Sunday Gazette-Mail back issues from September 2002:
COIN & STAMP COLLECTING: Postal service honors Hawaiian swimmer with stamp
Sep 01, 2002; ... When Duke Kahanamoku was baptized as a small boy in the PacificOcean, by Hawaiian custom he was tossed into the deep surf offshore. "It was sink or swim," he recalled later. Kahanamoku (1890-1968), who is being honored with a 37-centcommemorative stamp, parlayed his ...
Gunmen kill 3 in Indonesia: Two Americans among dead outside gold mine
Sep 01, 2002; ... JAKARTA, Indonesia - Gunmen armed with automatic weapons ambusheda convoy headed to a huge gold mine run by a U.S. corporation,killing two Americans and an Indonesian in an unprecedented attackSaturday in Indonesia's troubled Papua province. Fourteen others, including six U.S ....
Bush faces daunting task list: President returns from vacation at Texas ranch
Sep 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The to-do list awaiting President Bush's return tothe White House on Sunday is as long as time is short. He wants a big new Pentagon budget, energy bill, legislationguaranteeing pension security and terrorism insurance and a newHomeland Security Department - all on his ...
Uncertain future: Smaller mines' existence depends upon outcome of coal truck weight debate
Sep 01, 2002; ... pjnyden@wvgazette.com BRADSHAW - Nine miners, covered with coal dust and mud, finallystood up at 3:30 in the afternoon, after spending more than eighthours working in the 29-inch Red Ash seam. As they emerged aftertheir shifts, a bright yellow goldfinch greeted them, chirping ...
Down syndrome facts
Sep 01, 2002; ... * Down syndrome, a chromosomal abnormality, is the most commoncause of mental retardation. * One in 800 to 1,000 people are born with the condition. * Children with Down syndrome run a higher risk of heart defects,visual or hearing impairment and other health ...
Parents face worries, hard work, rewards: Down syndrome children tackle independence
Sep 01, 2002; ... This is another story in an occasional series illustrating thecomplexities and influence of the child-parent bond. COLTS NECK, N.J. - A few weeks after her second daughter was born,Carole Ehlinger received a card from longtime friends. The gist ofthe message: "You're so ...
Today's News
Sep 01, 2002 ... *** It was a mistake to mail a company publication featuringRepublican Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole on the cover less than twoweeks before the North Carolina GOP primary, Wal-Mart executivessaid. The publication Source, sent to nearly 200,000 North Carolinaresidents - and ...
Bush stresses volunteers' role
Sep 01, 2002; ... CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush on Saturday closed out the finalhours of his 32-day escape from Washington by designating Septemberas a month of service to honor victims of Sept. 11. "That spirit of courage and selflessness has shown the world whyour nation is the greatest force ...
Marchers demand action: Groups want protection for environment, impoverished
Sep 01, 2002; ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Thousands of peaceful demonstrators,disillusioned by squabbling and compromise, marched to the WorldSummit on Saturday, demanding immediate action to save the planet andits poor. Inside the summit building, negotiators slogged through a sixthday in an ...
Thousands of black Catholics meet in Chicago
Sep 01, 2002; ... CHICAGO - Black Catholics say they still face many of the sameissues their ancestors confronted more than a century ago. They want an end to discrimination in churches and schools,acceptance of blacks at the highest levels of church leadership,recognition of their gifts by a church ...
Md. man arrested in deputies' deaths
Sep 01, 2002; ... LARGO, Md. - A man accused of shooting and killing two deputies asthey tried to take him away for psychiatric care was arrestedSaturday. Undercover officers on routine surveillance found James RamiahLogan, 23, in the boiler room of an apartment complex, two miles fromwhere the ...
Congress faces tough month of September
Sep 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - For a moment next week, lawmakers will shed oldgrievances as they return from a summer recess to observe the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Then the solemnbipartisanship will end. During the next four weeks, they will debate ...
Key issues facing Congress this fall
Sep 01, 2002; ... Here is a quick look at the outlook for key issues facing Congressthis fall: * Creating a new department of homeland security Status: Passed House, pending action in Senate. Issue in dispute: Labor protections for employees. Outlook: Good chance of Senate ...
