The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 7

REJUVENATION PROJECT Dunbar Plata, a project proposed to rejuvenate that city's central business district, is shown in the planner's sketch, left above. It would feature an attractive cluster of shops, service establishments SECTION TWO HotQ Line 348 4811 HOT LINE It a serkms service. If jot have qaestton of general Interest. HOT LINE has assrwtr can get It. CALL HOT Vt.iZ it 3U UU from a.m.

to 4 swsa. Monday through Friday. Or writs HOT LINE, The Dally Hall, Charleston, W. Va. am What year did Edgewood Park and Luna Park burn? W.

Q. Charleston A. Edgewood Park tasted from law until sad Luna Park from to How old Is Edward KmnedyT A. This ASwm C). Where did tfcs Kanawha Valley Compact Co.

move to? It was a vacuum clianfng firm and I believe they moved from South Charleston in March. Mrs Nokia Wiseman Dunbar A. Vau'ra right they did move In March. The post office can ealy give forwarding addresses if the request is in writing and accompanied by SI. Howover, they win be glad to forward 1st class letters that are seat the old address, if there as a forwardlaf address.

Q. Is it legal for a Kanawha County justice of the peace in prosecute yon on a charge that happened in Lincoln County? E. D. M. South Charleston A.

"No, becsise there is no venae." said Prosecutor Patrick Casey wild aae exception. Casey said aonsupport cases may he tried by JPs located ht counties where the obligee may be, where the obligor may be fonnd, or where either party resides. Q. Can a person sign aw) be held to a contract if he is under the age of IS? D. South Charleston A.

No, said Prosecntor Patrick Casey, except for contracts lor necessities. An infant 211 Is not responsible for any contract except those for necessities such as food and lodging, he said. Q. Why is it compulsory to enroll In the teacher retirement fund? Why must you pay a 20 per cent fee for bookkeeping charges and Si for every month you are employed, without Is (here any way you can get out of this plan? B. H.

St. Albans A. The first answer is that the teacher retirement system saya participation in the program Is a condition of employ meat. The law that created the retirement system makes participation mandatory. A reason is to facilitate administration.

As to your second question, this does not happen, according to system officials. In 1RS344 the decided to Increase payments to retired teachers and all members retiring after 1954. The Increase was to be in the amount of SI per month for each year of service. To finance the increased payments. It was decided that a fee of one sixlh of the an anal contribution, not In exceed no per year, would be made.

This fee comes off the top of the annual contributions and is ased only for benefits for retired teachers. As (he system carrentty the only way to get this awrttan of money paid into the system is to retire. There Is a hill In the Legislators now to change this. The btt wmdd allow the return of the fee as well as other money paid hrtp the syslem lo be taken out before retirement. Q.

won second prize in a contest. The prize was a certificate for $150 on a $229.95 City Sewing Machine, the certificate runs out Feb. 10. Could you tell me if the sewing machine is worth this much and when I can purchase it? B. P.

Sfnithers A. We have from reVsMe that many people have wast BBroast prite hi Ala contest. However, we could not Had sewing machine dealer ht Charleaton that either sens or repairs them, How tall is (he West Virginia State Capilol Buikllng? Karen Whittington Charleston A. The heigh! of the Capitol sMrMrag. from the grewaw riser to lap af the feet, 1 hsrb.

and other mercantile outlets, all served by pedestrian malls and a landscaped central plana. Ringing the new business district would he parking for 552 cars, plus ditional parking for 270 east of City Hall on a site to be CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1969 WEEKEND ROAD TOLL OF 5 Turnpike Mishap Kills Trucker, 38 tractor trailer accident on the West Virginia Turnpike about 1:30 a.m. today took the life of a Jackson County man, Earl E. Castle, 38, of Kcnna. Castle died when his rig ran off the turnpike about 1,3 miles north of Beckley.

His truck traveled 396 feet after leaving the highway. He was pinned under the cab and was dead on arrival at a hospital. Castle driving a truck be longing to Johnny's Banana Co. of Huntington. Damages were set at S20.O00.

Five others were killed on West Virginia highways during the weekend: Woodrow Trader, 54, Hometown. Rita Carol Lynch, 19, While Sulphur Springs. Roy Paul Stallman, 23. Grantsvilte. l.nnnlr Franklin Marks.

27. Alexandria. Va. Donald Lester Sole, 30. Fol Isnsbee.

Trader was killed when struck bv a car Sunday afternoon on U.S. 35 at Rock Branch. Trader, a deaf mute, had been sitting an a culvert. He got up and stepped into the road in front of a carl driven by Guy Ray McClanahan of Rock Branch. Miss Lynch, a West Virginia University student, died as the result of an accident on W.

