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Page Four October 12, 1972 BECKLEY POST-HERALD A XfnttUCAN NEWSPAKK fOR 72 YEARS HJtUSHW tVttY BUSlNfSS DAY BY BECiOEY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION 339-442 W. 25101 All Departments 2534321 Stcomj-Clati mail authorized at post offiw ot W. and Minion, W. Va. t.

J. MODEL Fussing Over Monument Be Beside Point There are a number of important issues on the Nov. 7 election ballots. There are several proposed amendments to our state constitution, one of wnich we definitely favor. That is the important school building bond issue plan, which is most obviously needed.

Locally, however, the proposed special levy for tiie improvement of the Raleigh County Memorial Airport is at least equally important. Recently, since The Register editor returned from vacation, a bit of hassle has developed over whether a drawing which was a suggestion for an airport memorial to our servicemen dead of four wars was appropriate. Its religious significance purely Christian, since it was primarily constituted of a large cross was deemed objectionable. The drawing was actually only a suggestion and not any definite plan or promise that would be binding should the special levy oe approved by Raleigh County voters. Undoubtedly, if objections loere strong enough, a different sort of monument could be built.

Perhaps a large dove of peace on a tall column would be more IN ANY CASE, the cranked-up controversy is a bit beside the point, to say the least Unless the special levy receives wide support and is approved by at least 60 per cent of those casting baHots, there will be no memorial -as well as no new runway and no new administration building, indeed, no new anything. For a community which is growing so markedly as Beckley and the several counties which it serves as a cultural, financial, and business center, there is no question but that vastly improved air transport facilities are badly needed. With the addition of two new federal facilities of considerable size and significance adjacent to the airport, along with numerous other developments, it is an absolute certainty that increased airline service will be needed as veil as considerably more general aviation- facilities. AT THE GATHERING where the planior greater development at the airpbrf was presented, a representative of the Federal Aviation Administration made it clear in rather firm phrases that Beckley could expect improved air service one way or another. As to the old question in this case, which comes first, the passengers or the airline flights which can accommodate them the answer was deemed to be neither.

An adequate runway system which could handle any and all planes and flights is the first essential. If the demand for flight service here continues to grow as it has been and there is that absolute certainty" of it 'the FAA representative said the service will either from the present carrier, Piedmont Airlines, or another airline. Also deemed possible was the establishment of service by a commuter airline, the new third level of air transport service which has prov- ed most successful in many areas. Obviously, the first order of business is to approve the special levy plan which would bring far greater matching funds. This would, in turn, provide jobs many of them in construction work alone, but quite a few in the permanent improvements being built.

No other path seems so easily open to us to help bring about continued growth and improvement of the community in which we live and work. U. S. Load Too Heavy The resistance which has arisen to the very idea that the United States should reduce its share of United Nations expenditures from 31.5 per cent of the total to 25 per cent is truly amazing. One might think Americans were trying to scuttle the U.N., instead of merely trying to get by with paying "only" a quarter of the total cost.

With 132 members, the concept of one member the United States -paying nearly one-third of the total cost of its operations is absurd. In any other circumstance, the U.S. would be soundly flayed by the world community for trying to monopolize the action. All manner of argument is used to show that the United States should not reduce Its payment ratio at this particular time. Some have even had the temerity to suggest that, based on per capita income, Americans probably should be paying a greater share of the total! Inasmuch as more than half the members are in arrears on their dues and assessments, perhaps the issue is only academic anyway, because the United States also is the major bond underwriter for U.N.

indebtedness. Top (y The Morning Republkan Activity In High Gear By CHARLOTTE FLESHMAN Does anyone remember when there has been so much Republican activity in Raleigh County? There already has been more than in recent years and some of the major events are yet to come. The visit of President Richard M. Nixon's brother, Edward, to be featured speaker of the Good Government Jamboree from 1 to 5 p.m. Sandaj', Oct.

