The World-News from Roanoke, Virginia • 13

The World -News, Roanoke, Tuesday, December 28, 1976 13 Backing not given to tobacco board Salem City Council theas declined to give immediate support to Town of Vinton's bid for creation of a valleywide tobacco tax board. Council received a resolution from Vinton and denied a motion by Council Member Jane Hough that Salem express support for Vinton's proposal. Vinton Town Council adopted a resolution earlier this month asking for the creation of a board to administer tobacco taxes on a valleywide basis. Town Manager Ronald Miller said such a board, in use in: Northern Virginia, would simplify the ad-, ministration of tobacco taxes. Vinton's resolution, however, is primarily aimed at Roanoke County, the only locality in the Roanoke Valley that does not have the power to levy tobacco taxes.

Vinton, Salem and the City of Roanoke can levy tobacco taxes now but Roanoke is the only valley government that taxes tobacco products. Vinton Council proposed a tobacco tax several months ago but met strong opposition from the tobacco industry and some retail merchants. Because of the opposition it has never acted on the tax question. Vinton's resolution asks the county board of supervisors to seek authority from the General Assembly to levy a tobacco tax. At the same time it asks all the valley governments to support creation of a tax board.

Monsters From Page 11 duced in the cathode ray tube of a TV set.) The signal resulting from interaction of the beam with the specimen is collected by a suitable electron detector and used to modulate the CRT (readout terminal) brightness. In most applications, it is the lowenergy secondary electrons that are used to form a picture of the specimen on the CRT face. Mitsianis maintains a rigid schedule for use of the microscope by various departments at the university and a pro rata portion of the cost is charged to the departments. Mitsianis, who is 43, worked in various types of industrial electronics before coming to Blacksburg. A native of Greece, he came to Canada when he was 17.

After working for several years in Canada, he met and married a an girl. "We are quite a mixture," Mitsianis says. "Two of our children were born in Canada and then we immigrated to the U.S. The third child was born an American citizen." One of daughters, now in high school in Blacksburg, plans to enroll in nursing school at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals. Salem Mayor James Taliaferro said he did not approve of the tax board idea because he viewed it as a means of levying a tax in Salem at a time when additional revenue was not needed.

He said he felt there should be a need for revenue before any tax was levied. However, Miller said today that with a tax board no locality would be forced to have a tobacco tax if it did not want one. Also, he said, that even with a board each locality could have different rates for taxing tobacco. Taliaferro also noted that valley representatives: in the General Assembly have indicated there is little chance the General Assembly would grant the Roanoke Valley the power to create a tax board. Several years ago there was a proposal for a uniform tobacco tax throughout the Roanoke Valley but the idea never gained support.

Fire ruins apartments in Richmond RICHMOND (AP) A fire of undetermined origin swept through a 10-unit apartment building, collapsing the two top floors before Chesterfield County fire fighters brought it under control. Fire Marshal Dennis W. Turlington said there were no injuries in the Monday morning blaze. The occupants in all but two apartments apparently were away when the fire started in a second floor apartment at the rear of the wooden structure, Turlington said. A fire department official, David E.

Barfield, said when he arrived at the Rosbury Square Apartments about four minutes after the alarm, "It was With the wind pushing it, it went awfully fast." A woman who lived in the apartment building across the street said she heard an explosion that sounded like a shotgun blast and looked out a window. "The apartment exploded in fire. Fire was just pouring out. Then it started said Mrs. Joan Campbell.

One of the occupants, Fred Benito, said he was asleep in his ground floor apartment when his wife, Amy, went to investigate some noises above them. Benito said his wife told him that "things were kinda noisy upstairs. (She) thought somebody was breaking in and went to the patio." Then she discovered smoke and the Benitos and their daughter, Cherry, fled the building. Benito said he tried to go back inside to save some items, but firemen kept him out. Agency plans staff increase The re-funding proposal of the Southwest Virginia Community Development Fund shows that nearly 38 per cent of its federal financing over the next two years would be used for administrative and staff costs.

Of the $4.2 million being sought in federal funds, the agency would spend $1.6 nillion for salaries, fringe benefits and consultants' fees and the other $2.6 million for investment in business ventures and community developnent programs. If the money is received, the fund would increase its staff fron 21 to 30, with eight of its employes staffing a holding company to oversee the agency's business ventures. The agency has declined to release the details of its refunding proposal to the federal Community Funding Ad- ministration although the Fifth Planning District CommisSgt. Larry Graham at work Former Roanoker prevents plane crash Air Force S.Sgt. Larry J.

Graham, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Graham of 4105 Kentucky Service Ave. NW, recently received a Certificate of Exemplary for preventing an aircraft accident at England AFB, Alexandria, La.

Graham, an air controller, noticed that an airplane that was scheduled to land didn't have its landing gear down despite the pilot's previous acknowledgement of a gear check. He radioed the pilot and the plane circled the field again while dropping its landing gear and then made a safe landing. Graham, a graduate of William Fleming High School, has been an air controller for six years. Zoning exception to be sought Requests for continued use of a non- by W. H.

