Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - April 5, 1979, Pulaski, Virginia COPYRIGHT C NEW RIV ER I Cincinnati is pounded by San Francisco and Seattle wins other Major League Page 82 ONE SECTION APRIL 1979 20 35 CENTS SUNDAY NR academy On track Roger of Roanoke and Robert use a machine which measures the width of the tracks in Sitting aside the the guage machine assures rail workers Stiff Photo by Kathy Firmer that all is safe on the The men were working along the tracks in the Pulaski area By DAVID VACZEK Staff Writer In strong local law en forcement officials expressed their support for the New River Valley Police Academy this threatened with closing as federal funds are withdrawn over the next two The future has been spotlighted recently as the Virginia State Crime Commission has begun studies to determine what role the state will play in and reviewing plans that include eliminating all but one state I feel strongly the police academy and the New River Community College have made a great im provement in law enforcement in this part of the Pulaski County Sheriff Frank Conner said this Echoing other officials interviewed Conner explained for small police and sheriffs it is a hardship to send officers long distances for He said he could not afford to send men to Richmond for three days or a week at a time for Conner said he can send two men at the most to Dublin at one Conner said most of his deputies have associates degrees in law en forcement from and the police Pulaski Police Chief Childress said losing the Dublin facility would have a crippling effect on officer training in his who attended a public hearing in Richmond Tuesday on the said police chiefs statewide are supporting their regional Childress predicted with one academy in law men from this part of the state would only attend for the state required training every two and drop special programs they now enjoy through the local Childress said he has enrolled at the academy all the many who continue working full shifts while attending to Federal money was set aside five years ago to finance local academies With the understanding funding would be completely curtailed by with the burden then placed on local and state Director of River Valley Police Academy Peggy Arbour said this Tuesday Arbour also attended the public hearing in Richmond on the Attending were represen from the 11 regional police officers and other interested authorities from throughout the she See Page 12 PSA water to flow to 1 By STEVE AUSTIN Staff Writer struction could building begun advertised and Authority PSA will begin supplying Fairlawn residents with water by May PSA chairman Robert Love saui at the bodys April meeting hoped to take over the supply of water to Fairlawn residents as soon as hopefully by May Stockholders of the 30yearold Fairlawn Community Water voted March 23 to sell the system to the PSA for The system serves 419 Consulting engineer Edwards said Tuesday the takeover of the Fairlawn system was temporary in that the PSA would use the existing system to supply residents with water until such time as bids for con To connect to the current Fairlawn system and that portion of a water system bought from the City of Radford in the Fairlawn Ed wards said feet of line and feet of line be preparations for supplying to Fairlawn residents were being the PSA also received two petitions asking the countywide system be extended to other areas of the One of those petitions came from the Winding Way Drive section of the county and was signed by six Love explained this area would be included in the Brookmont section of the countywide PSA members voted 6 to seek Jn Home Ad ministration funds to water to the Brookmont section of the The second petition came from Rockford located at the southeast corner of Signed by 14 the petition asked that water be extended to this area of the Love said this request would be studied from the standpoint of The PSA also heard complaints from four residents concerning trash collection in the Those complaints centered around the fact the service is PSA secretary Robert McNichols explained the PSA and the county board of supervisors were simply See Page 12 FAIRLAWN GROUP DISCUSSES ZONING Smythers C Talks to Businesspeople SUH by pm Julian Bond speaks Bleak picture painted By JACQUIE ASPLUNDH Staff Writer The last years of this decade will be remembered a period when the racial tide turned in this It will be a time when the black movement lost its media charisma as it began to visibly affect resulting in a white backlash which threatens to reverse a history of black progress which began with the Civil Rights Act in state senator Julian Bonds opening remarks to an audience of some 200 people at Preston Radford Tuesday The tall 42 year old senator from GEORGIA STATE SENATOR JULIAN BOND Spoke To Students At Radford College Tuesday Georgia spoke in frequently ironical painting an extremely bleak picture of the current state of the Afro We are caught up in an era labeled as the me when the term new conservatism is popular with the It is a time of increasing selfishness on the part of the American who see as heroic the action of wo men from Howard and Alan he The vicious cycle of poverty and powerlessness which has effectively kept black people in the backwater threatens to be set in stone by the gathering strength of these socalled grassroots Bond According to the tax revolt which began with Proposition and the Supreme Court decision favoring Alan Bakke constitute the opening shots of a class war in the United Bond also blasted President Carter for succumbing to the national mood of selfishness and cutting federal funds for education and As a candidate Carter promised to cut the military budget and increase aid to the poor and noted Yet this the will spend billion on guns and billion less on domestic programs designed to help people of our Bond characterized Carter as a man who knew the words to our See Page 12 YOKE h TIMES cloudiness and cooler through Friday evening with temperatures tonight in the mid to high 30s and the high Friday in the low Chance of precipitation is 20 percent through Friday Bridge Classifieds Comics Doonesbury Editorials Lifestyles Sports TV Listings 9 11 4 4 3 2 6 11 2 Wholesale prices up one percent in March WASHINGTON UPI Wholesale paced once again by food and surged 1 percent during March to finish quarter of 1979 at the highest level in more than four the government reported The March advance percent at an annual rate was identical with Februarys increase and only slightly below the percent rise registered in the Labor Departments latest study on in Prices for goods ready for sale to consumers rose at a percent rate during the first three months of thiL the spurt since the October december quarter of Food prices jumped by only a slight improvement from Februarys percent Beef and veal prices climbed by percent while eggs soared by Energy costs were also Gasoline prices climbed by per cent while home heating oil rose percent last Top administration in Treasury Secretary Michael have been warning Americans to expect dismal inflation news in the immediate months But they also have predicted that prices should taper off somewhat by early This forecast was supported by the new Labor Depart ment wholesale Crude prices those products just starting to work their way through the supply pipeline rose by 1 percent last the smallest increase this Prices for food at the crude level increased by only the best performance since last and a vast improvement over the per cent and percent gains in February and respec The Labor Department said its index which measures wholesale See Page 12 Zoning reemerges in county By BEV WINSTON Staff Writer The issue of zoning in Pulaski County reemerged Tuesday night during an informal discussion with County Planning Commission chairman Smythers at the regular meeting of the Fairlawn Business and Professional The majority of the people are not ready for Smythers told the He remembers four or five years ago when a proposed zoning or was before the county and the people came out of the wood work to attend the meetings ad dressing the Youve got to wait until the people are he And he suggested they wont be ready until people get upset about it unrestricted The Fairlawn association had talked in the past about adopting a prozoning stand as one of the but declined because the group is still in the organizational One member pointed out that Fairlawn lias seen in the last five years than ever Smythers compared his point to the onetime proposed extension of water lines to Snowville and They could have had but they just werent ready for he He suggested that a recognized need for Public Service Authority water in the southwestern part of the county would See Page 12
