebrating with across-country motorcycle trip when he telephoned one night tocomplain: "Why didn't you bring me here as a kid? This place isfantastic."He was calling from Yellowstone National Park, a ...
That's my name, not wearing out: Why can't a reported get people to use her name correctly ?
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL It has been a year since I squished my first two names together.I thought it would work. I thought people would get it. Still, people read the tag line at the end of a story, call me upand ask for "Mary."Why do they think that "Wade" is attached there? I ...
How to swim with the office sharks: WORK BOOKS
Jun 06, 1999; ... As someone who has always been a chronic sufferer of foot-in-mouthdisease, I can't say how much I wish Ronna Lichtenberg's new bookhadcome across my desk sooner. "Work Would Be Great If It Weren't for All the People" ($12.95,Hyperion) is subtitled "Making Office Politics Work ...
Tourism officials defend no-bid contract with CityNet: What the critics say
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL State tourism officials insist that it is strictly coincidentalthat the division cut off tourism grants for Internet advertising atthe same time it awarded a no-bid contract to CityNet to build a newInternet/1-800 call center to promote tourism. Critics of ...
State Briefs
Jun 06, 1999 ... Lawyers show support for Workers' Comp suits State lawyers will write the state Supreme Court this week insupport of bringing more than 25 coal companies to trial for unpaidworkers' compensation premiums. At its annual summer meeting in Charleston Saturday, the WestVirginia ...
Ex-W.Va. coal operator now having fun only money can buy
Jun 06, 1999; ... WELLINGTON, Fla. - The polo game has yet to begin, and asmultimillionaire businessman Glenn Straub pulls on a pair of leatherriding boots, perspiration already coats his face. Maybe it's the humidity. Or maybe it's the prospect of playing asport that sent Straub to the hospital ...
Correction
Jun 06, 1999 ... The Sunday Gazette-Mail on May 30 incorrectly reported the statepark for which 27 ...
MINING THE MOUNTAINS: Industry, critics look for mountaintop removal: alternative; Is there another way ?
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Since late 1997, when mountaintop removal first made headlines,Arch Coal Inc. officials have argued that they can't make moneymining in steep mountain terrain unless their draglines operate fulltilt, and unless they are allowed to bury miles of ...
Terms laid out ; Serbs shell
Jun 06, 1999; ... BLACE, Macedonia - At a Macedonian coffeehouse on the Kosovoborder Saturday, NATO spelled out to Yugoslav generals the exactterms for the withdrawal of Serb troops from the province - a keycondition for the allied bombings to halt. The talks adjourned after five hours, and a NATO ...
Havoc awaits refugees
Jun 06, 1999; ... BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - They left a land of villages, vineyardsandfields. They will come back to a broken, burned-out place. WhenKosovo's ethnic Albanian refugees return, their tired, homesick eyeswill fill with scenes of devastation. They will see fallow fields, shattered shops, ...
Medal of Honor escapes Marion man's D-Day feat
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL He lies in a Marion County cemetery, hundreds of miles fromArlington. Many of the men who worked with him in the Marion coal minesdidn't even know he had fought in World War II. He was once evenleft out of a veterans' appreciation day at the mine."He ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... CHICAGO - At Morse Elementary School in a northwestsideneighborhood where 97 percent of the children are poor, PrincipalLeon Hudnall Jr. is trying to keep failure at bay. "The more you work with your kids, the fewer kids you're going tohave retained," Hudnall said recently as more ...
Social promotion policies
Jun 06, 1999 ... * Promotion based on student test scores: Colorado, Connecticut,Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin. * Promotion based on state and local rules: Maryland. * Promotion based on ...
Singer Torme dead at 73
Jun 06, 1999; ... LOS ANGELES - Mel Torme, the jazz and pop singer whose warmvocalsearned him the unwanted title "the Velvet Fog," and the co-writer ofthe Christmas classic that celebrates "chestnuts roasting on an openfire," died Saturday. He was 73. Torme, who had suffered what was described as ...
