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ftoanoke Time! 4 World News riday Aupuit 12 1977 1 3 BkCifcyState TODAY ARMED OR UNARMED SECURITY GUARDS CLASS Virginia Western Com munity College 6 pm scheduled through Augl4 sponsored by the Virginia Western Cpmmunity College Office of Continuing Education BELLY DANCING CLASS Roanoke County Public Library 3131 Electric Road SW 7 pm TEEN DANCE Recreation Center 5411 Williamson Road 8 pm mid night PLAY Mill Mountain Playhouse 1310 Grandin Road SW 8:30 pm Sunshine scheduled through Aug' 21 phone 344 2057 for advance reserva tions SATURDAY RUMMAGE SALE Heritage School 310AVashington Ave SW 9 am ARMED OR UNARMED SECURITY GUARDS CLASS Virginia Western Com munity College 9 am4 pm scheduled through Aug 14 sponsored by the Virginia Western Community College Office of Con tinuing Education CARTOONS OR CHILDREN Hap Recreation Center '5411 Williamson Road 10 am MOVIES Roanoke County Public Library 3131 Electric Road SW 2 pm "Oliver the "erdi nand the and Round MOVIE Roanoke County Public Library Hollins Branch 2 pm 'SQUARE DANCE Recrea tion Center 5411 Williamson Road 8 pm midnight PLAY Mill Mountain Playhouse 1310 Grandin Road SW 8:30 pm Sunshine scheduled through Aug 21 phone 344 2057 for reservations SUNDAY' ART RECEPTION Roanoke County Public Library Vinton Branch 1 4 pm paintings and drawings by Charles Goolsby open to the public CRYSTAL SPRING STEAM PUMP EXHIBITION Jefferson St SW across from Roanoke Memorial Rehab Center 2 5 pm phone 981 2236 for more information JAM SESSION Recreation Center 5411 Williamson Road 2:30 5:30 pm' $2 admission for adults and $1 for children under 12 CONCERT incastle Courthouse Square 4 6 pm featuring Doug Wilson and the Trail Dusters arts and crafts exhib it by Botetourt County senior citizens in front of the library sponsored by the Bote tourt Improvement Association Inc PLAY Mill Mountain Playhouse 1310 Grandin Road SW 8 pm Sun shine scheduled through Aug 21 phone 344 2057 for reservations MONDAY ARMED OR UNARMED SECURITY GUARDS EXAMINATION Virginia Western Community College Brown Li brary Learning Lab 8 am 9:30 pm spon sored by the Virginia Western Community College Office of Continuing Education GOL OR SENIOR CTTIZENS AND RIENDS Brookside 6303 Williamson Road NW 9 am George Seigler instruc tor1 sponsored by the Roanoke City Depart ment of Parks and Recreation SENIOR CITIZENS WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUE CLASS Vinton Recreation Center 814 Washington Ave 9:30 11:30 am Eloise Bethel instructor $1 fee per class sponsored by the Vinton Department of Parks and Recreation ROANOKE VALLEY EXTENSION HOMEMAKERS COUNCIL MEETING Roanoke County Public Library Hollins Branch 9:30 am noon ART CLASS Roanoke ine Arts Center Carolina and 23rd St SW 10 am noon Katie Highfill instructor sixth class SENIOR CITIZENS Identification cards issued each day at the League of Old er Americans office 401 Campbell Ave 10 am 2 pm GYMNASTICS CLASS Cove Elementary School 11 am 2 pm spon sored by the Cove Community Ser vices Center GREEK OLK DANCE AND BALL ROOM DANCE INSTRUCTION CLASS Christ Episcopal Church corner ranklin Road and Washington Ave SW 12:15 pm rank Roupas instructor BRIDGE CLASS Christ Episcopal Church corner Washington Ave and ranklin Road SW 1:30 pm for beginners and advanced George Seigler instructor sponsored by the Roanoke City Department of Parks and Recreation MOVIE Roanoke County Public Library Hollins Branch 2 pm 'STORY HOUR Roanoke City Public Library Jackson Park Branch 2 pm BINGO OR CHILDRN Roanoke County Public Library Hollins Branch 3 pm NOVICE SWIM CLASS Central YWCA 605 irst St SW 3:30 4:30 pm first class two week mini session ADULT NOVICE SWIM CLASS Central YWCA 605 irst St SW 6 7 pm first class two week minisession SEMINAR 914 Riverside Drive 7 pm for mothers mothers to be and ba bies phone 989 0218 or 389 7179 for further information sponsored by the La Leche League of Roanoke Valley ADULT BEGINNER SWIM CLASS Central YWCA 605 irst St SW 7 8 pm first class two week minisession SQUARE DANCING CLASS Ma Cove Elementary School 7 9 pm sponsored by the Cove Community Services Center Compiled by Karen Trout Educational Addition Will Be Year Late By JACK CHAMBERLAIN Staff Writer heard of being a dollar short and a day late? The Roanoke County School Board heard Thursday night it is $300000 short and will be a year late But the board told the architects de signing the addition to the Roanoke County Education Center to proceed although the board will have to ask the Circuit Court for another $300000 from school bond money I Crutchlow supervisor of construc tion told the board that delays so far al ready have pushed the opening date of the new vocational education wing to August of 1979 instead of next year The real bad news' came from the ar chitects however They said the 36 992 square foot addition to the vocational school will cost $1617910 This is $300000 more than