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From this point forward, the a job which right now looms as
political pot, currently sim- the worst job anyone could
mering in West Vh'ginia, will step into, given the condition
really work itself up to a boil of the state's economic struc-
and by the time the primary ture.
and general elections roll While on the national level,
around next year there ought the Second Congressional seat
to be a "hot time"in the in Congress, now held by
Mountain State. Harley Staggers, Jr will also
Not only in the West be up for grabs.
Virginia hills, but nationally Governorwise, a lot of
as well, where a whole host of Democrats are making noises
Democratic hopefuls are like candidates Clyde See,
already criss-crossing the the conservative; Warren
ceuntry hoping to corral the McGraw, the liberal; Chaun-
necessary support and finan- cey Browning, the moderate,
ces to become the party's just to name a few. They are
nominee and thus challenge all likely holding their breath
President RonaldReaganwho as they wait for Moore to
will undoubtedly seek a make his announcement, if
second term. any.
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON Farm~'s ADVOCATE -- THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1983
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August 14, 1963
Dear Mr. Rentch,
Our beloved home, "Ben Lea" once
again has a name sign at the driveway
entrance after some months without
one as the result of the evil doers who
stole it some months ago. This week we
received a gift from friends who helped
my husband in and out of church. Ar-
fists, they are, they presented us with
a beautiful carved letter sign on both
sides, of a nicely painted board which
they mounted on an old rustic tree post.
So the place now can be found from
both State Route 9 and Route 340, with
ease. Thanks to the John Naylors and
for your friendship which is much more
valuable than any other treasurer one
can have. Our "new"Baltimore friends
will now be able to find us without go-
ing all over the country fwst.
The good news item is the fact that
our Jefferson Memorial Hospital
"Meditation Chapel" is almost a real-
ty. Furniture is now being seriously
given a lot of thought. The local mer-
chants as usual have been most helpful
and we have been able to make all of
Next year is a year in which We']] also vote on two
the voters turn out in higher justices of the State Supreme
numbers than in the so-called Court (and heavens knows we
"off" year, but even then the ought to be very selective our selections right here in Charles
percentage who finally select there); for secretary of state, Town. I've always found that to be true
the candidates who will attorney general, auditoi here though, since we came here to
live.
represent us on national, state treasurer and secretary of So our hearts are freed with thanks.
and local bodies is somewhat agriculture a line-up that
low by comparison with some generally garners a "down-
other nations, the-line" Democratic vote
Right now, there is strong regardless of what happens to
evidence that the so-called the governorship.
"pressure" groups, the Then, there's one seat open
minorities, blacks and in the State Senate in this 16th
Hispanics, the National District; we'll name House of
Organization of Women, and Delegates membersh'om the
various other liberal-minded 39th and 40th delegatedistric-
organizations, are going all ts, now held by John Doyle and
out to increase registration Tom Steptoe, Jr.; two county
and thereby increase voting commissioners, Gary Phalen
n bers as we]]. and Charles Clendening, will
There will be plenty to vote have to make up their minds
for next year. Some voting will whether or not to run again;
be on the basis of personal two magistrates will be elec-
philosophy, liberal, ted as well as the assessor,
moderate or conservative, sheriff and prosecuting attor-
and will likely revolve ney.
primarily around the And last, but certainly not
presidential preference where least, it does now appear there
Reagan will be the conser- wi]]beareal, wide-openbattle
vative, the Democrat the for the two judgeships in the
liberal. Eastern Panhandle, in the
23rd and 31st judicial districts.
Also on the national ticket, Vance Sencindiver has in-
West Virginians will select a dicated he will not run,
new United States Senator to although he's being asked to
replace retiring Jennings reconsider; Pierre Dostert
Pmndolph. And right now, it will undoubtedly seek reelec-
appea that the Democrati tion; and there's at least three
candidate will Jay or more hopefuls, including at
Rockefeller who cannot Suc- least one from Jefferson Coun-
ceed himself as governor. The ty, who may opt to try to don
Republican candidate judicial robes come January
remains up in the air, 1, 1985.
although the national GOP All in all, the primary race
in June, 1984, and the general
election, November, 1984,
U.S. Senate seat and may be show signs of being perhaps
willing to put money where its the most bitterly fought elec-
mouth is, in former Governor tions, on all levels, that we
Moore's campaign, have had in the past several
As for Moore, he remains decades, and every voter
mum, because he also is being should think long and
touted as the GOP candidate carefully before casting his
for governor of West Virginia, ballot.
