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14 The Asheville Clltien, Nov. 5, 184 ITar Heel Keeps Defense Department Ticking Cheaper ft A The Associated Press i WINSTON-SALEM The U.S. Defense Department can thank Mike Brogden for keep- ing the hands of time ticking more economi-'. cally in airplane clocks, after his finding that a $13 part was available much cheaper. "I resented my tax dollars being spent on knobs lhal should have cost 25 cents apiece," Brogden said.

"I thought $13 was a bit much." Hrogden found the same part a little i plastic knob no bigger than a black-eyed pea i at a salvage store in Davidson County. Hrogden's discovery enventually landed on the desk of Capt. C.K. Yim of the Navy, the deputy executive director of the Defense Logistics Agency in Alexandria, Va. He is one i of the people responsible for making sure the I military doesn't lose its flak jacket when huy-j ing parts.

i Vim's agency did a technical review and reached the same conclusion as Brogden the government was paying too much for National Stock Number 5355-00-005-1027, or aircraft-1 clock knobs. Yim said steps have been taken that i should ensure lower prices in the future. 1 Brodgen, a Winston-Salem computer sys- tems engineer, said he didn't know what the outcome would be when he first came upon the knobs at North Davidson Salvage in Welcome. Brogden visited the store in July looking lor computer parts. Richard Link, the store's owner, pulled Brogden aside and showed him a plastic bag full of 75 black knobs.

An invoice in the bag said that the knobs were, shipped In January 1984 from Penrod, a company in Dayton, Ohio, to a Defense Department depot in Tracy, Calif. The invoice also said that the government paid $1,035 for the bag, or $13.80 for each knob. Because of an error in the shipping instructions, the knobs never made it to California. Instead they were among the truckloads of undeliverable or otherwise salvagable items that Link routinely buys from trucking companies. Link also showed Brogden a 2-meh-long spring that the military pays $6.33 for and a $62 boll.

"The government wastes money all the time," Link said last week, "but I thought $13.80 for a knob and $6 for a spring was ridiculous." But to Richard Snyder, $13 for a knob is a bargain. Snyder works for the Wakmann Watch Co. In New York City, which imports the knobs from Sweden and authorizes Penrod to distribute them. The U.S. government is the only buyer of the knobs.

"They (the government) ask for a quote for them (the knobs) and we quote them. If they want to buy the knobs, that's up to them," Snyder said. "We have a reasonable markup, and we feel that we are entitled to a reasonable profit." 7 'It Mother's Bone Marrow Gives Son A Chance At Life The Associated Press DURHAM When Ann West donated bone marrow to her infant son who was born without an immune sys-; tern, she gave life to him a second time. "It feels pretty wonderful," said West, who brought her son, Alex, to Duke University Medical Center several months ago from her home in Boston. "I can't imagine it would never work.

I really had faith that it would work all along." i West and her husband, Michael Piering, had gone from doctor to doctor to find out why their 8-month-old son had frequent skin and ear infections and a respira-i tory virus that would not go away. One doctor thought Alex had an allergy. He eventually was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency disorder, or SCID, a rare and potentially fatal disease that leaves the body defenseless against attack by bacteria and viruses. The disease became widely known through the story of David, who lived in a germ-free plastic bubble for 12 years in Houston. Known as the bubble boy, David died last year from blood cancer caused by a common virus.

Alex's immune system already has begun to develop its defenses, and doctors are encouraged by his progress since the bone marrow transplant was conducted six; weeks ago. "If we didn't have this, there would be no hope for Alex," West said in an interview outside her son's sterile isolation room at Duke. She said she hoped Alex would be able to come out of isolation soon, although special precautions would have to be taken to avoid contact with children for some time. 1 Before doctors developed a new transplant procedure five years ago, infants withoug a sibling donor to provide an exact tissue match had very little chance of survival, said Dr. Rebecca Buckley, a pediatrics and immunology professor at Duke who performs bone marrow transplants on children with immunodeficiency disorders.

