Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 11

The Asheville Citizen, Wed, Nov. 17, 1985 Tobacco Groups' Feud Unresolved Funerals Today STATE AND AREA Allie Mathis of Fort Pierce, formerly of Brevard, 10 a.m., chapel of Moore Funeral Home, Transylvania County. Harold Fletcher of Hendersonville, 11 a.m., Shepherd Memorial Park, Transylvania County. Earl Satterfield of Murphy, 11 a.m., Moss Cemetery, Cherokee County, James McHan Sr. of Ducktown, 11 a.m., chapel of TownsonRose Funeral Home, Cherokee County.

Ada Tillery of Greensboro, formerly of Hill, 11 a.m., Capps Funeral Home, Madison County. Jack Mathis of Waynes 11 a.m., Center Pigeon Baptist Church, Haywood County. Robert Cox of Hendersonville, 11 a.m., Chapel-in-the-Pines of Jackson Funeral Service, Transylvania County. Tiffany Waters of Lynn, 2 p.m., chapel of McFarland Funeral Chapel, Polk County. Jackson Holden of Pisgah Forest, 2 p.m., chapel of Moody Connolly Funeral Home, Transylvania County.

Annie Childers of Rutherfordton, 2. p.m., Gold Hill Baptist Church, Rutherford County. Cora Watkins of Marion, 2 p.m., Parker Chapel Baptist Church, McDowell County. Nellie Branch of Morganton, p.m., Silver Creek Baptist Church cemetery, Burke County. Robert Hall of Waynesville, 2 p.m., Waynesville First Presbyterian Church, Haywood County.

Josephine Smith of Murphy, 2 p.m., Mount Zion Baptist Church, Cherokee County. T.V. Wells Sizemore Funeral of Canton, Home, 2 p.m., chapel of Hay. wood County, Dick Bailey of United Spruce Pine, 2 p.m., Spruce Pine Methodist Church, Mitchell County. King Wallin of Marshall, 2:30 p.m., Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Madison County, Clarence Willis of Bakersville, 2:30 p.m., Rebels Creek Baptist Church, Mitchell County.

Everette Moody of Waynesville, 3 p.m., Church of God of Prophecy, Haywood County. Rosa Norwood of Brevard, 4 p.m., Brevard First Baptist Church, Transylvania County. CITY AND COUNTY Loraine Nelson of Maryland, formerly of Asheville, 9 a.m., Fort Myer Chapel, Maryland. Bessie Pruett of No. 3 Woodlawn Asheville, 11 a.m., chapel of AnRice Funeral Home.

William Richards of 106 Vance Crescent Extension, Asheville, 11 a.m., chapel of Groce Funeral Home. Carolyn Grand of 215 Beaverdam Road, Asheville, 11 a.m., Lewis Memorial Park. Ambers Ray of Route 7 Edwards Road, Fairview, 2 p.m., chapel of Groce Funeral Home. John Hensley of Charlotte, formerly of Weaverville, 2 p.m., Durham Memorial Baptist Church, Charlotte. Roy Davis of 201 Logan Asheville, 2 p.m., chapel of AndersRice Funeral Home.

Wanda Fulp of 599 N. Louisiana Asheville, 3 p.m., Mills Chapel Baptist Church. Noel Fisher CANTON Noel C. Fisher, 77, of Rt. 4 Morning Star Road, Canton, died Monday in an Asheville hospital.

Fisher, a lifelong resident of Haywood County, was a son of the late Robert and Mattie Rogers Fisher. He was a retired merchant and farmer. Surviving are his wife, Pearl Coleman Fisher; two sons, Robert W. Fisher of Asheville and Coleman Fisher of Canton; two sisters, Clara Mae Davis of Canton and Elsie Fultcher of Monroe, two brothers, Wilfred Fisher of Sedro Woolley, and Ben J. Fisher of Canton; seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Morning Star United Methodist Church, of which he was a member. The Rev. Ted Kirk will officiate. Burial will be in Morning Star Cemetery.

The body will remain at Wells Funeral Home, Canton, until placed in the church 30 minutes before services. A lifelong resident of Haywood County, she was a daughter of the late Burt and Mae Rubisill Bandy and the wife of the late Rev. William S. Young. She was the owner of Vacuum and Sewing Center.