Drought drying out U.S. from coast to coast
Sep 01, 2002; ... ATLANTA - For as long as anyone can remember, the narrow riverthat runs through the mountains around Orange, Va., has providedample water for the people who live in the foothills. But thissummer, the Rapidan River dried up. For weeks, the people in the town in the shadow of the ...
Uncertain future: Smaller mines' existence depends upon outcome of coal ruck weight debate
Sep 01, 2002; ... F. BRIAN FERGUSON photos/Sunday Gazette-Mail Clockwise, from top: After working more than eight hours inside a29-inch coal seam, James Click rides out of the Daugherty Mine portalin mountains near the town of Bradshaw. Coal trucker Thomas Adkins helps his ...
Six to die for rape in Pakistan
Sep 01, 2002; ... DERA GHAZI KHAN, Pakistan - A judge sentenced six men to death byhanging in the gang rape of a woman to punish her family - a caseclosely watched by government officials and international humanrights groups. Eight men were acquitted in the verdict early today. Defense lawyer Malik ...
Hijack plot suspect took flight lessons
Sep 01, 2002; ... STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish man of Tunisian origin who wasarrested with a gun in his carry-on luggage at a Swedish airport onceattended a U.S. flight school and has a criminal record, a topsecurity official and his lawyer said Saturday. The suspect's lawyer denied that his ...
Indian movie pulled in Kabul
Sep 01, 2002; ... KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan state radio will no longer carry thesongs of female singers and government TV in the capital will stopbroadcasting Indian movies, at least if the station's director hashis way. For the first time since the Taliban regime was ousted nine monthsago, ...
Diplomats , settle NYC parking fines
Sep 01, 2002; ... NEW YORK - Just days after Mayor Bloomberg and the StateDepartment finalized a deal to clamp down on scofflaw diplomats,consulates across the city are starting to pay their overdue parkingtickets. The Russian Consulate gave the city $8,139 last week. India paid$778 and has agreed ...
As Congress returns, debate on Iraq may get hotter: ANALYSIS
Sep 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - For most of August, the debate on Iraq was primarilyamong Republicans. Democrats clung to the sidelines, trying to keepvoters' attention focused on domestic issues. But that could soon change with Congress returning from its summerrecess to the likelihood of ...
PX worth the wait, troops say
Sep 01, 2002; ... KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The most popular spot at the Kandaharmilitary base is probably inside the PX. Soldiers arrive more than anhour before the air-conditioned store opens each day. Inside, troops can buy everything from soda and snacks totoiletries and televisions. It even sells ...
Saudi prince's influence , felt in D.C. for long time
Sep 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - The Saudi prince to whom President Bush is pitchinghis hawkish Iraq policy is no stranger to the wily ways of Washingtonand the world. He's also a man no American president dares ignore. Dean of the capital's diplomatic corps and one of the smoothest ina city of ...
Weather data
Sep 01, 2002 ... CHARLESTON AND VICINITY Saturday's temperatures High 84 Low 63 August 31 record high 104 set in 1932 August 31 record low 45 set in 1976 Saturday's precipitation 24-hour ...
Regional
Sep 01, 2002 ... W.Va. Today - Monday: Today, partly sunny. Highs 80 to 85. Tonight, partly cloudy. Lows60 to 65. Monday, partly sunny. Highs in the mid-80s. Monday night,partly cloudy. Lows in the mid-60s. Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, Mingo, Pleasants,Putnam, Tyler, Wayne, ...
World
Sep 01, 2002 ... Amsterdam 71 62 Cldy Athens 86 69 Cldy Beijing 82 74 Cldy Berlin 80 64 Cldy Bermuda 88 79 Clr Cairo 96 73 Clr Calgary 70 47 Rain Dublin 66 47 Cldy Hong Kong 93 82 Cldy Jerusalem 85 57 Cldy London 73 56 ...
U.S.
Sep 01, 2002 ... Anchorage 54 48 Rain Atlanta 79 69 PCldy Boston 67 54 PCldy Charlotte,N.C. 72 66 Cldy Chicago 84 65 Clr Cincinnati 84 66 PCldy Cleveland 81 62 PCldy Dallas-Ft Worth 93 73 Clr Denver 90 58 PCldy Detroit 83 61 ...