Because of a new procedure that prevents cells it) the bone marrow graft from rejecting the new body, a parent, who is half-matched with the child, can donate bone marrow. Plans For Spent Fuel Storage AP Photo Mother Son Transplant Power Plant to the Harris plant for storage. If runs out of storage room at the other two plants before a national repository from high-level radioactive wastes is constructed, then the Harris plant could become the company's central storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. But officials said Monday that both plants had enough storage room to last into the 1990s and that no immediate plans exist to use the Harris plant as a central storage site. The Associated Press RALEIGH Carolina Power Light Co.

would be able to store spent nuclear fuel from two other plants at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant; according to the Harris plant's operating license. The license, pending approval of a liability agreement with the Nuclear Regulatory Com-- mission, would allow to transport high-! level radioactive wastes from its Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant and its Robinson Electric Ann West cuddles her son, Alex, in his special isolation room at Duke University Medical Center. Alex, who has a rare disorder that leaves his immune system defenseless against infection, recently received a bone marrow transplant from his mother. Deaths, Funerals Rev. Samuel Tollison Sr.

James Adams JVevn LaHuia WAYNESVILLE Nevin James Frederick Adams, 35, of Route 1 Farm Road, AsheviUe, died William II. DeVore MURPHY William H. "Bill" DeVore, 72, of Route 2, died Tuesday in a Murphy hospital. Ivie Funeral Home will announce arrangements. Edna Setzer Edna Earle Lanier Setzer, 59, of Route 1 Candler, died Monday in Jacksonville.

Garrell Funeral Home, Waynes-ville, will announce arrangements. Services for the Rev. Samuel Tollison 71, of 4 Arborvale Road, Asheville, who died Monday, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the chapel of Allen Associates Mortuary. Monday at his residence.

The Revs. Funerals Today STATE AND AREA Geraldine Brown of Henderson-ville, 11 a.m., West Hendersonvllle Baptist Church, Henderson County. James Sanderson of Waynes-ville, 11 a.m., WaynesviUe chapel of Wells Funeral Home, Haywood County. Elmer Weidner of Henderson-villo, 11 a.m., Shepherd Memorial Park Chapel, Henderson County. James R.

Penland of Marshall, 2 p.m., Marshall Presbyterian Church, Madison County. Morton A. Johnson of Flat Rock, 2 p.m., Thos. Shepherd's Church Street. Chapel, Henderson Carrie Cook.of.

Murphy, 2 p.m., Salem Baptist Church No. 2, Chero Discoverer Of Supersonic Flight Design Dies At 85 A lifelong resident of Buncombe County, he was formerly employed as a truck driver for Hughes Tire He was a son of the late Frederick Columbus and Signa Imogene Grasty Adams. Surviving Marshall Isom and Matthew Tollison will officiate. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery. A native of Union County, S.C., he had lived in Buncombe County since 1952.

He was a member of Ora Street Church of God ADAMS TOLLISON and retired from The Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. Adolf. Busemann, often called the father of supersonic flight, has died. He was 85. Horn in Luebeck, Germany, Busemann discovered the "swept wing" design that made supersonic aircraft flight possible.

He died Monday at the Fraiser Meadows Manor Health Care Center in Boulder. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Busemann presented his discovery at the Volla Congress in Rome in 1935. After World War II, a group of American scientists invited him to the United States to carry on his research. The swept-wing design was used are his wife, Mary Louise King Adams; and a brother, Gary David Adams of Bartlett, IU.

Services wiU be at noon Thursday in the chapel of Anders-Rice Funeral Home. The Revs. Ralph Roberts and Bobby Layton will officiate. Burial will be in New Liberty Baptist Church cemetery. The family wiU receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. Western North Carolina Hospital in Black Mountain. Surviving are his wife, Jessie Ada Tollison; two sons, Matthew Tollison of Asheville and Nathaniel Tollison of Greensboro; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. The family will be at the in the United States' F-86 and Soviet MiG-15 jet fighters during the Korean War. Busemann helped design many aircraft for the forerunner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration before retiring from gov-' ernment work in 1970.

He had held a professorship in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado since 1963. His wind-tunnel research led him to advise NASA on the use of ceramic tiles, which could withstand high temperatures better than aluminum, on the space shuttle. Busemann also invented a rotating space station and a plasma accelerator for NASA, i A goal the inventor never achieved was to ride the space shuttle. Busemann's friend and colleague, the late Wernher von Braun, telegraphed him on his 70th birthday in 1971, "I have made reservations for you and me on the space shuttle departing in 1978. Please put it on your calendar." Survivors Include his wife, Magdalene, of Boulder; three daughters, nine grandchildren and one iVette Mclnlyre Charles LaHuls of Coral Gables, died Monday in a Haywood County hospital.

