Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page 13

ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES TUESDAY, NOV. 10, 1992 3B WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA White Oak house burns Wood stove blamed By Michael Weaver WAYNESVILLE BUREAU WAYNESVILLE An unattended wood stove apparently sparked a Monday afternoon blaze that all but gutted a rural White Oak house. "There were three walls standing, but it was pretty much destroyed," Chief Keith Burris said after his Jonathan Creek Volunteer firefighters had returned from the 2:30 p.m. fire. It was the third house fire the small department had fought in a little more than three days, and signaled what Burris called the start of a winter increase in heating-related blazes.

"People do leave with the wood stove going," said Burris, whose department also responded to a damaging mobile home fire Thursday whose cause is still undetermined. "The older people, they trust them," he said of wood-burning stoves. "I don't think they should," but many still use the stove as their principal source of heat. Monday's fire was coming out the tin roof of an older, single-story frame house on White Oak Road by the time Jonathan Creek firefighters arrived. The tenant, Dave Hannah, was not home when the blaze broke out, Burris said.

Ten men responded to the blaze, bringing tanker trucks to a rural area a mile from Cove Creek Road not served by any water lines. Volunteer firefighters from Fines Creek assisted, Burris said. Sanford-Faircloth campaign will get lots of political study By Dennis Patterson AP NEWS ANALYSIS RALEIGH The head of the National Congressional Club says it is philosophy not slick ads or campaign techniques that has helped its candidates knock off two incumbent Democratic senators in the last 12 years. "I think the bottom line is that people in North Carolina want senators who will go up there and vote against big government and big spending," said Carter Wrenn, who. coordinated Lauch Faircloth's U.S.

Senate campaign for the National Congressional Club. "The reason we've been successful is that the people of North Carolina agree with that philosophy." Faircloth last week unseated Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford with a convincing victory. Faircloth's campaign, heavy on television ads and light on publie appearances, led the Republican ticket in the state. He produced 150,000 more votes than President Bush and 160,000 more than Jim Gardner, the GOP candidate for governor.

How he did it is certain to draw the attention of political professionals over the next several months. Was it a victory for attack ads? The inevitable outcome of running against a weakened opponent? A backlash from voters fed up with incumbents? The club, the political organization of Sen. Jesse Helms, ran its traditional style of campaign. That meant keeping its candidate out of situations where he had to answer questions about what he would do if elected and focusing its television ads on the alleged shortcomings of the opposition. "It's a very successful campaign technique," Sanford said after the election.

"They didn't invent it, but they've come closer to perfecting it than any other organization." Sanford compared his loss to the 1980 defeat of Robert Morgan, another one-term Democrat who lost his Senate seat to a club candidate East Carolina University professor John East. "They bombarded people with this commercial that Robert Morgan gave away our Panama Canal," Sanford said. "They (voters) voted against this fella that did this terrible thing and didn't look closely at what they were getting in place of him." Wrenn said the only real comparison between the two campaigns was that both Faircloth and East were Republicans challenging first-term incumbents. East, he said, got help in 1980 when Ronald Reagan swept the state on his way to victory. Faircloth got no help from Bush, who carried the state, but only by about 20,000 votes out of nearly 2.5 million cast.

Thad Beyle, a political science Brevard petition seeks vote on mixed drinks BREVARD About 60 Brevard residents are leading a petition drive for a liquor by the drink referendum in the city, but the police department's DARE officer is upset that some of the signatures were taken from voters at Brevard Elementary School last week. "I have nothing wrong with them doing the petition," said Walter "Tink" Siniard, who teaches Drug Abuse Resistance Education at the school on behalf of the Brevard Police Department. "But I think the place they picked was the wrong place. They're sending a different message to the kids than I am." David K. Watkins, a city Planning Board member who is acting as spokesman for the group, said nearly 1,600 people signed the petition at the city's four polling places during the Nov.

3 election. For the county Board of Elections to hold a vote, the signatures of 35 percent of the city's voters about 1,400 people are needed. The only other way a vote HOUSE FIRE DON Jonathan Valley and Fines Creek firemen soak down the remains of the one-story frame home of David Hannah off White Oak Road in the Cove Creek area of Haywood County Monday. The building was completely engulfed when firemen arrived at the scene. No one was home at the time the fire broke out.