She was a member of Waynesville First Baptist Church. Surviving are two sons, Larry G. Young of Newport Beach, and William B. Young of San Diego, two daughters, Betty Gay Goebel of Charlotte and Joy Carol Ringland of Sacramento, a sister, Evelyn Crow of Catawba; and three grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Friday in the chapel of Garrett Funeral Home. The Rev. Hugh Garner will officiate. Burial will be in Garrett-Hillcrest Cemetery, The family will receive friends from 7 to 0 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, and at other times, at the residence.

Lacy Young WAYNESVILLE Lacy Eloise Young, 68, of 101 Country Club Drive, Waynesville, died Tuesday at her resIdence. Area Deaths Charlotte Basnett, 04, of Headersenville, died Monday; comittal serv. Ices Friday, Calvary Episcopal Church, Williamsville, N.Y. Lacy Young, 08, of Waynesville, died Tuesday; services 11 Friday, chapel of Garrett Funeral Home. Gertrude Sherrill, 13, of Robbinsville, died Tuesday; services 11 a.m.

Friday, Bear Creek Baptist Church. George Millsaps, 84, of Robbingville, died Tuesday; services 3 p.m. Thursday, Mid-Way Baptist Church, Earl Satterfield, of Murphy, died Monday; graveside services a.m. Wednesday, Moss Cemetery, Estelle Sedrish, of Franklin, died Monday; memorial services will be at a later Annie Childers, 75, of Rutherfordton, died Friday; services 3 p.m. Wednesday; Gold HIlI Baptist Church.

James McHan of Ducktown, died Monday; services 11 a.m. Wednesday, chapel of Rose Funeral Home. Cora Watkins, of Marion, died Monday; services 3 p.m. Parker Chapel Baptist Church. Nellie Branch, 44, of Morganten, died Monday; graveside services p.m.

Wednesday, Silver Creek Baptist Church cemetery. W.P. Patty, of Hendersonville, died Tuesday; graveside serv. Ices 3 p.m. 1 Friday, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, East.

Rev. W.A. Cleer, 74, of Franklin, died Monday; services 2 p.m. Thursday, Longview Baptist Church. Mary Hardy Mary Frances Hardy, 55, of 168 Courtland Place, Asheville, died Tuesday in an Asheville hospital.

Jesse Ray Funeral Home will announce arrangements. McCoy Bradley FAIRVIEW McCoy Bradley, 64, of Fairview, died Monday in Asheville VA Medical Center. The family will be at the home of a sister, Carrie Harvey, Avena Road, Black Mountain. Miller Funeral Home will announce arrangements. Carolyn Grand Carolyn R.

Grand of 215 Beaverdam Road, Asheville, died Monday in an Asheville hospital She was a native of Wake County and had lived in Asheville since 1940. She was manager of the Pro Shop at Beaver Lake Golf Course. Surviving are a daughter, Roslyn Taylor of Asheville; a son, Jerome Grand of Birmingham, a brother, Henry Royall of Front Royal, two sisters, Helen Wetzel of Laurel, and Billie Cantwell of Washington, D.C.; and two grandchilddren. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Lewis Memorial Park.

Rabbi Ronald Bluming will officiate. Williams Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements. Doris Wilson Doris Collins Wilson, 58, of Chicago, formerly of Asheville, died Tuesday in Chicago. A native of Buncombe County, she was a daughter of Phillis Collins of Asheville and the late Roy Collins, Surviving, in addition to her mother, are her husband, Francis T. Wilson a daughter, Sonja Ingram Bailey of Asheville; three sons, Tim Wilson of Asheville, Tom Wilson of Albuquerque, N.M., and Tripp Wilson of Chicago; a sister, Helen Van of Norfolk, two brothers, J.

Howard Collins of Asheville and Glenn W. Collins of Washington, D.C.; and six grandchildren. No services are planned. Middleton Mortuary, Chicago, is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to Amercian Cancer Research Institute.

Kenyon Deitz MILLS RIVER Kenyon Deitz, 49, of 177 Hall Mills River, Tuesday in a Hendersonville hospital. A native of Jackson County and a resident of Skyland, he had lived in Henderson County for the past three years. He was a son of Marcellus Deitz of Dillsboro and the late Julia Buchanan Deitz. He was employed as a shipping clerk for Flavorich Dairy for the past six years. He was a Navy veteran of the Korean conflict.

He was a member of HedrickRhodes VFW Post No. 5208. Surviving, in addition to his father, are his wife, Hazelene Ward Deltz; a son, Kenny Deitz of Sky. land; a daughter, Sheila Howard of Skyland; two brothers, Harold Deltz of Dillsboro and Marcellus Deitz Jr. of Hinesville, two sisters, Nelda Ann Moses of Franklin and Geraldine Robinson of Dillsboro; and two grandchildren.

