The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 14

8 2 Boanoke Times World News Thursday September 6 1979 Hospital adds helicopter pad A helicopter pad that can be used in the emergency transport of patients will be dedicated at Lewis Gale Hospital Sat urday The area which is near the hospital's emergency room is lighted has a wind sock and is marked with a large At a 2 pm meeting in the cafeteria Dr John Garvin head of the Western Virginia Emergency Medical Service Council will discuss potential use of helicopters in rescue in the area The' EMS has no helicopters but pri vate craft are sometimes used in rescue work Tom Larson of Bell Helicopter Co will show slides on helicopter rescue At 3 pm there will be a demonstra tion of helicopter landing on the pad Apco defers study on $3 billion nuclear facility lends millions to help business But we lend even more money to help peopleJike you Call us today and find a way to help looked at locations near Eagle Rock in Bo tetourt County near Buck Mountain in Am herst County and at the Charlotte Halifax county line No site had been selected Since a nuclear plant requires water ties us into the Roanoke James and Dan The complex screening of 10000 square 'miles of central and Western Virginia in volved aerial reconnaissance in depth map studies preliminary geological studies and an evaluation of the engineering environ mental and sociological impact of a nuclear plant This be valuable when and if we decide to reactivate the Vaugh an said Developments and changing conditions may alter the value of a site site that is good today will not necessarily be good to he said Who Can You Can or $2 JOO? Call us got the money you need to do all those things been dreaming about Every day Commercial Credit COMMERCIAL CREDIT a financial service of CONTROL data corporation 1 1 Kirk Avenue SW 342 3418 Credit Life Insurance Available to Eligible Borrowers By GEORGE KEGLEY Busintit Editor Because of uncertainties about nuclear power Appalachian Power Co has decided to defer but not abandon a feasibility study that could have led to a $3 billion tiudear power plant in Virginia In the aftermath of the Three Mile Is land nuclear accident in March new design and operational requirements are expected to be required for nuclear facilities John Vaughan Apco executive vice president said at a news conference in Roanoke Wednesday Sites for a nuclear plant have been ex piored in the watershed of the Roanoke? James and Dan rivers he said Vaughan listed problems that led to deferral of the nuclear project studies: Questions about licensing of plants by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission The possibility of restrictive legisla tion by Congress Lack of a congressional decision on selecting a procedure for disposal of nu clear waste Recent developments in the nuclear industry particularly the Three Mile Island incident and the requirements that will fol low "I'm very surprised and very glad" to hear the news of deferral said Deborah Wyatt a Charlottesville lawyer who heads Safe Alternatives for Nuclear Energy a group opposing Apco's study The oppo nents said a nuclear plant would not be economical Ms Wyatt said her organization has been in a holding pattern since it learned Apco has had little contact with the Nu clear Regulatory Commission since March when the Three Mile Island incident oc curred She said she had a hard time believing Apco would go ahead with a nuclear plant but see so many irrational practices in the world today" Vaughan said a decision whether to reactivate a feasibility study for a nuclear plant probably will be made in less than five years Apco and its parent American Electric Power System well have electricity generation mapped out for the next 10 years" But a decision on constructing oth er coal fired plants after 1988 will have to be made soon Apco's 13 million kilowatt Mountai neer plant in West Virginia is scheduled to begin operation next year A Rockport Ind plant with two 13 million kilowatt units will be opened by the sister Indiana Michigan Power Co in 1984 and another plant with two 13 million kilowatt units is to be built in Lewis County Ky by 1988 All will be coal fired Vaughan said Apco still awaits word from the ederal Energy Regulatory Com mission on its application for a preliminary permit to study a hydroelectric pumped storage project at Brumley Gapin Washing ton County The feasibility study costing $3 mil lion has been under way for about a year It was to have taken four years The utility started looking at a site on the Tye River in Nelson County but also Virginia Briefs Philpott urges cooperation in combating arson in state Virginia millionaires numbered at 6769 NEW YORK (AP) Keeping up with the Joneses in Virginia is getting harder all the time A New York investment banking concern reports that there are 6769 Virginia residents with a net worth of $1 million or more That's about 15 percent more than last year and twice as many as found in Washington DC and Maryland combined The figures supplied by the US Trust Corp mean there is about one millionaire for every 1000 residents in the Old Dominion surprise me one bit" said Paul Edwards spokesman for Gov John Dalton on Wednesday folks in Maryland and Washington aren't doing as well as we are" The Virginia government must be given some of the credit for the increasing number of millionaires in the state Virginia officials note that the state attracts many wealthy people because it has a fairly moderate income tax eliminated inheritance taxes and created a