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dob-fr 71t I i THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Monday January 16 1984 SD Plan For Cable TV In Rural Areas Dies Special Feature Classified Index terns which serve 617569 homes traditionally concentrate on high-density urban areas where the maximum profits lie according to Federal Communications Commission records Cable company officials say they must have a minimum of 30 homes hooked into each mile of cable to get a reasonable return on their Investment Atlantic Telephone Membership Corp of Shallotte is now the only NC co-op providing cable service for its customers The company managed to get a federal loan before the program ended "It wasn't smarts or anything we just jumped first and got lucky that's all" said Earl Bellamy Jr Atlantic's general manager "We started looking at it back in 1979 and if we had gotten our application in Just a couple months later we would have missed it" a joint venture by the states nine co-ops which are owned by the customers they serve The plan was to use money from low-interest federal loans to build a communications base to receive cable television signals from satellites and then distribute them over telephone lines "But advances in technology such as reduced cost of the earth station (satellite dish) and an end to the loan program essentially killed Tar Heel Telephone" McDonald said The company now has no employees and no customers That leaves thousands of rural residents with little chance of getting cable television unless they buy and set up their own satellite dishes North Carolina's 114 cable television sys Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM The prospect of cable television service for the state's most rural areas projected as a boon to country homes three years ago has fizzled out for thousands of state residents Federal budget cuts and restrictions on borrowing from the Rural Electrification Administration have killed plans that would have allowed the state's nine telephone membership cooperatives to offer cable to their 77000 customers co-op officials said "We were just totally blocked everywhere we turned" said William McDonald general manager of Yadkin Valley Telephone Membership- Corp and president of the Tar Heel Teleptione Membership Corp Tag Heel Telephone a nonprofit company basedlq Yadkinville was chartered in 1980 as General Announcements Ls'el Notices 100 Cielk 10S Funeral SctomArte laa Announcements Card Of Thanks IIS in Memo" 170 Funeral Directors I Crssitiart LOS 135 Bustross Personats ---139 Monuments Sow Notwes 145 Lost and ISO Peesonaii 155 Adult PersorvilS-- Ile Wises TO Owe tOS Travel Opoottunities ISO Child Services Ovid Care Div Care Centers-- 210 Financial Services Muni-Levii Marken's" 252 Sustness O000rtunines 253 Business Onoortunitits Wanted 254 investments mans OS? 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August as a consultant and then as general manager to take charge of the cleanup said the company should be able to meet the state's directive that it have no more than 2000 drums stored on the site by July 1 State officials say they are collecting increasing evidence questioned by the company the spilled material has polluted groundwater beneath the site Water samples from monitoring wells indicate serious levels of contamination by several types of chlorides some phenols and the metal barium they say told Seaboard General Manager John Ferguson Strickland said Seaboard "probably had the largest number of on-site containers in the state" and he still considers the remaining problem seriously unsafe But he also wants the company to succeed "The area needs that company" he said "It's in a good central location and we need to encourage this kind of (recycling) operation" By Feb I Seaboard must have its remaining 6000 to 7000 drums stacked labeled and regularly inspected In accordance with hazardous-waste regulations Barring bad weather the job site first thought to be about 21000 probably was closer to 30000 officials say The drums contain the thick residues of finishing operations such as the ones used in the area's furniture factories Last month OW Strickland director of the solid and hazardous waste branch of the NC Department of Human Resources said the state was granting a 45- day extension of the key cleanup deadline "Failure to meet these deadlines could result in a penalty of up to $10000 for each day that the facility remains in violation of drum storage standards" Strickland Associated Press JAMESTOWN More than a month after the state extended its initial deadline Seaboard Chemical Corp is still struggling to comply with hazardous-waste laws Six months ago the state set a strict cleanup schedule for thousands of drums of chemicals at Seaboard a solvent reclamation company in southwestern Guilford County east of High Point The -chemicals began accumulating in 1975 Stacked four high the 55-gallon drums at one time covered nearly an acre Many had collapsed and spilled black goo on the muck-covered site The number of drums on the SAA SAS SAC SAD SA1 5A2 SA3 Sii 1 5C SC SDI 5D2 5E 1 5G1 SG5 Si I SJ2 SM I SM2 5463 SM4 SMS SP1 SP2 SRI SR2 5R 5 SR6 SR? 