Times Journal (Newspaper) - November 21, 1976, Pulaski, Virginia Blacksburg 20 Graham 7 Parry 34 Chiswell 12 24 UCLA 14 Michigan 22 Ohio 0 20 Covington 6 Richmond 21 Mary 10 28 Tech 21 Houston 27 Texas Tech 19 INSIDE Among area high school students the abuse of hard drugs seems to be on the drinking in the schools seems to be a growing For see Susan Lovings areawide analysis on page 268 WEATHER Becoming cloudy with chance of High in the Thirty percent chance of A New River Valley Newspaper Serving The Valley Area NOVEMBER 1976 15 Cents 25 Cents Sunday Landfill Location Criticized Staff Writer In a report critical of Health Department and four expert Pulaski 5 County has been told they should no longer pursue the acquisition of the Blake property on Back 2 Creek as the site of a new county The recommendation has been made by Van Associates of Blacksburg in r response to testimony presented at an 5 hearing in Richmond before State Health Department and State Water E Control Board personnel for the Back Creek Watershed Com John Van wrote State Department of expressing shock and amazement at the swift action of the state agencies following the Richmond hearing to with draw of the Fawcett site the letter contains 15 points covering testimony in Rich contact between the Pulaski County consultants and state agencies and the lack of such contact at other Following the outline of the 1 various points and some Olver In we have no choice but to recommend to our Pulaski that they no longer pursue the acquisition of the site based on the history that has been detailed We stand behind our opinion that the site is An acceptable site as does Lietzke and he Berating the state agency for its Olver We hope that your agency will consider our responses in a professional manner and for clarify the record for the You in our effectively eliminated the location of any sanitary land which we might are about the only cost effective solution currently available to most rural from being located in karst topographic areas of We also recommend that your agency immediately develop site evaluation requirements and more com prehensive operational and inspection requirements for all landfills located within the and then abide by wrote Concluding he The Illegal Gun Probe Extends To Area By DAVID RIDDLE Staff Writer Three New River Valley including a Radford were among the persons searched statewide Thursday in a series of gun raids by Treasury Lowell Thomas Hypes of Sutton Stewart Cox of Montgomery south of and Isaiah Quesenberry of Willis in Floyd The raids stemmed from undercover investigations by Tobacco and Firearms agents during the last several The ATF reported the search warrants stemmed directly from illegal sales made during gun shows to undercover ATF Rex director of the Bureau of Tobacco said the raids were aimed to stop the flow of guns into the metropolitan He said guns bought illegally at gun shows have been turning up more and more in crimes committed in metropolitan Approximately 450 guns were confiscated in Virginia during the A total of guns were captured in all the raids which were carried out in seven other who lives in the Sugar Grove community of Montgomery County south of was found to be in possession of 90 Hypes had 26 guns confiscated from his residence and Quesenberry had eight guns taken from his According to ATF agent Jim Keck of the Roanoke Hypes had a federal permit to sell firearms but Keck said he did not know if the permit was still Federal law permits gun dealers with permits to selJ firearms at their listed place of but does not permit sales off of their licensed Persons without a federal license are prohibited from dealing in gun A total of 10 search warrants were carried out in Western Virginia Thursday as part of the series of ATF agents said another six search warrants had been written out but not yet carried ILLEGAL HANDGUNS SEIZED Over Taken In Raids United Condemned Killer Tries Hunger Ploy See Page Construction has begun on Interstate 77 to pass through the Chiswell These workers end the day with a descent in a Read the full details of the new on page SALT LAKE CITY UPI Condemned killer Gary Gilmore staged a hunger strike in his prison hospital cell for the second day Saturday in an effort to win the privilege of phoning his Nicole Both Gilmore and Miss Barrett have unsuccessfully attempted and Gilmore told his Im going to try it Theres some time youre going to let your guard or someone will turn While Gilmore refused his Boaz said he would seek an Border from State Supreme Court Monday permitting the condemned man to talk with his fiancee by Gilmore overdosed Tuesday on and was found unconscious by guards who came to tell him country singer Johnny Cash had called to urge the condemned man to fight for his At the same took a massive dose of sleeping pills in her apartment 25 miles from the lay down on a couch with a photograph of her lover clutched to her and waited to She was found by a and after intensive hospital care was committed to the Utah State Mental Hospital Friday at the request of her Kathryn The mother told a judge to commit the daughter because the girl still wants to honor her suicide pact with Baker said her who spent two days in a was See Page Little Creek Hamlet Like One Big Family Chinese Fallout Spreading By United Press International High altitude winds carried radioactive fallout from a Chinese atomic bomb explosion across the United States Satur but federal officials said their only worry was that some radioactivity might fall to Earth if it encountered a rain An Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said rain was predicted for where radioactivity lev els increased last September after China detonated an earlier Government monitoring units See Page NAMESAKE BODY OF WATER Little Creek Close Knit Area Still Photo By BECKY MUNROE Staff Writer Nestled in the valley between two big mountains is the small community of Little Creek in Pulaski Although once alive with activity from tourists coming to get better health from the alum spring found near the the com munity sits in a world of its Little Creek is a community which is located along the banks of Little Walker Creek between Little Walker Mountain and Big Walker According to family records kept by and Cecil residents of Little Creek for many the Alum Spring Hotel was built in the early 1800s and was filled with people who came to drink the health water from the spring to make them well Woodyard said people were hauled in to the hotel when they couldnt but after their stay was over they were able to walk She said there used to be a small wooden bridge that crossed the creek to the spring where the alum water was The hotel was first owned by Hunter the next owner was Robert Hunter and then Robert Graham owned the hotel until 1914 when it burned on a Sunday evening when nc one was Woodyard said she and her husband have records of the old hotel because her husbands Sidney used to work at the In Tht It was a hotel that hosted those interested in horseback and There was also an ice house on the hotel property which stored chunks of frozen creek to be used in the hotel in the Woodyard Hunting has always been a great in the Little Creek area and this past week was no Just driving through the stretch from Robinson Tract on the Pulaski end to the Gap Restaurant on the Dublin and practically around every curve in the road there were Wilbur a man who has lived all his 81 years in Little said that Monday and See Page