traditional political and economic climate that is attractive to retired persons Teen ager given life sentence CHATHAM (AP) A jury has convicted Thomas Lee Crute 18 of capital murder in the Easter Sunday robbery slaying of a Danville cab driver and sentenced him to life in prison The Pittsylvania County Circuit Court jury of six men and six women which had convicted Crute on Tuesday de liberated 35 minutes before setting his punishment after a Wednesday sentencing hearing Under capital murder law Crute could have received the death penalty for the robbery and fatal shoot ing of Johnny Owens 21 on April 15 Man faces fourth trial Shenandoah Bureau BUENA VISTA After two hung juries and a reversal by the Virginia Supreme Court William Newcomer will face a fourth trial on charges that he murdered another man three years ago Circuit Court Judge Rudolph Bumgardner 111 has con tacted Newcomer's attorneys to attempt to set a date tor the trial near the end of October but nothing is final ac cording to one of the attorneys Bumgardner could not be reached for comment Newcomer is accused of shooting Vernon Staton after an argument and after Staton beat him The three previous trials focused 6n whether Newcomer knew what he was doing and whether his actions constituted self defense Pupils unhurt in bus wreck Southwest Bureau CHILHOWIE Children on their way to Riverside El ementary School escaped serious injury when their bus and a car collided near here early Wednesday but the car's driver was hospitalizsd Vickie Reeves about 18 was taken to Smyth County Community Hospital with possible knee and wrist fractures arid cuts requiring more than 200 stitches Two of the children in the bus driven bv George Call were checked at the hospital and released The accident occurred after the bus had crossed the South ork of the Holston River bridge on Virginia 604 Another bus was dis patched to take the pupils to their school Mayor admits violation VIRGINIA BEACH (AP) Virginia Beach Mayor Pat rick Standing has admitted violating city zoning restrictions by leasing more apartment units than the law allows Standing a former city planning director said he will ask the Planning Commission to rezone the Lakewood West apartment complex so it conforms to its current usage The zoning violation centers on two units in a one story building originally designed for office and storage use Standing was told in 1977 by city building inspector Robert Loher to stop leasing the two additional units since such leasing brought the total units to 26 and violated the allowed 24 unit limit told him to stop and he Loher said ap parently he started using them again Valley wins safety awards The Roanoke Valley received a number of awards for pedestrian safety at a ceremony in Richmond Wednesday ormer Virginia Gov Mills Godwin presented special pedestrian safety awards from the state Department of Transportation to Roanoke County and Norfolk Roanoke County also won a special American Automobile Associa tion citation for improved safety programs Vinton received the AAA award of excellence for its programs and accident record as did Blacksburg and Vir ginia Beach Roanoke and Salem won awards of merit for pedestri an safety as did Wytheville Marion Richmond and Chesa peake Special citations went to a number of localities includ ing Rocky Mount Clifton orge Buena Vista and Martins ville John Clarke division manager for the AAA in Roa noke said the awards were based on an inventory of pro grams and accident records from last year Specific findings from the inventory including both praise and criti cism of the local programs will be discussed with law en forcement officials within the next few weeks he said By ROLAND KIDWELL Stiff Wrlttr House Majority Leader A Philpott today urged that localities cooperate in fighting arson which has increased dramatically in the Roanoke area and Virginia causing ris ing insurance premiums and other increased costs to tax payers Philpott and other speakers at an arson awareness seminar in Roanoke County said arson prevention special ists should be trained by localities to spot fires that are set and to increase prosecution of arsonists Philpott vice chairman of the state Crime Commis sion which sponsored the seminar said smaller volunteer departments could be assisted by larger jurisdictions that have trained arson investigators me arson is one of the major crime problems in Philpott told a gathering of about 200 firefigh ters police officers and insurance company representa tives Philpott a Henry County Democrat said he hoped the one day seminar designed to educate firefighters and in vestigators in spotting arson will increase cooperation be tween insurance companies law enforcement personnel and firefighters Robert Wetherington head of the arson investiga tion unit of the Virginia State Police said the new BI crime reporting system classifying arson as a major crime has assisted in more arsons being investigated by authori ties Wetherington said 1415 arsons were reported in Vir ginia during the first six months of 197? Of those 247 ei ther resulted in an arrest or were otherwise solved through an investigation The 1415 reported arsons did $75 million in damage Wetherington said Of the 247 cases cleared juveniles were involved in 142 Philpott conceded that more arsons are committed through acts of vandalism rather than arson for profit mo tives but he said the fraud perpetrated by dishonest busi nessmen and citizens costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year The thrust of the seminar was arson