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6:30 pm Friday for Sunday and Monday Collect calls welcomed 4 11V1 4'7 1'r- 7 (::: 3 1k litior I 41 4 1 11: 44' 4 77'1 )X 3fdt '4: '4 :1:1141 7 angle''' '''''ii 'H 44( 7: EitRZAds But just as the two dozen successful bidders were scribbling down-payment checks to secure their new properties Eways made his surprise move Eways a small man with flashing black eyes and bushy white hair wrote a personal check for $294000 an amount that represented the required 15 down pay ment Under the terms of the sale the remainder must be paid within 30 days Afterward he was surrounded by local residents who volunteered services such as cutting timber or managing the local interests of the new proprietor "Soon someday I will tell you what will happen on the island" Eways said "I don't myself know right now I have friends in the Middle East Arabs not Jews But some from Palestine" Eways would not say whether he was representing Arab interests in the island purchase "For this I spend my own money" he said "Maybe later somebody else comes in 1 will tell you" Associated Press NEVZ" BERN An 84-year-old native Palestinian merchant caught two dozen bidders by surprise Saturday undercutting their- attempts to buy separate tracts on Jones Island by purchasing the entire isle for $196 million Joseph Eways of Tampa who described himself as an Arab who deals in Oriental rugs-iiade his surprise block bid after most of tibest lots and tracts already had been spoken: for Auctioneer Junius Todd offer for the 4458-acre island under the announced rules of the The 2- by 5-mile isle shaped like a leaping fish is just south of Hobucken on the Intracoastal Waterway in Pamlico County On some maps it is called Governors Island on others Jones Island Buyers from all over the country had hoped to buy a piece of the uninhabited Island For two hours they bid noisily for tracts and lots until their combined offers soared to $195562525 704377-5555 Deadline: 5:30 pm Thursday Collect calls welcomed 7C76111 AP Photo Buys Island: Joseph Eways (right) signs a check for a deposit on Jones Island Homes For Salt 610 Area I ill Area 2 612 Area 3 613 Area 4 614 Area 5 615 Area 6 616 Area 7 617 Area 8 618 Area 619 Condominiums 625 Resort Properly 626 Lake Norman Area 627 Lake Wylie Area 621 Suburban 679 0111-01- Town 633 North Caroline 637 South Carolina MI Florida 644 Packaged Homes Kits Pre-Fab Etc 645 Builders 646 Lots 648 Mobile Homes Sale 652 Mobile Home Lots Sale 0 Farms-Acreage Investment 130PertY 664 Realty Auctions 666 Real Estate Loans 668 Real Estate Wanted 676 Real Estate Brokers 680 Really Services 688 Rentals Apartments 700 Apartments-Furnished 705 Apartment Services 710 Rooms 715 Room Board 720 Hotels-Motets 725 Duplexes 730 Mobile HOMIS Rent 735 Lots and Parks Rent 736 Condominiums 740 Houses 74S Houses Furnished 746 Rentals wOption To Bun 747 Rental To Share 750 i Wanted To Rent 755 Vacation Places 760 Vacation Places Mountains-365 Vacation Places Beaches 770 Commercial Sales 775 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Fuller said "How in the world can you kill somebody because of a technical oversight?" Boger also protested what he called the Supreme Court justices' assumption "that in this instance and indeed generally that the failure to raise all claims at one time is a deliberate policy of attorneys who are deliberately conniving to delay an execution "My own experience" after seven years in death penalty work Boger said "is very much to the contrary Most often it's lawyers working without compensation who are not experts in the rapidly more complicated capital punishment field acting in good faith but without the time or the technical resources or legal resources to fully inform them about issues that might make a life-or-death difference to their clients "I frankly think it is unwarranted of the majority of the Supreme Court to assume the bad faith of these lawyers who have given so much and so unselfishly at great personal and financial sacrifice on behalf of capital defendants" Boger said Much of the Smiths' work for Hutchins has been free Their first court appointment expired when the N0 Supreme Court affirmed Hutchins's conviction and two death sentences in 1981 Roger Smith said Sunday They represented him on their own in the next appeal through US District Court he said until last fall when the case first went to the 4th Circuit Continued From Page ID weeks instead of the several months or more such cases usually linger before decision The attorney general's office officially hasn't acknowledged that any of its actions have attempted to speed up the Hutchins case Some lawyers and court observers have