Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from October 2001:
'Blue Book' offers collectors insight on coin dealer prices
Oct 07, 2001; ... Every collector knows that a coin's market value is not the pricea dealer will offer for it. But knowing what dealers have offeredfor similar coins can make bargaining and planning less of aguessing game. For years, the so-called "Red Book" supplied the auction pricesof coins, ...
The Era of High Water: ; Prevention & Recovery; 1985 - ?; West Virginia racing toward flood freedom; State's effort to 'fix' a recurring problem most ambitious ever
Oct 07, 2001; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com Battered by 16 years of some of the worst flooding in itshistory, West Virginia is the scene of a neck-and-neck race pittingflood recovery and prevention in a battle against time. A half-billion here and a half-billion there worth of ruinedhomes and ...
Talking West Virginian: ; Speaking in twangs: Do W.Va. grammar, diction hurt job chances?
Oct 07, 2001; ... tara@wvgazette.com Do West Virginians have worse grammar than other Americans? Got a grammar question, ask the Grammar Lady. "I don't think there's any one area that has any worse grammarthan anywhere else," said Mary Newton Bruder, aka the Grammar Lady. "I get ...
Time short, Bush warns the Taliban: ; All-American campaign appears to be clear intention of military; U.S. doesn't want allies in a position to limit its options
Oct 07, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Assured of logistical and political support fromseveral partners in the region, President Bush warned the Talibangovernment of Afghanistan on Saturday that "full warning has beengiven, and time is running out." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld returned to Washington ...
How do you secure America ?: ; Ridge faces that enormous, perhaps impossible, task
Oct 07, 2001; ... You are Tom Ridge. Your job is to ensure that our homeland issecure from terrorism. This is what you must protect: Almost 600,000 bridges, 170,000 water systems, more than 2,800power plants (104 of them nuclear), 190,000 miles of interstatepipelines for natural gas, 463 ...
Hijackers' travels leave clues
Oct 07, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - Two months before flying a jetliner into the WorldTrade Center, Mohamed Atta went on a European road trip. He flew from Miami to Spain, rented a car and drove 1,190 milesin 12 days, including a brief visit to Switzerland. Spanish police say Atta's papers were in ...
Today's News
Oct 07, 2001 ... Relatives of a Florida man who contracted a fatal case of anthraxare being given antibiotics as a precaution and his co-workers havebeen tested and cleared, health authorities in Lantana, Fla., saidSaturday. The search to find out how 63-year-old Bob Stevenscontracted the rare and ...
Emmy Awards will walk fine line after attack-related delay
Oct 07, 2001; ... LOS ANGELES - The Emmy Awards show is finally a go. After a three-week postponement because of the Sept. 11 terroristattacks, the 53rd annual ceremony honoring television's best will beheld tonight. As with much else in America, it will be a changedevent as organizers aim for a ...
'He stayed out of the trouble': ; Croat who slashed Greyhound driver known as quiet man
Oct 07, 2001; ... SLAVONSKI BROD, Croatia - There was little in Damir Igric's quietyouth in Croatia to predict violence, say residents of his hometown,stunned at news that he attacked a bus driver in the United Stateslast week and caused a deadly crash. Igric slashed the throat of a bus driver ...
Clamp around gunshot hole in Alaska pipeline stops leak
Oct 07, 2001; ... FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Crews on Saturday installed a clamp over abullet hole in the trans-Alaska pipeline, finally stopping a leakthat spewed 285,600 gallons of oil onto the wilderness over threedays. With the temporary repair in place, workers turned theirattention to a permanent ...
Terrorism battle has little wiggle room, analysts say
Oct 07, 2001; ... DALLAS - As the Bush administration prepares for the nation'sfirst war of the 21st century, the depth of the challenge is justbeginning to register. While patriotic fervor is high and public backing of PresidentBush appears strong, policy analysts say the administration ...
Bin Laden's brothers' businesses span globe
Oct 07, 2001; ... NEW YORK - One brother owns several condos with stunning views ofthe Boston Harbor. Another is Brazil's representative to SaudiArabia. A third was a jet setter and business magnate with apenchant for blue jeans. Their name - bin Laden - once was as esteemed as theRockefellers' ...