for profit rings A film instructed firefighters and investigators how to spot possible arsons It advised insurance adjusters to check out the fire claim file to see if insurance was recently purchased on the destroyed property or if the amount of coverage had recently been raised Wetherington said there are still many arsons that are classified as fires of unknown origin He said arson is difficult to investigate because it's only crime that consumes its own Philpott said that in his years as commonwealth's at torney in Henry County he never received a conviction in an arson case that was not accompanied by a confession Eugene Dailey Winchester fire chief said regional cooperation in his area has resulted in a dramatic decrease in arson ire department personnel were sent to a training school and upon their return arson prosecutions increased substantially in the northern Shenandoah VaUey city and surrounding counties toads in Winchester give second thoughts to light ing a fire there he said Wyatt an agent with the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute said a central computer bank that lists the arson history of every fire loss victim in the coun try would greatly benefit investigators Such a system is in the works he said irefighters from Roanoke Roanoke County Salem Bristol Martinsville Radford and Blacksburg were among those represented at the seminar Lewis Hurst Crime Commission executive director said six arson programs have been or will be held around the state looding rom Page Nelson County was the hardest hit by Camille in 1969 so residents there were prepared Wednesday About 65 per sons were evacuated from different areas as a precaution One small bridge washed out and property damage is slight Harris said About 30 persons were evacuated in Amherst County when the Piney River went over its banks but many re turned home around 10:30 pm when the rain let up In Augusta County several residents in the Dooms area were evacuated and 25 roads were closed The Waynesboro Department of Social Services relocated 28 persons in the city and several roads were blocked by wa ters No water reached the downtown retail area Waynesboro City Manager Charles Yancey was told by the weather service that Waynesboro might bear the brunt oi the weather with three storms threatening the area was calling us 1 wasn calling him" said Yancey "The river got up over seven feet which is not flood stage but it was rising so rapidly That's why we told people what we did" But Holloway was making his own decisions When he saw that Meadowbrook Road four miles upstream was flooding and the rain was still pouring he started moving With the help of volunteers and the ishbume Military School football team he moved 200 cars in a little more than an hour can't wait but so long" said Holloway the fastest I've ever seen the river come At Corner Hardware McGann started his third move since the 1972 flood He takes no chances since he saw the 1972 deluge blow covers off sewers and batter down a steel door he had erected to protect his business This morning employees and volunteers worked to bring items down from top shelves and to unload trash cans lull of nuts and bolts ones who have been through it before like clean ing up this morning just a little dust instead of all that mud" said McGann pointing to the people working Both McGann and Holloway were complimentary of the local residents and city officials city officials for giv ing ample warning of what could have happened and resi dents for volunteering help woman that just asked if 1 needed any help she's the wife of a local doctor" said McGann "That boy over there came in at 5 pm and offered his services They all turn out It's the community that keeps us in business" Neither McGann nor Holloway not the only business men who prepared for a possible flood regretted the time and energy spent in preparation They remember the two earlier floods Channel 27 rom Page The only asset left by WRLU is the license to broad cast which must be reactivated Two other groups have expressed an interest in operat ing the station Llewellyn ischer of Roanoke Christian Broadcasting said his organization is still working on the complex appli cation He said the situation for the application looks en couraging but the finances have not been straightened out ischer's group has sent out letters for support and funds to apply for the license estimating it would take about $15 million to get on the air It plans religious and family programming Glenn Robertson of Mobile Video Produc tions which tapes sports and religious productions could not be reached He said a few weeks ago that he was mak ing the required site and facilities surveys toward a license application but progress was slow Hunton squad to talk with city about future By JOANNE POINDEXTER Stall Writr Members of the Hunton Lifesaving and irst Aid Crew will meet with Roanoke officials this week to discuss the crew's future Board members Wednesday night adopted two courses of action for the crew Walter Wheaton chairman of the board of directors said He would not discuss the plans Last week and Robert Lee crew captain confirmed that members had discussed temporarily closing because of dwindling membership mechanical failure of crew vehicles and a police investigation into the possible misuse of squad funds Wheaton said after Wednesday's board meeting that suspending operations for 60 to 90 days was discussed but that it was not one of the two plans unanimously approved by 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