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,011123 rman pn'HTi .'< >i v.tid this j^uld allow t*im for :i tlrviMOn J . (whether adniuuMralivc ac..rfn 1v Kleppe would Mop con iuds Kleppe on MLnmg> w struction of rhe project which includes two dams to he built fiwffio A/evu-LEAJ** By JAY STRAFFORD iVcM-5 Leader Staff IVnter LO'JISA -- A request by APCO IS PLEASED 'l/Jx/'t Mcauwhiie, in Roanoke. Va.. Appalachian Power Co. of 061SC??3 ficials expressed delight at the Secretary of the Interior Thomas S. Kleppe that plans (or m'.ning vermiculltc here be r-cconsidere'l has been praised bv the immediate past chairman o( thecounty's board of supervisors. "At a time when ourgreat nsnon is celebrating its 2U0th birthday and trying to preserve court decision. "Apco is delighted with the decision .and hopes to go forward with the work under the license as cxrcdmously as possible," said John W. Vaughan. Apco executive vice president. R. Joseph Dowd, general A full-site house i! SpOttylvonio Col. on on adjacent purchottd by ( Vi: our historic values, it would not counsel for American Electric be in the best interests of jnvone to deface this beautiful area (Green Springs) of Louisa County." said John Q. Butler, v.ho left office Jan. I. Butler's commentswerecon tained in a lettermailed earlier this week tc Kleppe. His letter Power Co.. Apco's parent firm, said simply. "We intend to build the project." In anotherdevelopment. Rep. Ken Hechier. D-w. Va., called the Appeals Court decision "ridiculous." FALLS CHURCr yotingkidnapvictin company of an esc Maryland menu directed police to .1 near here where th nude body of anoth came about a week after A.G. Johnson, current supervisors chairman, wrote to tell the in terior secretary to mind bis own business in regard to the controversial strip mining proposal. MIXED OPINIONS At issue are plans by W.K. Grace and Co> to mine vermicullte in the Green Springs area. The plans have beea approved by county super visors but areopposed by some county residents, including a group known as Historic Green Springs, Inc. Butler said today be was not Youth ls*Held In Store Holdup Special to The Nttes Leader LUNENBURG - A 17-yearold youth was being held In Jail today on a chargeof armed rob bery in connection with a holdup at a grocery store on State Rt. 49 in Lunenburg Coun ty- Sheriff E.C. Kardy said Hallowe's Grocery was held up Tuesday about 12:30 p.m. and SsO was taken. Hardy snld the youth also is charged with the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. The youth is being held OS. Inferior Secretory aware of Johnson's earlier let ter to Kleppe and added his own letter was not intended as a "I did It purely oa my own." Butler said. "The way I feel, I don't mind telling people." Butler, who did not seek reelection to the board of super visors, was cse of three mem ber* of the former board who consistently voted against the Grace company's requests to reaoe acreage in the Green Springs area from agricultural to industrial use. NEW BOARD'S VOTE However, the new board, elected last November, has voted $to 1 to rezone 1,467 acres to permit the mining. Grace of ficials say the mining won't stan until 1980. Kleppe's request to J. Peter Grace, chairman of the board of Grace, asked him to reassess the mining plans because the Interior Department has designated the Green Springs area a national historic land mark. Kleppe said the mining Letter of Support miculite -- an insulation material -- in Montana and South Carolina. ~"l have- talked with many people in Louisa County who aremuebopposedtothis typeof destruction coming into our county," wrote Butler, "and whoappreciate yourconcern." The former chairman snid, "I hope you never waver in your efforts to preserve this beautiful section of Louisa County and our mother state, Virginia." Like Johnson, Sutler mailed copies of his letter to Sens. Harry F. Byrd, lnd-Va..' William L. Scott, R-Va,, end Rep. J. Kenneth Robinson. RVa. i Grace officicls said earlier this week.the firm.will send a full reply to Kleppe within several weeks. Grace already has acknowledged receiving the interior secretary's re quest. hut a company spokesman in New York gave no indication that the mining plans will he abandoned. LONGTIME FOE Hechier. a longtime opponent of the twin-dam project, said, "The United State? Court of Ap peals decision is a severe biow to all the citizens who worked so long and hard to save the New River." Hechier. in whose s tate a por tion of the river also flows, said he would "push immediately" for congressional action to in validate the Federal Power Commission's licensing of the power project. The appeals court con centrated on two issues raised by the State of North Carolina and found them without mem. RELOCATION COSTS One was (he FPC's alleged failure to consider energy conservattonasan alternative. The other was the commission's alleged failure to consider one of the social costs of the dams and reservoir, the relocation of persons who would be dis placed. Some 40.000 acres ofland and u segment of the river in North Carolina's Ashe and Alleghany counties and Virginia's Grayson County would he inun dateJ by water backed up by the dams to be erected for the power project. Arthur Frederic 21. of Hynttsville.' ahistoryofsexoffe. mg held without tor charges in the sin; neth A. Dawson. Church. The boy ha mg since Saturda mother nad droop* nearby shopping ; The debris cover discovered behind sc\eralhours after Goode and the ki