22, in Grandview State Park, will be a political highlight of the less than a month remaining before the Nov. 7 election. It is rumored that the President himself will be in West Virginia just three days later, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, to attend a SSOO-per-couple Salute to Governor Moore reception and dinner in the Charleston Civic Center. That dinner was originally scheduled for Sept.

28. When postponed until Oct. 25, it was announced that the delay was because of the Charleston garbage strike, but now it is whispered that the real reason was so President Nixon could be present. Robert Sayre, West Virginia Republican Executive Committee vice chairman for the Fourth Congressional District, has sold quite a few tickets in Southern West Virginia for the Oct. 25 Salute to Moore dinner.

Many of them, he reports, have been bought by persons telephoning him to ask for tickets. Maybe heard the rumor that President Nixon will be there! Bob's brother and Beckley law partner, Truman Sayre, is the Southern West Virginia chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, and has arranged for full-time personnel, in the person of Sandra Clay, for Raleigh County Republican 307 Neville Mrs. Clay is working therewith Lola Lilly, headquarters manager for the Raleigh County Republican Executive Commirtee. Before the end of week, a Raleigh Countian is to be named by John A. Jones of Weirton, West Virginia chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, to co-ordinate veterans' activity for Nixon in Southern West Virginia.

Another unverified rumor is that Gov. and Mrs. Moore will attend the Raleigh County. Republicans' dance Beckley they attend the testmionfal John Gates Saturday rJiight in the Ramada Inn, I checked last night with dinner chairman, Fred (Lucy) Hays. Lucy said she certainly hoped so, but she didn't know.

She didn't know how many tickets had been sold for the dinner, either, because several persons have sent more than the-required SIS per plate. Approximately $2,000 had been received by yesterday afternoon, she reported, and quite a few tickets have not yet been picked up, she added. By Friday, she said, she will have an exact reservations count and will also know by then what dignitaries will be Next week's Raleigh County activities will include several events honoring Mrs. Robert (Louise) Leonard of Harpers. Ferry, who will be the Tuesday night and Wednesday night houseguest of Mrs.

R. L. (Carrie) Reardon, 102 Virginia St. On Wednesday, she will be chauf- fered by Mrs. Wilmot C.

(Harriet) Jones from one to another of the 'half a dozen coffees being arranged by Raleigh County Republican Women's Club. Mrs. Jones, the club president, said that the Slab Fork Republican Women's Club, headed by Mrs. Guy (Ceretha) Hunt, is planning an evening event honoring Mrs. Leonard while she is in Raleigh County this tune.

Mrs. Leonard is the first woman ever elected to the West Virginia- Senate and the first West Virginia woman ever to run for the U.S. Senate. Her friend and supporter, Mrs. Joe L.

(Marian) McQuade of Gauley Bridge, one-time Beckleyan, is running in the llth District (Fayette and Greenbrier counties) for the West Virginia Senate. Mrs. McQuade will be here next. Wednesday to attend a vocational rehabilitation dinner in the Beckley Elks Club. Today she is to tour Fayette County with Governor Moore, who'll be honored at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Fayetteville Memorial Building.

Governor Moore will speak in Beckley at noon tomorrow at a Kawanis Club meeting. By BILLY GRAHAM I know a person who claims to be the most "fundamental" Christian in the community, bat he has had a vile temper. Every time he gets angry, he lets profanity fly, even using God's name in vain. He has relatives he hasn't spoken to for years. Can you explain such a person? M.B.L, I can explain him, but I certainly don't condone him.

Such a person is not only a poor representative of the human race, but a disgrace to the cause of Christ. It was to his kind, the Pharisees, that our Lord pronounced severe judgment. There is no human being more contemptible than a religious man gone sour. This Is The Man Whose Sound Policies Make My Road Program Possible! 1 JAY'S UILDWG Yesterday And Today-1890 Area Church Reports Reprinted By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Some 1890 i i from Hardesty publications on early churches constitute today's. offerings if the subscriber cares to read them.

