Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - November 30, 1979, Pulaski, Virginia Basketball season opens at all levels this weekend and Miami is back on Page COPYRIGHT 1979 NEW Rn ER 76 285 ONE SECTION PULASKI NOVEMBER 1979 25 CENTS 50 CENTS SUNDAY Iranians checked in area schools Its beginning to look a lot like workers are starting the task and get into the spirit of the Holiday Christmas everywhere you homeowners are getting in the Saturdays 2 Christmas parade This is part of a holiday song which Here Debbie White hangs a in Pulaski will be a big boost to preparation is taking on more meaning now that star in the window of Alum Spring shoppers and shop most stores are decorated and office Market so shoppers and visitors will By DAVID VACZEK Staff Writer Radford University and New River Community College expect their Iranian students on campus will not encounter any visa difficulties when immigration officials interview them early next Radford has five Iranians presently registered as full time students for the spring and has eight Iranians John noting the recent Justice Department effort to deport Iranian students who have violated their visas today asked state colleges and universities to review their foreign student UPI reported this Radford has six Iranian students enrolled in the fall and has five enrolled so far this all in good for student affairs James Hartmen Hartmen said a sixth student will likely enroll full time for the spring He said he expects a representative from the Immigration and Naturalization Service to interview the students 10 on I dont think we will encounter any Hartmen Of the eight Iranian students at tending New River Community five are on student according to John dean of student Clem said two students who attend the college are in this country on permanent visas and therefore are not required to attend college full Both are part time The five students on student visas are all taking what the college con siders full loads of semester course Gem The eighth student Has only a visitors visa but is in the process of obtaining a student Clem Clem said he expects an im migration official will visit the school sometime after 10 and before 14th to interview the Clem said there has been some confusion to date due to conflicting directives from Washington as to whether the students have to contact INS by phone themselves or whether they will wait to be said nevertheless his office has checked the students and local addresses and found them to be in In the past so many Iranian students come here to go to school and just didnt Clem said about enrollment at This however the Iranians are all students and most of them speak good he Virginia Tech has reported 63 See Page 14 Nursing home will be a reality in Pulaski By BEV WINSTON Staff writer A nursing home construction anticipated by the Town of Pulaski for almost five is scheduled to begin in the late A Camelot Hall nursing home will 6e built in a 10acre tract of land on the west side of the Pulaski Community Hospital following the issuance of of need by the Southwest Virginia Health Systems last Plans also call for the construction of an adult home to house 60 most of them The detailed architectural plans are well Karl administrative assistant for Medical Facilities of said I His based in the largest chain of nursing in n the state with eight opera ting one due to open after luje first of the year and three on the drawing All are called Camelot Medical Facilities of America is part of the Fralin and Waldron a land development Bren said construction would begin the late spring and take ap proximately 12 or 13 two certificates of need been issued to the company for Pulaski nursing Bob a construction supervisor for Fralin and In the town rezoned the land to allow the home to be Later that the health systems agency issued a certificate of need saying the nursing home facilities in the area do YOUR TIMES Weather Partly cloudy and cold tonight with lingering snow Lows in the upper teens and low Coudy and continued cold Saturday with a chance of light Highs in to low Chance of precipitation is 10 percent tonight and 30 percent Index Bridge Classifieds Comics Doonesbury Editorials Lifestyles Sports TV Listings Weather 13 12 13 4 4 3 2 10 13 2 not meet the growing Bentley said failure to act on the established need within a period of time prompted the agency to withdraw the as a matter of The calling for a 60bed facility with provisions for future was scheduled to cost but Bentley said that figure has increased with since the rough plans were He said he was not sure what the project will cost by the time it is Adjoining the nursing a home for adults will be Bren Bren called his means of housing a new concept designed primarily for older persons and providing a protected Nursing assistance is available at all he but the people living there generally will not need constant medical He said the adult with three and apartments provides an alternative to a nursing home for those persons who can take care of themselves but who cannot handle a house or The lesser level of care makes the home much less Bren not known when the adult home will be built although Bentley said he hoped construction on both projects could begin See 14 are By DAVID VACZEK Staff Writer The Board of Directors of the Pulaski County Chamber of Com merce elected a new slate of officers for 1980 following their annual work Pulaski attorney Tom McCarthy was elected president at the luch meeting at the Red Carpet Inn in Pulaski replacing Randall president of the Nre River Community Edwards will serve in the post