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GUNS OR DRUGS INDICTMENT PAGE 4A NOROLK SOUTHERN WINS OUT PAGE 9A AUBURN COACH TO QUIT PAGE1B Bristol Herald Courier Bristol Virginia Tennessean 115th Year No 26910 Bristol Virginia Tennessee Saturday ebruary 9 1985 22 Pages 25c Burlington moving away from apparel Associated Press GREENSBORO NC i Burlington Industries doubt i ing there will be relief from surging textile imports says it will limit its exposure to for eign competition by switching to home furnishings and indus trial products is a national disas ter and it's sapping our na tion's economic William Klopman told com pany shareholders Thursday adding the US trade deficit could grow to S150 billion this year from S123 billion last year In an effort to reduce the firm's import exposure Bur lington plans to shift produc tion from apparel fabrics and yarns to home furnishings and industrial products Klopman said Burlington which has an i nounced three textile plant closings including one in Bris tol since it outlined a restruc turing of apparel fabrics oper ations in late 1984 has no plans for further plant clos ings Klopman said Instead the company plans to reduce its dependence on apparel fabrics and yarn which accounted for 56 percent of its 1984 sales of S3 2 billion 5 In 1983 apparel related opera tions accounted for 60 percent of sales of S3 billion Klopman said the percent age would decline further but he declined to give a figure Burlington has reported earnings fell 84 percent in its fiscal first quarter which ended Dec 29 Earnings were $46 million compared to S287 million a year earlier Sales de clined to $653 million from $7718 million AP photo 3k i As i ZJ 1 Al a vK i' 1 1 A ilcsS ilifHl Hr Jr! 'i I 1 wS i SHS 1 Mtcy MIE sjgsKt i A Saffig rigate launching The US Guided Missile rigate Reuben James is launched during ceremonies riday at the Todd Pacific Shipyards in San Pedro Calif The frigate is named after Boatswain's Mate Reuben James yvho placed himself between a scimitar wielding Tripolitan and his commander during a battle in Tripoli harbor in 1804 inancial snarl stop races at track COY BAYS Sportswriter NASCAR racing will continue at Bristol International Raceway for the 25th season despite a Chapter 11 ac tion taken Thursday in a California bankruptcy court by the track's owner Warner Hodgdon president) Bill rance has given me his word he'll sanction our race if I continue as presi dent and general manager of the track and it looks like 1 said the race way's founder Larry Carrier who has served in the managerial capacity since Hodgdon gained full control of the facility in July 1983 Doubts concerning the track's first 1985 event the Valleydale 500 on March 31 surfaced last week when rance announced that NASCAR would not extend a sanction for the race unless the issue of ownership was settled before eb 15 primary purpose is to see that racing continues here" said Car rier who opened the track in 1961 and sold the 533 mile oval prior to the 1978 season "I will guarantee the purse for the Valleydale 500 and w'e hope the court will approve me next week to continue running the place as I have since Warner took full control action in the nardino court came a day before a scheduled foreclosure sale of the prop erty by Bank of Virginia which holds a $144 million note against the racing complex composed of the NASCAR oval Thunder Valley Drugway and an equestrian facility The Bristol bank took the foreclo sure action after Hodgdon failed to make a $100000 payment due Dec 31 Raceway didn't gel Warner Hodgdon in trouble" said Staff pholoEarl Ntlklrk 1 Larry Carrier shown during press conference said "(NASCAR president) Bill rance has given me his word he'll sanction our race if I continue as president and general manager of the track and it looks like I will" Carrier of current financial plight which began when two Califor nia lawsuits led to judgments totaling $50 million against his National Engi neering Co of his employees were in volved in a bid rigging scheme in Cali fornia and lawsuits against his com pany over that led to his current situation' added the man's finances deteriorated have done more for this track than any man could" Major events scheduled at the complex besides the Valleydale 500 in clude the Winston Spring Nationals and WCYB all Nationals at the drag way and the Busch 500 at the oval All four are tentatively scheduled to be televised by the ESPN cable network Marketing research studies esti Please see RACES Page 12A Proposal may quell merit pay argument Associated Press NASHVILLE A commission overseeing the merit pay program helped riday to quell a dispute with the Tennessee Education Association over release of teacher evaluation materials The Interim Certification Commission rec ommended a personal interview with teachers seeking the bonuses be dropped from the eval uation process And panel members also suggested