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Pagj' Four November 10.1975. BECKILY Fbsi HERALD WMUCAN MHHftm Wi YUM IY MOUIY MWIMrM COtfOtATtON 1M-M1 ItcUtr, W. TtVonti AH Dtporimnti bctUy 253-JKI moil priviUetl autfcoriltd pott of W. Vo. and Hinlan, W.

Vo. I. J. HOOK Day For Veterans Well Deserved Congress has reversed Itself in moving Veterans Day to the other side of Halloween. Earlier this year the old dale of Nov.

11 was re- ndopted for the occasion to pay respects to the nation's veterans But not until 1978, at least as far as a Is concerned. Since all but a small handful of states already have moved their recognition back to Nov. 11, it js Washington which is out of step with the nation. Nov. 11 is the 75th anniversary of the end of the "war to a a democracy." To most persons it seemed that World War I had been so terrible the civilized world would never permit another armed conflict to occur Since then the United States has been in three more wars.

Observance of Veterans Day comes on the date originally set aside for tribute to the men who fought and died in the First World War. But since then the ambitions of twisted minds have left a legacy of move dead and more veterans of wars that were not averted despite sorrowful memories of that first conflict. So the original Armistice Day became Veterans Day. THE SECOND WORLD WAR changed the significance of the day. Once a symbol of triumph and optimism, it has grown somber.

It was the anniversary of the end of the war to end war. It has become another memorial day. The United States has millions of living veterans which it is honoring on this Veterans Day, 1975. As a group they are a lot of people, enough to have a tremendous impact upon the life of a nation. This is particularly true when you consider that the majority of the veterans of military service are vigorous men and women, in the prime of adulthood, who are active in every facet of community and national life.

Veterans are people who have experienced the sobering reality of armed conflict, either personally, or as part of the military organization that sends men out to fight. Knowing war and all its sickening byproducts, they are probably as- peace-loving a group as can be lound. Vet they also know the results of ignoring the aggressiveness of acquisitive nations. Sooner or later, somebody has to stop them and in this modern world, that effort has involved the American military time and again. So the veterans, if they can be characterized, could be called responsible, realistic idealists who are actively at work to better their communities, their nation and the world.

They deserve to be honored on their special day, not as an adjunct to a weekend holiday. Kremlin Dilemma Kremlin strategists must be hard ut work a i a strategy they will use when Andrei Sakharov presents his formal re- guest for permission to leave the country to receive his Nobel prize on Dec. 10 and return again. The return part is what troubles Sakharov although the famed physicist has indicated he will lake his chances on a round trip if his exit visa is granted A i a i Kremlin. Twice before this case it a a i i a decisions, and each time the result was a slap In the face from world opinion.

The two previous dissenters who received Nobel prizes were Boris Pasternak and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Both elected not to leave the Soviet Union to receive their honors for fear they would not be permitted to return home. Pasternak faded from the limelight while the civilized world condemned the atmosphere of fear which relegated him to non- person status in his own homeland. Solzhenitsyn's forced exile and acclaim in the non-communist world is well known. So now there is Sakhnrov and while the Soviet propaganda press castigates him for the honor.

Soviet leaders must decide soon what to do The one tack they have not tried is the most obvious. Let him travel to Oslo in December, permit him to return home and have as little as possible to say about the matter a a a is not devious enough. Leave it to the Soviet planners to adopt a position which will boomerang in their faces again. This time they also have to contend with the provision of the Helsinki agreements of this year which mentions unrestricted travel and emigration as rights to be upheld. Flow the Sakharov matter is handled will be revealing in more ways than one.

Tte Monting- Skatcboard Act Hard To Follow By GENE I. WOODRUM Taking advantage of (he spring like weather of the past few days we have noticed many people out doing'the things necessary to get for winter. Some are raking leaves, cleaning cars, putting in antifreeze and changing tires. If the good weather can continue for just a few more days we will have everything done and all will he ready for winter to commence. We noticed that New River Park was rather fully utilized with games going on in every which direction us others also en: joyed the pleasant weather.

We a a gentleman exercising his talents on a skate board, balancing his ISO- plus pounds rather delicately down the roadway slope near the park. We stopped and watched him, but hu appeared to have the board well in hand at the bottom of the hill. Thiil is a sport we wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. -0- Howover, how can we criticize someone for enjoying a skate board when we went out and purchased a motorcycle? The thing Is okeh around the house, but as we eventually It ran out of gasoline, and someone hud to take it to the filling station. 1 will gladly admit that riding a motorcycle on the highway is one of the lonesomest feelings we have experienced in some time.