Police search for SA Go-Mart robber
Jun 06, 1999 ... Authorities in two counties were on the lookout Saturday for amanwho robbed a St. Albans convenience store. J.R. Bird, a St. Albans Police Department dispatcher, said a manarmed with a 9-mm pistol walked into the Go-Mart store on B Streetat2:15 p.m. and walked out with a large ...
Salvage crews dismantle plane
Jun 06, 1999; ... LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - American Airlines crews began dismantling thebroken and charred shell of an airliner Saturday while mournersattended the first of several memorial services for the nine peoplekilled in the crash of Flight 1420. Federal investigators hope that while moving the ...
Md. governor's son is arrested
Jun 06, 1999; ... COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The teen-age son of Maryland Gov. Parris N.Glendening was arrested early Saturday on charges of drunkendriving. Raymond H. Glendening was stopped about 2:30 a.m. and failedseveral field sobriety tests, Prince George's County Police ...
Deaths
Jun 06, 1999 ... Thelma Lillian Adkins Thelma Lillian Adkins, 84, of Charleston, formerly ofBarboursville, died June 4, 1999, at home. She was a retired employee of Huntington Manufacturing.Surviving: son, Dennis Adkins of Charleston; grandchildren, DennisAdkins Jr. and Kelsey ...
Funerals today
Jun 06, 1999 ... BAILEY, G. Braxton - 2 p.m., Rock Branch Independent Church,Nitro. BARNETTE, Bertha A. - 11 a.m., Reger Funeral Home, Huntington. BUDD, Betty R. - 4 p.m., Heck Funeral Home, Milton.CASTO, Sherry D. - 2 p.m., Matics Funeral Home, Clendenin.COHEN, Marion S. - 2 p.m., ...
Putnam parents blast school consolidation proposal
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Dishing up pizzas at Angaleno's Restaurant, Sherry Torman seesdozens of customers every day who remember the last time they talkedabout shutting down Buffalo High School. They remember how the late Mr. Hulbert gave the land to thecounty50 years ago, with ...
State, county still hope for buyer
Jun 06, 1999; ... WESTON - The visions for Weston Hospital are many, the dollars tosupport them apparently much harder to come by. So the massive, medieval-looking monument to 19th century mentalillness stands empty. "There just aren't a lot of things it could be readapted for,"says Robin ...
Weston Hospital's dead finally getting proper tribute
Jun 06, 1999; ... WESTON - On three remote Lewis County hilltops, the onlyacknowledgment of the 2,500 graves are a half-dozen crumblingheadstones and a wire fence to keep out grazing cattle. There are few clues that the peaceful clearings are cemeteries,filled with the bodies of once-tormented ...
'The Lunatic Asylum'
Jun 06, 1999; ... Weston Hospital, originally named The Lunatic Asylum West of theAlleghenys, was created by Virginia lawmakers March 22, 1858. Thestate had only two psychiatric facilities at the time - one inStaunton and one in Williamsburg - and a third was needed to careforpeople who lived on the ...
MINING THE MOUNTAINS: Coal industry competition made mines bigger
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL In July 1997, Arch Mineral Corp. acquired Ashland Coal Inc. Themerged companies formed St. Louis-based Arch Coal Inc., the largestcoal producer in West Virginia. Arch Coal's West Virginia operations mined 26.9 million tons ofcoal in 1997, just enough to ...
Weather or not
Jun 06, 1999 ... School is letting out, but teaching weather safety takes novacation ....
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Jun 06, 1999; ... Gambling is big business in America. And it's getting bigger bythe week. A study by the National Opinion Research Center at the Universityof Chicago last month found there are 544 licensed casinos in theUnited States. The 143 that participated in the study had an averageof $110.7 ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... WASHINGTON - Delay, President Clinton told Congress, would meanthe death of campaign finance reform. So he urged a deadline foraction: the Fourth of July. Of 1997. The issue is still there, and so are the delays. Overhauling thecampaign finance system has become a perennial ...