Haywood County Fire Marshal Noland Palmer said he would investigate the cause after the remains were sufficiently cooled at the site, some miles northwest of Waynesville. Continued from page 1B "He also had a stare-down with the father and told him it was a "good day to Miller said. Miller said Myers had pistols once in 1991 and three times in 1992. Last May, Myers pawned two pistols in Black Mountain for money in his own name, Miller said. Myers was released early in 1990 from prison on his conviction for the murder of a young nurse in Asheville in 1975.

That conviction combined with two other violent crime convictions made Myers eligible for the mandatory sentences. Authorities said that within weeks of his release from state ASHEVILLE Pipe bomb discovered Asheville police found a pipe bomb in a van stopped early Monday, according to a police department release. An Indiana man was charged with carrying a weapon of mass destruction and jailed under $1,000 bond in connection with the case. An alarm at the Federal Express office, 628 Patton was triggered at 3:05 a.m. and police responded.

When officers arrived they saw a van leaving the back of the business, which they stopped. A search of the van produced the pipe bomb. Arrested was Ed Leon Stephens of Morristown, Ind. Stephens remained in the Buncombe County Jail Monday night, a jailer said. Dog Continued from page 1B 'Terror' prison on Christmas Eve 1990, Myers was trafficking in drugs and terrorizing fellow drug dealers.

He had served about eight years on a 15- to 25-year term after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of Diane Hennessee. Myers was one of five men indicted as part of Project Triggerlock a federal program to prosecute convicted felons for either possessing guns illegally or using them in crimes. The arrest of Myers came with a sweep of accused dealers at Hillerest Apartments. Previous neighborhood raids in the city's housing projects had netted mostly street dealers and customers. A police undercover agent borrowed from the city of Concord penetrated higher levels of the cocaine distribution network, police said.

will shy away from large breeds like German shepherds because they tend to have joint problems. Parks said he would like to replace Inga when the department has the money. McWhorter said he would like to handle the next dog, if another is bought. Inga appears to be enjoying herself in his backyard off Spring Street in the city limits. She likes to watch McWhorter's daughter jump on her trampoline, to chew on a foam football and visit with neighborhood dogs.

But she misses police work. Each morning when McWhorter leaves for work, she whines and appears to want to go with him, he said. "This hasn't been easy," McWhorter said. "I used to carry on conversations with her in the car. Everywhere I went, she went.

But she seems happy now." Lauch Faircloth professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said one factor in Sanford's loss was his approach to the campaign. "I think you've got to say he took the whole re-election process too lightly," said Beyle, who moved to North Carolina to work for Sanford after he was elected governor in 1960. "He didn't focus on it. "There were stories going into the campaign about how little money he had raised," Beyle said. That's especially important vis-avis the (Jim) Hunt money vacuum cleaner, which makes it hard on anybody in the state to raise money." Sanford said that as late as 18 months ago, he was thinking that he might not run for re-election.

He ran in 1986, he said, to help revive the Democratic Party after its string of defeats in 1984. But this year, the party was on its way to winning the White House and the governor's mansion again. "I kept the secret thought that maybe I didn't have to run again," Sanford said. Continued from page 4B Joseph Patrick Whalen Sr. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.

Joseph Patrick Whalen Sr. died Monday, Nov. 9. A native of Millinocket, Maine, he was a 1936 U.S. professional tennis champion, and owned and operated the Whalen a tennis court construction business.

He served in the Pacific Campaign during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart. He is survived by three sons, J. Patrick Whalen Jr. and Gary D. Whalen, both of Asheville, and Michael D.

Whalen of Jacksonville, one sister, Jeanette Cook of and four grandchildren. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the chapel of Hardage-Giddens Funeral Home, 4115 Hendricks Avenue, Jacksonville, Fla. The family will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Michael Whalen, 1252 Tiber Avenue.

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41 By Phil Alexander BREVARD BUREAU could be held is for City Council to call for a vote, something council members have been reluctant to do despite a Heart of Brevard survey released in early February that showed a majority of city residents want to vote on the issue. Watkins said some of the people who signed the petition will not be valid signers because they live in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction district and outside the city limits. He said petitions have been placed at O.P. Taylor's store, the Wedge and Keg restaurant and Blue Ridge Quickprint so there will be enough city residents on the forms to call for the vote. Organizers have 90 days from the start of the petition to gather the necessary signatures.

If they fail, they may start again but must begin all over with the first signature. If 35 percent of the voters sign the petition and are verified as city residents which the Board of Elections must do within 30 days, the election must be scheduled between 60 and 120 days from the time the signatures are verified..