Today's Regatta schedule
Sep 01, 2002 ... 8 to 10 a.m. - Captains breakfast. 10 a.m. - Captains meeting. 11 a.m. - The Charter Communications Anything that Floats Skitsand Race, Verizon Boat Launch area. Noon to 5 p.m. - WSAZ Taste of Charleston, Charleston CivicCenter. Noon to 10 p.m. - Columbia ...
Food, fun draw Regatta crowds
Sep 01, 2002; ... F. BRIAN FERGUSON/Sunday Gazette-Mail Shawn Casey of Charleston "moons" onlookers during the annualSternwheel Regatta Funeral Parade on Capitol Street on ...
Food, fun draw Regatta crowds
Sep 01, 2002; ... joydavia@wvgazette.com Susan Clark of Kroger's bakery pointed to different cheesecakeslices spread out at a Taste of Charleston booth in the CharlestonCivic Center on Saturday. Her young connoisseur eyed the pastry before settling on a sliceamong the creme horns, character ...
Fireworks family returns to city
Sep 01, 2002; ... gregstone@wvgazette.com Italians love fireworks, George Zambelli says - lots of noise,dramatic pauses and choreography. "Italy probably does more with fireworks than any country has,"said Zambelli, whose immigrant grandfather started the familyfirework tradition in the ...
Close to home: Upshur group home keeps boys in their community
Sep 01, 2002; ... dawn@wvgazette.com BUCKHANNON - Four teen-age boys stepped off the school bus andentered a white frame house they've called home for several months.Each knew what was expected. Jason disappeared into an office for a short consultation with acounselor. Nick hopped in ...
Opportunities for reality TV shows abound in W.Va. hills
Sep 01, 2002; ... Taking reality-based television to a bold new level, CBS isscouting the hills of West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, NorthCarolina and Tennessee for a family of real-life rustics to portraymodern-day Beverly Hillbillies for the amusement of home viewers. The family eventually ...
Petition wants to dam coal's silt loophole
Sep 01, 2002; ... kward@wvgazette.com Across the country, dirt and silt runoff clogs more than 111,000miles of streams. Sedimentation is the most common reason rivers andstreams are listed as impaired by the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency. In West Virginia, regulators believe that a ...
Police to discuss missing women's case: Three counties, State Police to coordinate efforts
Sep 01, 2002; ... susanwilliams@wvgazette.com Police will meet next week to work out the logistics in aninvestigation into a Kanawha County woman's disappearance. Bonnie Lueann Woods-Cale left her residence in Cedar Grove morethan five months ago to go to Tucker County, and her family has ...
Economic shadows darken Southern towns
Sep 01, 2002; ... RALEIGH, N.C. - The 1990s brought a tale of two Souths - onemetropolitan and prosperous, the other rural and in serious trouble -according to a biennial report on the economic health of the region. There are fast-growth and slow-growth communities, high-tech metroareas and ...
Beckley considering ATV ban
Sep 01, 2002; ... Another one to bite the dust? All-terrain vehicle enthusiasts may feel like they're on a wantedposter, with another city considering a ban on the vehicles. Beckley Mayor Emmett Pugh said he will push an ordinance banningthe operation of ATVs within city limits at the Sept. 10 ...
Hundreds gather in Ky. for slain children's memorial
Sep 01, 2002; ... WARSAW, Ky. - Hundreds of mourners, many of them children, filedinto the Gallatin County Elementary School Saturday for a memorialservice for two children stabbed to death in their home. Chelbi Sharon, who would've turned 8 on Saturday, and Cody Sharon,6, were killed in the Aug. 23 ...
Funeral parade winners
Sep 01, 2002 ... After Saturday's annual Funeral Parade, judges selected some ofthe best who offered to strut their stuff down Capitol Street. Some of the winners used only a single name. For Best Hat, the winner was Kingerary. For the Most Morbid,Romond was the winner. For Best ...
Goodyear Blimp visits Charleston
Sep 01, 2002 ... The Stars and Stripes, a Goodyear blimp, stopped in CharlestonSaturday on its way to Akron, Ohio, from its home base in Pompano,Florida. The Stars and Stripes will join three other blimps September 5 ina formation to celebrate the christening of the newest blimp in thefleet, the ...