would lizzie to see Arch Moore
challeng Rockefeller for the
For years now the claim has from the FBI that show
been that most of the crime that despite the fact that last
which has, and does occur, in year the nation was mired in
America, IS the result of its worst economic slump sin-
poverty in the country. Well, ce the depression, the figures
the latest crime statisticsfor the year 1982 reflect-
released by the Federal ed the sharpest drop in seri-
Bureau of Investigation, ap- ous crimes in the past five
pears to dispute the claim that years.
poverty breeds crime, and in Millions of Americans slip-
fact is, and has been the major pod below the poverty level as
cause of all crimes committed a breadwinner in the home
in thecountry, last year as the result of
For the past several having lost their jobs and in
generations, social theorists many instances, even their
have contended that the crime homes. And so would it not be
rate in this country bears a logical to conclude if the
direct relation to the level of poverty breeds crime myth
the economic distress were true, the number of
prevalent, burglaries, assaults and mur-
ders in this country would
Of course, there have been have soared? Well you may be
those who argued that this surprised to learn just the op-.
was, and is, not necessarily posite occurred according to
true. And the latest FBI crime the FBI.
figures shows that the number
of serious crimes committed
in this country last year,
dropped by four percent from
Now this is not to say that
there is no connection between
poverty and crime. In fact
statistics do show that a
disproportionate share of
violent crimes committed in
this country are by persons
who might well be described
as members of the economic
underclass.
But there has never been,
and there is not today, any
statistical evidence to show
that persons commit crimes
simply because they are poor.
Many of the crimes reported
in more recent years, are
committed by those in need of
money to purchase drugs of
one kind or another, many of
them from families with in-
Now if we could just feed the htmgry
people from our big stockpiles of food
in caves in Kansas. The taxpayers paid
for this and are paying storage costs
now. I would be willing to pay more
taxes so the farmers can make a de-
cent living and so we could take all of
these stockpiles of food and feed the
hungry people of the world. I will
remember the slaughter of pigs,
chickens, and the pouring of millions of
gallons of milk in the fields and roads
in 1929. But the outlook then was dif-
ferent. Most people had hope left that
we would make it back out of recession.
They say that today's hungry people
are not to sure. Let them eat cake was
once again the slogan, when tread was
scarce during the French Revolution,
and soon cake was indeed displaced by
bread. Can history be allowed to repeat
or have we learned from it, how to help
others in dire circumstances. It's a
chance to make. What will we choose
to doas a Christian nation?
Sincerely
Betty Smith
Ben Lea, Box 563
Charles Town, W.Va.
Aug. 12, 1963
Dear Mr. Rentch,
I came,away from the hearing to
recluse Judge Dostert from presiding
over Mrs. McClellans trial with the
feeling that the two witnesses were
more interested in Stonegate members
re viq UShter than for
justice being served.
Pare Parziale (a member of the
Grand Jury) testified that she knew
Judge Dostert. He called her after the
Grand Jury had only charged the
Greens with involuntary manslaughter.
He had said the presiding Judge had
given incorrect instructions to the
Grand Jury and that any member of
the grand jury had the right to ask that
the Grand Jury be reconvened. She
stated that she felt pressured from this
conversation, but could not quote
anything that he had said that would
substantiate this. She also stated Judge
Dostert seemed upset.
Who hasn't been upset with this case?
Hasn't practically every citizen of Jef-
ferson County, W.Va. and the nation
been upset about the death of this
child?
Didn't Judge Frank DePond in
Monongalia Court seem upset by the
remarks he made when he imposed the
maximum sentence on the Greens?
Wasn't Judge Dostert tufty informing
Mrs. Parziale of her rights? Shouldn't
she have appreciated this tion?
Mrs. Par'dale then called Mrs. Lynch
and informed her of this conver-oation.
Mrs. Lynch then called the W.Va.
Supreme Court and ir ormed them.
Mrs. Rose Lynch testified that she
once worked for the Stonegate
organization as piano player at their
restaurant. She knew Mrs. McClellan
and had attmMed a picnic at their
residence. She had also played for a
wedding there.
Mrs. Lynch also testified that while
employed as Judge Dostert's secretary
she told other people what Judge
Dostert had said about this organiza-
tion in his private office. She felt this
was all right as he had not stated it was
confidential!! Who would want to
employ a secretary who was so
unethical?