There are a multiple of things one must remember, keeping a watch for other cars, changing gears with our feet, gearing down for the stops, crossing railroad tracks, not hitting gravel too fast, direction signals and brakes "where did he say the brakes were'" -0- A that exhilarating experience we were glad to sit down In the protection of our compact car when we headed out for Hinton on a nice, clear fall day. Along with son, Lyle. we went to visit friends at Otis Calcs and his family, and Kelly Bragg. Kelly has a pretty good store of information on dogs, and we needed some advice about our two German shepherds. While we were there, we talked with Kelly about some of his championship bluetick coon hunting stock.

Bragg's Blue Three and Blue Four have bei-n notable names as far as hunting hounds go. However, Blue Three is gone, and Blue Four is getting up in age, so we asked Bragg about his upcoming stock According to Kelly, Blue Dodger Blue Wheeler, and Frederick the Great will be his hopes for the immediate future. Crime Becoming Seriout Getting down to a more serious our eldest a happened to be in the A 4 Supermarket on Harper Road Saturday when it was robbed. According to her. she, as well as some other employes, did not even know the robbery was going on until It was over.

Thinking of her safety, we can't help but associate it with other robberies here of late, and wonder just what this state is coming to Along with that, we can't help but notice the of people arrested here lately for gambling and possession of illegal drugs -0- H's bad enough having horse racing, because any such type event encourages gambling, and gambling is supposedly illegal However, when the Legislature lugalizps dog racing as well, they are i encouraging more gambling. We can't help but wonder where are our ministers now? Had the Legislature considered something us mundane as school textbooks, yon can bet the ministers would have been six deep on their way to Charleston. Encouraging another form of gambling apparently does not concern the members of the cloth. So. if "father, dear father," to roin a phrase, goes to one of the many race tracks dogs or horses loses his money and is unable to feed his family, why that is alright.

A( least he didn't have the money to purchase those iilthy textbooks. And the first time hostages are taken by an unsuccessful robber, what will the Legislature think then? Thind about. Top of the morning to you. "Our heretofore docile President went on the warpath yesterday, and cut loose with both barrels at Congress and the Senate, and bis message was loaded with votes. It was on government economy.

"He lold them in his oivn way what was happening. 'You guys are not doing anything about cutting down You are afraid because everyone you fire has got a vote, so if you are afraid to shoot the bear, give me the gun and I will do it, and lake the By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Raleigh County is producing more coal today that it did in 1900. Just 75 years ago, Raleigh County produced only 68,360 tons of the black diamond. K-a Those tons were afjB called "long" tons, which is to say 2,240 pounds in weight. The 1900 production a an i a i production of 1897 amounted to only 63,701 tons.

In Fayette County, mother of Raleigh, coal has been king a long time. In 1900, Fayette produced 4,547,000 long Ions. That was more than any other county-production in the entire state. McDowell County was a close second that year, ending June 30 IBM with 4,142,102. Third place that year went to Marion County whose miners gave daylight to 2,925,907 tons that had not seen sunlight for a 100 million years or so.

I THE a 1890, West Virginia mined 7,394,654 tons of Fire One, Fire Two! Creating Duplicate Agencies Doubled Cost Of Intelligence WASHINGTON During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy was first amused and then annoyed by the antics of a McN'amara and John McCone, i Central Intelligence Agency. McNamara, who had a private spook shop labeled the Defense Intelligence Agency, and used to compete to see who could bring Kennedy the latest reports. The rivalry the ridiculous, with 0 a and McCone rushing at all hours to the White House to show the President identical newly developed pictures taken by American U-2 spy planes. "Gentlemen, I order a truce," Kennedy finally told them. "Pool your information and deliver it to me through a neutral power.

intelligence approached McNamara Yesterday And Today-Breast Augers, Coal Picks Now Antiques coal, at 2,003 pounds a ton For 1N 18W tne Production in the 1900, the production jumped to lri; state of West Virginia was 21.513,340 tons hut 2,240,000 short tons. By 1900 the -state mine report stated "With In early times in the mining in- continuation of the present demand dustry. tools used in getting out for coal, the future of the mining eoji consisted of the pick and industry in the state is almost shovel. Today the coal pick and the beyond contemplation." breast augers, long used in the Today, 1975, that same state- general ment could be written with a great deal more accuracy. The plateau region extending from the area of Fayetteville to and including Bluefield, and all of Mercer County, is in for top-flight business for mines, come under the head of antique tools.