Services will be at 4 p.m. Friday in Mills River Baptist Church. The Revs. Harold Sitton and Bruce West will officiate. Burial will be in Whitaker Cemetery with military graveside rites conducted by Hedrick-Rhodes VFW Post No.

5206 and Hubert M. Smith Post 77, American Legion. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Thos. Shepherd Son Funeral Directors, where the body will remain until placed in the church $0 minutes before services.

Rev. Boyce Powell The Rev. Boyce Willard Powell, 80, of 16 Highland Asheville, died Monday at his residence. A native of Spartanburg, S.C., he had lived in Buncombe County for the past years. He waS employed at Willaims Grocery and the city of AsheHe was ordained Caroleen and member POWELL WAS of Sandusky Baptist Church in Ohio.

He was the pastor of Midway Baptist Church in Asheville. He was a son of the late William Arthur Powell and Margaret Nora Cudd Powell Bishop. Surviving are his wife, Bonnie Bell Revis Powell; three daughters, Frances Austin and Bernice Bishop of Asheville and Gladys Kropp of Sandusky, Ohio; a son, Walter Odell Powell of Candler; three sisters, Sudie Brannan, Leitha Malone and Estelle Green, all of Spartanburg; a brother, Harvey W. Powell of Caroleen; 12 grandchildren, 25 greatgrandchildren and two great-greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday in the chapel of AndersRice Funeral Home. The Rev. James Revis will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. Freida Brown Freida C. Brown of 167 Hemphill Road, Asheville, died Tuesday in an Asheville hospital. Miller Funeral Home will announce arrangements. Grady MoCrain SWANNANOA Grady McCrain of 200 Richmond Swannanoa, died Tuesday in an Asheville hospital.

Miller Funeral Home will announce arrangements. W.P. Patty HENDERSONVILLE WIBam "BI" P. Patty, 62, of 1822 N. Main Hendersonville, died Tuesday.

A native of Asheville, be had lived in Hendersonville for most of life. He was the son of Ellen B. Patty of Hendersonville a and the late Rader Patty. He attended Tracy Grove Baptist Church. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Thuraday at Thos. Shepherd Son Funeral Directors. Roy Davis Roy C. Davis, 87, of 201 Logan Asheville, died Monday in an Asheville nursing home. He was a native of Swain County and had lived in Buncombe County for the past 47 years.

He retired in 1962 after 20 years of service from American Enka Co. He was a member of Nantahala Baptist Church and was the son of the late John E. and Loucrecy Harris Davis. Surviving are his wife, Nellie May Duvall Davis; and a sister, Bertha Sparrow of Durham. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Wednesday in the chapel of AndersRice Funeral Home. The Revs. Wiley Burgarner and Don Welborn will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home, and at other times, at the residence. 3 Buildings, 2 Streets Tentatively Designated As Historic Properties By BARBARA BLAKE Staff Writer Three landmark buildings and portions of two unique streets in Asheville have received first-round approval as local historic properties, offering protection to the properties and a tax break to their owners. Asheville City Council approved an ordinance on first reading Tuesday designating the Manor Inn; the Gate House at the inn, the Grove Arcade building and North Market Street and Langren Alley a as historic properties. The designation gives the Historic Resources Commission design review power for the exteriors of the buildings and, in some cases, their interiors, according to Carolyn Humphries, executive director of the commission. "There are about 18 local historic properties, and this adds four more," Humphries said.

"This means the Historic Resources Commission can have design review, and for allowing us to do that, the property owner gets a deferral of 50 percent of his property taxes." Humphries said owners of properties designated as historic can eliminate half the county tax on the property. "But If they do something that violates the regulations of the designation, they have to pay the money back," she said. The designation also requires a 180-day delay on demolition of historic buildings, she said. "They can demolish the buildings, but they have to wait six months, and that gives us an opportunity to try and work with them and see if we can reach some agreement to keep the building standing." Humphries said. The historic property designation also allows utilization of the city's "historic overlay" zoning by the property to allow a use for it that is not normally allowable, she said.

For example, the Manor Inn is located in an R-2 zone and technically cannot be used as an inn zone. But the historic overlay allows property to be used for the purpose for which it was originally built, regardless of the zone. The Manor Inn was built in 1899 as an "English country inn in AmerIca." The Gate House was constructed the same year and is unusual in that it is built of shingle, stucco and timber with a rock tower. The Grove Arcade building was built by Charles N. Parker and built for developer and entrepeneur Edwin W.