that a panel of teachers meet to revise the importance placed on a portfolio of materials teachers sub mit when trying to become eligible for the bo nuses of up to $7000 annually The commission's recommendations must be approved by the state Board of Education which plans to meet later this month The portfolio and interview are two tools for state evaluators to decide which teachers are qualified for the new Career Ladder of merit pay The TEA representing 39000 of the state's 46000 public school teachers has been passing out ratings scales for the interviews and portfo lios to teachers who attend workshops aimed at preparing them for the evaluations The scales are considered confidential by the commission which issued a warning to TEA to stop releasing them Please see PAY Page 12A Bristol Newspapers and WKPT TV 19 have joined forces to provide an extensive public awareness cam paign about the increasing problem of teen age suicide The Bristol Her ald Courier has compiled an in depth local study of the pressures and dangers of this national tragedy revealed in the ABC Special Presen tation on Sunday eb 10 from 8 11 pm ollowing the network program WK PT will present age SuicideEpi featuring area suicide pro fessionals Crisis Center counsel ors school administrators and area high school students in a roundtable discussion The network will also air a half hour special Note book: Teen Suicide" Saturday eb 9 from 6 6:30 pm Suicidal teens need love understanding JOCELYN WALTER Staff Writer Love and understanding may be the greatest gifts parents can give a teen ager who shows signs of suicidal behavior medical ex perts believe best gift a parent can offer a child is acceptance and open communication" stressed Anita Paczuski Bristol Regional Mental Health Center's director of consultation and education "They need to be shown tolerance and understanding" Dr Peggy Cantrell clinical psycologist for East Tennessee State University's Quillen Dish ner College of Medicine said "One of the simplest and yet com plicated means of help parents can offer teens is the thing we avoid the most talking" She believes that by commu nicating and working together parents and teens can learn to un derstand each other better and Third in a series come up with solutions to their problems isn't the only an swer to their problems and we must make them see there are other ways to handle things" em phasized Ms Paczuski She said parents should sit down with their children and talk "They need to be open and non judgmental with their kids" Jim Holcomb director of Bristol Regional Mental Health Center's Children in Youth Serv ices suggested that parents make a special effort to develop the family unit Some parents question their abilities to change family life styles once their children reach their teens because they don't feel they can communicate with them Please see TEEN Page 12A Trail merchants go on the warpath over Seminole bill RICHMOND Lynch burg state Sen Elliot Sche wcl says his Seminole Trail bill proves that even the most innocuous proposals can gen erate controversy The bill suggested by a Lynchburg historian seeks to set the historical record straight namely that Semi nole Indians never walked along US 29 in Virginia and therefore the highway shouldn't be called the "Semi nole rail" The bill sailed through the Senate but ran into objections Thursday from Albemarle County merchants that do business along the highway '1 hose businesses accord ing to Albemarle Del George Alien would have to buy new storefront signs buy new stationery and change their ad dress if the road lost its iden tity With Schewel's approval Allen offered an amendment Please see BILL Page 12A Good morning! Chuckle There's nothing wrong with following a train of thought as long as it ultima tely pulls into the station Tennessee The University of Ten nessee Hospital in Knoxville has set the date for the first transplant operation in East Tennessee SA Virginia An attorney for Jerry alwell says "it's typical" that Hustler magazine would run the ad parody about al well again 5A Local Rep Rick Boucher intro duces a bill which Would pro hibit certain imports of to bacco 4A Religion A recent study says churches in the US are doing more more daringly than other groups to help the down trodden 6A World An exiled Korean opposi tion leader got a rough wel come home from police as he's placed under houe arrest 3A Nation After rates go up eb 1 7 the Postal Services hopes to keep mail charges steady for five years 3A Business ederal Reserve Chair man Paul Volcker warned it would be folly to be lulled into a false sense of security by the economic recovery's strength 9A Inside Business 8A9A Calendar 6B Classified 6B10B Comics HA Entertainment 5B Local 4A5A Opinion 10A NationWorld 3A People 5B Religion 6A7A Sports 1 B4B Outside Mostly sunny skies today high in 30s Partly cloudy tonight low in mid 20s Increasing clouds Sunday 12A.