Columbine students use faith to get by
Jun 06, 1999; ... LITTLETON, Colo. - Beyond this Denver suburb, public figures fromVice President Al Gore to Gary Bauer, the conservative Republicanrunning for president, have praised Cassie Bernall as a symbol ofeverything that is right with young people today. At Columbine High School, Bernall is ...
Bank ends deal with Robertson: after his 'dark land' comment
Jun 06, 1999; ... EDINBURGH, Scotland - The Bank of Scotland dropped plans tolauncha U.S. telephone banking service with religious broadcaster PatRobertson after he referred to Scotland as a "dark land" because ittolerates homosexuals, the bank said Saturday. During a meeting in Boston on Friday, ...
Robertson, African strongman join in a search for golf: Televangelist's partner known for bloody past
Jun 06, 1999; ... VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Pat Robertson, whose failed African diamond-mining operation five years ago stirred criticism and prompted astill-ongoing state investigation, is embarking on a new Africanmining venture. This time he's searching for gold. As an ally, Robertson has an ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... Across America, doctors are stepping up efforts to find a curefordifficult and sometimes unwilling patients: themselves. They face a grim diagnosis, made three months ago in one of thecountry's most prestigious medical journals: Some doctors areunknowingly afflicted with a ...
ESSAYS on faith: 'Honor the earth': justice for West Virginia's mountains
Jun 06, 1999; ... MANY people are speaking for the mountains - the HighlandsConservancy, the Environmental Council, Denise Giardina, and thosewho gather at rallies to save our mountains. The beauty of themountains should speak for itself, but it doesn't when coal isbeneath the beauty. I, too, want to lend ...
U.S troops re-enact D-Day
Jun 06, 1999; ... COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - On the eve of the 55th anniversaryofD-Day, U.S. troops re-enacted an amphibious landing Saturday innorthern France as part of commemorations of World War II battles. The landing was staged by active duty soldiers on Omaha Beach,thedeadliest of the ...
DEATHS
Jun 06, 1999 ... Opal Marie Roberts SCOTT DEPOT - Opal Marie Roberts, 82, of Scott Depot died June 4,1999, in Putnam General Hospital, Hurricane, after a long illness. She was a homemaker and a member of Teays Valley PresbyterianChurch and Order of the Eastern Star, Hurricane.Surviving: ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... Ever get the feeling that somewhere out in cyberspace someone isgathering a digital dossier on you? Monitoring the sites you visit?Keeping track of the books you read? Pulling together revealingpersonal details, such as where you live and how much you earn? Hold that ...
Keep your cookies to yourself: Safeguards
Jun 06, 1999 ... Junkbusters (http://www.junk busters.com), a privacy-rightsorganization, provides tips to help consumers filter unwanted,unsolicited advertising. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (www.epic.org) is aresearch center in Washington that focuses on civil liberties issuesand ...
Some brokers fear longer trading day
Jun 06, 1999; ... NEW YORK - They hunch over stock tables in the dead of night andtroll the Internet at the crack of dawn for hot tips and rumors. These investors aren't content to buy and hold for the long term,and instead clamor to trade all day, every day. Americans who have embraced ...
Business Briefs
Jun 06, 1999 ... Small business workshop Monday "Going into Business in West Virginia and Financing a SmallBusiness" will be held Monday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at theCharleston Small Business Development Center, 950 Kanawha Blvd.East.The fee is $5 per person. For more information call, ...
Internet Service Providers: Oh, what a tangled Web we've weaved; Consumers face many choices and fierce business competition
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL You've heard all the hype about this thing called the Internetanddecided to take the plunge. You bought a home computer with a modem.Now you have to pick an Internet service. Even for experienced Net surfers, choosing an Internet serviceprovider, or ISP, ...
Travel guides: STATE REFINES EFFORTS TO ATTRACT VISITORS
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Travel writers tend to be a pretty spoiled lot. They're used towining and dining at fancy resorts, often for free - courtesy of thefolks they're writing about. So when state tourism officials were planning a reception fortravel writers at the Forbes ...
U.S.