Green Sulphur Presbyterian Church was organized out of; the McElhen-- ry Presbyter-j ian church in reenbrier: County, with 27; Rev. J. G. Barr organized Green Sulphur! Church in Present membership is 45. The present edifice was erected in 1880.

"Ansted Episcopal Church (The Church of the Redeemer). The lot on which the church building stands was presented to the Episcopal church by the Hawks Nest Coal Co. (English). for raising the; "money for the building -is largely due to Mrs. Edwin Page.

Dedication of the building was by Bishop Geo. W. Peterkin' in October, 1881. Rev. Gobbs was pastor until 1882." M.

L. Lacy, D. in a building then used as the Summers County court house. Meetings were held in it for a year. "Next, a school house was They used the school house until the Baptists put up their church- building.

The Presbyterians i toward it and worshiped there until 1881 In 1890 the mem- 'bership was .44. "In 1876, the Missionary Baptist Church at Hinton built a'building. On Nov. 4, 1877, the Baptists were organized into a church by Revs. Ellison, Pack, and Sweeney In 1878 the church united with the Hopewell Baptist Association.

In 1890 the membership, was 100. had a membership of 34 "RAVEN'S EYE organized June by Rev. M. L. Lacy and Rev.

James Haynes. "Fire Greek Church is located at Fire Greek, Fayette County, on the railroad, under the care of Rev. J. W. Weightman, D.

"Gauley Bridge; Missionary Baptist Church was organized Sept 7,1835, by Elders Thomas Harrison and William C. Liggan, the latter being the first pastor. The church now has 132 members. It was organized with 18. The first edifice; was destroyed during the Civil War.

Next structure was erected in 1866 on a lot donated by William Morris. LANSING MISSIONARY Baptist Church was organized March 20, 1887 by Elders W. E. Powell and W. Adams, the first pastor.

Twelve persons constituted the charter membership-In 1890 the membership 15. "Coal Valley (Montgomery) Baptist Church was formed Pec. 29, by Revs. W. H.

Adams and A. J. McClung, with Rev. W-, Adams, a Con- 'federate army veteran, as the. first.

pastor. First house of worship', of this congregation' was erected in 1881. This church had 84 members in 1890. "Chestmitburg M. E.

Church was organized in 1888 -with seven, members. Rev. Russell Henning was the first pastor. In 1890 the Chesmutburg church "A MISSIONARY Baptist Church was formed in the Ansted School house, March 22, 1883, by Revs. Matthew Ellison, A.

Rippetoe, C. E. and M. Bibb. Rev E.

Wren was first pastor of this church There were 13 charter members. "April 21, 1883, a committee was appointed to select a site for a place of worship. Location was chosen by William Masters and his wife. A building was put up at once. It was dedicated October 24, 1886.

"First Baptist church at Ansted was -formed-in 1796. It was composed of members of the Likens, Scaggs, Coleman and Wood families, a group of 'squatters', who. were the first settlers of the community where Ansted is. built today. About the year 1800, they built a log building and occupied it as their house of worship." "JEANNETTE "Missionary Baptist Church was formed in 1853 with 14 members.

First house'" of worship was built by Col. Geo. Alderson, who gave it the name of Jeanette in honor of his first "wife. pastor, was Rev. Allen Wood.

In 1862 the building was destroyed by Union army soldiers. Nest structure was erected in 1887. In 1890 membership was 90. "This church was to be used by any orthodox denomination when not used by the Baptists." Demo Is For Moore 1 GATEWOOD Missionary Baptist Church was formed Sept. 6, 1887, with 12 members.

It was organized by Revs. A. M. Neal, J. Bragg and J.

T. Tabler. This is located in the Bibb settlement, Gatewood. "This name was derived from Elizabeth Gatewood Bibb, wife of Charles Bibb, one of the original.members of the Bethel Church organized in 1843. Mrs.

Charles Bibb (17971881) was a native of Amherst County, Va. "Gatewood church grew out of a revival in the Victory school house, a meeting in which there- were eight conversions. That meeting was held by Revs. M. Neel and J.

