Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - May 31, 1985, Pulaski, Virginia Education A college president feels advancement in education can come only through in dependence at the local Page New addition to be dedicated Sunday at Two leave for MS benefit bike Page Cougars lose again in region baseball tour Drug probe expected to reveal results Inkers Page 129 Two Sections COPYRIGHT 01985 f RIVER INC INC T J Friday May 1985 Virginia 25 Cents County Calendar SUMMER SCHEDULE will become effective this Sunday at First Presbyterian school will be at 9 with worship service at 10 DUBLIN HIGH School Class of 1970 reunion will be held June Anyone who has not beeg contacted or has not responded may still Contact Harris 6745127 for more PULASKI COUNTY Jaycees will meet June 4 at in the conference room in Ingle Men and women 18 and 35 are AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of Retired Chapter 1383 will hot meet in the regular meeting will resume in V AMERICAN Auxiliary will hold its regular monthly meeting June 6 beginning at with a Dues for the 198586 year are ADULT CHOIR of First Baptist Church on Magazine is celebrating its fifth anniversary June 2 at 4 with James Jackson as special speaker and a guest of the Blue Ridge Music held June 1 a at 8 at the New River Wildlife Building on old Route 58 between Galax and Music by Bor Alice Gerrard and Andy Wanda New The Worrell and the Royal Grayson Admission is Donations DOLPHIN SWIM Club will open June l instead 25 because of improvements to the RSVP RECOGNITION and picnic scheduled for Friday May 31 has been postponed to a Mote details will COMMUNITY RENEWAL will be held in the Belspring School June 2 through 1 at 7 Special music will be featured The event supported and sponsored by the Methodist and Presbyterian churches in This column is at no for publicizing of general In terest to our We do not guarantee any placement and try to run items at least Weather Today variable cloudiness and warmer with a 30percent chance bf showers thun 80 to South west wind 10 to 20 Tonight partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thun early Low in the lower Southwest wind nor 10 to 15 mpE Saturday mostly High about Wind west 10 to 20 Virginia Extended Forecast Sunday through Tuesday A chance of showers Monday and early Tuesday otherwise partly Highs in the low or mid Lows in the 60s except some 50s in the moun through Saturday Highs IS the 80s and lows in the Precipitation x is ex to be near Morris center in black suit view murder scene Stall Schroder Tf News Editor Six men and six women from Carroll County will decide the guilt or of a Pulaski man charged with murder in the May 1982 stabbing death of a drinking buddy under the Johnson Street The jury and one alternate were chosen from a panel of Carroll County residents bused to Pulaski Bounty for the of Morris who was found and sentenced to 12 and 15 yearis uk prison during trials in March and June V Chaffin named to board By MIKE WILLIAMS Staff Writer Ron president of the Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce and director of New River Community Colleges Continuing Education Depart has been chosen as the countys newest school board Chaffin was selected Thursday by a unanimous decision of the Pulaski County School Board Selection Commission after a short executive Chaffin was one of six applicants for the seat on the board being left vacant by current board chairman William a 21year veteran of the not tq seek pointment when his term ends July 1 On May 21 the selection whose circuit members include Morris was found guilty in March 1983 for the stabbing death bf Fred E but the verdict was set aside when a was i one the jurors Ahad been years ago of jar and his never second in was 1 Supreme Court this past March because presiding allowed be told of a confession by another man but did not allow any details of that confession to be admitted as Defense attorney Frank Ter contended that this was improper and the Supreme Court Lawsons body was found the afternoon of under the Johnson Street His face was bruised and bloody and there 7werefourstab wounds in the remarks Thursday jury waif sea the the Some down the short pa from the street and went under the the the It was a place locals would gather to drink where they would be out of the view of the and law In opening Com Attorney Everett Shockley said that between 11 and noon May he victim and other men the Aii one or in the face ris and in the upper See page A2 v David Ralph Allison and Philip M held a public hearing to listen to nominations from residents of the Ingles District concerning the school board position Applying for the along with Chaffin were Sue Ernest Bruce Richard Buck and Ernest the commented the commission had a lot Such a situation has Sadler See page A2 Dublin Worrell News Service The of Radford likely will join half a dozen other governments in abandoning the New River Police At their June 10 council members will consider an in formation packet from Cardinal Police Academy in The data was gathered by police Chief James Whitt at the direction of City manager Robert Asbury said he was comfortable with the data Asbury said he directed Whitt to seek alternate training facilities after council members twice reminded him they wanted the data for their Both New River Community College and Rad ford University have police training courses but are not a part of the states police certification The third alternative to New River was a similar school in Salem the Cardinal Police If Radford shifts to it will follow the lead of Blacksburg Police Virginia Tech campus police and the Montgomery County Sheriffs Department In Dublin is believed to be considering shifting to Radford Univer sitys campus police department presently has no plans for leaving New But if valley govern ments continue to pull out of the the campus department New River Police Academy in Pulaski County mil lose the value of having its of trained alongside officers from the local The shared training experience provides an important sense of rapport among the officers from the dif ferent spokesperson Blacksburg will send 49 officers to the Salem academy County another Radford would take 28 law and another half a Asbury echoed of several others involved Jn changing or considering changing to Salem by noting that Cardinal has not solicited the first student from New Rivera instructed to find a with a reasonable within a reasonable distance of Formal com were made with Carr he and a has been drawn for councils own oy walls Council will make a decision on the best information I am comfortable with that Councils rift with theT academy goes beyond the present administra tion of academy Director Gray hi Radford considered pulling out several times The latest academy came an increase in See page A2 state rates Staff Wire Reports The unemployment rate in Pulaski County decreased in April to thats down from a March rate of This followed the statewide trend in with overall unemployment down to percent from a percent rate in according to the Em ployment Radford showed a decrease in unemployed people down from five Wythe an eight percent J Countys April is down from Giles County reported unemployment at llB down from and Bland reported unemployment at down from 12 Record nonfarm employment lowered the April jobless rate to best mark for the month in tive the Virginia Employment Commission reported Large gains in struction and trade lowered by or percent in Virginians were out of March unemployment was The mark wasi the lowest state rate since Novemberi when unemployment was also per It was also much better than the national unemployment of The May rate was forecast at 47 do not of change in the state unemployment its Nonagricultural employment to an high in April million people were on payrolls the VEC was jobs higher than when many people had jobs because of the holiday buying construction and trade Sec page A2 over bid ANN Staff Writer for the Pulaski pump part of the Peppers Ferry sewer came in higher than engineers When bids were opened on May town not reported Town Manager Daniel noting this Even if Pulaski County pays for a portion of the the town could still pay more Negotiations are expected tor take place between town representatives and the Peppers Regional Wastewater Treatment Authority lo plans v If talks would then begin Con from the low bid to loWer the McKeever reported the formation to council and some members appeared in favor the both McKeever Raymond Ratcliffe that the bids come in 1 contractors arent as hungry noted McKeever added that he believed the Pulaski pump known as contract is the first project to come in over engineers A federal grant funds 75 percent of the The remaining 25 percent if the contract is divided between the town and the town will will have to pay The Peppers Ferry Wastewater Treatment Project is to serve a portion of Montgomery the city of 1 as well as the Pulaski and Pulaski The is estimated to cost
