The Daily Progress from Charlottesville, Virginia • 12

B2 THE DAILY PROGRESS Charlottesville Virginia Monday December 9 1983 Alternates Pushed or Tobacco Crops BURKEVILLE (AP) Cattle and sheep raising along with com hay and fruit growing will be taught at a special farm here this year as state specialists seek to convince Southside farmers to find alternatives to tobacco State cooperative extension spe cialists for years have been warn ing southern Virginia tobacco farmers not to depend solely on to bacco A small group of Halifax County farmers last summer experimented by planting 37 acres of broccoli Judging from the reaction of a Roanoke food chain their broccoli an iron rich crop usually shipped from California was of superior quality The chain purchased all it could get and paid $2 a box more than it paid for California broccoli said Wayne Compton farm edu cation coordinator for the exten sion service This year the 137 acre farm on the property of a state prison will teach farmers how to plant corn pasture and hay crops Christmas tree and loblolly pine farming dem onstrations will be held Instruc tors at the teaching farm also will give information about farm equip ment purchasing and fencing Plans for 1985 call for some 30 acres to be planted including 4 acres of small fruits and the start of cattle and sheep farming "Keep in Compton said "we have to develop markets for them The promotion of farm mar ket development is important We want to grow something and then not have a market for them "Someone said it har vest it and if you don't sell it you will smell We want to make that kind of Compton reported on the new farm enterprise last week to mem bers of the seven county Piedmont Planning District Commission of our objectives is to in volve at least 100 new farmers in the production of new crops and al ternatives for supplemental enter prises over the next four or five he said He predicted that if 100 farmers each produce an average of 2 acres of new crops the 200 acres of new crops would generate $3000 an acre Compton said the greatest ad vantage from producing vegeta bles and small fruits in Southside is that the region has access to the heavily populated East Coast areas giving farmers a competitive advantage in being able to get pro duce to market faster and fresher than West Coast producers "I think our people are ready for it and looking for alternative ways to increase their Compton said The extension administrator said the first crops probably would be used by the Department of Cor rections but that part also would be used to help develop markets By June Compton expects that at least 25 farmers will be growing some of the new crops Officials Take Steps To Encourage Exports MB Ok I Kin 1 Ah 1 TBMBsegggp IB BMi Progress Photo by Dug Steele Local And State Briefs Man Arrested After 4 Day Pursuit STANARDSVILLE A 19 year old Greene County man was arrested on a grand larceny charge Sunday following a four day search by county deputies according to Greene County Sheriff William Morris James Sanderson originally from Massachusetts was arrested about 3 am in a Charlottesville Howard Morris said He was chargedwith taking more than $200 in cash and $2500 in checks Tuesday night from the Hollace Jarrell Pool Room and Texaco Station in Stanardsville The checks were later recovered Deputy Robert Jenkins received a call early Sunday morning that a man fitting description was seen in the University of Virginia area Jenkins contacted Albemarle County and UVa police to assist in looking for the suspect and Sanderson was apprehended shortly thereafter Morris said Sanderson is being held in the Albemarle Charlottesville Joint Security Complex in lieu of a $1500 cash or $3000 property bond A hearing has been set for Wednesday in Greene County General District Court Specialist Seeks Source Of Avian lu HARRISONBURG A federal specialist who so far has been unable to determine how avian flu spread from Pennsylania to Virginia says he hopes more tests will turn up new evidence on the spread of the disease The disease which affects only birds has resulted in the more than 35000 turkeys and chickens in Virginia Roy Hand of the US Department of Agriculture late last week turned in a report to Dr George Estes Virginia state veterinarian who said the study was unable to determine precisely how the disease spread to Rockingham flocks Estes said the report was containing no firm findings No new cases of the disease have been reported in Virginia in more than a week A stringent quarantine to prevent its spread will expire Tuesday unless a decision is made to extend it ire Evacuates Hospital Patients RICHMOND (AP) At least 57 patients at Westbrook Psychiatric Hospital were temporarily evacuated because of a fire that caused about $100000 damage hospital officials said The fire Sunday afternoon apparently began in the closet of a room in the geriatric care section of the hospital said Alan Gitlin assistant administrator Besides the geriatric section smoke filled the adult security and chemical dependency treatment sections of the hospital The 12 patients in the geriatric section 21 or 22 adults in the security ward and 24 patients in the chemical dependency unit were evacuated with some staying inside the building said Gitlin