I 1900, i a a i i numbered 133. That number was large at that time. Included in the 133 mine deaths of 1900 were the 46 men and boys whose lives were snuffed out in the Red Ash mine disaster in Fayette County, the mine explosion that shocked the entire state. Since coal began to be mined in Fayeltu County, there have been 14 major mine disasters a major disaster being one in which five or more miners lose their lives. LayJand mine in 1915 was Fayette County's worst explosion.

In that explosion 112 men lost (heir lives. Our Readers Speak -Poet Is Assured Of Future Ji rt h- mpell( SP t0 motivation behind her state- hm," ir ha -1 mcm that art has I stand in your "Council You soe Ms a ional poer wiih TM his this ostensible to demonstrate her I need ,1 a point in a constructive forrp in However, in all "intellectual if he cement enfS ZrM "K' entitled to know that there is more pow ers fhat be and doesn get coW feet at the altar! My Answer Hy BILLY GRAHAM Why ts it that I'm always expecting things to turn out bad -and they usually do? I've come to see, however, (hat the negative altitude is keeping me from enjoying life. Even when I pray, I say lo myself, what's the use of praying? God won't answer! D.R. It was George Eliot who said dial the strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged. Somehow, you have decided that even when you get good vibrations, you're going to "invert" them into pessimism and fear.

But since all that is an act of the will, it can be changed. I have known many people who are inveterate optimists. They habitually look for the bright side, and i it. A good a Biblically of this is the contrast between Philip and Andrew in John 6. When the need for feeding the multitude arose, Philip showed up as a "statistical pessimist." That is, he inferred in verse 7 that there just wasn't money enough for this project.

His brother Andrew, however, said to Christ: "There's a lad here with five loaves and two fishes." With that show of positive he deserves the title of an "ingenious optimist." All the progress is because of this Andrew type of thinking. When we don't have it, even our prayers get tinged with gloomy pessimism. Pray, and ex- pecl an answer. That's the promise of James 1:6 to the church. Robert Baber 216 Valley Drive South Beckley the next 25 years.

Coal production is at the base oi this booming business upsurge; FRENCH interests in Raleigh County and German in Fayette are i i factors in the ex-, panding coal production Nor does this minimize other interests in this general local. There has long been the hue and cry of the mining magnates that the coal industry is an exhausting one. True enough, but. like a bath, it does you good while you've got it. No more coal is being formed that we know of, but there is still a world of the famed fossil fuel to be mined.

NOT a in West Virginia can today be bought "in fee," which includes mineral rights. When a person owns a tract of real estate "in fee," it means he owns it "from the center of the earth to the zenith." A deceased attorney in Fayette County once put it this way: "By Ned, I own that land from hell to heaven." He also owned the air between! Once when the telephone company was extending its lines along the roadway to Charleston, the company extended the crossarms on its line poles across the way over his land. That lawyer made the company remove part of the cross arms that extended through "his" airspace. The company extended the crossanns out over the roadway so they would no longer trespass on the lawyer's air space. Anderson-- THE STORY is relevant these days when House and Senate intelligence committees are eyeing the Defense Intelligence Agency with a view to cutting its budget and perhaps even ending its existence.

Son. Frank Church, D- Idaho, chairman of the Senate intelligence panel, would cut back the DIA to a small unit in the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says the DIA should be abolished. DIA's history is another example of the danger of creating a new federal agency. The agency was created by MeNamara in 1961 as the Defense Secretary's own a i a head- a a i i a intelligence.

McNamara claimed the DIA would save the Treasury up to $100-million a year by eliminating duplication. In the spirit of the secret world in which the spying industry operates, a a a gave no details of this great economy move. Explaining the "how" part a was impossible. three military service intelligence arms continued to exist, and CIA men pointed out there was nothing the DIA could dp that the CIA wasn't already doing. SO IT IS not surprising that today the DIA has grown into an empire of more than 4,500 employes and an annual budget of more than $200-million.