of Claud to retire 31 as Appalachian Power Companys Pulaski division was voted Blair Pulaski Town councilman and former candidate for the House of was elected vice president for Community Frank Kelly Klopman Mills personnel was elected as vice president for Economic and Smith a local was voted Vice President for Internal Speaking of the program of work McCarthy thanked those present for their very spirited input in the session at which the board decided the issues they will address in the coming The Chamber will study some issues I think will really come into focus in the 19BOsr Chamber Executive Secretary Vicky Futrell The three by submit final agendas for the 1980 program of work for board ap Futrell also announced Coach Joel Hicks and the Pulaski County High School Cougar football team will be the grand marshalls for the 1 Christmas In other Futrell reported has been named to serve on the Area ManPower Planning The council reviews spending of state In other board treasurer Smith reported the board broke even in finances this year for the first time in recent We are beginning to get our finances on the right he The finances are far better for the coming year than in any of our past See Page 14 Federal officials target Data o Services for investigation By BRUCE HARPER Staff Writer Data Services Corporation of Blacks burg has been named by federal authorities as being under investigation for involvement in a check kiting scheme between Christiansburg and Baxter a postal inspector with the Postal said he is investigating the operation of the business done by Data The investigation was referred to him by the Attorneys He said he has not had the case very long he is the only one working on the Im in the process of obtaining necessary materials to construct the financial operation of the he This will include bank statements and some of the financial The postal inspectors work under the advisory of the Attorneys office and it would be up to that office to make a decision on whether or not to prosecute if any wrongdoing is he Data Services Corporation closed its operations in October when the 11 See Page 14 Southwest coalition to test power in Senate By BEV WINSTON I Staff Writer I A coalition of Western eight state senators might provide enough power to have significant input into policy but it may not be enough to carry over all matters before the legislatures upper Earlier this senators from the eight most districts of the state announced they would Remain uncommitted as they discuss the replacement of ithe current senate Adelard Abe Analysis A Fairfax attorney now entering his fourth term in Brault has been called the most influential man in that governing Daniel Danny Bird who Pulaski and five other counties in Southwest said earlier this week the group of eight will Sineet again this week and will discuss more than the house The matter of finding a replacement for Justice Alex of who announced his retirement from the high court shortly after the general will also be The process of finding a judge to fill the post grows increasingly more cloudy almost every This is at least one matter on which Bird and Madison Marye have not remained un Both legislators have thrown their support behind 27th Circuit Court Judge William a Wytheville When the circuit bar association met two weeks a unanimous endorsement for Arthur was Bird is a member of that who is not a said Monday he would not oppose the local bars endorsement of Bird called Harman an outstanding justice and said Arthur is the caliber of jurist to take the retiring judges But the regional concern remains I would be very upset if we do not have a justice from Southwest Bird We need representation from Southwest Virginia to Rive the court Marye the Franklin County Bar Association endorsed Circuit Court Judge William who lives in but presides primarily in the portion of the circuit which includes Franklin The Southwestern Virginia coalition of senators overlaps into the Franklin County part of the The area is represented in the senate by Virgil Goode also a member of the local and state 0 Roanoke attorneys are said to be preparing an en of a judge from that furthering the possibility that the eight senators will not be able to remain cohesive on the Others on the list of possible candidates are former Attorney General Andrew former Edward Lane of former Carrington Williams of Fairfax and Arlington County Circuit Court Judge Charles Legislators expect to take some time over the issue of a but an intraparty may be better for Democrats than the Harmans although precipitated by health provides an time frame in which the Democratic legislature is allowed to With the effective date set for 31 and the General Assembly convening on the Republican governor has no time to make an interim appointment and is left with little input other than approving the choice of the Democratic One can only speculate what sort of choice John Dalton would have made if he had been given the He has been loyal to the appointment of Southwest Virginians to state but he also follows the tradition of making some appointments along party I think there will be a Bird referring to the appointment on the agenda for the joint Democratic caucus meeting early in The controversy may not emerge at all on the regional level when the eight local senators if the topic proves too Indications from Marye were that new party leadership had been the dominant concern of the small coalition to With 31 of the 40member senate belonging to the Democratic Bird said the eight Democrats from Southwest Virginia have a chanm of Improving the See Page 14
