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

Ahovio CMzon 4 Tmm, Sturdy, June 22. 1981 Fuschia Buekner Woody Sherman Bly Reese DeathsFunerals Wood Duck, Water-line May Halt Asphalt Plant Johnny Ledford SWANNANOA Charles Johnny Ledford, 39, of 160-A Highway 70, died Thursday after injuries sustained in an automobile accident A lifelong resident of Buncombe County, he was employed with Gerber Products for 15 years. He was formerly employed with the HENDERSONVILLE Sherman Bly Reese, 75, of Route 3, died Thursday in a Morganton hospital. A native of Spartanburg, S.C, be bad been a resident of Hendersonville since 1986. He was a retired construction worker and aa Army veteran of World War IL He was a member of Crab Creek Baptist Church.

He was the son of Delia Lan-ning Reese of AshevUle and the late Calvin Thomas Reese. Surviving, in addition to the mother, are his wife, Annie Vaughn Reese; five brothers, Grady W. Reese of Hendersonville, Vernon Reese; Roy Reese, Wayne Reese and Jack Reese of AshevUle and two sisters, Audrey Frankum and GayneQ Hughes of AshevUle. Graveside services win be held at 2 pm Saturday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. The Rev.

Guy Smith win officiate. Members of Hedrick-Rhodes V.F.W. Post 5206 and Hubert M. Smith American Legion Post 77 win conduct military graveside rites. Jackson Funeral Service, Hendersonville, is in charge of By TONY ENDS Gtixsn CofTMpondcnc HENDERSONVILLE Something as simple as a waterline and a wood duck could settle the controversy over plans to build an asphalt plant in rural Henderson County.

But the struggle which has residents an along a quiet, country road upset and temporarily halted the plant's development on the banks of Mud Creek in northern Henderson County calls attention to the importance of what some members on both sides might at times find a nuisance to development. And that is wetlands. "We certainly can see the quality of the wetlands at the site (of the asphalt plant development on Mud Creek)," said Robert Johnson, with the Army Corps of Engineers. Plants in wetlands often filter and take out pollutants from where floodwaters are stored or from where water runs off of high ground, Johnson said. "It is one of the better wood duck areas in the state, and we're confident that the habitat there is excellent for many waterfowL There are, in fact, wood duck nesting boxes in the area," Johnson said.

It is Johnson's office that enforces Clean Water Act provisions regarding wetlands in the state's 31 westernmost counties. And it is his office that has asked Banks Brothers Construction Co. to stop its work. Banks Brothers began clearing land and filling in a platform in a low-lying vea of land on North Rugby Road at Mud Creek several weeks ago. They did so with the intention of building an asphalt plant and without applying for either the required state erosion and sedimentation control or Corps of Engineer wetlands permits.

Residents in the North Rugby area have organized against construction of the plant, mounted petition drives and started the process to zone a 200-acre area up to Mud Creek for residential use only; Corps of Engineers staff plan to meet with the construction firm owner, Charlie Banks, and have him remove the fin from the area until he reaches higher ground and moves out of wetlands sous. Banks could, after removing the fin dirt, apply for a permit to build in the wetlands area, and the Corps of Engineers would then have to determine "what is in the public's interest" And the wood duck, which nests in the hollows of the trees that are surrounded by Henderson County's rolling farmland and slowly expanding housing developments, may wen play a large part in Determining its own fate in the wetlands along Mud Creek. Union, HEMC Allege Bad-Faith Bargaining MARS HILL Fttschia Buekner Woody, 87, of 69 Carl Etter Road, died Thursday at ber home. A native and lifelong resident of Madison County, she was a member of little Ivy Baptist Church. She was a daughter of the late Jim Frank and Mittie Ray Buekner and the wife of the late George Woody, who died in 1989.

Surviving are two granddaughters and one great-grandson; three sisters, Mrs. Ed Ban and Mrs. Fred Rice of Mars Hitt and Mrs. Reggie Taylor of BurnsviUe. Services win be held at 1:30 pm Saturday at Capps Funeral Home ChapeL The Revs.