Engle for enclosure of a front conforming apartment and for waiver of porch at 3208 Round Hill Ave. NW. building lines will be heard Jan. 11 by the Roanoke Board of Zoning Appeals. The board set over from its December meeting the request of Mrs.

Olivee Tyree to The board will meet at 2 p.m. in the operate a home for the aged at 2501 Hanovcity council chamber on the fourth floor of er Ave. NW, then asked city council to the municipal building. abolish a requirement for a lot size of several acres for such homes. J.

K. and Mollie Lou Bohon will ask the board to grant a certificate of Council referred the matter to the occupancy for continued use of a multi-family resi- planning commission for a recommendadence in a duplex zone at 2523 Rosalind tion, but the next commission meeting is Ave. SW. not scheduled until Jan. 19.

The certificate vests the "grandfather. The zoning board may, therefore, not clause" of the zoning law to allow continua- be able to hear the application. tion of a use that predated enactment of the law but which is now conforming. Council was told that few homes in the city available for taking patients from such Building line waivers have been re- institutions as the Veterans Administration quested by R. O.

Hannabass for enclosure Hospital and the Catawba geriatric hospital of a carport at 2344 Howard Road SW and can meet present land requirements. OPEN DAILY 1 10-10; CLOSED SUNDAY FRI. Open Friday 10-6-Closed New Year's Day gives satisfaction always PHARMACY SPECIALS BE WISE! KEEP AN EYE OPEN FOR SAVINGS! mart PHARMACY Photo by Betty Masters Displaced duct Did duct? you lose a portion of an aluminum air crossing sign near the Veterans Hospital You'll find it draped over the school on the Boulevard 1 in Salem. Radar unit locations Police will be operating radar in the following locations Wednesday: Roanoke Hazel Ridge Road NE Oakland Blvd. NW Keagy Road SW 9th Street SE Salem W.

Main St. Apperson Dr. W. Riverside Dr. Colorado St.

Radar will be operating at other undisclosed locations. sion has scheduled a special meeting Wednesday to consider the application. The commission's executive committee has twice postponed action on endorsement of the application because the agency has declined to release details except on about $1.2 million for development programs. Of the share used for business ventures, about $1.5 million would be used for community development, industrial development and government assistance programs, with the remainder spent on operational costs. The fund is seeking $1.2 million for new business ventures and $700,000 for investment in its six existing ventures, all of which are losing money.

They are Gainsboro Electrical Manufacturing Craig Furniture Impact Housing Structural Plastics System, American Packaging Co. and McFadden Tool Engineering Co. The fund said it hopes to raise at least twice the $470,000 required fron private sources in matching funds for the federal grant. The fund indicated it hopes to create at least 100 new jobs over the next two years in addition to the 120 existing jobs it has created, for a total of 220 by the end of 1978. It hopes to create another 100 jobs through its community development, industrial development and government assistance programs.

Crime complaints The following is a list of citizen complaints of thefts and burglaries reported during the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today as provided by the Roanoke City Police Department: 1300 block Clark Avenue SW, V. Rosenberg, antique furniture, valued at $3,600, 1500 block Grayson Avenue NW, Robert 0. Watts, television and camera, valued at $175, stolen. 300 block 5th Street NW, Cornell B.

Perdue, tools, valued at $555, stolen. 9th Street and Bullitt Avenue SE, Helen H. Frazier, billfold and money, valued at $105, stolen. 700 block White Oak Road SW, Leslie L. Robinson camera, valued at $400, stolen.

1200 block 9th Street SE, Gary D. Harmon, tools, valued at $325, stolen. 2500 block Franklin Road SW, Fulton Motor four tires and wheels, valued at $360, stolen. 2700 block Hollins Road NE, Frank L. Vance, television and CB radio, valued at $446, stolen.

Blood count Units sent to hospitals 395 Units collected from donors 193 Types needed positive, 0 negative and A negative Donate at the Red Cross Blood Center Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 352 West Church Ave. Red Cross Blood Center will only be open Thursday of this week Trial in '75 rape case begins By DOUGLAS PARDUE Staff Writer A nine woman, three-man Roanoke Circuit Court jury today began hearing testimony in the case of a 19-year-old soldier charged with breaking into the home of a 33-yearold Northwest Roanoke widow Dec. 23, 1975, and raping her.

Frank Boltin Adams, who had escaped from Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., the week before the woman was attacked, was arrested Christmas Day 1975 on charges of rape, burglary, robbery and sodomy. He was arrested the day after Roanoke police found among his belongings a small school picture of the preteenaged daughter of the woman he allegedly raped. The picture had been taken from the woman's pocketbook after she was raped, investigators said. The woman testified this morning that she was alone in her Northwest Roanoke home when she was attacked early in the morning of Dec. 23.

She said she had left her two young children at a friend's home for the night so that she could do some Christmas shopping. She said she was awakened by a "smothering feeling," opened her eyes and saw "a gloved hand over her mouth and someone in a ski mask" standing over her with a knife. The man, the woman testified in a steady but almost inaudible voice, told her, "Don't move, don't make a sound. One girl did and I cut her throat." The assailant demanded money, started to take her into the living room where her purse was and then ordered her back into the bedroom, the woman told the jury. He then took her clothes off, forced her to perform oral sex on him and raped her, the woman testified.

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