All the patients had been relocated within the hospital by early evening said Louise Hanson a hospital surpervisor irefighters arrived about 3:10 pm and reported the blaze under control about 3:45 pm Eastern Shore Leader Dies Of Cancer RICHMOND (UPI) Economic officials want to turn around disap pointing declines in Virginia's ex port trade a decrease marked heavily by dwindling coal ship ments Officials said estimates of a 32 percent decrease in coal exports caused a drop in overall tonnage and value of goods exported from Virginia last year Among the steps officials are taking is the addition of a new in ternational marketing director and the creation of a trade institute to coordinate private and public sec tor efforts State officials are also hopeful of improvements not only in com modities and manufactured goods Teach Continued rom Page Bl supports legislation that would give more freedom to home educa tors Chichester sits on a joint legis lative subcommittee that has been studying the issue for the past three years The panel will submit proposed changes to the law in the 1984 session of the General Assem bly for Chichester said "I think a parent should be den ied the right to teach his or her child" He said the existing statute so restrictive you can't do Chichester said another problem with home education is allowing re sponsible capable parents or guardians to teach their children at home while guarding against peo ple "bootlegging The current draft of the subcom bill proposes that parents wishing to educate children at home must notify the division su perintendent of their intentions Gospel Continued rom Page Bl on the was the way some of the truckers at the diner referred to Rowland's chapel on wheels Rowland retired from his job with Yellow reight Co in 1980 to become a chaplain for Transport for Christ a nationwide organiza tion that operates six mobile chap els throughout the country The rigs pull1 into truck stops on Sun days and provide inter denomina tional services and counseling to the truckers Sunday was the maiden voyage for Rowland who is in charge of an area that covers eight states south of the Mason Dixon Line Truck drivers are busy people they have schedules to meet So Rowland keeps the services short 25 minutes at the most And Row land preach are fed up with preaching I talk with them try to reason with Not all truckers want to be saved Out on the road Rowland said he keeps up a steady chatter with the drivers over the CB radio Water Continued rom Page Bl SPRING SEMESTER Wed orThurs free consultation James MacOueen Attorney at Law duce chances of a power loss at the South Rivanna treatment plant and save money for Charlottesville area water consumers over its 30 year design life Sessoms said Williams said the authority esti mates that the hydroelectric plant could earn in the range of a 10 per cent rate of return on the $12 mil lion investment over its 30 year life The savings in electricity costs would repay the cost of the plant in eight to 10 years he said The Rivanna board will discuss whether to build the hydroelectric plant at its Jan 23 meeting Wil liams said Design plans have not yet been drawn The authority is planning two other major projects in 1984 The Upper Ragged Mountain Reservoir dam would be repaired to eliminate flood safety problems identified by a 1980 US Army Corps of Engi neers report and the Observatory Mountain water treatment plant would be renovated at a cost of $11 million The Corps of Engineers report voiced concern that a peak flood could top over and wash out the earthen dam that forms Upper Ragged Mountain Reservoir west of Observatory Mountain near Camp Holiday Trails Sessoms said As a result the authority for the past two years has been leaving but in exports of information and technological services as well are consultants selling their intelligence and services said Scott Eubanks di rector of the state Industrial De velopment Division "But they show up in the trade ba That type of trade is important Eubanks said because of the con centration of high technology busi ness in Northern Virginia Although final statistics for 1983 were not yet available offi cials believe that coal exports which accounted for about 53 mil lion tons of the 1982 export total dropped by approximately 17 mil lion tons SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY COMPENSATION "Hardly a one of them passes by the rig without having something to say A lot of them cuss But then others like Kenneth Hager and his son Stewart come along Hager a Staunton based driver stopped at the chapel on the tail end of a run between Tennessee and Culpeper just to chat The Hagers talked to Rowland and his assistant Marvin Heiner about the problems of being a small independent driver and the cost of needed repairs to their rig Rowland urged the boy to stay in Chichester said In addition the parent must have a college degree which Chic hester said The home also must have a teaching certificate which Chiches ter called with the previous requirement Another provision of the bill is that the teacher must be enrolled in a correspondence course ap proved by a nationally recognized accrediting body or the state De partment of Education Although he disagrees with some of the provisions Chichester