Charles Town racetrack parent goes Hollywood
Sep 01, 2002; ... PHILADELPHIA - A gambling empire that has sprung up from a ruraleastern Pennsylvania horse track is about to go Hollywood. Penn National Gaming Corp. expects to nearly double its revenueswith the expected closing of its $780 million purchase of HollywoodCasino Corp. early next ...
FDIC expands Keystone case
Sep 01, 2002; ... The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a new civilcomplaint in the collapse of the First National Bank of Keystone,tracing the alleged bank scam to people and companies scatteredacross the globe. The FDIC complaint names 33 defendants, including individuals,corporations ...
Hospitalized man gets West Nile
Sep 01, 2002; ... MIAMI - Health officials said Saturday they are investigating thepossibility that a 63-year-old man contracted West Nile virus from aheart transplant or a blood transfusion. It would be the first time such a method of transmission wasrecorded, according to the national Centers for ...
Small-town life goes on a year after Sept. 11
Sep 01, 2002; ... HARRISVILLE - In this spread-out town of 1,842 tucked away fivemiles south of U.S. 50, Karen Harper waits on customers in Berdine'sFive and Dime Variety Store. "The worst part is the dusting," said Harper, 39, of Cairo. "Thebest part is the toys and the people." After working ...
Third suspect arrested in death of ex-W.Va. man
Sep 01, 2002; ... BECKLEY - Florida police have arrested a third suspect in thestabbing death of a former Fayette County man. Pinellas Park, Fla., police have charged Heriberto "Harry"Pantoja, 28, with being an accessory after the fact to first-degreemurder in the death of Oak Hill native George ...
The Way It Was: Luna Park; By Richard Andre
Sep 01, 2002 ... Beautiful Luna Park was Charleston's most popular amusement sitefrom 1912 until May 1923 when it was destroyed by fire. Located on the city's West Side and bounded by present-day Parkand Glenwood avenues, Park Drive, Grant Street and the river, itsmain attraction was the elaborate ...
Obituaries: Express condolences online at sundaygazettemail.com
Sep 01, 2002 ... June Bell NORMANTOWN - June Bell, 92, of Normantown died Aug. 29, 2002.Service will be noon Monday, Sept. 2, at Mollohan Cemetery,Normantown. There will be no visitation. Stump Funeral Home,Arnoldsburg, is in charge of arrangements. Dr. William H. Blenko ...
Ex-CWA president Watts dead at 82
Sep 01, 2002; ... WASHINGTON - Glenn E. Watts, a former president of theCommunications Workers of America who led the union through thebreakup of the AT&T Bell telephone monopoly, died Friday aftersuffering complications from surgery. He was 82. Watts led CWA from 1974 until his retirement in ...
Jazz musician Hampton dies at 94
Sep 01, 2002; ... NEW YORK - There was more than musical magic on stage that day in1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ballroom- it was a breakthrough in American race relations. Hampton, a vibraphone virtuoso who died Saturday, broke a barrierthat had kept black and white ...
Roadside memorials: treasures or hazards?
Sep 01, 2002; ... The family was gathered around the kitchen table, talking about aterminally ill aunt, when the conversation turned to what each wouldwant done with their bodies should they die. "I don't want to be underground with worms crawling all over me,"blurted 18-year-old Brian ...
Kidney transplants more common for cats
Sep 01, 2002; ... MILWAUKEE - Like HMOs, designer clothes and gourmet foods, organtransplants aren't just for people anymore. The University of Wisconsin-Madison and a half-dozen otherveterinary schools around the country are doing kidney transplantsfor cats, and one or two are trying them for ...
Spy planes to keep eye on smugglers
Sep 01, 2002; ... KEY WEST, Fla. - They have been deployed over the world's hotspots - Iraq, Kosovo, and most recently, Afghanistan. Soon, they maybe hovering over waters off South Florida - scouting for smugglers ofnarcotics and human cargo or for speedboats carrying something moresinister. Known ...