Grove, known as the "Father of the 20th Century in Asheville." It is constructed of ornamental terra cotta and stone and is finished inside and out with Tudoresque and medieval ornamentation. The first block of North Market Street is the last street in the city with brick pavement, and nearby Langren Alley is the 1 last street with Belgian block pavement. Second reading on the ordinance will be Dec. 3, and third and final reading is scheduled for the following Tuesday. In other business Tuesday, City Council: Designated Memorial Day as a holiday for city employees.

Approved a $50,000 grant from Community Development Block Grant funds to the YMI Cultural Center. Approved a right-of-way encroachment agreement with Wick Greene Jewelers to allow the owner to install an original antique steet clock from the 1920s in front of his new store on Boston Way in Biltmore Village. Outgoing Council Members Won't Name New Manager By BARBARA BLAKE Staff Writer Asheville's new city manager will not be selected by the City Council that leaves office next Tuesday after a four-month search for a replacement for Neal Creighton. Outgoing Mayor Larry McDevitt said Tuesday the council "is making good progress, but we will not make a selection before we go out of office next week." "In leaving office, I feel good about the status of the city manager selection process," he said. "It's moving, and there are some excellent candidates.

And I would hope the new council could make a selection within the next couple of months." Although the incoming sevenmember council is technically "new," it consists of five incumbents who have been involved in the search since August, a former city manager who left the job less than two years ago, and a newcomer holding his first elective office. The two newcomers have been involved in the selection process since immediately after the Nov. 6 general election and will not be in the dark about the process when they are sworn in Tuesday, McDevitt said. "I feel the new council will be The Associated Press RALEIGH Leaders of feuding tobacco interests failed to resolve their differences Tuesday in a meeting arranged by Gov. Jim Martin, who nevertheless insisted he was optimistic about prospects for a setLlement.

Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, Democratic Reps. Walter Jones and Charles Whitley, Agriculture Commissioner Jim Graham and representatives of growers, bankers and cigarette manufacturers joined Martin at the Executive Mansion for conference on the embattied federal tobacco program. Martin had billed the get-together as an opportunity to move toward consensus on reforming the program. But with Rep.

Charles Rose boycotting the meeting, which he claimed was stacked against his position, it apparently produced little more than an exchange of familiar viewpoints. "The discussions were ble," Martin said afterward. "There was a frank exchange of views. People were able to raise questions they had not been able to raise with each other before and got frank answers. And we'll see how they evaluate that." Martin said he had not expected the meeting to be a cure-all, and acknowledged that it produced no concrete agreements.

But he said simply bringing the opposing sides together was progress. "We're not here to impose a majority view on anybody. Some folks have misunderstood that," Martin said. He evidently was referring to Rose, who said Monday he would not attend the meeting because most of the people Martin invited were supporters of tobacco program reforms passed by the Senate and pushed by Helms. Rose, a Democrat, is author of a competing House plan.

Helms, who depicted the meeting as an opportunity to "explore where we are," said all the participants agreed on one thing: the need to preserve the leaf program. He added that the cigarette makers satisfied him they would make good on their promise to buy out some 800 million pounds of surplus leaf in exchange for enactment of reforms in the Helms plan. "I wanted to establish in my mind the question of good faith," he said. "I don't think there was any doubt that the tobacco company representatives here today made clear it was their intent to work with us to save the program. I was satisfled with their Under the Helms plan, adopted by the Senate this month, companies would purchase the surplus leaf at discounts of up to 90 percent that would force the government to absorb losses of up to $1.1 billion.

The price support would fall from $1.70 per pound to $1.40 per pound, and the price support formula would be adjusted to slow future increases. Future marketing quotas would be determined largely by the amount manufacturers planned to buy. Critics, including Rose, say the plan is tilted toward the cigarette companies at growers' expense. His plan, adopted by the House, would earmark 1 cent of the 16-cents-perpack federal cigarette tax to fund the tobacco program. A conference committee is expected to begin work on a compromise version next month.

Helms and the cigarette makers said the meeting did nothing to change their staunch opposition to the earmarking plan. Helms said the Senate Finance Committee, which would have to approve the plan, had "not one" member who favored it. "No way, nohow," added Paul Bergson, vice president for public affairs of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco another meeting participant. Martin said he considered the meeting a step toward resolving the infighting among tobacco interests.

