Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Pulaski, Virginia then there was Louisville captures NCAA crown Page 6 Several roads in the County area are in dire need for The money is but will we get our fair share Page 77 Coun Calendar GUEST SPEAKER April at 7 at Back Creek Holiness Tabernacle will be the Jan Parton of WOMEN OF THE MOOSE Chapter meeting Wednesday April at the Moose All members are urged to PULASKI FREE Clinic will be open Thursday at Serving last week were John Knarr Ann Umberger and Linda McDaniel Jodi Fortson pharmacist Donna recep tion Pam Morrison Clydette and Gerald AMERICAN Association of Retired Persons will meet April 2 at 2 at the Senior Bea Ogle will be the guest speaker and will present a Senior All past and are urged to attend and renew their annual mem NO VISITATION through Wednesday at Fairview has been requested because of the flu HENRY CLAY LODGE will hold a regular stated communication on April at in the Masonic Hall in All members will please attend and visitors are Bird Club will meet April 2 at at in Stan will discuss bir ding in The public is BLOOD PRESSURE clinic and glucose testing scheduled for April at the Pulaski Senior Center has been rescheduled for April from 10 to 4 PULASKI COUNTY Alcohol and Drug Abuse Task Force will meet Tuesday at at Dublin Elementary All persons interested in drug and alcohol abuse are See page 2 This column is provided at no for publicizing of general in terest to our We do not guarantee any placement and try to run items at least three Index Obituaries Lifestyles Editorial Sports Entertainment Classifieds 3 4 Mr 8 f Weather t Southwestern r Tuesday sunny and Highs 75 to Southerly wi around 10 Tuesday Lows in the low to mid Light southerly Wed mostly ninny sad continued 76 to Winds RICHMOND the National Weather Services extended forecast for Thursday through Saturday Warm and dry through the period with partly gunny days and fair Highs each day in the loW in 40s to mid Temperatures 5 to 10 degrees cooler in the One Section Tuesday April 1 1986 Virginia 25 Cents Leaders told regional marketing is key By TOMMY HARRIISON Worrell News Service For a attendants of Monday New River Valley Marketing Workshop received a wealth of information which could start the entire valley on its way to Area leaders received the message that regional marketing is the answer to the lack of success with individual marketing efforts in the We dont live only in our county or contended Louise economic development specialist with the New River Valley Planning District We live and operate in a much broader world than While some individual marketing strategies have aroused hone have been as successful as was County has developed several brochures and placed advertisements in local and national publications touting the areas natural resources and available business They spent including the programs development and placing of specific This resulted in 85 fairly serious responses from 26 states and a request for more ac cording to assistant county ad ministrator Peter Our greatest weakness is a lack of information at this Huber We get a lot of responses asking for further That may be because the New River Valley is somewhat of a nonentity in the national and in We need to make it a destination rather than a place you go by on the It needs to be a place to go This could be accomplished by addressing the valleys image problems by changing the way people the area through effective promotion of the available We dont have an identity tourism or industrial Were not there Were just A resume of the valleys strong points to attract industry would be headed by the quality of life the open space with forestry recreational activities and small town she There are also the educational institutions which provide the job training skills desired by industry at all There is the full spec trum of education in this she New River Community College provides businesses with skilled labor and Radford University is mainly a liberal arts undergraduate school with a good business and Virginia Tech is one of the leading engineering schools in the according to The area has willing workers as another of its biggest selling people who will not sit and take she but commute to other localities for work if its not available The location is another with three airports in the two interstate corridors and six in flat and steep zoned and unzoned a whole mix to suit about any she A major problem facing the valley is that marketing is a relatively new See page 2 Episcopalians opened first church of first church done by Miss Elizabeth Christ Episcopal historian By CONWAY SMITH From The Land That Is County The few Episcopalians living in Pulaski County in the 1870s were determined to establish a Episcopal churches were built at New River Depot and at these churches survived only a few In 1879 Robert Martin a gave land at Martins Station on which to build an Episcopal The then known as Macgill Memorial was built on the old Drapers Valley which crossed Drapers In time this road became Street in The old since remodeled as a still but bears little resemblance to the original The Episcopal Church came being at Martins Station as a sort of ecumenical The land for the church was given by a the original six trustees of the church included two three Presbyterians and one They were Stories from early Pulaski James Macgill and Episcopalians John Calfee and William Presbyterians and a For some years the old church remained the only church the was used by all Everyone attended services at Macgill hearing ministers of different It made little dif ference whose order of worship was being The congregation in 1897 completed building a handsome stone church on Sixth Street north in This building was never used for The Saturday before the first service was to be held the new church was destroyed See page 2 Panel urged to retain road system CHARLOTTESVILLE AP The system of financing highway construction in Virginia is just as valid today as it was 50 years says a retired of Virginia business 4 Almand Coleman showed the governors on Tran Monday a copy of a letter he wrote to Harry Byrd in 1937 apologizing for opposing the plant that Byrd fashioned as Coleman also has Retained over the years the reply lie got from in which the senator said it is easy for government to hard to The which has been charged with studying state tran needs along with alter native methods of financing those held the first of five public hearings to get comments from local and The commission was to meet today in On it will be in Prince William Thursday in Virginia Beach and Friday in One aspect of the commissions study will be the possible aban of the and authorizing that money be borrowed through the sale of general obligation who also taught at the Harvard University and Washington and Lee University business said he learned while working for the Department of Defense what it meant to saddle future generations See page 2 ors GOP narrows search for candidate in 9th Rachel DeHaven by Susan DeHaven plays part in By SUSAN SAUNDERS Lifestyles Editor The work doesnt matter if youre fulfilling your purpose or your goal with whatever youre said Rachel the childrens librarian at the Pulaski County The childrens library is designed for children through to the sixth or seventh There of and color and a listening area for the children to listen to cassettes and They enjoy their said Theyll run back here with their mother and These are our The childrens as well as assistant for the past two See page 2 Staff Writer The search has been narrowed in Southwest Virginia for a Republican candidate to challenge incumbent Democratic Frederick Boucher in the coming Ninth District congressional The Republican search was down to two different a young state delegate from Bristol and a former Commonwealths Attorney from Wise according to the Bristol Taking on the challenge will be either state John a math or Ray a former Dotson worked for former William Bouchers A committee decided last private meeting in that one of the two would be the Republican ac cording to Jim the GOPs political The decision was based on an evaluation of potential candidates by a Charlottesville political con said He I think they feel that weve done what we could with the evaluations and now with that in formation they will take a few days to step back and work independently from the party to see if they want to run and how they would want to pursue that possible The candidate will be chosen by pril he Brown told the Bristol newspaper last week he didnt know but was weighing the matter to see where I will be the most effective and am considering my teaching and possible Dotson said the two were un decided about whether to but we did decide that one or the other would be the Were very strong in that Dotson said he felt his strong points are that he knows the district and its people as well as its problems and possible since he worked with The according to showed Brown has a strong political base in the area and that he could carry his home unlike Boucher in the past two He also said the delegate has a strong name has a crosssection of support and is considered experienced despite his young Dotson has recognition although he is holding an office Hiwassee man arrested on drug charges A 39yearold Hiwassee man was arrested late Friday night in the area near Sacketts night club after a police according to acting Police Chief Gerald Williams said police officers observed Arthur Henry Wilson with what was apparently drugs in his possession and after a found a fairly large quantity of Wilson has been charged with possession of marijuana possession of hashish possession of paraphernalia including a set of and possession of a con a Wilson is free on a cash bond and A trial date has been set for Mav