Joe Honeycutt and Rotha Wilson witt officiate. Burial wil be in Little Ivy Cemetery. The family wUl receive friends from 12:30 to 1:30 pm. Saturday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Madison Home Care and Hospice of Mars HUL P.O.

Box 909, Mars HUl, 28754 Katherine Erma Bach Katherine Erma Bach, 71. of Dorchester Avenue, died Thursday in a local health care center. A native of Buncombe County, she was a daughter of the late Bernard L. and Emma Ben Bach. She was a self-employed accountant and a member of American Women's Assoc.

Surviving is a sister, Marcella KaneUos of AshevUle. A Mass of Christian Burial win be held at 10 am Monday at St Lawrence Catholic Church, of which she was a member. Burial win be in Riverside Cemetery. A prayer service win be held at 7 pm Sunday in Williams Funeral ChapeL Memorials may be made to St Lawrence Catholic Church, 97 Haywood Street, AshevUle, 28801. Williams Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Ann Jane Stone ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. -Ann Jane Stone, 68, died Wednesday in a Bay Pines, medical center. A native of Etna, Pa, she moved to St Petersburg in 1978 from AshevUle, where she lived for most of her life. She was a retired nurse-anesthetist She was an Episcopalian.

During World War II she served in the U.S. Navy and during Korea she served with the U.S. Air Force. She was a member of American Legion Post 122 in St Petersburg, and Veterans of Foreign Wars Holiday Isles Post 4256 in Madeira Beach, Fla. Surviving are two nieces and a nephew.

Graveside services wUl be held at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at Bay Pines National Cemetery. Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home of St Petersburg, Fla, is in charge of arrangements. Dayton O'Kelley TAMPA, FLA. Dayton O'Kelley, 74, formerly of Buncombe County, died June 11 at his home.

A native of Candler, he was the son of the late Montie and Dora O'Kelley and the husband of the late Nina Fore O'Kelley, who died in 1972. He was a veteran of World War II and served 26 months in the South Pacific theater. He had lived in the Tampa Bay area for the past 20 years. Surviving are a stepson, Phil Davis of Land Lakes, two brothers, Zackie O'Kelley of Bethel and J.M. O'Kelley of Candler; five sisters, Inez Bennett of Tampa, Fla, Margaret Langer of Pittsburgh, Pa, Edythe Kanupp of Skyland, Evelyn Smith and LUy Thompson of Candler.

Graveside services were held June 15 at Garden of Memories Myrtle Httl Cemetery in Tampa, Fla. AshevUe Police Department He was a on graduate of AshevUle High School and had formerly attended A-B Technical College and Western Carolina University. He was a member and former president of Western Carolina Corvette LEDFORD Assoc. He was the son of Emma Coney Norris of AshevUle and the late Cecil Harvey Ledford. Surviving, in addition to his mother, are his wife, Terry Jeanette McFee Ledford; son, Johnny Ray Christopher Ledford of AshevUle and four sisters, Ruth Harmon of Arden, Mary Cohley, Helen Harrin and Roselee Roth of AshevUle.

Services wUl be held at 2 pm Sunday in the chapel of Anders-Rice Funeral Home. The Rev. James Lamb win officiate. Burial win be at Mountain View Memorial Park, Black Mountain. The family win receive friends from 7 to 8:30 pm Saturday at the funeral home.

State and Area Deaths Garney Harrison Calhoun, 82, of Newland, died Friday; services 8 pjn. Saturday, Grandfather Chapel of Relns-Sturdlvant Funeral Home. Ruth Ann Owen Long, 78, of Brevard, died Thursday; services 2 pjn. Sunday, chapel of Moody-Connolly Faneral Home. Earmon McPherson, 66, of Wane, died Thrusday; services 2 pjn.

Sunday, New Harvest Baptist Mission. Hazel Paxtoa Eckenrod, 79, of Marion, died Friday; services 1 pjn. Sunday, Marion chapel of McCaU-Kirksey Faneral Home. Mae Burr Sanford Burgess, 86, of WaynesvUle, died Thursday; services 3 pm Sunday, Liberty Baptist Church. Sherman Bly Reese, 75, of Hendersonville, died Tharsday; services 2 pm Saturday, Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Etta Adktns, 95, of Green Mountain, died Thursday; services 2 pm Sunday, Locast Grove. Baptist Church. Nora Parker Burnette, 99, at Marion, died Friday; services 2 p.m. Sunday, Greenlee Baptist Church. Nellie Trull Burris, 89, of WaynesvUle, died Thursday; services 2 pm Saturday, chapel of Garrett Funeral Home.

