Robesonian (Newspaper) - January 7, 1986, Lumberton, North Carolina For details on todays weather and the forecast see Page 2A Relief The Council revised its vehicle and travel to help city employee meet their annual Ux burton Page Quitting again Minnesota Vikings Assistant Coach jerry Burns will replace Head Coach Bud Grant who retired again Monday after a oneyear return at the helm of the NFL club Classified Sports US Briefs World Briefs THE ROBESONIAN A Park Newspaper Serving Roheson County Since 1870 LUMBERTON NC TUESDAY JANUARY 7 1986 VOL NO 266 Price 25 Cents First day of campaign filings brings out early birds Odom Gox to vie for commission seat DONNA PIPES After just one day of the filing period for this years elections Robeson County Commissioners Chairman Sammy Cox has opposition from a former county con Cox and challenger JD Odom were among nine Democrats who filed to run for office in Robeson County Monday the first filing day for the 1986 primary and general elections County voters will have the opportunity to elect three county commissioners a district attorney sheriff and clerk of superior court Elections Supervisor Elizabeth M Morton said this morning Also seven members of the partisan county board of Commission lowers some tax listings education and four members of the nonpartisan Fair mont Board of Education will be elected In the General Assembly districts one seat in the NC Senate is open as are three seats in the NC House of Representatives Mrs Morton said Robeson County is in the state Senatorial district along County and is in the state Houses district along with Hoke County and three Scotland County townships Spring Hill Stewartsville and Williamsons The filing period continues until Feb 3 at noon and the primary will be May 6 Odom was solid waste consultant to the county from July to December 1985 and was frequently at odds with Please see FILINGS Senate hopefuls line up in Raleigh RALEIGH AP Democratic Senate hopeful Fountain Odom was awarded first place in line on the first day of campaign filings but his efforts to gain statewide name recognition were foiled With half a dozen television cam eras rolling Monday Lucille Suiter administrative secretary to Elec tions Director Alex Brock an the first candidate to file would be Mr Fountain Close behind the Mecklenburg County Commissioner were Demo cratic Senate hopefuls Marvin Blount a former Superior Court judge from Greenville William DONNA PIPES Staff writer Taxpayers of Robeson County are in for a little relief this year when they list their personal property for tax purposes At theiT meeting Robeson County Commissioners unanimously lowered one part of the required minimum property listings That action alters a decision the commissioners made at their Nov 18 meeting when they approved in creases in the minimum value at which people must list personal property The newest change comes when listing rooms now taxpayers must list each room at a value of no less than instead of at the minimum the commissioners agreed to in November All other increases voted on in November will remain the same Those increases cover clothes and certain appliances and livestock Commissioner HT Taylor began the discussion by questioning the equity of listing rooms in addition to listing individual items such as ap I am not arguing with per month I am arguing with them coming hack after you list per room and listing a stove separately a television separately a deep freeze separately Taylor said That should be included in the per Taylors motion to keep the per room minimum and to omit listing individual items was not voted on instead the commis agreed on the compromise after hearing from Tax Supervisor A suggested redwing the amount assessed per room and listing individual items Jacobs told the commissioners that an equitable assessment of property was impossible and that in the mass appraisal system some peoples property will be over assessed while some peoples prop erty will be underassessed Were talking about an average assessment Jacobs said Commissioner Carl Britt made a motion to reduce the minimum listing per room to and to leave the other increases The board ap proved that motion unanimously This morning Jacobs said the listing applied to all rooms except bathrooms He also said the change from the November decision would amount to a decrease in the average property listing of Based on the current tax rate of 91 cents per valuation the county will lose from the average household Jacobs said In other business the board ap proved a wage waiver for Croft Metals Inc which is expanding its operations The current facility located on NC 71 near Lumber Bridge Please see TAX 2A Belk a Charlotte businessman and former national president of Young Democrats and Betty C Wallace deputy assistant state superintend ent of public instruction a political novice who announced only last weekend she would run for the seat being vacated by US Sen John East RNC Candidates their families and supporters and reporters packed into the State Board of Elections of fice as the filing period opened at noon Wouldbe office holders must sign the necessary documents and pay their filing fees William separates clothes at Lawsons Junk Store in Hohenwald Tenn Thrift stores are junkyard capital HOHENWALD Tenn AP Punk rockers scrounge for glitter yuppies rummage for tweed and Amish women pick out heavy blankets as yesterdays originals become todays fashions in the secondhand stores of this hamlet dubbed the junkyard capital of the world Hohenwald thrift store owners buy much of their clothing in bales weighing up to 1400 pounds from Salvation Army centers in Philadelphia and Chicago We just pop em on the floor said Willene Defoe owner of JCs secondhand store in this com munity 70 miles southwest of Nashville Its kind of like Disneyland Thats part of the attraction they like to dig through the bales said Martha Williams owner of A and W Sales for the last 15 years The areas nickname came from a most reputable authority on recycled wares The Salvation Army called us the junkyard capital of the world Mrs Defoe said The thrift stores in this town of 3500 peo ple attract browsers from all over Most of our cus tomers are from out of town Memphis a lot Nashville New York England Florida Georgia said Mrs Defoe Although customers glean the stares for hot such as petticoats letter jackets and circle skirts reminiscent of a 50s sock hop other shoppers go because its just plain cheap On a Saturday afternoon in A and W Madonna lookalikes mix with professionals and mothers seeking warm coats for their children The Amish seek blankets and shoes and want only black or brown Mrs Defoe said ready to announce sanctions against Libya WASHINGTON AP President Reagan holding his first nationally broadcast news conference since September is ready to announce new economic sanctions against Libya for its