If the farmers and manufacturers could agree, he said, "then our congressional delegation could reach a consensus and we could be back together as we've been for many years." The meeting, despite its lack of tangible results, generated "the kinds of things that the farm organizations need to say and need to hear, and the cigarette companies need to say and hear," Martin said. Helms shied away from criticizing Rose for his absence, but noted that has sought negotiations with Helms and other tobacco leaders. Rose said Monday he wanted to meet in Washington, where members of Congress from other states could participate. Helms has declined Rose's requests for such a meeting. Helms said he might consent to such talks in Washington, but "under circumstances which would not be political showboating." Title Company Accused Of Paying Off Lenders The Associated Press RALEIGH The state Attorney General's Office has accused a title insurance company based in Chapel Hill of paying kickbacks to mortgage lenders across North Carolina which pressure borrowers to buy title insurance from the company.

In a complaint filed Monday in Wake County Superior Court, the Attorney General's Office alleged that Investors Title and its subsidiary, Investors Title Insurance both of Chapel Hill, have engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices. By entering into agreements with 18 real estate developers and 59 subsidiaries of savings and loans across the state, Investors Title has obtained more than 20 percent of the title insurance business in the state, the complaint said. That arrangement "tends to substantially lessen competition in the title insurance market in this state and is therefore unlawful," the complaint said. Also named in the complaint are First American Savings Bank, based in Greensboro, and Preferred Savings and Loan Association based in High Point. The complaint alleges that First American and Preferred are two of the lenders that have received kickbacks from Investors Title, but the Attorney General's Office said they were not the only savings and loans involved.

"We needed some representative samples, and we had a little more information on them," said H.A. Cole a special deputy attorney general The suit is worded in a way that allows the Attorney General's Office to name other complainants, he said. James Allen Fine, president of Investors Title Insurance said Tuesday that Attorney General Lacy Thornburg's civil action would have the effect of preventing "savings and loan title insurance agents from competing in the title insurance market in North Carolina." "This civil action will be defended vigorously by Investors Title Insurance and we are confident that we and the savings and loan agents will prevail," Fine said. "The increased competition from savings and loan title insurance agents benefits the home buyer as evidenced by testimony of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Trade Commission before the congressional committee studying service corporation title insurance agencies." Insurance Company Refuses To Pay Donahue Settlement able to act in a relatively short period of time but that's the assessment of a a a a a a a a lame duck mayor," he said. "There are some excellent candidates, and I believe they are candidates from which a manager can be chosen." McDevitt declined to say how many applicants are considered "finalists" and how many candidates have been interviewed.

"We started with about 30 and have narrowed it down, but I don't want to say to how many," he said. "We've interviewed some, but not all." The search for a new manager began in August when Creighton announced his resignation effective Oct. 1 a year to the day after assuming the post. Creighton succeeded former City Manager Ken Michalove, who resigned in January 1984 and was elected to City Council in November. City Council spent months searching for replacement for Michalove before selecting Creighton in the summer of 1984, and McDevitt said some of the applicants for the job in the first round were considered in the most recent search.

The Associated Press GREENVILLE, S.C. Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. claims it is not required to pay for the out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit involving a Phil Donahue segment of the "Today" show. Willow Lynne Cramlet of Arvada, claimed producers of the Donahue segment refused to help her find her former husband, a guest on the show, and her missing son. The ex-husband, Wayne Anderson, was interviewed by Donahue in a segment on child snatching in April 1980.

According to Cramlet's suit, Anderson had taken their son, Eland, and was a fugitive when he appeared on the program. The woman sued Multimedia the parent company of Multimedia Entertainment, the producer of Donahue's program. After one trial ended in a hung jury, she won a judgment of $5.9 million in actual and punitive damages in a second trial in May 1988. A federal judge later threw out the award after Cramlet and her son were reunited But the judge upheld the jury's finding that Multimedia should give the woman some compensation. A separate trial to determine damages was scheduled in Colorado federal court, but the suit was settled out of court in Denver early this month.

Both sides have declined to release details of the settlement. Multimedia filed suit in U.S. District Court in Greenville Sept. 27 claiming that either Fireman's Fund Insurance Employer's Reinsurance Corp. or Marsh McLennan, an insurance broker, should pay damages resulting from the suit.

Fireman's Fund said Monday it should not have to pay damages because it was unaware of the woman's suit until it was well under way. The company said it was unable to negotiate or defend Multimedia until after the second trial The company also denied coverage because its policy only covers accidental injuries. Fireman's Fund says the the Donahue producers were intentional. ALLEN ASSOCIATES MORTUARY 127 McDowell St. 252-1251.