Nola Russell Smith, 84, of WaynesvUle, died Thursday; services 2 pm Sunday, chapel of Garrett Funeral Home. Wilsie Stamey Abbott, 78, of Canton, died Friday; services 4 pm Sunday, Canton chapel of Wens Faneral Home. Buford Berry, 82, of Valdese, died Friday; services 3 p.m. Sunday, High Peaks Baptist Church. Rupert Dardell Stephenson, 67, of Morganton, died Friday; services 2 pm.

Sunday, Colonial Chapel of Sossomon Funeral Home. William Luther Norman, 75, of Morganton, died Friday; services 2 pm. Sunday, Walker Road Baptist Church. Effle Hollifield, 92, of Spruce Pine, died Thursday; services 2 pm Sunday, Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. Robert L.

Miner, 73, of Knox-vttle, Tenn, died Friday; services 8 p.m. Saturday, Rose Mortuary Broadway ChapeL KnoxvUle. BILLY GRAHAM, CARROLL RIGHTER, ABBY and HELOISE a full lineup of features daily in the Citizen By ANGELA GRIFFIN Waynasvilla Bureau WAYNESVILLE Haywood Electric Membership Cooperative has been cited for violation of the National Labor Relations Act for unfair labor practices but attorney for the cooperative said Haywood Electric plans to file similar charges Monday against the Union. The rural electric cooperative serves areas of Haywood, Jackson, Buncombe, Macon and Transylvania counties in North Carolina, and part of Rabun Gap, Ga, and Oconee, S.C. The latest complaint against Haywood Electric is the result of unfair labor practice charges filed by Local Union 238, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in AshevUle.

The complaint cites bad-faith bargaining with the union. The latest complaint Mows similar complaints issued by the Labor Board in 1990 resolved by last minute negotiations the day of the hearing. "Apparently certain members of management at (Haywood Electric), without the knowledge of the members of the Cooperative or the board of directors of the Cooperative, have taken the position that they (man Funerals Today STATE AND AREA Sarah Katherine Perry of Spin-dale, 11 am, Spencer Baptist Church. William Edgar Suttles of Marion, 2 pm, Greenlee Baptist Church. J.C.

Cabe of Sylva, 2pm, Wes-leyanna United Methodist Church. Hazel Harton Bay of Spmdale, 1 pja, Crowe's ChapeL T.T. Spurlin of Forest City, 11 ajiL, Adaville Baptist Church. Minnie Crook of Hendersonville, 4 pm. Shepherd's Church Street ChapeL Barbara Jean Gasperson of Marion, 11 am, Ashlawn Gardens.

Roy Cecil McClure of Waynes-vine, 11 am. Rocky Branch Free win Baptist Church. Hilda D. Shuler of Canton, 2 pm. Canton Freewill Baptist Church.

James Clyde Justice of Mountain Home, 2 pm, Shepherd's Church Street ChapeL Bessie Dills Massingale of Horse Shoe, 2 pm. Fords Valley Baptist Church. Annie Louise Fitzgerald of Marion, 11 am, Westmoreland-Clapp Funeral Home ChapeL CITY AND COUNTY Gladys Hunter Burgin, formerly of AshevUle, 4 pm, chapel of Wil-llams Funeral Service. Onner Lee Woodard, formerly of AshevUle, 11 am, Northwest Chapel of James H. Cole Funeral Home, Detroit, Mich.

Marshans J. Phillips of Swanna-noa, 11 am, chapel of Miner Funeral Home. Gladys Burgin, 4 pm, Williams Funeral Service. IvadeU Norton HaU of Mars HUL 11 am, Calvary Baptist Church. Evelyn Peters Luper of South Pasadena, Fla, 11 am.