earlier estimates by the schooladministration The main concern seemed to be whether the board wants to heat the new building with oil or coal not the extra cost of the building Oliver Stein and Dave Hammdnd of Hayes Seay Mattern and Mattern said they favored oil because the equipment is cheap er easier to maintain and operate and cleaner Coal however is cheaper than oil to buy Board members especially Thomas isher said they leaned toward coal be cause of President urge to use more coal to fight the energy crisis Stein mentioned that the bottom line was $300000 over the budget and Supt Ar nold Burton said noticed that Where do you expect to get After considerable discussion about oil versus coal Burton said not the problem The problem is we don't have enough The board decided to ask the Roanoke County Circuit Court for more money from the bond funds These funds were intended to build certain schools but annexation ended those plans The court must give per mission to use bond issue money for anoth er capital purpose The $6 million fund is now down to $4 million said Bayes Wilson school finance director On a motion by isher the board voted 3 0 to proceed with the building plans using oil heat with the understanding that it can be converted to coal if oil and gas become unavailable The present building is heated by gas or oil and was forced to close for a period last winter by the Roanoke Gas Co when gas supplies were short Before the vote however isher advo cated coal fired boilers for the new build re mW A OiSSag OSO ishermen Keeping Cool William Casey (left) Kurt Jones (holding fishing pole) Lee Harris and Todd Lef twich (in tree) and Mike Leftwich (in wa Staff Photo by Bob Phillips ter) enjoy a fishing outing on Tinker Creek Mike keeps cool and he holds aloft the catch for the day Domestic uss Man Held in Slaying of 2 By CHUCK BURRESS Nw Rlvr Buru CHRISTIANSBURG A Pilot man allegedly killed his wife in a parking lot and minutes later an acquaintance at a fast food restaurant here Thursday Simon Jackson Cox was charged with murdering his estranged wife Martha Mus sleman Cox 39 of Christiansburg and Cal vin ranklin Thomas 42 of Montgomery County Cox also was charged with two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony Bail for Cox was set at $100000 The first shooting occurred in the park ing lot of tire center 1270 Roa noke St after the couple had argued loudly for about five minutes An eyewitness said Cox and his wife were driving separate cars and it appeared that they had ended their argument and were about to leave when Cox suddenly turned and charged his car Just as she closed the door Cox reached in through the window and grabbed her by the arm Police say he shot her in the chest with a 22 caliber pistol Then according to a witness as Mrs car rolled backward her husband ran beside the car and fired three more shots into her upper torso The car rammed a parked trailer that collided with a metal storage building A witness said that Cox appeared to be in no hurry to leave and drove off as if nothing had happened Police believe the second slaying resulted from a chance meeting between Cox and Thomas Cox drove slightly more than a mile along Roanoke Street from the scene of the first shooting into downtown Christians burg where he met a car operated by Thomas according to police Both cars then turned into the parking lot of Har As Thomas stepped out of his car Cox said nothing then raised a 30 30 rifle and fired two shots police said Thomas died 15 minutes later at Mont gomery County Hospital of a bullet wound in the chest Christiansburg Police Sgt Hein line said son recently discharged from the Marine Corps had been a passen ger in his car and watched as his father was shot The son and Cox wrestled for control of the rifle before the younger Thomas took it away from the assailant and apparently struck him in the head with the butt of the weapon a policeman said Cox fled behind Hardee's on foot for several blocks before Heinline caught up with him behind a residence on Pepper Street and placed him under arrest Hein line said Cox offered no resistance but son had to be restrained by Chief Deputy Louis Barber of the Montgomery County Department Police have given no motive for the incidents which police say occurred about seven minutes apart Christiansburg Police Chief Alvin Hale said the men were ac quaintances and that he has a theory of what sparked the argument but would not elaborate A former neighbor of the Coxes said the couple had been separated for some time A witness who overheard parts of the original argument said that Mrs Cox taunt ed her husband during the quarrel saying have a gun on the front seat why you go ahead and use Cox recently moved from Christians burg to the Pilot section in rural Montgom ery County according to former neighbors who said they barely knew the Coxes when they lived in Christiansburg His last known job was as a