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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1998
Page
9
Sunday night mostly clear with lows in the low to mid 60s. Monday to Wednesday hazy and unseasonably warm with highs in the upper 80s to near 90 and lows in the mid 60s. Stream conditions numbers listed for Bluestone Lake Summersville Lake and R D Bailey Lake.
Lt Col Thomas J McCool takes command of the Beckley U S Army Recruiting Battalion succeeding Lt Col Harold Walker In his first comments he stresses the infantry as ground force backbone and notes West Virginia and parts of Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee as recruiting ground He cites 1761 active and 842 reserve enlistments in the past year and outlines high school focused recruitment and higher education incentives through G I bills McCool a veteran of Panama Grenada and Just Cause recalls changes since Vietnam era and urges studies and discipline for better soldiers
Shaffer plans to attempt a yearly thru hike, seeks to join about 200 survivors from 1,200 starters. He recalls 1948 doubts about the feat and notes his 1965 double northbound and southbound first. Now living in York Springs, Pa, he helped build trail shelters and preserves memories in poetry and essays.
The heat has killed at least 20 in Louisiana, six in Oklahoma, and one each in California and Arizona since mid May. Three Fort Bragg soldiers were hospitalized for heat exhaustion during a 12 mile march. Bakersfield hit 118 degrees drawing many visitors to the world’s tallest thermometer. In Canyonlands Utah hot conditions limited midday hiking while Gulf of California visitors sought relief at Hurri cane Harbor and a state water museum offered 72 degrees indoors.
Grand jury questioned six uniformed officers and two current agents as part of the Starr inquiry into possible perjury and obstruction. Key witnesses included Larry Cockell and Robert Ferguson with administration officials arguing for protective privileges, while the Supreme Court weighs whether agents must testify.
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