Fraternal lodges fading as membership ages
Sep 01, 2002; ... ORLANDO, Fla. - Outside Orlando's Moose Lodge 766, an elderly manwearing a sweater the color of Astroturf inches his walker toward thefront door marked "Moose House. Members Only." The lodge, founded in 1947, is a solid, windowless concrete-and-sheet-metal building that blends in ...
Whoa, George: The writers argue the case for war against Iraq hasn't been made Ten reasons to oppose a war against Iraq
Sep 01, 2002; ... The hard-line hawks in the Bush administration are pushing for a"regime change" in Iraq and preparing for war. But the consequencesof a U.S. attack on Iraq range from troubling to potentiallycatastrophic. First, the unprovoked (or in the new strategic-speak,"preventive") attack ...
Whoa, George: The writers argue the case for war against Iraq hasn't been made; The grounds for going to war are weak
Sep 01, 2002; ... The signals coming out of Washington about the impending waragainst Iraq are ominous. This is not only because it would be anunprovoked and undeclared war against a nation that has not attackedus, but also because of the new reasons being offered. The Bush administration tried its ...
Censorship on campus ? Free speech has limits
Sep 01, 2002; ... The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, according to many collegeprofessors, have claimed another victim: free speech on campus. Theycontend that a chilling climate has arisen, in which they hesitate tovoice ideas critical of America for fear of reprimand by universityofficials. At ...
WORTH: CEO greed, worker sacrifice since 9/11
Sep 01, 2002; ... Labor Day came twice last year. A week after the parades andpicnics, Americans had their real Labor Day on Sept. 11. Americanspoured out thanks to firefighters, police officers, paramedics andother workers who put themselves on the line to save others. WallStreet stockbrokers and ...
Promise: Too many left out
Sep 01, 2002; ... AS WEST Virginia's first Promise scholarship recipients go off tocollege, a national conference on such merit-based scholarships washeld in Charleston. The session should give policymakers something tothink about. A study of four programs by the Harvard University Civil ...
Other views
Sep 01, 2002 ... The purpose of a university is to promote new ideas Many of the 4,200 incoming freshmen and transfer students at theUniversity of North Carolina now have a different or at least betterinformed view of Islam and its holy book, the Quran. Considering thatone of the functions of a ...
Your views
Sep 01, 2002 ... Reparations not a real solution Editor: I'm morally outraged after reading the article in the SundayGazette about the rally Aug. 17 in Washington D.C. by Louis Farrakhandemanding reparations for the enslavement of their ancestors. While I understand race-relations in ...
Iraq invasion a tough call
Sep 01, 2002; ... PARIS - It is hard to judge whether the generational split on theIraq issue - between Republicans who governed under the firstPresident George Bush and those in Washington today - is more likelyto block a war or speed its coming. The young George Bush and his neoconservative ...
Dems to use soft money: for getting out the vote
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE STATE DEMOCRATIC Party has received $30,000 in soft money thisyear so far from the Democratic National Committee that statechairman Pat Maroney said will be used for an extensive get-out-the-vote campaign in the general election. The party will be "extremely active" in getting ...
Stopping Saddam not issue
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE ARGUMENT OVER what to do about Saddam Hussein has crystallizedinto two camps. One side sees no alternative to war and believes thatgoing it alone is better than coalition-building, more weaponsinspections and delay. The other side is not averse to military action, but insists ...
It's gotta be the shoes
Sep 01, 2002; ... HERE'S AN explanation for the anti-Iraq saber-rattling nowbuilding in Washington: The Bush administration, though it would dearly love to haveSaddam Hussein out of power, has no intention of taking unilateralmilitary action against him. The sword-rattling is designed to ...
Bush's aides can't figure out which way to go
Sep 01, 2002; ... THE LATEST WORD from the White House, relayed to the rest of uslast Tuesday by the president's counsel, Alberto Gonzales, is thatPresident Bush does not have to and does not intend to ask anyone forpermission to go to war against Iraq because of the 1991congressional vote authorizing ...
ESSAYS on faith: Praise is not God's reward
Sep 01, 2002; ... A friend of mine told me the story of a preacher who wasattempting to smuggle Bibles into the former Soviet Union. Whilestanding in line at the customs desk, the preacher became verynervous as he watched Russian military agents thoroughly checkingsuitcases of passengers in front of him ....