After disagreements with Judge
Dostert ~s. Lynch continued to call
the W.Va. Supreme Court giving her
version dwhat was taking place in Jef-
ferson County.
Attorney Steven Askin (Mrs.
McClellan's lawyer) asked the W.Va.
Supreme Court to recluse Judge
Dostert from presiding over the trial of
Mrs. McClellan. Attorney Askin was
once Mrs. Lynch's lawyer.
The W.Va. Supreme Court sent Judge
Ritch of Wheeling to preside over the
Reclmml Hearing of Judge Dostert.
p ce y
noon Aug. 9 in the Charles Town Com
House with Mrs. Parziale and Mrs,
Lynch being the key witne~es.
Virginia B. Fable
comes well above the poverty
level.
And so, we believe the latest
FBI statistics do contribute
much to c pelling the
argument of the social
theorists that crime in
America is caused by poverty.
the level of the year 1981.
Those who argued .that the
myth that most of the crime
committed in this country was
due to poverty, pointed to the
depression years of 1930,
which brought unprecedented
material deprivation to
millions of Americans, and yet
the crime rate in those years
reflected no .substantial in-
crease over booming years
of the 1920's.
And now to give more sub-
stance to their arguments that
poverty is not the major cause
of crime in this country,
comes more facts and figures
t
Aug. 22, 1983
Dear Mr. Rentch,
If S. 1530 is passed, mothers won't be
needed any more, except for routine
johs such as cleaning up the house. The
bill would call for child care in public
school buildings. Public agencies or
private non-profit organtzatiom would
be given federal aid for child care
before and after school.
That's just what I expected, when I
saw drovm of childr coming to schou]
for breakfast, instead of eating it at
home.
Senator Dingle says that his purpose
is "a pilot program intended, among
other things, to develop a 'national
resource in the state of the art'."
Mothers never had the art of rearing
children, did they?
Senator Dingle believes that his plan
"will be an important centribution to
natural child-cam policy."
(Naturally, the governmevmt has
much more to contribute to child-care
policy than de mothers, who do it
through love.)
Do we need a "national Child-care
policy?" Don't most do an ade-
quate job of caring for their chikiren?
But perhaps parental care is not what
Sen. Dingle wants. Perhaps he wants
control of children from infancy so that
the children can be reared to think as
the governm mt wants them to think.
And to act as the government wants
them to acL
Do you remember, or have you read
about Hitler's plans for children. And
the camps he had for children, with
boys and girls mixed. And {hat is egact-
ly what you think it meant, but cannot
be mentioned in a family paper.
But if Dingle has his way, it is pro-
bable that American boys and girls will
be sent to camps, from a mother's nox-
iota influence. Camps for joy, I seem
to remember that the Nazis called
them. No restraints, such as a mother
would place on her boys and girls.
If Dingle's bill is passed, ahnost the
sole purpoee of mothers would be to
procreate more young to be cared for
by the government.
And of course the little girls would
soon take the job of procreating.
And, as they were reared by the
government, they would not put the
nox m restraints upon their offsW g.
If you don't like the idea of the
governmem rearing your children er
grandchildren, write your senators to
vote against the Dingle bill, S. 1530.
Lela Gardner
I~-YEARS AGO--1O
Martin B. Glaize of Ranson, local
agent for Peoples Life Insurance Com-
pany was on his retirement
after 13 years with the Washington
company.
Mayor D.C. Masters was named as
president of the West Virginia Council
of Towns and Cities.
DIED
Mrs. Clara Estelle Hardy, Charles
Town; James Stanley Hafer, 54,
Sbepherdstown; Mrs. Hazel Mercer
Rutherford, 62, Charles Town; Mrs.
Laura V. Andersen, 62,Ramon; Gard-
ner (Doc) Burgan, 60, Hagerstown,
Md ~ Livingston Mahone, 72,
Ranson; William Artlmr Collis, 91, Ber-
ryville, Va.; Mrs. Jeannette
Lengerbeam Martin, 50, Berryvilk,
Va.; Rehert M. Everhart, Sr TS, Mar-
; Mason H. Litfleton, 64, Hyatt-
sville, Md.; Harry H. Craig, Sr 66,
Charles Town.
MARRIED
Miss Janet Hoist, Belle Plaine, Iowa
to Mr. David H. Kelley, Brusk trifle,
Va.; Miss Brenda Kay M0rison,
Tuscawilla Hilk to Mr. Paul Chamblin,
Middleway.