suggested that the state wants Hutchins executed before the 33-some other prisoners on North Carolina's death row because as a white male killer of law enforcement officers his execution would draw little sympathy from the public Next to Hutchins the prisoner closest to execution in the legal appeals process is Velma Barfield a woman convicted of poisoning a male friend Barfield is in the process of asking the US Supreme Court to consider her case That court on Wednesday refused to grant Hutchins a review of his case at a similar stage of appeals That decision just two days before the scheduled execution date led to Hutchins's last-minute unsuccessful appeals on newly raised issues including that of jurors opposed to the death penalty in state and federal courts McMillan's favorable ruling on the Jury issue could have an impact tin Hutchins's case lawyers say "It will give them another case to rely on" Deputy Attorney General Richard League said Sunday: A federal judge in Arkansas and the California Supreme Court have favored the defense on the same issue he said chins after his conviction in September 1979 When a good explanation for not raising an issue earlier is offered lawyer Jim Fuller said Saturday "traditionally the court which is supposed to be concerned about the lib- stract concept of justice will consider the 1: merits of the I claim and not try to avoid that on some technicality" 1 Fuller a Ra i 1' leigh lawyer 8i now trying a medical maiFuller practice trial in Durham volunteered to help Hutchins's attorneys and drove to Richmond Thursday night to argue the case to Judge Phillips returning Friday morning and back In court on time Fuller is one of the lawyers who presented the juror issue to McMillan and won the favorable ruling Often Fuller said the answer to the question of why issues have not been raised earlier is: "There are literally dozens of issues in a complicated death penalty case Any lawyer and that includes me and anybody I know can either inadvertently or by error or some other reason leave out an issue "Should sombody die because 1 make a mistake? When I'm already working overtime and virtually for free and trying to carry on another practice at the same time or when there are just dozens of issues I wrestle with and The state League said will appeal McMillan's decision to the 4th Circuit He expects the appeal will go quickly he said predicting it might be argued within the next month The speed with which the appeals court makes its decision on McMillan's decision might well determine whether Hutchins is granted a stay of execution League said But League said the state will likely challenge Hutchins's case before US District Judge Jones arguing that Hutchins raised the Issue too late in a second appeal In federal court not the first appeal that be filed about a year ago Also possible League said is that the state might argue that the second appeal is an "abuse" of the appeals process as tout US Supreme Court justices said when they vacated Hutchins's stay late Friday League and defense lawyers experienced in death penalty work suggest that Hutchins's attorneys might explain why they didn't raise the issue earlier as they pursue the issue in US District Court "It seems appropriate now for the lawyers in written affidavits or through oral testimony to offer that explanation to the District Court" said Jack Boger an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund based in New York League said that if they do offer explanations defense attorneys Roger and Wade Smith would need to become witnesses and would likely have to withdraw as Hutchins's attorneys The Smiths brothers from Raleigh were court-appointed to represent Hut valt-in Hours or Phon tines Monday through Thursday: 8:30 am 5:30 pm Fridays 8:30 am 6:30 pm closed Saturday and Sunday Pleas (1 Honda -052 Jaguar Lincoln-- 860 Lotus 162 Maids 164 MG ke Mercedes $68 Mercury Oldsmoblie 0 112 Opel 114 Pantera 0 816 Peugeot 111 Plymouth Porsche $14 Renault ----886 Roos Royce SAAB 890 Subaru 192 HOW TO PLACE A Classified Ad CALL 377-5555 TO CHANGE OR CORRECT AN AD CALL 379-6780 Advertisers are resporisibie for checking the content of their Ads for eccuracy Knight Publishing Company will allow thustment credit for the first incorrect mserlion only end only tor the space occupied by the error Any error should be reported immediately le 319-6110 TO CANCEL AN AD Call 39-6779 Rates deadlines and information above apply only to Classified line ads For information about Classified display ads call 704377-5555 Wording for all ads including Classified ads is subject to advertising guidelines Knight Publishing Company reserves the right to accept reject or revise content deemed objectionable either because of subject matter or phraseology night Publishing Company will not be held liable should publication be interrupted for any reason or should ads ordered be omitted for any reason SOURCE: 1981 Major Market Study.