Buyouts from flood areas effective, seldom easy
Oct 07, 2001; ... robbyers@wvgazette.com PHILIPPI - There's a beautiful corner lot here with big shadetrees and a view of the Tygart River trickling by. Great place for ahouse ... or not. "The house that was there was on the National Flood InsuranceProgram's Top 500 list of repetitive ...
Let us hear your stories
Oct 07, 2001; ... Tell us about one of your memorable experiences of "Talking WestVirginian." Was your diction understood? Were you teased about your twang? Orwere you complimented on a ...
Sunnis, Shiites too
Oct 07, 2001; ... ANKARA, Turkey - Soldiers, traders, artisans and preachers spreadIslamic influence from the Middle East to Spain and Central Asiabeginning in the 7th century. Most of the merchants were from the mainstream Sunni branch ofIslam, and today most Asian Muslims adhere to Sunni ...
Austere form of Islam drives bin Laden
Oct 07, 2001; ... JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - The faith that drives Osama bin Laden andhis followers is a particularly austere and conservative brand ofIslam known as Wahhabism, which was instrumental in creating theSaudi monarchy, and if sufficiently alienated, could tear it down. Throughout its ...
A mixture of Muslims: ; Politics and clerics, limousines and burquas - Islam has been adopted in strikingly different ways around the world
Oct 07, 2001; ... Islam in the grinding poverty of Afghanistan is harsh, itsjustice unforgiving. For a woman found guilty of adultery, the punishment is death -which turbaned religious leaders carry out with stones. For ancientBuddhist statues deemed by the ruling Taliban to inspire ...
IN CONTROL: ; Right temperament needed for life as air traffic controller
Oct 07, 2001; ... GRAPEVINE, Texas - Nonstop chatter streams through his earpieceas Mark Mulder gazes through tinted windows at an aging 727 jetlinertrailing black smoke. It can't land until the plane ahead lifts off the runway. Whatabout that errant freighter? It made a wrong turn. Better give ...
Burger King workers burn feet at retreat
Oct 07, 2001; ... MIAMI - About a dozen Burger King marketing-department workersburned their feet when they walked over white-hot coals at a meetingintended to promote bonding. One woman was taken to a hospital emergency room, and Burger Kingbrought in a doctor to treat others whose feet were ...
Girl 'typical teen' despite surgery to remove half her brain
Oct 07, 2001; ... BRISTOL, Pa. - Christina Santhouse entered high school lastmonth. Not unusual for most 14-year-olds, but a big deal for a girlliving without the right side of her brain. It was removed fiveyears ago after Christina developed a rare, progressive disease thatcauses uncontrollable ...
Hearst conservation deal won't come cheap
Oct 07, 2001; ... SAN SIMEON, Calif. - The animals at Hearst Ranch are walking,swimming and flying history lessons, both of California'sdisappearing ecosystems and the exotic interests of its famousformer owner. The zebras that media tycoon William Randolph Hearst brought herestill roam, sharing ...
Nobels to be awarded for 100th time
Oct 07, 2001; ... STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The discoverers of X-rays and a diphtheriavaccine were among a handful of dignitaries arriving in Stockholm inDecember 1901 with a secret. They were the first Nobel Prize winners, and had been asked tokeep the decision to themselves until it was announced at a ...
Weather or not
Oct 07, 2001 ... Any weather can occur during October in West Virginia. It isoften the driest month of ...
Weather data
Oct 07, 2001 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 68 Low 44 Oct. 6 record high 94 set in 1941 Oct. 6 record low 30 set in 1965 Saturday's precipitation 24-hour ...
Regional
Oct 07, 2001 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Today, sunny. Highs 55 to 60. Tonight, clear. Low around 30.Monday, mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 60s. Boone, Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo,Putnam, Roane, Wayne:Today, sunny. Highs 55 to 60. Tonight, clear.Low around 30 ....
World
Oct 07, 2001 ... Amsterdam 65 54 Cldy Athens 83 66 Cldy Beijing 64 48 Cldy Berlin 64 47 Cldy Bermuda 83 73 Cldy Cairo 87 68 Clr Calgary 61 23 Clr Dublin 62 52 Cldy Hong Kong 86 79 Cldy Jerusalem 78 56 Clr London 68 56 ...