Va. Nestorville, Barbour Countv. Sundav afternoon Mailman and Marks died in a two car collision on U.S. 11!) near Glenville Saturday nigh! Sole was killed in a three car aceidenl in Welrton Saturday. Justine; daughters, Sharon, Di ana and Rebecca at home; sons, James, Earl and Keith at home; brothers, Bert of V'rgii Johnnie of Oak sisters, Mrs.

Betty East of Oak IHill, Mrs. Bernke Bush of Co 1 ilumbus. Ohio, Mrs, Barbara iNuckJes of Virginia, and Ruby 'of New Orleans, Mrs. Ed Castle of Oak Hill, mother. town.

Service will be held Wednes day at 2 p.m. in the Parsons Funeral Home at Ripley with the Rev. Tommy Young officiat ing. Friends may call at Hie funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

Burial Wednesday will be at the Uashen Cemetery at Kcmuck. Trader is survived bv his mother. Mrs. Maggie Trader of Hometown: brothers Robert Service will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Ravnes Fu neral Home in Buffalo.

The Rev. Edsi Bragg will officiate. Burial will be in Cross Creek Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral acquired in future years. The 15 acre project starts at TenUi Street, which connects with (he Dunbar Spring Hill bridge, and is near an 1 64 interchange.

Right is a sketch of the pedestrian walkway looking west past a fountain in the By CHARLIE CONNOR Of The Daily Malt Staff Are things beginning to look up lor Dunbar? "Yes, very definitely, says Mayor C. Ray Stewart, "The announcement last week that a Huntington electrical firm is moving into our city with a branch warehouse operation is a small thing, perhaps, but ev ery little Pit neips. "I'm ootimistic. The cltv. the! bridge commission and our cnamberof tammerce soon will publish a brochure setting torui me advantages oi Dunbar's location near 1 64, the Penn Central railroad and the! Kanawha River.

"We want Denole to start talk ing and thinking Dunbar. This. numtnt way buck." i 1051. then Mavor D. L.

Sal descnoea uunnar as town. West Virginia's fastest growing community, the nicest, quietest place in the valley." At that time, Dunbar had three 'pants empkwiiw 1.300 people Gravely tractor, Fletcher En amel and Dunbar uiass. The president of the Dunbar Chamber or Commerce then, Charles Hopkins, could predict confidently: "The first 50 years weren't anything compared to what this town will do next 30." Not many vcars later. Dunbar began to decline. Markets erotl of Pittsburgh, James of Cohim UrPwBts dwindled.

The Surviving Castle are bis wifejhome after 5 p.m. today struggled, cut back, closed. The leitv treasury became bare. Im slowed to a tncicie. COMEBACK BEGINS Todav.

Mavor Stewart cited the recent purchase of the Gravely plant by Locke Manu facturing Co. the opening aM RINGS TO MAKE MOTORISTS HAPPY Taking the jolt out of driving along MacCorkle Avenue in Smith Charleston. Ihcsc workmen are attaching lo raise manhole covers leading in CAP Telephone equipment. The ciepi ewskms have been amniyiiig to motorists since last summer when the highway waa falasMapped Daily Mail Photo By Earl Benton, iof a new machine shoo oni Twelfth Street, and the opening of a new restaurant as evidence that business and industrial In terest in Dunbar is returning. The D3ilv Mail learned that considerable interest has been expressed by a Columbus, Ohio, ompinyin the old Dunbar ilass Co.

nrooertv as the site for a shopping center. The owner. Henrv Pavne. says be has four or five tenants on the 30 acre site now, using the old buildings under term teases. "For our sake and that of the1 community, it would seem sname to it up.

noraing it tor sale as a wnoie. He indicates there is no argument as to price because the land Is valuable. Its day Dun bar's new future will dawn. "We're confident of Mayor Stewart saw. 2 SERVICE STATIONS Nearbv.

the adjoining Fletch er a I nronertv receives similar speculation. Reports irom cny otnciais ana otner cit izens indicate the likely con Bill Hearings Will Be Held Hearings on several bills, In cluding Governor Moore's proposed amendments to the con sumer sales tai Jaws, are scheduled this week and next week by legislative committees. AH of the hearings are publuc. At 10:30 k. Tuesday, in the House chamber, on bills to i the use of taxing stamps; from 3 to 5 p.

also in the House chamber, on bills to reorganize higher education. At 7 n. Wednesday, ill the House chamber joint Senate and House hearing on the Moore hills to remove the saics tax ex emption now imposed on dot chases of goods used in manufacturing, construction, I a i 1' business, transportation, etc. At 2 n. Thursday, in House chamber, on bills to pro vide special schools and teach ers lor exceptional emmren; also al 2 p.

in Room 43B, on a bill to license and regulate livestock receiving and buying stations. Al 1:30 Tuesday, Feb. 11. in Ihe House chamber, a middle of the central courtyard. The planning is under the direction of Balzer and Associates of Roanoke, Va professional planning firm which is doing the work for tha Dunbar Urban Renewal Authority.