Meanwhile, duplication of military intelligence efforts continues apace. The Army, Navy, and Air Force espionage shops are bigger than they were in 1961, with a a of a 50,000 employes and an estimated combined budget of S750-million a year. Although it might be wiser to just abolish the DIA, that sort of final solution is virtually impossible in Washington. a the Congressional intelligence committees probably wili wind up recommending is a reduction in the I A a a rearrangement by which DIA would be responsible only for strategic intelligence, leaving tactical intelligence to the three services. DIA has become not only too costly, but too inefficient.

It is probably a libel to say the agency has deteriorated into a retirement home for old generals, but it ranks down near the bottom in appraisals of foreign spy agencies by Great Britian and France. LT. GEN. Daniel Graham, the DIA director, marched into a hear- i ing of the House Appropriations 1 Committee last June and boasted that his agency's prediction of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus was "one of three major intelligence a i of 1974." Baloney. The invasion was being threatened on the official Turkish radio, and it later developed that bath France and West German intelligence agencies had the invasion taped.

DIA also fell on its face by failing to predict the 1974 coup in Portugal, although Swedish agents provided chapter and verse for their claim that they knew the coup was coming two weeks before it occurred. With that kind of a record and with hog dogs costing what they do, UIA should be spanked and sent off to Weight Watchers. Hospitals Rebel Against HEW Standards WASHINGTON A shockingly high percentage of hospitals, according to spot checks, don't meet the minimum federal standards. The deficiencies range from inadequate fire protection andJax drug controls to 5 sanitary conditions, and i a practices have also! been such as the York hospital which failed to take the proper precautions before transfusing' blood. These are the findings of the Health, Education and Welfare Department (HEW), which is supposed to police hospitals for the medicare program.

Spot Investigations were con' ducted of 163 hospitals. An alarming 107 failed to measure up to the minimum standards. IN ORDER to receive medicare i a 'accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals A This is composed of representatives from the nation's most prestigious professional medical groups. the small society by brickman Yet i i A accredited all of the hospitals that HEW later disqualified. This has riased grave questions about the JCAH's own standards.

Most of the failing hospitals were disqualified because of safety deficiencies. The violations ranged from a shortage of exit signs to un- a a i i equipment. An HEW document, intended for official eyes only, charges that the JCAH accreditors missed the fire hazards because they "are not professionally qualified in the area of life safety." Although JCAH conducted a thorough examination of each hospital's medical staff, the docu- adds, the accreditors overlooked "deficiencies in the areas of nurse staffing, dispensation of drugs, preparation of patient diets, and the review of the social needs of patients." THE FEDERAL investigators found, for example, that some doctors would simply phone in drug dosages without examining their patients. Some drug storage areas weren't properly policed. Laundry was in one i a i In a hospital, the inspectors discovered a i i respirators hadn't even been cleaned.

Understating was a problem in many hospitals, with unqualified aides sometimes doing work that doctors or nurses should perform. Tight budgets also caused skimping on food, resulting in poor dietary conditions. The HEW survey covered only 2.2 per cent of the total number of accredited hospitals. But the hospitals were selected at random for investigation and appear to be typical. "The validation survey," concludes HKW, "would appear to indicate substantial inadequacies i respect to A mance." SPOKESMEN for JCAH claimed that HEW regulations establish different standards than those used for accreditation.

The JCAH complained, therefore, that the HEW survey is "meaningless and dist a a a "unnecessary apprehension and i the public and hospitals." The spokesmen also charged that many HEW regulations are no more a petty, unneccessary rules imposed upon hospitals by a i a a a hospitals lo conform to the HEW standards, JCAH said, would cost about S101 million for 84 of the hospitals cited. These costs, which average about SI.2 million per institution, would have to be added to medical 1 bills, the spokesmen alleged. A a a meanwhile, to stop the disclosure of hospital survey information to the government. If this information becomes known to the patients, JCAH argued, hospitals might no' longer be willing to cooperate with the surveys. For our port, we believe the patients above all others have the right to know whether hospitals meet federal standards.

House Investigations chairman John Moss, is pressuring HEW to provide him with the JCAH THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency reports from Moscow that the Kremlin is preparing secret a a i i a a 1 These are the two communist countries that have dared to defy the Soviet Union. They are led by i statesmen Mao Tse-tung, who will be 82 next month, and Marshal Tito, who is 83. The Kremlin, therefore, is trying to stir up a political coup both China and Yugoslavia the two old titans pass away.