Jun 06, 1999 ... Anchorage 65 43 Clr Atlanta 86 67 Cldy Boston 72 57 CldyCharlotte,N.C. 84 62 CldyChicago 85 69 CldyCincinnati 87 67 CldyCleveland 83 65 ClrDallas-Ft Worth 92 74 CldyDenver 75 47 ClrDetroit 84 65 CldyElkins 83 53 PCldyHonolulu 85 72 ClrHouston 95 74 ...
World
Jun 06, 1999 ... Amsterdam 62 50 Rain Athens 88 75 Clr Beijing 85 57 ClrBerlin 73 54 CldyBermuda 83 70 CldyCairo 93 69 ClrCalgary 70 42 CldyDublin 56 38 CldyHong Kong 87 79 CldyJerusalem 83 56 ClrLondon 64 48 CldyMadrid 81 53 ClrManila 83 78 RainMexico ...
Regional
Jun 06, 1999 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Partly sunny and hot. Highs near 90. Tonight, mostly clear andmuggy. Lows in the mid-60s. Monday, partly sunny, hot and humid.Highs in the lower 90s. Pleasants, Tyler, Wood: Today, partly sunny. Highs 85-90.Tonight, mostly clear and muggy. Lows in the ...
Weather data
Jun 06, 1999 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 86 Low 52Normal high 81Normal low 57June 5 record high 99 set in 1935June 5 record low 42 set in 1988Saturday's precipitation24-hour ...
SC election unsurprising
Jun 06, 1999 ... There were few surprises in Saturday's lackluster municipalelections in South Charleston, where many of the candidates ranwithout opposition. Unopposed Mayor Richie Robb was elected to a record seventhconsecutive term Saturday, garnering 1,223 votes after all of thecity's 16 ...
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Jun 06, 1999; ... CHESTER - Employees in the gambling industry should be barred bylaw from donating to political campaigns, a state lawmaker saidSaturday. Delegate Rusty Webb, R-Kanawha, promised to introduce suchlegislation next year. Webb also said he will introduce other measures ...
Groups pitch in to assist battered, homeless women
Jun 06, 1999; ... Sunday Gazette-Mail Charleston YWCA director Debby Weinstein knows how to makefriendsand influence people. These days, she's talking folks into helping with renovations toan old house and church on Lee Street East. The YWCA bought theproperty to create a transitional ...
New River becomes the focus of revitalization initiative
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDAY GAZETTE-MAIL Last July, President Clinton designated the New River as one of14American Heritage Rivers. Now people are trying to developwatersheds within the New for both economic development andpreservation. People working on the American Heritage River Initiative ...
Sports great for women
Jun 06, 1999; ... WASHINGTON - My younger daughter's 15th birthday and her bigschool dance coincided the other day. Naturally, grooming and finerydominated - just as when I was 15. But what's striking is howunusual that was: Most of the time, the life of my '90s teen-ager isa far cry from my '60s teen ...
Manchin committed to running for governor, he says
Jun 06, 1999; ... A RUMOR WAS BEING passed around last week that former Sen. JoeManchin was going to run for secretary of state instead of governor,but he quickly dispelled it. "I think it would be healthy for the Democratic party to have JoeManchin and Bob Wise run for governor," he ...
Dishonorable break rules
Jun 06, 1999; ... FOR TOO MANY OF US, getting there is the only thing that matters.How we get there is just a minor detail. A House committee is looking into allegations that several statesraised their scores on recent National Assessment of EducationalProgress tests by excluding slow learners, ...
Bush can't turn back now
Jun 06, 1999; ... And now it begins. With the Texas Legislature officiallyadjourned, Gov. George W. Bush can turn his attention to thebusinessof running for president. Although his candidacy is not yetofficial, the possibility that Bush might decide against making therace is virtually ...
Other views
Jun 06, 1999 ... Abortion idea misguided Conservative Washington lawmakers are proposing to make it acrimeto take a minor across state lines to have an abortion if laws inthegirl's home state require that her parents must be notified beforeshe may surgically end her pregnancy. The plan ...