~--YEAR8 AC d)--m
C.S. Mtmser, editor and publisher of
The Independent in for
the past 57 years, marks his Ith bir-
thday. Demolition work starts on the
site whore a Civic Center is to he
located.
Harry Fleed son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn T. Coffman of Leetown is
awarded his certified Public Accoun-
tant Certificate by the W.Va. Board o(
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"Young Rivers," a book of poems by In Charles Town, John
Mrs. Reva B. Marshall of Shopherd- Washington, 78, for 50 years
stown, has been published by Carlton nent Charles Town business
Press of New York and is placed on ssle his home in Middleway District !
here at Colonial News Stand. Watson; at her borne in Chark~
MARRIED Mrs. Emma H. Landis,
Miss Julia Brooke Potts daughter of Landis; at his home in
Mr. LlewellynPottsandthelateJulias Md Hiram Cllpp in his 85th
Wynkoop of Shepherdstown to Mr. ~0---YEARS AGO-.~
Harold Simons Greham, Jr of New Horace C.
Orleans; Miss Lee Siverly of Marshall, farm owned by the heirs d ~e
I11 to Mr. Donald A. Bowers, son of W.W. Downey at Zoar for $45
Freda Bowers and the late Winerd DIED
Bowers of Halltown; Miss ElinorAt the home of his
Dudresr Kable, daughter of Mr. and Allder, 76; on the R.M.
Mrs. Donald M. Kable of Charles Town Leetown Road Albert Lewis, 17.
to Mr. Paul l~ichard Manzuk of Detroit, Wheat is threshed from the~
Michigan. Brown Fort on the Murphy
DIED Harpers Ferry, file
Mrs. Carrie Belle Hill, 88, Shenan- been erected
donh Jtmction, widow of Henry M. Hill, the World's Fair grounds in
atberhome;Mrs. MaryE. Staubs,78, Post office at
widow of Sydney W. Staubs, at the .Myerstown and are
home of her daughter, Mrs. Gladys finued.
Dunn, Bolivar; James Michael White, by rural delivery from Charles
infant son of Donald J. and Juanita e~--YEARS AGO--~,
Carter White of Middleway; Mrs. J.T. + Mr. Wright Denny, principal
Liller of Fort Run, Va mother of Mrs. ryville High School is a
Kenenth A. Jenkins of Shannondale. cipal of Charles Town grade
Leetown defeats Shepberdstown 6-0
in a play'off game to capture the i~nkin~ For 01d
Potomac Little League Crown.
Do ld wll ham of thec wm About Fire
the Jefferson Little League hatting
crown. Top pitchers were Sam Byrer For Centennial
of the Cubs; Jimmy Hanmumd of the
Dndgers; Glean Barrm~ of the Yankees In July of 1904 the
and Norman Bryant of the Indians dependent and
Russell Miller, Jr submits his Companies willbe 100years
resignation as a team manager for the mark the occasion they plat
Little League after sorving for l0 of the special Centennial
ll years of its existenee and leading the Charles Town sere time
Dodgers to 6 league championships, month of July.
~--YEAR8 AGO--M ~ planning for
MARRIED celebratien is alr~mdy
Miss Betty Jane Bowers, Halltown to the first phase of the ~
Mr. George Donald Frye, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Frye of Charles on the fou ng of the two
Town; Miss Evelyn James, daughter o( parties. The committee is
Mr. and Mrs. George William James of such things as old:
Charles Town to Charles S. Vassolloof newspaper clippings, fire
Brooklyn, N.Y. and the old fire halls of either,
reED companies.
Mrs. Emma K. IAnk, widow of the John J. FYeund, of Route I
late William C. Link, at her home in Harpa Ferry, W.Va.
Shepherdstown; Mrs. Nellie R. Bran- research committee
sen, 45, wife of William C. Branson, at pbotographe, newspaper
her home in deaUng with
4 -- EAI AGO--.
DIED edina
& Albert Myers, retired railroad brochure.
man who formerly lived in Rlppon end" Persmm having such
Summit Paint, in IV~ch~ Va.; Mrs. would be willing to loan tl~
Mary Littlejolm, employed in the War Research committee slmuld~
in Washington, at her Mr. Fmund at 7' 5-38LS and
home in Shenandoah Junction.make arrangements for
I-.YEAR8 AGO.-.~ returning the materials
The C.L. Robinmm Ice and Cold torte has finished with same-
Storage Co builds a packing house in
.entoha.d ap en 6NE THE
line.
