Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Pulaski, Virginia honored last week by cees are yet who make our effort in double figures basketball victory over Pulaski Morris win wrestling championships for Page 42 Two Sections Wednesday February Virginia 25 Cents County PULASKI COUNTY Chapter NAACP will observing Negro History star ting 20Program at the First Missionary Baptist New with Tryone Hash and The Church of God In Christ Choir of 21Panel Discussion Howard Altoona Education and Maria Irene and Ruth Time 7 22Pot Luck Dinner at the Howard Altoona Elder Perry guest Time Bring a dish and come out for a good time and plenty of 23ProgramFirst Baptist Magazine Lyle guest speaker from the First Missionary Baptist New Music from various Time 4 FREE CLINIC at the Department will open at instead of REVIVAL AT Barren Spring Pentecostal Holiness Church will be 1923 at Guest speaker will be the Don There will be special singing each DUBLIN GARDEN Club will meet Friday at at the home of Fary Anderson on Maple Diane Turman will present a program about NI JEW RIVER Valley Gospel Singers will be in concert March at 7 at the Dublin Church of NIGHT OF PRAISE and worship will be held at 7 at New Life Featured guests will be Jones and The Crossover Gospel SALVATION ARMY LADIES AUXILIARY will meet Thur 20 at at 523 Commerce See page A2 This column is provided at no for publicizing of general in terest to our We do not guarantee any placement and fry to run items at least three Weather Northern and Central Shenandoah West Central Southern Shenandoah Southern Southwestern Mountains Wednesday partial clearing and Highs 60 to Light Wed night some Lows 40 to Light Thursday cloudy with a 30 percent chance of Highs in the upper 50s or lower South winds 10 to 15 RICHMOND AP Here is the National Weather Services extended forecast for Thursday through Saturday A chance of showers Thur sday and early Turning colder Friday and Highs in the 60s the mid 40s to the low 50s Friday and the upper 30s to the mid 40s in the 40s the 30s Friday and the mid 20s to the low 30s Temperatures up to 10 degrees lower in the School budget proposal tops million By MIKE WILLIAMS Staff Writer Pulaski County School Board members got their first look at the proposed 198687 school budget during a work session Tuesday The proposed outlined by school superintendent Kenneth calls for expenditures totalling The figure represents an increase of or percent over the current Grand jury indicts year budget of The receipt side of the budget shows an expected increase in basic state aid of percent and a decrease in federal aid of per The budget proposal also calls for a percent hike in local funds from the Local funding for the current year amounts to If the proposal is approved by the school board and board of local funding Hager Staff Writer Indictments for capital and abduction have been handed down by a Pulaski County Grand Jury against Michael Lee alleged to have com mitted these crimes against 11 year old Chrystal Dawn The grand jury met this morning and handed down the indictments after reviewing evidence in the In a but related while the grand jury was Circuit Court Judge Dow Owens was hearing arguments concerning whether or not the evidence con in a box presented behind at preliminary hearing in juvenile court should be made Defense Attorney for David Warburton questioned whether the motion for the judge to hear the case is properly before the and whether the circuit court has Owens ultimately decided he has jurisdiction in the but has yet to make a decision on whether the motion is properly before the Once that is decided he will either discontinue the or review the evidence and decide if it should be revealed to the Lawyers for The Southwest Times World and argued the motion is properly before the court and asked Owens to allow the public to know what evidence is in the Attorney Phillip representing the Southwest Times argued that there are certain con rights the public and press and want the lower court decision of excluding the evidence Sam representing argued that the public and press should be excluded in only the rarest of Phil said there is a continuing wrong and that circuit court is the proper place concerning the tur nover of the evidence to the Our position is the evidence was introduced and as is part of the Owens said he did think that the relief sought by the press is a kin to the relief sought in other cases where suppression hearings have been See page A2 would jump to By far the largest expenditure in the budget proposal in instructional which includes salaries for secretaries and among The proposal calls for a percent increase in instructional costs from million to just over Included in the instruction in crease are raises of slightly more than 12 percent for The 12 percent raise includes an across the board increase of 10 percent plus a step increment of The salary proposal also calls for an additional for teachers with a Masters degree and another for those with a If approved the starting salary for a teacher with a bachelors degree would jump from to Teachers at the top of the with 20 or more years experience would see an increase from to Earlier this month the Pulaski County Education Association presented its salary request to the school board and asked for raises ranging from 13 to The proposal would have placed starting salaries at and those at the top of the scale at See page A2 Senate face votes on state budget status RICHMOND AP The state will spend for every woman and