4A The Mountain Messenger, Tuesday, April 3, 1990
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Dear Editor: ginia will demand an end to this and betes and heart disease are at must have the alternative of safe, Some thirty days later, the rues- bility to constituents by I
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with the blessings ot our legislators,
Finally, we were on the picket
lines to ensure that our finest teach-
ers, those needed to train profes~
sionals and workers, will remain in
West Virginia We want our children,
and the children of families we
serve, to receive the best education
possible. When our children reach
junior-high and high-school age, we
do not want to be forced to seek
residence in another state in order
to find schools providing an ade-
quate curriculum. When our children
become adults, we do not want
them forced to seek employment
outside West Virginia,
Some may say we have hurt the
children. No, what we did, we did for
the benefit of the children and youth
of this state. We have, for many
years, patiently tried to convince
lawmakers and the general public
that quality education is the only an-
swer to a state that is economically
depressed.
Sometimes drastic action is re-
quired to awaken sleeping giants. If
the teachers' strike produces an
awareness of the valuable re-
sources that are robbed from our
e by out-of-state cor
lecture to women about pregnancy.
Family planning, like religion is a
very personal and private affair.
Each person should be allowed to
deal with God privately, without the
intrusion of outsiders. If some of us
are to be punished for our actions,
then let God punish us. Do not try to
become God yourselves and pass
laws to punish people for their ac-
tions, just because you disagree
with them.
Pregnancy is too important and
serious a condition to be taken
lightly. It's easy to take pregnancy
and child-bearing lightly if you're a
man, but it's not so easy if you're a
woman. Not being able to have chil-
dren can be a truly heartbreaking
situation, but so can bearing an un-
wanted child be an extremely heart-
breaking situation. In addition to the
mental and emotional anguish in-
volved in childbearing for some
women, there is often a financial cri-
sis and a real physical danger. In
addition to the problems of varicose
veins, post-partum depression, loss
of teeth, extreme weight loss or
gain, pancreatitis, and eclampsia,
some women actually die as a direct
result of pregnant, ers
simply cannot handle the burden of
millions of unwanted babies. God
has given us the ability to procreate,
but He has also given us the intelli-
gence to control our procreation.
Many problems in our world today
can be directly attributable to over-
population. The problems of gar-
bage, pollution, starvation, deterio-
ration of the ozone layer, etc. will
only get worse, and they will get
worse faster as our population in-
creases.
Not every baby who is born is
adoptable. Is Mr Spinks going to
adopt the ones nobody wants? Is Dr
Walkup going to help the families
with handicapped children pay their
medical bills? Of course not. Their
sense of responsibility ends as soon
as the baby is born. They're not to
be found for the next 50 years of
heartache and sleepless nights.
Some people deal with those situ-
ations adequately, but many others
do not. Mothers who give up their
babies for adoption may spend the
rest of their lives wondering if their
children are being abused or mis-
treated.
Since no form of birth control is
nate their baDles to society'/
Ramah B. Jones
White Sulphur Springs
Dear Editor:
Ronceverte City Commission:
1950-1960: Dr P. E. Prillman, W. A.
Boone, P. K. Yates. A local meeting
took place in the evening, at the
plumbing shop of Paul K. Yates. Dr
Pritlman and his jokes brought all
the boys together, and a seat was a
special place.
Everyone knew of a vacant lot,
once the site of an old hotel. A sug-
gestion was made by Dr Philip
Oden, that we try for a new Federal
Building. Mrs John (Elizabeth) Kee,
our Congresswoman and her son
James, were close friends of Paul
Yates. We made up a nice political
collection fund and presented it to
her, one morning at breakfast at the
Gateway Hotel (1st Nat'l Bank site).
We asked her for help in securing
this building.
Soon we were advised that we
would meet certain people in Wash-
ington, D.C.W.A. Boone, Paul
Yates, Dr Oden and Charles W.
Graves made the trip. We were met
and very received.
in their belief the electorate remains phone and lJnO ones =""
asleep and unconcerned. Very few common interests all the ~
have addressed vital issues we are the state w th some corn#
confronted with. Too frequently we Jane from the same walk¢
see candidates dwelling on their the same desire and willi
past experiences and qualifications, work for better governrn~
rather than facing up to today's proved communications
problems or offering solutions, ernment officials. ~r
Let's look at the real issues. Re- From where I sit, if c
call and referendum: did our delega- holders don't wake up ~
tion vote against this critical bill for more responsive to rnaJ°!
self preservation, or were they going ate desires rather than ~'
along with the speaker's inference influential minority, tl~eY
that the electorate was mentally in- themselves totally deP.~
capable of self-control? Hotel-Motel minority friends. V~est W~,
tax; foot-dragging continues at the tics are chang ng the g'
county level on action necessary to are, at tong last,'resp°r~'
make this tax equitable. We must 'years of being walked o~.
amend the state statute to make it j.W. I'~
compulsary, tax equity. Senator Bob
Holiday's bill to tax idle or excess
land was deserving of full support.
Did the no votes here indicate kick-
back? Education: will we actually
see economic reorganization geared
to more emphasis on the class-room
and teachers? Or, will it be the same
cure-all of tossing more tax dollars
at a declining system? Cross ticket
voting in primary: Expansion of voter
rights, enhancement of two party
ballot, why not?
Dear Editor:
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