Dunbar Mayor Optimistic That Business, Industrial Interest Revived In City of a large tion al the corner of Dunbar Avenue and lOlh Street near the 1 64 interchange, and another le adjacent to it. Robert Workman, field sales manager for the American Oil confirmed the report of his; company's mtercsL "We plan to erect a colonial I tnree nay station along Avenue," he said, understand Texaco is going in on the comer. 'r The land owner is Carmtl Fletcher who indicated only' mat trie property win be devel loped. Wire products and fencing being manufactured now in1 of the old enamel company buildings. Meanwhic.

Chairman Charles McQueen of the city's urban re 1 newat authority said planning for redevelopment of Dunnbar's central business district is progressing well. The proposed four city blocks between JOth; Street, Avenue, 13th street and Myers Avemieu. IHIWVAY IN PLANEVlNu "We're midway and the schedule is as follows: jS Side Expressway that The truck ahead swerved into he left hand ane. Smllh annar enlly did not see Ihe police cruiser and the other car until then. He slammed un the locked, and the rig slid 100 feel VT smashinc into the rot i5T.lT™™ II" parked police car, officers maemiiasia S.

Charleston Man Injured As Train Hits Auto A former South Ctiarleslon on liccmnn was hospitalized early Indaiy aflev his rar was struck hy a CSO frcighl I rain al the liplon Creek crnss'mji on Avcsta urivo. liilmi Mnsick, SI, nf Ken Drive. South Charleston, was listed in satisfactory condition In Thomas Memorial Hospital. Ho suffered a fractured leg and possmic internal injure He was driving north across the double railroad tracks when an easthounri 173 car train struck his car. The accident oc enrred about 2:35 a.

m. State pohec investigated, The wreck nerained I be rrengw. train, en route from Russefl, to Han (ley, about 5S minutes. ning for making this an attractive shopping area," he reported Dunbar is proceeding under a $117,300 federal planning grant. It received its first payment on this, $51,200, early in December.

It has a federal grant reservation of $1,113,000 for execution of the pro ject under the three fourths federal, one fourth local matching ratio. The Dunbar authority is shoot ing for an execution date of early 1970 on the project. On Dunbar's western limits. Hall's Motor Transit Co. will move into a new $500,000 termi nal this spring, leaving its crowded quarters at Kanawha Turnpike in South Charles ton lor us new six acre sue.

Terminal Manager Dick Dun nington said employment will grow from the present 29 drivers, warehouse and office personnel to 75 in the new location. Dunbar bouncing back? "Yes sir. things are looking up," the mayor says. inc citizens of Dunbar hope plan he's right. TRUCK RAMS CRUISER Policeman, 3 Others Hurt On Expressway tractor trailer and two cars, one of them a South jcharleston police cruiser, fig lured in an accident late last near the west end of the sent a policeman, the truck driver and a young man and his wife to the hospital.

The wreck occurred east of the Patrick Street Bridge ramp after South Charleston police mirsued a seceding car into Charleston and halted the car in front of A a Store. The cruiser stopped behind the car at tne ngnt ol tne expressway. Charleston police said a trac tor trailer, driven bv Donald (Smith, 31, of Tornado, was trav eling east on MacCorkle Avenue behind another truck that en tered the expressway. Central South Charles ton, and Robert J. Young, 10, of Michigan Charleston.

were in the police cruiser, where Jones was writing a citation for Young wi en the truck hit the cruiser. The tractor of ihe lumber laden truck climbed over the back of the police car. The impact knocked the corn ier into the rear of the Young car, injuring Mrs. Regini Young, 18. Patrolman Jones and Mr.

and Mrs, Young were treated at Thomas Memorial Hospital and released. Smith was admitted with possible internal injuries and was listed in satisfactory condition. Charleston police estimated damages at $3,000. The tractor irauer is owned by William P. of 2021) Pennsylvania 51.

Albans. Smith was cited for failure to haw his vehi. cle under control. Alumni Luncheon Kappa Alpha Fraternity alum ni will hold a luncheon Wednes day at Ihe Army Navy Club. Reservations are beine accepted by Howard D.

at 346 '2m. Renewal Quiz TMANftl.E riHMECT AND A. NO. It Q. How much will (he $14.9 million Triangle Urban Renewal project cost Ihe city? A.

The city is sharing the cost on a nne fourlh cily share lo Uree fnnrths federal share. The 114 mttlkm is the gross project cost. After sale of the land ike net project cast will be million, of which the city's share is minion. Mich of Ihe city's share will be made ap of non cash credits. For instance, the construction of a new elementary school by the Kanawha County Board Edacalktn will cost an estimated of wWfh abnrt half wmM be credited hy Ihe federal government toward the city's share.

Pablte bowsing, street and improvements, the contract km of neighborhood community bvihthig and swlmmmg pool, and other Impmvesseots woaM make other credits. Tat city's cash i rniM be an.