The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 16

B4 Roncfc Timea ft Wortd News Wedrwtdty Oct 23 1985 I DEATHS UNERALS Roanoke Valley Eileen Weddle Arrington (Mrs Clarence Edward) 65 of Salem died today Arrangements by John Oakey ft Son uneral Home Sa lem uneral for Thelma Mae Bar ton who died Tuesday will be Thursday al 3 pm Lou Salem Chapel uneral for Olander Jessie "Buck" Brooks who died Tuesday will be Thursday at 1 pzn Lotz Sa lem Chapel Memorial service for Edwin rank aus who died Monday will be Thursday at 7:30 pm Salem Presbyterian Church uneral for John "Jack" Jackson who died Sunday will be Thursday at 3 pm Oakey Roa noke Chapel Roy Gregory Neighbors 70 5300 Hawthorne Road NW died Tuesday Graveside service Thurs day at 1 pm Mountain View Ceme tery Arrangements by Oakey's Vinton Chapel Ruth Nichelson Zeigler (Mrs Joe EL) 708 Sterling Road SW died today Arrangements by Roanoke Chapel New River Valley RADORD Mamie Moore Hedge (Mrs Oren D) 77 died Tues day Graveside service Thursday at 11 am Mountain View Cemetery Arrangements by Devilbiss uneral Home SHAWSVILLE Ellie Arlene Burke 72 died Monday Graveside service Thursday at 11 a Rose lawn Memorial Gardens Christians burg Arrangements by Richardson Horne uneral Home Christians burg State ROCKY MOUNT Polly Patterson 73 died Tuesday Ar rangements by Stanfield Mortuary Service Out of state GREENSBORO NC Curtis Warren Walker 35 formerly of Roanoke Va died Sunday uneral was today 1 1 OBITUARIES BARTON THELMA Mrs Thelma Mae Barton age 76 of 1428 Brushy Mountain Drive Salem died Tuesday in a Roanoke hospital She is survived by her hus band Charles Barton and one sis ter Mrs Evelyn lint Roanoke uneral services will be held Thurs day October 24 at 3:00 pm at the Lotz Salem Chapel with the Rev rank eather officiating Inter ment will be in airview Cemetery riends may call at Lotz Salem Chapel BROOKS OLANDER Olander Jessie (Buck) Brooks age 81 of 2547 Sharmar Road Southwest and formerly of 2822 Neal Drive Northwest died Tues day at the VA Medical Center in Salem He was a member of the Melrose Christian Church and was retired from the VA Medical Cen ter in Salem He was preceeded in death by his wife Mrs Nellie St Clair Brooks He is survived by five sisters Mrs Edna Hutchinson of Glade Hill Va Miss Sylvia Brooks of Blackstone Va Mrs Gladys Nance of Salem Mrs Thelma Clingenpeel of Poages Mill Mrs Pauline McGeorge of Roanoke a number of nieces and nephews neral services will be held Thurs day October 24 at 1:00 pm at the Lotz Salem Chapel with Dr Joe Lindsoe officiating Interment will be in Sherwood Memorials may be made to the Melrose Christian Church riends may call at Lotz Salem Chapel AUS EDWIN Mr Edwin rank aus age 59 of 645 Yorkshire St Salem died Monday in a local hospital He is survived by his wife Mrs Mildred aus two sons Joseph aus at home Edwin aus Jr of Matar ie La one daughter Mrs Nancy aus McCardell Conowingo Md Also surviving are five grandchil dren Memorial service will be con ducted at 7:30 pm Thursday at the Salem Presbyterian Church by the Dr Wilfred Webb Jr In lieu of flowers the family suggests memo rials be made to the Salem Rescue Squad Salem Presbyterian Church or the American Cancer Society The family will receive friends from 7 9 pm Wedesday at the John Oakey uneral Home Salem JACKSON JOHN John (Jack) Jackson age 88 of 2618 airfield Drive NEL died Open An Account By Phone! Another Service oflumenaus tyooe LORISTS 989 3379 3211 ftwHelwi IW New Lynchburg TV station to go on air in December OBITUARIES Sunday in a local hospital He was a retired employee of the NftW Rail way Mr Jackson was preceded in death by his wife Ruby Ward Jack son and a daughter Patsy Ann May Surviving are two sons Carroll (Buck) Jackson Panama City Robert (Bob) Jackson Warrens burg Mo two daughters Betty Lou Thomas Ruby Maxine Wade both of Roanoke fourteen grandchildren twenty three great grandchildren close friend Sidney Snead In lieu of flowers the family requests that me morials be made to a favorite chari ty Services will be 3:00 pm Thursday at Oakey's Roanoke Chap el with the Pastor Woody Turner officiating Interment will follow in air View Cemetery riends may call at Roanoke Chapel JONES NETTIES Mrs Nettie Jones of 904 14th Street NW died riday She is survived by one niece Mrs Nettie Sampson Chesapeake four neph ews Pious Samuel Bernard Sam