sawmill worker ing you're going to go with this new en ergy policy (proposed by President Carter) there are certain inconveniences you have to put up he said After authorizing further plans for the educational center the board voted to change the names of two county vocational facilities The educational center is now the Roa noke County Vocational Technical School The prevocational school moving from Wil liam Byrd Junior High to Southview Ele mentary will be called the Southview Vocational School The name of the Roanoke County Oc cupational School for handicapped students remains the same In other business the board: Denied the parents of 14 handi capped 3 and 4 year old children school bus transportation to special classes at Mountain View Elementary School Two buses needed would cost more than $10000 a year to operate Sthool officials said In stead the parents will continue to provide their own transportation and be reim bursed up to $420 by the county and state Delayed action on a request for tui tion assistance from the parents of a child attending a private school for learning dis abled A special evaluating committee rec ommended tuition but the school administration recommended against it Board members said they want more infor mation Heard that 554 junior and senior high students repeated courses in summer school and 334 took new courses Thirty eight quit and about 150 will get diplomas Set tuition for state residents who live in the county at $621 the local cost of educating a pupil in the county Tui tion for non Virginia residents will be $1 265 Pack Roanoke Board To Meet in Blacksburg The future of Roanoke City schools and what the school board will expect of Supt Don Pack next year will be discussed at a special meeting of the board with Pack this weekend at a Blacksburg motel The meeting which board Chairman Lewis Nelson says is a workshop study ses sion will be held at the Sheraton Red Lion Inn near Virginia Tech Nelson said some of the discussions will be open to the public under Virginia's reedom of Information Act but discus sions of the goals and expectations for expected to be on will be closed Under the reedom of Information Act discussions of personnel real estate and legal matters can be closed to the pub lic Rooms meals and mileage (about 80 miles round trip) for the seven board mem bers and the superintendent will be paid from the school budget Board members and Pack plan to have lunch at the Sheraton at noon Saturday and meet from 1 to about 5:30 pm The meet ing will resume at 9 am Sunday and end about 5:30 pm Rooms at the Sheraton range from $18 to $25 Nelson said he arranged to have the meeting away from Roanoke so board members and Pack can be more relaxed and informal away from their offices and homes No other school administrators will attend Nelson said he called the workshop study session in Blacksburg because he and other board members feel that goals and di rections for the school system and the su perintendent have to be discussed The board will take no official it won't vote on over the week end Nelson said The board has been in somewhat of a conflict for more than a year since Joe In gram and Max Berman were appointed to the board Ingram an outspoken critic of the ad ministration and Berman usually are on the short end of 5 2 votes Ingram often is in conflict with Pack at board meetings One purpose of the weekend according to one source is to resolve the conflicts between Pack and some members of the board Measles Shots Required Before Pupils Enrolled rom Staff and Wlra Report! Children who have not had measles immunizations will not be allowed to enroll in first grade or kindergarten this fall the State Department of Education said Thurs day Some Roanoke area children have been allowed in the past to attend school up to six weeks without their immunizations while others have been kept out of school until they got them Some superintendents even without the official state directive are tightening enforcement of the 1972 law which re quires every child entering public private or parochial school for the first time to be immunized for measles rubella and a vari ety of other diseases This year 2634 cases of red measles have been reported in the state compared with 742 in the same period last year ac cording to Dr Grayson Miller director of the State Bureau of Epidemiology The only exceptions to the law are those with religious beliefs forbidding ino culations or medical reasons Among the divisions planning stricter enforcement are: Roanoke last year gave students six weeks to get immunizations Walter Hunt assistant superintendent for instruction said year they must have it before school starts or within 10 days after school begins If not they come to Hunt said elementary principals were told that in a May 18 memo and were to let par ents know Roanoke County allow chil dren to enter without immunizations this year according to Bobbie