alleged support of ter who attacked the Rome and Vienna airports last month ad ministration officials say The officials declined to spell out the additional steps Reagan plans the regime of However one official said Monday that Reagan also was keeping the military option open The news conference will be broadcast live by the major and television networks at n m EST Retig to the Oval Office on Monday following a weeklong California vacation Reagan held a strategy session with his top foreign policy advisers but his spokesman refused to disclose what was discussed The spokesman Larry Speakes said reasonable people could that Libya was the topic of conversation Speakes would not elaborate Attention in recent days has focused on the terrorist attacks at Rome and Vienna airports and the role the administration contends Libya played in aiding the suspected mastermind of the operation The United States has accused Palestinian renegade Abu Nidal a frequent visitor to Libya of ting the attacks and receiving sup port for his breakaway Palestinian faction from In an unusual news conference Sunday perched atop a tractor in a barley field outside Tripoli warned that American retaliation against Libya for the airport attacks would be answered by attacks in the United States We can reach any place not with aircraft carriers nor with the bombers but with suicide squads said The Libyan leader did not answer directly when asked if the terrorists in Rome and Vienna had come from Libya Attacks on passengers at airports are unlawful actions as as we are concerned he said But as far as the Palestinians are con fay Feb 3 to be eligible for the May 6 primary Being a Republican Im used to going last said a laughing state Sen Cass Ballenger as he sought a place in line Ballenger finally made his way to Ms Suiters desk and formally entered the race for the 10th District congressional seat Good luck to almost everybody Ballenger boomed as the crowd burst into laughter The filing fee for the US Senate and House races is Odom of Please see SENATE page 2A Shuttle delayed again CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The launch of hardluck space shuttle Columbia on its first flight in more than two years was postponed for a fifth time today because of bad weather here and at emergency landing sites in Africa and Spain NASA said another launch would not be attempted before Thursday because of the need to inspect eagine compartment insulation which has been subjected to fueling for two straight days Officials said a new date would be announced later in the day A launch attempt on Monday was scrubbed after the countdown had advanced to within 31 seconds the second time in 17 days that a last minute technical glitch thwarted a launch effort Two other postpone ments Dec 18 and Jan 4 were the result of the need for more time to ready Columbia and to give the crew additional training time The disappointed astronauts in a Florida congressman and the first astronaut were to return to crew quarters to await another day It was the third time they had waited hours in the cockpit for a launch that did not occur The countdown for the first of a record 15 shuttle missions planned in 1986 was halted at the mark because of clouds both in the launch area and at emergency lan ding sites at Dakar Senegal and Moron Spain Forecasters monitored the weather for more than two hours hoping for a break here and at one of the overseas abort sites group threatens suicide operations in US Ronald Reagan cerned some see that as legitimate action Its obvious there is a major ter activity and undertaking on the part of the Libyan government Speakes responded and we would hope that the steps that we take and the steps that the allies should take would come to bear on the Libyans and bring international pressure on them to stop export terrorism and training terrorism Several meetings were held throughout the government Mon day some involving State Depart ment officials concerned with mar shaling support among US allies and neutral countries for additional economic sanctions against Libya TRIPOLI Libya AP The media claimed today that Saudi Arabias generally pro Western King Fahd promised to use all the material and financial resources of his country to help Libya repel feared US and Israeli attacks In a related development a group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Committees in Lebanon threatened in a statement published in Beirut to conduct suicide operations in the heart of Washington and in Israel if the United Stales or Israel attacks Libya Last week Libyan leader Col threatened to send suicide squads that will operate on the streets of America in the event of a US attack Threats and counterthreats have flown since the United States accused Libya of aiding the terrorists who launched coordinated grenade and at tacks Dec 27 on the Rome and Vienna airports Among those killed in the assaults directed at the checkin counters of Israels El Al airline were five Americans and four terrorists More than 120 people were wounded Efforts to reach Saudi officials to verify the Libyan reports were not immediately successful and the of radio and news agency were issuing no such reports Saudi Arabia is one of the United States closest allies in the Arab world Libyan television monitored in London said King Fahd telephoned on Monday and stressed that the Saudi position in the same as and that Saudi Arabia stands very strongly by the side of Libya in con fronting the imperialist and Zionist threats and places all its material and moral resources on the side of the Libyan people The government news agency JANA similarly said King Fahd put all its material and financial resources to face the American and Zionist threats The New York Times today quoted an administration official as saying up to 15 Palestinian and terrorist training camps have been set up in Libya The ad ministration probably will detail publicly in the next few days what it knows about Libyan involvement with ter the newspaper said has denied the existence of terrorist camps in Libya On Monday JANA claimed Israeli jet fighters were aboard a US aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea for a planned strike at Libya The US carrier Coral Sea led a task force out of Naples Italy on Friday but US Navy sources in Washington flatly denied that any Israeli jet fighters were aboard They said Israels most modern warplanes including US made are not equipped for carrier operations In Tel Aviv an Israeli military source who spoke on condition of anonymity said We dont know anything about it and we do not comment on reports like these from foreign sources The US Navy sources also disputed Libyan claims that ships of the US 6th Fleet are on maneuvers off the Libyan coast saying the Coral Sea task force on a routine training exercise in the northwestern Mediter ranean and not near Libyan
