Competition needs impartial judges
It is getting that time of the year when youth football season kicks off. My daughter has cheered now for three years; we love football season.
My concern is all the time these girls put into the practice, the games and all the fans support. Every year, there is a competition for the youth girls, and every year the same teams win. These girls all try really hard, and it is so heartbreaking to see this happening year after year.
It's not the best team that wins; it is who you know that is judging. So I think it is time to make a change.
Let's have the Marshall cheerleaders judge. They know everything that needs to be judged better than the judges they use. Is that fair? And what a way to have these girls look up to them. I know this is just a letter to most, but this is more to all of us parents who watch this every year.
Tonia Wiseman
South Point, Ohio
Alcohol inevitably leads to violence
"Killing renews scrutiny on bars, violence."
Wow! I wonder if the consumption of "liquid stupidity plus a gun" has anything at all to do with that problem.
A panel of professional recreational inebriates must be convened to "study" this problem so they can arrive at no useful conclusion other than to say, "it was a tragedy." At 3 a.m., the only reasons to be out of bed, unless you are really working, are: One, the house is on fire, or two, a trip to the bathroom is needed.
I kept track of a number of shootings after a neighbor divorced her husband with a revolver in 1969, and all of them, including the one involved the aforementioned "liquid stupidity" and a "bar."
In most cases, this resulted in "bars" (prison) being introduced into the equation. Perhaps mandatory metal detectors and an earlier closing time might help ... maybe?
Bob Roller
Huntington
Government can lower gas prices
Government policies, tax rates, expenditures, money supply, the debt, all belong among the determinants of demand and supply. The system under this administration has to be adjusted because coordination is leading us to a breakdown in the economy.
When one of the determinants underlying market supplies and demands changes as to break the system, ensuing price movements must communicate the requisite information to everyone concerned. Presently, there is a worldwide demand for oil and oil products of large proportions, that is, supply will fall short of demand at going prices.
For the system to adjust, orders will have to go out to all demanders to cut down on their consumption of oil and for all other suppliers to increase their output so that the gap between demand and supply can be closed.
We might have enough oil in our country. We know people in Kentucky who worked capping oil wells. My dad had property in downtown Los Angeles, and he and others were getting five dollars a month from Shell Oil for drilling under their properties. Texas and Oklahoma are loaded with oil. We also have a pipeline out of Alaska called Alyeska that is presently supplying oil to Japan.
Also, Mr. Bush should stop beating the drums of war with Iran in order to elect Sen. John McCain. This would be a very sad affair to get involved in another war. We don't have long to go to stop the corruption in government we presently have with Bush and Cheney.
Robert Garcia
Kenova
Help police find hit-and-run driver
Several years ago, a car deliberately rammed into my car pushing me off the road. Even though the license plate number and make of the car was provided to the police, nothing was ever done about it. My daughter was stopped at a construction site on W.Va. 2 (Ohio River Road) on Tuesday, July 8, when she was hit by a hit-and-run driver. This happened between 12 and 12:30 p.m.
This time, I am asking the public for their help in locating the hit-and-run driver. My daughter, who is four months pregnant, was lucky not to be hurt by this driver.
The police made out a report. We were told that this same car had hit another car earlier. Please, if anyone knows anything about this, we are asking to please notified the Cabell County Sheriffs Department. The car was gray with Ohio license plates with the first two numbers FX. Please help stop this driver before he or she hurts someone.
Barbara King
Huntington
Wilson's death is loss for community
Jim Wilson died last month and very few noticed.
Another member of the Greatest Generation and victim of the Great Depression ... gone. Husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather ... gone. Had you passed him on the street or seen him at the mall, you would not have recognized him as anyone special. However, he was a member of a dying culture ... those who have been the backbone, the cornerstone, of our society.
He and Nanny were married for 65 years. He worked at INCO for 37. He was a native of Huntington, and he never left.
I have known him since 1971. He was quiet, unassuming, deeply in love with Nanny and fondly referred to as PaPa Jim. By his daily commitment, he was a pillar of our community. By his ethics and morals, he was a model citizen. By regard for humanity, he was the ultimate family man and Christian.
Our town will miss him ... as will his family and friends. Our loss is Heaven's gain.
John P. Smith
Huntington
Preacher's words hurt grieving mom
The Bible I was taught to believe in says children are innocent until the age of accountability. Children do not ask to be born and they are innocent of any circumstances that brought them into this world.
I lost my two precious grandchildren in a trailer fire in Miller, Ohio, on Feb. 11, 2008. I recently was told by my daughter that she was told by a denounced minister that her two precious children, ages 3 and 4, were now in hell because they were born out of wedlock. He now teaches Sunday school classes at a church in Wayne County.
What has become of our world when our ministers, from whom we seek guidance and support in tragic times to help us cope, would say such awful things to a mother of two beautiful children.
Well, I have news for this preacher. I hope the God I serve will show mercy on you when your time on Earth is over. Because Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins and to be so judgmental of my two grandchildren and their mother and father is an unspeakable thing.
Debbie Anderson
Grandmother of Paige and Travis Jr.
Huntington
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