uel both of Roanoke Earlis Samuel Nathaniel Samuel both of Spartins burg SC and other relatives Ser vice will be Thursday at 2:00 pm at Price Memorial AME Church The Rev Jackson will officiate with burial in Williams Memorial Park The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 800 pm Wednesday at Hamlar Curtis neral Home KANODE ROBERT Robert Luther Kanode age 87 of Route 8 Roanoke died Tuesday morning in a local hospital He was a retired building superintendent with Lewis Lionberger Company and a member of Rockingham Court United Methodist Church Surviving are his wife Mrs Doris Prillaman nanoue aaugnter Nancy Kanode Vinton son and daughter in law Dennis and Wanda Kanode Bedford three grandchildren Wil liam (Billy) Kanode Tammy Kanode and Lorrie Lee Kanode a sister Mrs Mattie Reel Bristol Tenn a brother Kanode Goodview uneral services will be conducted from the Rockingham Court United Methodist Church 2:30 pm Thursday October 24 1985 with the Rev Reginald Rumberg officiating Burial will be in Sher wood Memorial Park riends may call at Vinton Chapel NEIGHBORS ROY Roy Gregory Neighbors age 70 of 5300 Hawthorne Road NW Ro anoke formerly of Vinton died Tuesday at his home He was a re tired employee of Roanoke Iron and Bridge Works and was a member of the Vinton Baptist Church Surviv ing are a son and daughter in law Roy (Sonny) and Delours Neighbors Roanoke daughter and son in law Carolyn and David (Chappy) Gibson Vinton grand daughter Pamela Neighbors one brother Raymond Neighbors Roanoke two sisters Mrs Virginia Thomason Vinton and Mrs Ruby Lee Kansas Graveside services will be conducted at 1:00 pm Thursday October 24 1985 at Mountain View Cemetery with the Rev William Hungate officiat ing riends may call at Oakey's Vinton Chapel WEST ALLEN Mr Allen West of 1208 Rug by Blvd NW died Monday in a local hospital Survivors are a foster daughter Mrs Helen Nelson Brown Roanoke step son Dr William Preston Columbus Ohio two nieces Mrs Thelma Shell Washing ton Mrs Gwendolyn Rogers Roanoke one nephew William Johnson Roanoke grandchildren great nieces nephews and other rel atives Hamlar Curtis is in charge of arrangments By TERENCE SAMUEL Staff writer BEDORD Movie lovers in central and Southwest Virginia are in line for a treat this Christmas when a new television station is planning to begin programming in the area The new UH station WJPR will operate on Channel 21 and will be owned by Carney Communica tions of Virginia Tom Eaton executive vice president in charge of operations said Tuesday that the mainstay of the new station will be movies He said features from MGM MCA and Paramount will be aired and the station plans to have feature weeks during which movies of John Wayne for example will be shown for an entire week The Lynchburg based station will cover much the same area as the other television stations in the market Channels 7 10 and 13 Ea ton said He said the station also will ftrovide programming on state and ocal affairs and some syndicated shows such as Carol Burnett Show" It plans to present some news Associated Press JAMESTOWN The recon structed 17th century ship Godspeed docked at Jamestown today ending a nearly six month Atlantic crossing beset by costly delays ill winds the threat of hurricanes and a sandbar Tm glad to be said Robert Woollard one of three crew men who made the entire voyage from England to Virginia A crowd of more than 200 peo ple cheered and clapped when the 68 foot wooden square rigger was towed to the dock at Jamestown rom Page Bl This year the value for each of the classifications has been in creased and the new tax as sessor John Willey is using an average value to apply across the board to all farmland The average will be used until the county com pletes its soil maps which could take up to four years Willey said Monday that farm land in Roanoke County is being as sessed more fairly now than in recent years A problem in the past was that assessors were guessing at the type of soil on a farm he said Willey said the 550 figure being used is an average value set by the state based on crop yields market prices transportation and seed costs labor costs and tax rates in the county But Gobble told the arm Bu reau Tuesday night that the 3550 per acre figure is based on a guess about the land value made years ago That guess took into ac count the soil in Roanoke