He was the retired owner of La-Huis Clinical Laboratories in Miami and a veteran of World War I. He attended University of Michigan and was an honorary member of Dade County Medical Society. He was a member of Florida Society of Medical Technologists and a charter member of University Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Carrie D. LaHuis; three daughters, Mrs.

Donald A. Muirheid of Casselberry, Mrs. George R. Fox of WaynesviUe' and Mrs. Kenny L.

Slmpkins of Dallas, Texas; a son, Nevin Charles LaHuls Jr. of Walled Lake, a ter, Mrs. William F. Jurgens of Miami; and nine grandchildren. Private services will be at 11 a.m.

Wednesday in the chapel of Garrett Funeral Home. The Revs. Frank Harvey and Hugh Garner will officiate. Entombment will be in Garrett-Hillcrest Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to versily Baptist Church mission fund, Coral Gables, Fla. JVeH Arrowsmith Nell Brown Arrowsmith, 91, of 208 Haldersgate Circle, Givens Estate, Asheville, died Monday at her residence. A native of Perry County, Ohio, she had lived In Buncombe County since 1953. She was the wife of John C.

Arrowsmith, who died in 1985. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J.M. Howald of Perrysburg, Ohio, and Mrs. Robert M.

Middleton of Morgan's Point, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Archibald Dunlop of Brooksville, and Lewie Brown of Leesburg, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Campbell chapel of First Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member. The Revs.

Arthur F. Fogartie and Robert K. McGirt will officiate. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Arlington National Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church. Morris Funeral Home, Merri-mon Avenue, is in charge of kee County. i M. Howard Hemphill of Canton, 2 p.m., Canton chapel of Wells Funeral Home, Haywood County. James Arrowood Sr.

of Marion, 3 p.m., Clinchfield United Methodist Church, McDowell County. CITY AND COUNTY Bryan Porter of 36 Mulberry Asheviue, 10:30 a.m., Elk Mountain Cemetery. Henry Spivey of 117 Dellwood Swannanoa, 11 a.m., Swannanoa Heights Baptist Church. i i Mamie Yarborough of Old Fort Road, Kairview, 11 a.m., chapel of Groce Funeral Howard Jackson of 60 Bruce- mont Circle, Asheville, 2 p.m., River- side Cemetery. Marian Mahoney of Riceville Road, Oteen, 2 p.m., chapel of Wil-' liams Kuneral Service.

Loren Packer of Asheville, 3 p.m., services will be at the residence, 24 Edgewood Road, Beverly Hills. Area Deatlia George Southards, 84, of Frank- tin, died Tuesday; services 2 p.m. Thursday, Rose Creek Baptist Maple Springs CREMATORY OWNED BY 254-6197 Lose up to 3 Dress Sizes in Just 30 Safely! Services for Nettie BeU Mclntyre of 185 Houston Place, AsheviUe, who died Friday, wiU be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in SL James AME Church, of which she was a member. The Rev B.

Willis WUson II wiU officiate. Burial wiU be In Violet Hill Cemetery. A native of Goldsboro, she had lived in Buncombe County for the past 37 years. She was a member of W. L.

Williams 20th Century Club. Surviving are a daughter, Barbara M. Bonds of Asheville; three sisters, Adell Flowers, Ethel Sherard and Sally Sampson, all of Goldsboro; a brother, OdeU Parker of Goldsboro; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The family wiU be at the residence. The body will remain at Hart Funeral Service until an hour before services.

Jeter Gentry Jeter Wesley Gentry, 89, of 75 Haywood St. Apt. 808, Asheville, died Tuesday in an AsheviUe hospital. A native of Buncombe County, he was a music maker and was formerly employed with Lions Workshop for the BUnd. He was a member of Merrimon Avenue Baptist Church and the son of the late Wyatt and Clara Elizabeth Banks Gentry.

Surviving are his wife, Easter Marilyn Arrowood Gentry; and two sisters, Hazel Shipman and AUie Bishop of AsheviUe. Graveside services wiU be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Skyview Memorial Park. The Rev. BiUy Cline will officiate.