W. Bragg. "First meeting house of this church was built in 1888 and was dedicated on June 3 of that year It was admitted to the Raleigh Baptist Association in the following August. 'TflNTON PRESBYTERIAN Church was organized in 1873 by Rev, S. R.

Houston and Rev, I am a full blooded Democrat "Have been all my life." But I shall vote on the 7th day of November for Arch A. Moore to be our next governor and, too, Nixon is my choice for our next president. Rockefeller is a turncoat He came down from the State of New York a few years ago to tell the people in West Virginia what to do. He says if we will elect him as governor of West Virginia he will carry us back to the Promised Land. "So much bunk:" Edward Kennedy coming to West Virginia will not do Rockefeller any good.

Kennedy lost his popularity in West Virginia by letting a girl drown in his car at Chappaquiddick. This ruins him politically in the State of West Virginia and perhaps in all other states. Governor Moore done mor- for We V'rginia the last four years than any governor the state has had during my life. I am now 87 years old. He raised the salaries for the working people to an all time high.

He has built more good roads man any governor we have had in the past 25 years. When we drive over the good roads in the southern "part of West Virginia, we want to thank Governor Moore and the State Road "Commission for the good work they are doing. The ad Jay had in your paper Oct. 11 on page 12, giving 10 reasons why you should "vote for. him is all bunk.

He is nothing but a wind-jammer trying to cram down the voters throat all of his promises he has made. West Virginia has plenty of good people who have the ability and who know more about the needs of West Virginia than Rockefeller does. Far as I am concerned, he can go back to New York and stay there. Mrs. J.

E. Wyart 2029 Harper Road Beckley Andrew Tully-FBI's Patrick Gray Is Tough But Human WASHINGTON An old friend who worked long a faithfully for the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, without falling prey sycophancy, offers a capsule comment on FBI Boss L. Patrick Gray's transfer of the special agent in charge in Hawaii because the wives of several agents complained about their husbands' working conditions. ver, the wives belter than to plain," a i source, who is still an I official.

"If a Hoover would have disciplined their husbands, not the special a in charge." He was saying that Gray, a former Navy captain already noted for his tight-ship operation of the FBI, has something Hoover never had an open mind about how the show should be AS A RESULT, every report from inside the bureau is that the FBI not only is a tighter but a happier ship. Gray has made it plain that he cares about the working stiff, while cracking down on bureaucratic inefficiency and the kind of by straw bosses that is aimed at Scurrying favor with the director. This is all to the good. Without derogating Hoover's high competence as a lawman and administrator, he ran the FBI as his personal fiefdom. The name of the game was to please Hoover, and down that path beckoned promotion and juicy assignments.

Agents who disagreed with Hoover over the time of day- or the color of a "necktie usually wound up in some isolated littoral. A PERSONAL reminiscence seems relevant Several years ago I wrote a book on the FBI and the publisher threw a party for press and a few agents who had helped get the book into print. During the evening, the comely wife of one of the agents approached" Hoover for a handshake. The boss was all smiles until the lady mentioned rather tentatively that she. didn't see much of her husband becausee -networked so much overtime! Hoover's expression froze into a grim, tight-lipped frown.

"Your husband is an FBI agent, Madame," he told the lady, then turned away in dismissal, I SUPPOSE Hoover aadt point, of a sort. Because of its singular responsibilities, the FBI can never be a 9 to 5 operation. In most investigations, time is of the essence and an agent cannot leave his pursuit of a case until tomorrow merely because the clock says if official quitting time. Most agents recognize this fact of Me, just as the faceless city cop knows he can't postpone his work on a mugging lest the offender get But FBI agents are also human, and many of them are married 1 and have children. While their first duty is to their job and to the kind of dedication it requires, they also live lives outside the bureau and the prudent administrator take this into consideration, ALTHOUGH GRAY is just as hard-bitten as Hoover, he seems to be trying to humanize the FBI.