child in Virginia in the next two and the House and Senate are reaching decisions on how to divide the The chambers separate bills on the billion budget were on todays calendar for votes that are usually pro forma acceptances of the money committees but at least one floor amendment will be offered in the D wants money spent by the state for litter control to be distributed to counties and cities for the same Marye sponsors annual legislation to require a nickle deposit on beverage The antilitter measure failed again this A conference committee will have to reconcile the differences in the two The Senate Finance Committee included million dependent on two tax bills that still must survive House and it set aside million in a The House Appropriations Committee added million for human resources and left only million unap But the House Finance Committee may get another proposal for raising money adding a penny to the sales tax and spending the for See page A2 RICHMOND I All Here is he ut major legislation introduced at die General Assembly 198648 budget Before full House and Highway taxes Canned in House Passed in Senate consent Kilted in Senate viability Killed in Houw Drunk per se Senate passed In House House passed passed Senate com Mandatory bell use Passed State lottery Killed in House and Senate Carried over In House Gubernatorial amendment Killed in House Bottle Killed in Senate Com See page A2 Town Council Citizens complain of cable billing problems Staff by FLAG Hazel at the Pulaski County performs one of his many daily Hazel was photographed recently braving cold weather and the remains of a snowfall to raise the state flag over the government Staff Writer and billing were the complaints hurled at during a Pulaski Town Council public hearing About 10 residents turned out to complain that not enough service was provided when the cable goes They contended better programming was needed on the basic and one person noted hed told the company to cut off the cable in and they but hed been billed in January for Others complained they werent credited on their when cable goes off the William Senior Vice President of responded to the complaints promising a followup would be made by the but also talked about the improvements since his company took over in The service has gone from a four choice system to a 21 choice Weve added many satellite There are now six on the basic service that we have to pay loyalties Weve gone from 40 miles of cable plant in and 25 miles in to 125 miles for the said Each year he noted the company has made substantial investments starting in 1977 with to the tower site and continuing through last year when they spent citizens complained the system goes out anytime theres bad Polly Mitchell noted she was watching a soap opera during the height of a murder plot and the cable She noted For they didnt solve it that But as she explained you never know when the cable goes out it its for 15 minutes or all Towm Manager Daniel McKeever said no other cable company has expressed interest in the prompting one citizen to It looks like theyve got the wagon and the horse See page A2 Council gives okay to county agreement By DEE ANN LINDSEY Staff Writer Agreements were approved Tuesday night by Pulaski Town Council for an and sharing capacity between the town and Pulaski This is identical to what the Pulaski County Board of Super visors has already bringing the proposals closer to An agreement letting the Pulaski County Public Service Authority collect the towns garbage is being and no action was taken on that In January the Board of Super visors approved the two and now it must be considered by the State Commission on Local The annexation calls for the town to gain square miles of some of it developed and some that has for future develop The area includes portions of Cool Critzer Twin Oaks Sub and another portion of The county gains capacity to the Peppers Ferry Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant for about County Administrator Sidney Clower admits the town is getting more from the deal than the but that the county will benefit in the future from Peppers Its also hoped the county will get the towns garbage business in the near In other business before town Polly asked the local government to move the cast iron fountain from the filter plant back to Jackson Park where it was originally Probably less than 20 percent of the town even knows we have the fountain on the said Mitchell was told the Building and Lands Committee is looking at Jhe situation and is the See page A2 More work needed before museum opens News Editor Items are being gathered at the Pulaski Municipal Building and volunteers have been at and more work is still to have the Raymond Museum ready for its dedication Sunday The dedication will highlight a busy centennial weekend scheduled by the Pulaski Centennial Com Sundays schedule also calls for honored town of centennial committee members and their spouses to attend morning worship at First United Methodist Church and have lunch together prior to the 2 Activities begin Friday with a birthday party sponsored by in and the Pulaski Merchants Saturday offers a sock hop for young people at Pulaski Middle School with Cat Thomas of Radio and a centennial kickoff dance at Pulaski County High School with the big band sounds of The Both dances begin at 8 and will end at Tickets for the dance at the high school are available at The South west Times and the Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce Cost See page A2