The family wiU receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Anders-Rice Funeral Home, and at other times, at the residence. Virginia Roper Virginia Eva Roper, 82, formerly of Asheville, died Monday in a Charlotte nursing home. Forest Lawn Funeral Home, Enka, wiU announce arrangements. OFF i Margaret Manning "v' JACKSONVILLE, Fla.

Margaret Reno Manning, 65, of Jacksonville, died Monday in a Jacksonville hospital. i A native of Haywood County, she was a daughter of the late Vinson L. and Minnie Robinson Reno. She was formerly employed as a telephone operator for Southern Bell in WaynesviUe. Surviving are her husband, Milton Manning; two sons, Tom and Tim Manning of Jacksonville; and a sister, Mrs.

Robert Parson of Jesup, Ga. Services wiU be Wednesday in JacksonviUe under the direction of Corey-Kerlin Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Haywood County. Harry Eubanks HENRIETTA Harry Eubanks, 68, of Henrietta, died Tuesday in a Rutherfordton hospital. He was a son of the late Walter and OUie Honeycutt Eubanks.

Surviving are two brothers, Eugene Eubanks of Union, S.C., and Walter Eubanks Jr. of DanviUe, and a sister, Doris Fowler of Lymon, S.C. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Rosemont Cemetery, Union. McMahans Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

John E. Layport ENDERSONVILLE John E. Layport, 85, of 600 Carolina ViUage Road, died Tuesday in a Hendersonvllle medical center. A native of Ohio, he was a graduate of College of Wooster. He retired as traffic department executive from and was a professional football player with the Cleveland Indians.

He was an Army veteran of World War II and a member of Moore's Grove United Methodist Church. Surviving are his wife, Esther W. Layport; a stepson, Fred H. Hodges of Chesapeake, and a brother Charles Layport of Salem, Ore. No services are planned.

Memorials may be made to Carolina Village Endowment Fund. Thos. Shepherd Son Funeral Directors is in charge of Regular Enrollment Medically supervised weight loss program Doctors, nurses and counselors on staff No strenuous exercise lose 3 to 7 pounds per week For women Church. Charles Prultt, 48, of Franklin, died Monday'; services 11 a.m, Thursday, chapel of Bryant Funeral Home. Virginia Lezcano, 55, of Franklin, died Oct.

30; services will be in Largo, Fla. John E. Layport, 85, of Hendersonvllle, died Tuesday; no services are planned. John Grayson 67, of Ruther-fordton, died Monday; services 2 p.m. Wednesday, Shlloh Baptist Church.

William H. DeVore, 72, of Murphy, died Tuesday; arrangements incomplete. Sam B. Crawford, 77, of WaynesviUe, died Monday; services 3 p.m. Wednesday, Antioch Baptist Church.

Frankle Hollifleld, 71, of Marlon, died Tuesday; services 2 p.m. Thursday, Turkey Cove Baptist Church. John Grayson Sr. RUTHERFORDTON John Robert Grayson 67, of Route 1, died Monday in a Rutherfordton hospital. He was a retired sales representative for Oil Co.

and a veteran of World War II. He was a member of Splndale Masonic Lodge. Surviving are his wife, Florence Hoyle Grayson; a son, John Grayson Jr. of Asheville; a daughter, Tamara Cobb of Rhonda; three brothers, George and Walter Grayson of Spin-dale and Frank of, Forest City and three grandchildren. Services be at p.m.

Wednesday In Shiloh Baptist Church, of which he was a member. The Rev. Mike O'DeU will will be in the church cemetery. Crowe's Mortuary is In charge of arrangements. Otter upirM: Nov.

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He was former co-owner of Home Oil Company and WesCar Auto Parts. He was a veteran of the Marine Corps and a former member of the Klwanis Club. He was the son of Nell Scruggs Reid of Black Mountain and the late Brooks Reid Sr. Surviving are his wife, Brenda Fox Reid; two daughters, Kimberley Harris of Swannanoa and Karen Phillips of Weaverville; and three grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m.

Thursday in Black Mountain First Baptist Church. The Revs. Edgar Ferrell and Dave Noble will officiate. Burial will be in Ridgecrest Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m.

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