Green Hills Cemetery. Pardee To Get New Cancer Center By TONY ENDS Citizen Correspondent HENDERSONVILLE Western North Carolina win be getting its third cancer treatment center by late 1992 at Pardee Hospital Pardee's Board of Trustees approved plans Friday for the new $3.5 minion treatment center, which win have advanced cancer radiation therapy equipment N.C. Department of Human Resources staff issued Pardee a Certificate of Need to build the faculty earner this month after a six-month review process. "Our studies indicate that the center wUl treat 280 to 300 patients in its first year of operation," said Frank Aaron, hospital administrator, in prepared remarks Friday on the new facility. "Approximately 67 percent of att cancer patients require radiation therapy, averaging seven weeks of daily treatments for each patient," Aaron said.

"We estimate that 45 people a day are leaving Henderson County for this treatment at this time." Studies Pardee undertook in application for the state Certificate of Need indicate that the only other hospitals in the area offering cancer radiation treatment St Joseph's and Memorial Mission in AshevUle are fast reaching their service capacity. Physicians and service organizations in a four-county area supported Pardee's proposal for the new center in their Certificate of Need. "We wUl definitely be serving patients from Polk, Transylvania and Rutherford counties, as weU as Henderson," said Mary Ann Mooers, for the hospital "And well probably draw some people from the south part of Buncombe, too. "This is something in our strategic long-range planning that we at Pardee cited as a need and had been wanting to do for some time," Mooers said. Equipment catted a linear accelerator that bombards cancer with radiation in very precise locations in the body without damaging surrounding tissues will be available in the new cancer treatment center.

The center win also have imaging equipment for use in targeting for this radiation therapy, and it will contain office space for doctors and staff. It wttl require a physician who specializes in radiation therapy and three or four new technologist positions, according to Pardee officials. Pardee has undertaken a capital funds drive with a goal of $1.5 minion to help offset the costs of adding the new cancer treatment service. The new center wUl be butttad-jacent to Pardee's outpatient radiology center on Justice Street PAUL JOHNSON KNOWS HIS BUSINESS and his reports put the economy in focus for readers in the Citizen and Citizen-Times Germans, Soviets Recall Russian Invasion In WWII Hazel Paxton Eckenrod MARION Hazel Paxton Eckenrod, 79, of 9 East Court Street, died Friday in a McDowen County hospital. Born in Canton to the late Jud-son Morgan and Marjorie Susan Russell Paxton, she was a former owner of Eckenrod Studios, a member of First Baptist Church of Marion and a member of Eastern Star Marion Chapter 278.

Surviving are three sons, James P. Eckenrod of Newport, Tenn, Walter B. Eckenrod Jr. and Thomas J. Eckenrod of Marion; two daughters, Jeanne Bright of Swannanoa -and Betty Gouge of Marion; sister, Mrs.

Marion Trent of Marion; 13 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, and two great-great -grandchildren. Funeral services win be held at 1 pm Sunday in the Marion chapel of McCan-Kirksey Funeral Home. The Rev. Atten McKinney will officiate. Burial witt be in McDoweU Memorial Park.

The fairdly will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 pm at the funeral home. The Marion Chapter 278 of the Order of the Eastern Star wUl conduct a service prior to the visitation. Gladys Irene Whiteside Gladys Irene Whiteside, 87, of 303 High Alta Avenue, AshevUle, died Friday in a local hospital. The family wUl receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at Anders-Rice Funeral Home.

Wilsie Stamey Abbott CANTON Stamey Abbott, 78, of Route 4, Morning Star Community, died Friday. A native and lifelong resident of Haywood County, she was the daughter of the late John F. and Minnie Gaddis Stamey. She was a home-maker. Surviving are her husbamd, Jesse Elmer Abbott of Canton; daughter, Betty June Thompson of Candler; son, Gary Lynn Abbott of Brevard; two sisters, Susie S.

Crawford of Montisumi, Ga, and Nancy Norton of AshevUle; three brothers, Hugh Stamey of Elizabethton, HUliard Stamey of WaynesvUle and Harold Stamey of Richmond, Va, and three grandchildren. Services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Canton chapel of Wells Funeral Home. Burial will be at Morning Star United Methodist Church Cemetery. The family wUl receive friends from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m.