Jackson school health coordinator Miss Jackson said the requirement enforced so vigorously before She said children must have im muinizations or proof of a doctor's appoint ment Botetourt County has had very few problems in the past but is according to Supt Obenshain In Bedford County Supt Robert Parlier said will send out flyers when school begins give parents a warning and 10 days to get it then just have to take children out of school one of the meanies We got into this two years ago and once (taking children out of school) was done once or twice we have any problem It Bureau of epidemiology Director Mil ler said Thursday the problem with measles is because one death in every 10000 cases is likely and one case of ence phalitis in every 1000 cases of measles is probable At the start of the last school year 84 per cent of the new students were immu nized a 4 per cent increase over the pre vious year Crime Complaints The following is a list of citizen com plaints of thefts and burglaries reported during the 24 hour period ending at 8 am today as provided by the Roanoke City Po lice Department: 1500 DlocK 10th Street NW Arco Gas Station $75 stolen 3200 block Christian Avenue NE Counts revol ver and heating pad stolen valued at $153 2600 block Creston Avenue SW Benson porch furniture stolen valued at $149 2400 block King Street Leonard Gibson tool box and tools stolen valued at $105 1900 block Orange Avenue NE John Gray tools stolen valued at $453 Hollins Road NE Randy Stump wheel and tires stolen valued at $107 900 block Industrial Avenue John Ross Murray miscellaneous articles and brief case stolen valued at $110 Still at Top Tour Reports Show Elvis By GUY STERLING Staff Writer While plenty of tickets remain for Elvis Roa noke concert Aug 24 sales along the rest of the singer's upcoming tour indicate premature to say his popularity is ebbing Tom Ulett who promotes Elvis appearances for Concerts West out of Belleview Wash said Thursday that only two dates out of 10 East Coast shows set to begin next week are not yet sellouts He said he expects they will be by performance night Ulett said Presley will appear in Roanoke regardless of the ticket situation in the next two weeks He said there is no truth to a report that Presley will not return to a city where his concerts do not sell out The coming tour starts Aug 18 in Portland Maine and ends Aug 28 in Memphis Presley's hometown Tickets are still available in Syracuse NY Aug 20 and Hartford Conn Aug 21 Dates are also scheduled for Utica NY Aug 19 Uniondale NY Aug 22 Lexington Ky Aug 23 ayette ville NC Aug 25 and Asheville NG Aug 26 A spokeswoman in the administrative office of the Syr acuse War Memorial said 1000 out of 8200 tickets offered for the Presley show remain Elvis last appeared in the upstate New York city a year ago July she said Two shows were sellouts The spokeswoman said the Utica concert is drawing people who would normally attend a Syracuse perfor mance The two cities are 40 miles apart About two thousand tickets are still available in Hart ford where Presley appeared as recently as last fall A Hartford Civic Center spokeswoman said the relative proximity of the shows could be the reason for the slower ticket sales this time around The Hartford arena seats 12000 In contrast is the Uniondale NY date or the fifth time in as many concerts Elvis has sold out the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 16734 tickets worth It is the largest crowd he will see on this tour A' coliseum spokesman said fans waited overnight for the box office to open much the way they had in Roanoke Seats went on sale July 25 and were gone in less than two weeks Also in contrast is the Mid South Coliseum in Mem phis where the Aug 27 concert sold out so fast that an additional concert was arranged the following night Tickets were sold by mail only Edward Bland manager of the auditorium said some tickets remain for the second show but that be gone in a day or so He said Presley usually plays his hometown once a year The last two years Bland added he has ended up tours in the western Tennessee city Bland remembered a time four years ago when Presley sold out five shows in four days in Memphis amazing that been a top box office attraction for the past 24 Bland said other performer I can think of can boast of a similar track About 2000 tickets remain at the Roanoke Civic Cen ter according to manager Bob Chapman He said the box office has been selling 100 per day now after the initial rush for seats He said ticket sales for all top performers routinely pick up the week of the show and that the Presley concert should be no exception Tickets for Presley concerts' the entire tour are uni formly priced: $15 $1250 and $10 Hollins Moose Lodge DANCE Every riday 9:30 1:30 THE WORKING MEN Phone 992 9445 MOOSE MEMBERS ONLY NEAT DRESS Kings Inn 324 Salem Ave Tonight thru Sunday DAZZLE Coming Tuas Aug 16 MOTHER'S INEST AUG 23 RAZZMATAZZ.