City and Salem which is better than much of the county soil he said and weather in the future he said but it will get into that slowly "There is a lot of news here already so we tie ourselves down with that before getting sorted" The Bedford County Board of Supervisors Tuesday granted the company permission to build its transmission tower on Thaxton Mountain west of the dty of Bed ford The 1000 foot tower will be just one half mile away from the transmission tower for WSETT Chan nel 13 also based in Lynchburg Cecil Taylor a Carney spokesman said the towers will not interfere with each other because one will be UH and the other is VH The ederal Aviation Adminis tration has said the tower will create no problems for air traffic The station also has received ap proval from the ederal Communi cations Commission Carney operates independent stations in Pensacola la and Mo bile Ala ELiton said it will be three or four weeks before the tower is com plete and he hopes to begin pro gramming in December want to give the area a Christmas he Mid estival Park completing its re en actment of the 1607 voyage that brought the first permanent English settlers to the New World The boat ran aground on a sandbar in the James River a few hundred yards from the dock but was pulled off by a private power boat about 15 minutes later The crew broke out beer and champagne and praised the seawor thiness of the Godspeed "The boat handled well You ask for a better said Neil Tanner the radio operator and a second original crewmen averages are so far off that we should not accept them in Roanoke Gobble said The land should be assessed on a farm to farm basis to be fair he said But Willey said today that to the best of his knowledge no guess work went into computing the aver age farmland value for Roanoke County The State Land Evaluation Advisory Committee publishes a recommended average for each county in the state based on infor mation on farm income he id Willey said the only challenge that has ever been made to the state figures was the one he made in Roa noke County Willey said he has done every thing humanly possible to find a way to reduce the average He said he is trying to operate the land use pro gram within the legal limits set by the state and to meet his responsi bilities to other property owners in the county He said if he could find a good legal and rational way to re duce the value placed on farmland he would do it program at this point of time is operating on a factual basis Blood count Components shipped to area hos pitals 300 units drawn 391 Type needed: posiUve Hollins candidates will debate tonight The two candidates for the Hol lins seat on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors Republican Mickey White and Democrat Bob Johnson will debate tonight at Northside High School Sponsored by the North Lakes and La Belle View civic leagues the debate will begin at 730 Lawyer Charles Osterboudt will be the mod erator The candidates will make open ing and closing statements and re spond to questions from the audience White a former state trooper who works for Eli Lilly Co was on the Board of Supervisors in 1981 Johnson a lobbyist for county schoolteachers is chairman of the county Planning Commission Enginetroubled copter lands safely at airport A Navy helicopter carrying seven people touched down safely at Roanoke's Woodrum ield this morning after developing trouble in one of its two engines Woodrum ield got a radio call from the Norfolk based Sea Stallion helicopter about 10 am Wayne Robertson assistant manager for the airport said One of the helicop engines was revving too fast so the pilot shut the engine off and asked for a landing clearance Rob ertson said The helicopter is designed so it can operate on one engine and it landed safely about 10 minutes after the first call Robertson said We cannot dispute this average" Willey said About 1200 parcels or 35 per cent of those in the county are as sessed under the land use program rather than by true market value Of those 1200 approximately 800 par cels are farmland igures on the exact acreage involved were not im mediately available Rockingham and Roanoke counties have the highest valued farmland in the state and Roanoke farmland is assessed at double the value of adjacent coun ties Gobble said Gobble said he would have to take some of the responsibility