Morgan to offer voices of mountains at festival: ; West Virginia Book Festival
Oct 07, 2001; ... This is the first in a series of profiles of authors who willappear at the West Virginia Book Festival next weekend. kellyr@wvgazette.com For Robert Morgan, the best part about writing isn't making itonto The New York Times best-seller list, or traveling around thecountry ...
Real Doc Hollywood to speak at dinner
Oct 07, 2001; ... joydavia@wvgazette.com The real Doc Hollywood, Dr. Neil Shulman, has made a career ofmixing medicine with humor. On Oct. 16, the humor therapy specialist and inspiration behindthe 1991 movie starring Michael J. Fox will bring his routine to theCharleston Marriott for the ...
A family undertaking: ; New Nitro shop offers unique caskets
Oct 07, 2001; ... tara@wvgazette.com When you die, would you like to be buried in a casket painted tolook like a big UPS package? How about a hunting-themed casket, witha mural of a buck and a bear and a gun-toting man in camouflage? Theme caskets are the specialty at Woods Family Casket ...
Fishing trip is enough of a gamble
Oct 07, 2001; ... I picked up a copy of USA Today's weekend edition to make sureLarry King's stream-of-consciousness column (What do they do withthe pits from pitted olives, anyway? ... I don't know about you, butCarrot Top makes me want to rip the nearest pay phone off the walland beat him upside his ...
Palumbo gala to benefit muscular dystrophy research
Oct 07, 2001; ... bobschwarz@wvgazette.com Before disease struck, Mario Palumbo played college basketball,served in the state Senate, ran for governor in the Democraticprimary and served two years as state attorney general. Now he can't get out of bed into his wheelchair without help andhe ...
Ames workers OK contract offer
Oct 07, 2001; ... PARKERSBURG - Union workers at an Ames True Temper plant votedSaturday to approve a new contract offer, the Parkersburg News hasreported. A total of 370 members of the United Steelworkers of AmericaLocal 1651 approved the tentative agreement by a 3-1 margin, thenewspaper ...
'We need to pray deep': ; Louisville residents look to God in wake of terrorist attacks
Oct 07, 2001; ... LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Expedition raced through the last of theHigh Plains, cut through the Great Lakes states of Illinois andIndiana, and as the sun set on our 16th day on the road, our truckrolled like a tired old buggy into this elegant Southern city on theOhio River. Here we ...
CIA under pressure to rely less on technology, more on agents
Oct 07, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - After being surprised by the deadliest attack everon the United States, the nation's $30 billion-a-year intelligencecommunity is under increasing pressure to reduce its dependence onhigh-tech surveillance and electronic eavesdropping, improve itsanalysis and hire more spies, ...
Explosives truck overturns
Oct 07, 2001; ... Sunday Gazette-Mail Brenda and John Donegan evacuate their home on Teays Valley Roadin Putnam County Thursday night. A tractor-trailer ...
Obituaries
Oct 07, 2001 ... Dellis W. Bailes ROBERTSBURG - Dellis W. Bailes, 83, of Robertsburg, died Friday,Oct. 5, at Scenic Hills Nursing Home, Gallipolis, Ohio, following along illness. He was a retired vehicle operator for CONRAIL with 25 yearsservice, attended Manilla Chapel Church, Robertsburg, ...
Calhoun County magistrate resigns
Oct 07, 2001; ... PARKERSBURG - Calhoun County Magistrate Steve Johnson hasresigned. Circuit Judge Thomas Evans III said a state Supreme Courtinvestigation has been ongoing. An audit of the magistrate officesindicated minor problems relating to control issues regarding bankdeposits, the ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: ; SEPT. 30 - OCT. 5, 2001; Explosives truck overturns
Oct 07, 2001; ... Students at Atenville Elementary in Lincoln County have their owncurrency and can elect their own government. The school is one of200 nationwide using the MicroSociety teaching model. Schoolofficials at Atenville said since the school changed to the modeleight years ago, they have seen ...