said the bill better than noth Mrs Schwartz said the new home education group which has a mailing list of 2000 Virginians will seek modifications to the bill to make it less restrictive She said hundreds of Virginians are "in from the public while they teach their children at home school and get a college education Hager said the mobile chapel was an idea long overdue After the driver and his son had left the small basket on the table held a wad of crumpled $1 bills "Truck drivers are lonely peo ple" Rowland said "They are out on the raod on Sunday mornings when they know they should be with their family and children in church So many truck stops (else where) have a prostitution busi ness we just want to offer them a choice" 917 East Jefferson St 971 8303 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 6 9 pm 6 9 pm 6:30 9:30 pm 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 6:30 9:30 pm 7 10 pm 6:00 700 pm TQIIIQNl Welding: Other Classes: Dancexercise: open a drain plug in the dam that leads directly into the lower reser voir which backs up to a spot about halfway up on the upper dam he said Keeping the drain plug open allows the upper reser voir to drain to the level the level of the lower reservoir increasing the floodwater storage capacity to a safe margin he said The $250000 in repairs would entail filling in a low spot on the earthen dam and enlarging the spillway Sessoms said Doing all repairs suggested by the Corps of Engineers which would have al lowed the upper reservoir to be fully utilized would have cost $500000 he said Design plans have not been drawn for the project which must be approved by the State Water Control Board and Corps of Engi neers Sessoms said The improvements planned for the Observatory Mountain water plant include installation of a 3 mil lion gallon storage tank for treated water to replace existing open ba sins modification of the basins for sludge settling improvements to chemical handling facilities and destruction of a concrete building that was the original water treat ment plant ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES AT THE CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER ACCOMAC (AP) Drummond Ayres a former member of the House of Delegates and an Eastern Shore lawyer and civic leader died of cancer Sunday in Northampton Accomack Memorial Hospital He was 87 Ayres an Accomac native practiced law on the Eastern Shore for more than 60 years and was president of the Virginia State Bar in 1952 53 Throughout much of his career Ayres was active in Democratic Pary politics He was elected to the House of Delegates in 1927 where he served until 1930 A 1922 graduate of the University of Virginia's law school he later was one of a group of lawyers and businessmen who arranged the $200 million financing for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Shield Damage Suits Considered EUGENE Ore (UPI) A federal jury having found the Daikon Shield contraceptive now considers whether its maker must compensate 13 women who claim it harmed their reproductive ability The US District Court jury reconvenes Tuesday to begin hearing the second of 13 lawsuits filed against the A Robins Co of Virginia The jury ruled Saturday that Robins was guilty of marketing a "dangerously product but cleared the company of negligence and fraud charges Lawyers representing Robins called the verdict a victory for the defense while the plaintiff's lawyers said they were confused by the outcome The unanimous verdict by the four man four woman jury way for the 12 other suits in the consolidated trial that began eight weeks ago In each case the jurors will determine to what extent if any the 12 plaintiffs should be compensated $500000 Blaze Destroys Lumber Yard KING GEORGE (AP) A fire completely destroyed the King George Lumber Yard early today but no injuries were reported among the approximately 60 firefighters called to the scene authorities said The blaze was reported about 1 am and was brought under control within an hour said Charles Clift chief of the King George Volunteer ire Department "The whole mill was wiped said Charles Henderson one of the owners of the business Clift estimated the damage at about $500000 Henderson said he could not place a figure on the damage but said the area of the business destroyed by the fire was only partly covered by insurance According to Clift firefighters from King George Port Royal airview Colonial Beach Oak Grove and White Oak responded to the blaze $8500 $6000 $3200 or Additional Information Concerning Day or Evening Classes Please Call 973 4461 Moment Of Decision our year old Laura Newlon found the courage to climb the ladder to the top of the winding slide in Washington Park on Saturday but she seems to be having second thoughts about the trip down Spring semester courses will begin the week of January 16 1984 and continue for15 weeks (1 night per week 3 hours per night) Cabinet urniture Making Mon Tues Wed or Thurs Bricklaying Tues Heating Air Conditioning Tues Plumbing Code Wed Electricity (Practical Housewiring) Wed National Electric Code Mon undamentals of Radio Television Thurs Basic Welding Mon Auto Mechanics 1 Wed Auto Mechanics II Mon urniture Upholstery Mon Auto Body Repair Wed Physical itness (Dancexercise) 1 S3.