for more farmers not complaining about the new assessment "I was convinced by the tax assessor there was going to be a he said While it have time to con sider the complaints the Tax Equal iziation Board did send tax assessor Willey a letter recommending a re duction in the average value being placed on farmland to 420 an acre The recommendation was rejected by Willey after he talked with state officials according to Commission er of Revenue Wayne Compton ajgett Godspeed ends six month trip Complaints Police seek suspect in shooting spree that wounded two Roanoke police are looking for a min who they said waited forhis ex girlfriend to return to her home and then shot and wounded two men outside the residence early this morning Lonnie Murphy 25 of the 1400 block of Chapman Avenue was shot in the head and Stoney Roop 20 of Route 7 Salem was hit in the rear of his left leg about 210 in the 1500 block of Chapman Avenue Southwest police said Both men were treated at Roa noke Memorial Hospital and re leased head wound was superficial a hospital spokeswoman said No information was released about wounds Roanoke police have warrants for the assailant who was described as being in his mid 30s but they would not release his name The warrants charged him with two counts of malicious wounding a count of shooting into an occupied vehicle a count of shooting into an occupied dwelling and four counts of use of a firearm in a felony The former girlfriend Crystal Lynn Davis 28 of the 1500 block of Chapman Avenue Belinda Roop and Murphy pulled their car into back yard about 2:10 am and noticed the suspect stand ing in the yard The man fired one shot from a shotgun and hit the left headlight of the car police said As Murphy left the car the sus pect fired another shot hitting him in the head police said Murphy kept running After the first two shots Stoney Roop who was in the house came out to see what was happening The man with the shotgun fired a third shot hitting Roop in the back of his left leg police said Meanwhile Davis and Belinda Roop left the car ran into the house and slammed the door The suspect fired another shot shattering the glass in the door and then left the scene police said If Willey could have legally re duced the value of the land it would have meant a drop in the assessed value of the farmland from582 million to 14424 million The actual drop in tax revenue to the county would have been approxi mately 3160000 The equalization board had the power to either increase or decrease the assessed value of farmland but had to do it farm by farm Compton said Walter and Virginia Henry said their 23 acres at Poages Mill even get the agricultural rate and was assessed at 322000 this year would have been satisfied with be tween 3400 and 3500 per Vir ginia Henry said However Willey said the Hen rys are getting tax relief through the land use program If their prop: erty were assessed at the its fair market value they would be paying taxes on 376000 he said The arm Bureau passed a res olution asking the Board of Supervi sors to set up a fair way of placing values on farmland based on their soil productivity i ZERBEE BESSIE Mrs Bessie Harlow Zerbee age 72 of 2330 Rosalind Ave SW died Monday evening in a local hos pital Mrs Zerbee was retired from Piedmont Airlines Surviving are her husband rancis Zerbee sis ters Mrs Ruth Harlow Purcell Roanoke Mrs Nell Harlow Barnett Dublin brother Jack Lee Harlow White Stone Va an aunt Miss Oney Trout Salem Services will be at 10:30 am Thursday at Roa noke Chapel Dr Harry Gamble will officiate Interment will be in SL Andrews Cemetery riends may call at Roanoke from 10:00 am Wednesday Stone' writer dies in wreck Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES Screenwri ter Diane Renee Thomas who burst into fame six years ago when she sold the screenplay for the hit film "Romancing the Stone" has died in an 80 mph car crash authorities said Tuesday Thomas 39 died instantly when her Porsche Carrera which was being driven by her boyfriend actor Stephen Norman 27 spun out of control late Monday night on rain slick Pacific Coast Highway and smashed into a power pole police said Thomas was sitting in the back seat of the small sports car Another passenger Ian Young 40 of Peterhead Scotland died two hours later at a 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