WVU staff absorbs Satterfield's duties
Oct 07, 2001 ... MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University President David Hardestywill farm out the duties of former vice president and chief of staffDavid Satterfield to three separate administrators, while schoolofficials study the university's command structure. Last month, Satterfield was picked ...
Capitol Club tops $500,000
Oct 07, 2001 ... The United Way's Capitol Club donations for the 2001-2002campaign total $507,555 with contributions from 275 members,including 17 new members. (Asterisk indicates the donor has moved up one or more levels oris new to the Club.) At the DeTocqueville level with a pledge of at ...
The Way It Was: ; Rimfire; By Richard Andre
Oct 07, 2001 ... Since Stonewall Jackson has been featured a few times, there havebeen more than a few calls for equal time. So I'll tell you aboutthe heroic statue of a mountaineer fighting for the Union. This circa 1913 picture shows the flag-bearing soldier as hestood near the corner of Capitol ...
Buried documents do tell tales: ; Ex-Keystone staffers connect papers to events
Oct 07, 2001; ... larrym@wvgazette.com Refugees from the failed First National Bank of Keystone arebreathing new life into a pile of records once buried beneath aMcDowell County ranch. The thick stacks of dirt-smeared documents and dented microfilmreels, unearthed at the mountaintop C&H ...
Group may vote to ban ads on Appalachian Trail
Oct 07, 2001; ... Hikers on the Appalachian Trail have new scenery to look at thesedays besides mountains and valleys: signs, notes, business cards andfliers advertising everything from gas stations that sell ice creamto sporting camps and hostels. The trail, which was proposed by Benton MacKaye in ...
Solidarity, prayer: ; event draws 75
Oct 07, 2001; ... joydavia@wvgazette.com Sava Jalil had two words for friends who inquired about herIslamic religion after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: TimothyMcVeigh. Jalil likened the man behind the Oklahoma City bombing to theIslamic extremist Osama bin Laden. The actions of a few ...
Radio fliers
Oct 07, 2001; ... ABOVE: Pilot Gary Helton of Cannonsburg, Ky., carries two radio-controlled airplanes Saturday at the first annual Pylon Races at theFlyinghillbillies field near Winfield on W.Va. 35. Helton was one of21 pilots from six states competing in the races ...
Mullens still trying to put pieces back together
Oct 07, 2001; ... On July 8, a series of thunderstorms caused the Guyandotte Riverand other streams across southern West Virginia to rise fast andfurious. Mullens was all but destroyed by the events that haveexacerbated the economic struggles of the coalfield community. TheAssociated Press plans to follow ...
ATF issues warrant for escaped prisoner
Oct 07, 2001; ... CLARKSBURG - A federal arrest warrant has been issued for a manwho escaped from a transport van after it stopped at a gas stationnear Interstate 79. The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms warrant issuedFriday charges Christopher Savage, 28, as being a felon inpossession ...
State aerospace industry faces challenges, opportunity, Jay says
Oct 07, 2001; ... MARTINSBURG - The nation's current economic situation presentsboth challenges and opportunities for the West Virginia aerospaceindustry, Sen. Jay Rockefeller says. "We don't know what's going to happen in the future,"Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said Friday. "To say we will ...
Legislators voice support for Bridge Day
Oct 07, 2001; ... BECKLEY - A group of legislators wants the state to helpresurrect Bridge Day festivities on the New River Gorge Bridge. And the chairman of the Bridge Day Commission, which votedThursday to cancel events on the bridge itself, is wondering wherethat support was in the weeks when ...
WCHS-TV to show Lottery
Oct 07, 2001 ... WCHS-TV will begin broadcasting the West Virginia Lottery dailydrawings and the Powerball drawings as of Tuesday, according to anews release. The drawings were broadcasted on WSAZ-TV. The West Virginia Lottery daily ...
CRITICS: ; Time to listen to what the world says about the U.S.
Oct 07, 2001; ... MOSCOW - As Bush administration officials hash out strategies forprosecuting their declared war on international terrorism, criticsof U.S. foreign policy are pushing for a parallel and sweepingdebate on America's actions abroad. The critics, at home and elsewhere, are mostly ...
At the heart of TERRORISM, POVERTY
Oct 07, 2001; ... Somewhere between Casablanca and Rawalpindi, in the vast arcdefined by poverty and Islam, a young man will leave his village andfamily today and go to the big city, propelled by despair and drawnby the promise of the good life that he's seen in American videos onthe village television ...