Sunday, one hour prior to the service. Your Day. agement) prefer violation of Federal Labor Laws and costly Utigation to the consummation of a CoUective Bargaining Agreement with their employees who are represented by the (union)," said Jerry J. Rogers, business manager of Local 238. Rogers also said that additional unfair labor practice charges were tiled with the NLRB against Haywood Electric on June 10, 1991.

Haywood Electric attorney Britt Smith of Charlotte said the allegations wiH be decided by a special administrative law judge at a hearing set for Sept 26 at 10 am at the Haywood County Courthouse. In the meantime, Haywood Electric has some complaints of its own. "The cooperative is getting ready to file charges for unfair bargaining. We've looked at what the union has been doing at the last couple of meetings and it is not bargaining in good faith and we expect the NLRB to look at our allegations as thoroughly as it does the union's," said Smith. The union and cooperative have been at odds since employees voted to have the union represent them Feb.

14, 1990. ance of the Nazi invasion on June 22, 1941. It followed nearly hah! a century of bitterness that permeated daily life in the Soviet Union and elsewhere in the former East Bloc. Addressing an audience of several hundred people that included Soviet and German soldiers, as wen as children from both countries, Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh recalled his father's tragie death. "He went off to war in the first few months, and I still recaU saying goodbye to him.

It was the last time I saw him alive," Bessmertnykh said. He was 9 years old at the time. While Bessmertnykh supported calls for reconciliation with Germany, he made it clear that the Soviet Union is filled with people who still haven't gotten over the suffering. History books say the Soviets lost 20 million people in World War II, although Moscow says the number is 27 million. Whatever the true figure is, Soviets are unlikely to forget the starvation in Leningrad, the 33,771 Jewish victims at Babi Yar outside Kiev and the fighting at Stalingrad.

Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher said the attack by the 3-million-strong German force was "criminal aggression." rants a few miles from downtown. The U.S. Postal Service plans to sett the old building, which was named to the National Historic Register as part of the newly renovated Main Street district Opponents are trying to persuade the Postal Service to continue operating the old post office as well as the new one, or to contract with a private postal service. "Please dont take the post office away," said Lisa Hazlett who works for a Franklin lawyer. "It's within walking distance of my office and I dont have time most days to drive across town." Fred Isaacs, director of the J.L Clay Senior Citizens Center, said the old post office is "exactly 327 paces from the center." The new one is dif-i ficult for elderly residents to get to, he said.

The Associated Press POTSDAM, Germany The Soviet foreign minister strode to the podium Friday and told a hushed audience near Berlin: "I am the son of Alexander Ivanovich Bessmertnykh, a Soviet soldier who was killed on the front on March 8, 1943." A day before the 50th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin's top envoy and German politicians recalled the terrifying consequences of the attack. In a television address to the Soviet people Friday evening, Chancellor Helmut Kohl said he and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev were determined to "build relations between our people for a peaceful, joint future." Gorbachev also' addressed the issue of improved relations in a television address in Moscow, saying the Soviet Union is "vigorously taking the path of genuine reconcilation" with Germany. "We believe that Soviet-German relations, which have a great impact on the situation in Europe and the world, win become an example of good neighborliness and partnership," Gorbachev said. The ceremony in Potsdam was the first joint Soviet-German observ Just A Phone Call Away! Switchboard 252-5611 Classified Line Ads 252-5626 Circulation 252-5622 Display Advertising 252-5610 National WATS Line 1-800-800-4204 ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES Town's Historic Meeting Place To Be Sold In Volunteer State USINESS EDITORIALS Coming July 1st! The Associated Press FRANKLIN, Tenn.

For 65 years the Post Office now the old Post Office has sat squat in the center of this town's busiest intersection. Its reputation as a gathering spot and a kind of crossroads for farmers and bankers, for senior citizens and students has been replaced by a new title: one of 11 most endan-. gered historic sites in the country. Franklin's post office witt soon close because it has been replaced with a building closer to the highway, with more room and parking. This victory for efficiency is being taken as a loss by small-town people who like to gather to swap gossip.

The new post office is near Interstate 65 on the eastern edge of the Cjty of 12,400 people, tucked behind shopping malls and fast-food restau A Whole New Way To Start.