He has relaxed regulations on dress and hair length and set up a system whereby agents' complaints can get a hearing. Hoover would have shunned such innovations. You did what your immediate superior told you to do period. You did not go over his head with your problems. In short, not only Hoover but those to whom he delegated authority were immune to the second guess.

Perhaps the fact that Hoover was a bachelor and Gray is married and the father of a big family explains the in their operation of the FBI. MARRIAGE SOFTENS the dictator inherent in every male, or at least accustoms him to the necessity for accommodation. He relinquishes some of his divine right as an individual, and if there are children he discovers that his role as absolute monarch is slowly inexorably chipped away. I suspect this was a subconscious part of Pat Gray's thinking when he was confronted with the complaints submitted by the wives of those agents out in Honolulu. As a married man, he could put himself in the agents' shoes.

Indeed, he might even tiave thought a little about hell- he might catch home if he turned a deaf ear grievances of members in good standing of a union whose No. 1 priority often seems aimed at cutting males down- to manageable size. Our Readers Speak-Opposed To Nixon Recently I have read many letters in the news papers expressing the writers' reasons for preferring one candidate over another in the 1972 election. There are several factors that influence my decision but one especially keeps becoming more important As a union teacher, my concern for good government rests upon morality as well as economic programs which are good for the people. One of the major issues of the 1968 election was.

law and order and it is still a big issue in 1972. Respect for law and order should start at the top, not the bottom. Those in charge of administering our laws should show respect for the law or the children will grow up having disrespect for government and law. The Nixon administration has demonstrated disrespect for laws. Under Richard Nixon, this All Have Skeletons As the election draws nearer, it seems the majority of candidates are more interested in degrading opponents than informing the public of their own better qualities.

Personally, I feel a man that cannot find better campaign material than his opponent's life, history has very little to offer us voters. As a want men and women of strong character to represent me in the small society the government, not men and women with strong backs that show they could "dig deeper" and fine more "mud" to throw around at his opponent. This same degrading of character comes from men and women running for federal offices on down to the offices and often enough to our hired Often we don't realize we might hurt someone with little remarks made to friends. Those friends talk, believe me, and somehow it always gets to the person we spoke a Sometimes those remarks are false and sometimes true but, even so, how many of us doesn't have at least" one little "skeleton" hid in the closet and prefer the door to remain closed. Let us stop and think before we make remarks about our friends to friends.

The friend spoke about may be carrying the key to our locked closet door. Mamie Lois Beneventi P.O. Box 474 Victor Republican administration has become the most federal administration in "the 20th century. To illustrate--the accuracy of this statement let's review some of the scandals that have been exposed in these last three years (or two) under the Republican president, '-Nixon. The second largest scandal, as far as millions of dollars of American money is involved, is the wheat "deal" Nixon made with Communist Russia.

The Republican administration in Washington "leaked" advance information of this deal to a few of their stockbroker friends in.New York. Russia paid $1.63 per bushel for 400 million bushels while the export companies thru whom they -dealt paid the American farmer only $1.30 per bushel and received a federal subsidy of 30 cents per bushel, thereby reaping a gross profit of 3251,970,000. The fanners lost There was also the ITT affair which showed how Nixon gets his campaign money. And the scandal of how he spent that money when he was campaigning for the U. S.

Senate in' California. Nixon released from prison a labor boss convicted of corruption -then that labor boss's union endorsed Nixon. Was there a How about the milk lobby contribution to the Republican campaign fund and the following increase in the price of milk? This is but one of the big reasons why as a teacher, am for Senator McGovern for president of the States. How could a teacher, responsible for building good citizenship in the young people, ignore the scandals that have.erupted out of Washington? could anyone ignore the disregarded for American rights shown by Nixon's henchmen? How can you face the possibility of your private phones or homes being bugged by government agents as was done by Republican agents in the Watergate break-in? Or your right to freedom of speech curtailed by government censor if (Contiiucd Dm Paft i).