Venom finds easy target in the land of the free
Oct 07, 2001; ... The attacks against Arab-Americans and Muslims now number in thehundreds. They have been jumped, shouted at and spit on. Theirchildren have been harassed at school. Their mosques and churcheshave been driven into, shot at, bombed and had excrement flung atthem. Their men have been thrown ...
RIGHTS: ; War leads to erosion of civil liberties
Oct 07, 2001; ... America's defining characteristic is the Constitution, whichprotects our freedoms. So it is ironic that in times of war, whenAmerican troops are giving their lives to preserve the libertiesenshrined in this document, these very freedoms come under routineassault from our own government ....
Smoking: ; Take a pregnant pause
Oct 07, 2001; ... WOMEN who smoke while they are pregnant are abusing their unbornchildren. Sadly, smoking rates among pregnant women in West Virginia aremore than double the national average. In 1999, the most recent yearstatistics are available, 26.1 percent of pregnant Mountain Statewomen ...
Other views
Oct 07, 2001 ... Donations should include local charities also In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks on the World TradeCenter and Pentagon, Americans have donated like never before.They've reached deep into their pockets, sending a half-billiondollars to relief efforts in New York and in ...
Your views
Oct 07, 2001 ... Passengers on Pa. flight heroes Editor: The men on Flight 93 had no thought of their safety. It was not fear that made them stop the terrorists. It was a loveso overwhelming that most Americans have toward humanity thatcompelled these good men to stop the terrorists ...
The lies we tell ourselves
Oct 07, 2001; ... SO I go over to the school to vote in the New York City primary,and I'm in the booth looking at all the names and the levers and thesign at the top that says INFORMATION FOR VOTERS, and it's deja vuall over again. This is where I stood, this is what I did, justafter 8 on the morning of ...
Patriotism police out in force
Oct 07, 2001; ... THIS COLUMN in somewhat different form appeared in The New YorkTimes on Oct. 1. In the first Gallup Poll published after thedisastrous invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961,President John F. Kennedy's approval rating jumped 10 points to 83percent. Kennedy looked at ...
America more than just stuff
Oct 07, 2001; ... WASHINGTON - The shiny red and silver Neiman Marcus Christmascatalog just arrived. It makes you a little sick and a little wistful. Even though itwas printed only a month ago, it now seems as detached from themoment as cave drawings, a document of an extinct culture thatreveled ...
State GOP members wrangle over chairmanship
Oct 07, 2001; ... A PROPOSED PLAN for recruiting candidates and raising money forthe state Republican Party has been circulated to a select group ofRepublicans by Kris Warner, who aspires to be state chairman and iscalling himself the acting chairman. Warner, a Morgantown businessman, is one of ...
U.S. to show its strong resolve: ; This column was written immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Oct 07, 2001; ... Miami Herald IT'S MY JOB to have something to say. They pay me to tease shadesof meaning from social and cultural issues, to provide words thathelp make sense of that which troubles the American soul. But inthis moment of airless shock when hot tears sting disbelieving eyes,the ...
ESSAYS on faith: ; Our mourning nation can find comfort in the story of Job
Oct 07, 2001; ... At 8:45 a.m. Sept. 11, our world changed. Just as things havenever been the same since Dec. 7, 1941, they will never be the sameagain. There are so many questions, so few answers. We watchtelevision. Stare back at the giant headlines across our papers. Itcan't be! But it is. Why? ...
Zoo of DNA may lead to understanding human genes
Oct 07, 2001; ... BAR HARBOR, Maine - Every summer for 42 years, researchers havegathered at this seaside resort town to discuss mammalian genetics.And for the most part, they've talked about research in people andmice. But this summer, there was a strange invasion of the agenda. Zebrafish ....
Space ads: the bottom line frontier
Oct 07, 2001; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - When a Russian spaceship flew to theinternational space station last spring, a millionaire touristwasn't the only commercial payload. The Russians - ever on the lookout for a quick buck - alsodelivered a crispy-crust salami pizza on behalf of Pizza Hut. And ...