Hilly Arthes, 10. Md., a: a Falls C where they had be small cleaning job immediately arre extradition on charges m Maryla After Goode s Arthes hoy desert how he had watchc strangled with directed (hem to scene. Ten offici helicopters combe ti! they discover* covered with brt two logs. Maryland auth been searching fo boy since March vanished while ' spapers for dele, from his home healthy and unhar was fuund and bui m the Mecklenburg County jail would be "incompatible with without bond because his parents are out of town, authorities said. No date has been set for the youth's appearance in Lunen burg Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. U.Vo. Coordinator thecultural scenic values of the area." Johnson's letter stingingly rebuked Kleppe for interfering in the mining issue, which the board chairman said is a mat ter "that can and should properly be handled by local governing bodies." Butter told Kleppe "I share State Pushes 'Reset; Of Tangier Airport CHARLOTTESVILLE-Ms. Sharon S. Merdck has been ap pointed off-grounds housing coordinator at the Universilyof Virginia to help students find places to live. your views completely, since It is a known fact that Grace and Co. has unlimited supplies ol vermlculite deposits to rely on." Grace also mines ver- Special to The Atari buodvr TANGIER ISLAND--Stnteofficinl* hope to beam this summer the second phar.cof thetr fight *n save this small island s airport from being washed into the Chesapeake Bay. About n.O'Hi tons of riprap has been laid as about a mile wide and two miles i Asbury Pruiti. a civilian empi Now's Tangier Tnn**t R;*n;;e y*l, keeping track of wimoii levels. lw> led of the shoreline n*ar the washed into the bay during the pa' Agreement Set On Van Service The lust obstacle apparently The federal money will he nri- ... H...4* fivrrrnmr and mkntsiernj throurh the state an outline in rcplnce some of the shoreline and airport runwav lost to erosion, according to Willard G Pkml. director of the Suite Divi sion of Aeronaut irs. Plemt saw the Virginia Airport Authority, which owns ami uperatcft Tangier'* Ajr|xrt. currently i* preparing nn application for federal fund- to hHp fill the built-up aren. "We would hope it would be 'completed) this summer." Plentl said yesterday. Ijist yeor. three of the mrpor lights were lost and the sou th eno n i also was beginning 10 erode, he s. Ph-ml said rhe ripnp laying h tremendous inso-mrmnu i (% nod protecting the runway ai.ri ,h> nffirtal:; have rhe* Mil it *evnraj ' the material was laid J.i*t month. CHESAPEAKE FIRM  ..I .. ..I ' Wnr .*;>: in. .1 >u:t the i.MniKtsic I.n;'-. ini* *s a f?*vr Mills E. it .l-.'rll w:i . in pri'-Mi fnr j t.nl Imnniv nml wnulhnrit* nl r * ( a nitur whicfi*. Loaissa, . (I.2H0 ..id (VXD i.ortii of uingcncy Klepsie jt- ^ nn . /p (t ii o vuGiiiiier mod. Dsen Jr., j their rc- By Allen Short TmrvfJixpnlfS Slnfc Stuff LOUISA -- A meeting between Louisa County of ficials end Secretary ot the In terior Thomas S. Kinppe has br er, arranged by Rep. J. Xco nn h Iinbinson. R-7ih, in nnappnrrr.' effort to sway K'lrpjw's opposition to proposed strip mining operations in the Green Springs area. The meeting, which Is scheduled to take p'oee In Washington on Tuesday, will in clude about 8 Louisa County of ficials and "concerned citizens," among them Hoard nf Supervisors Ci-airmte A.C. Jahi'son, Supervisor R. Earl Oeg and Louisa Circuit Court Cirrh Oaan P. Asets, sources said. Alsoexpected at Ihemeetiny. according lo a spokesman for Rnhiuscn.ere the congi essman or one ot hi; to? aides, and several Interior Department administrators. The idea for the meeting, wincii was arranged by mem bers of Robinson's str.ff earlier (* 's week, fallov ed a telephone roll in which Knee told staff members of c March 1 letter from Klcpps to J. Peier Grace, chairman or the board of W.R. Grace and Co. in the letter, Klcppe ashed GraceuKiciilstc abandon their plan to strip min: vt rmicullte dcr.-isitson about 1.100 ecres in or near Greer. Springs, which hue teen designated by the In terior Department as a National Historic Landmark. snnthe r;acc 'rrcto * .'r nJ sa.i.t p two n :-f- :nrr-J on, if Agee said Thursday that he c.ulhd Robin-nn's office lo ask for tiij meeting because he and cihtr "concerned citizens uf this county" -- ir.clhtiins. several supenisarv--were uj> 5et i>v "the Ictierj* ruvernment iut'TforinR in local affairs viiheut ii'si Ifllnr,;-. tahvalcf* lly ^1 rp,1' Ariiivl about the lennKty of the r.if which t lenst \ !.VpL :V*v;)r:, rv;Ci lf.j lo .-Tietul. Af.i e contm;;C(J, "This i-> in r o sh;ix? or Imm Ihv.jil ut ;ro n 'i:d the . **v e'r lyin'*. io v/j* hmt;ton merely uSiM/vCfiir Ucitizcas," A;:* .- said, "ivji as Uk.'.I finals." A|rc sairl that, in his iipiiiion, the inuotii-.g would not rm.flu.1 with ihr Virginia Ihi.tlriii iif luf.it million Art, v.i.udi rrquu ci advance public imiirr -.vtii*ui.vrr -.rvrral or mnrr oln-ird members of a liK iil govi rmiirni inrri to dl;. cii ii ofliiliil tMrsinc-.s. "I suv; iui rcuMm ill announce the moeiing," Agee said. "f il'll iliui't. Ten iluvs ngn, ihc I oiilaa it., pi ..f 'uni: i.r-, 'i-i- .i 11.1 i .-i i* i.i. i', |., form I'Cinj; cromoau y in* Buiru of Supervisers." . "We re going to Washington merely as concerned citizcii!," Agee said, "not as locnl of ficials." Agee said that, in his opinion, the meeting would not cvnilicl with the Virginia Freedom of Informatij.i Act, which requires advance public notice v/h-never several or more eleitei metnbzrs of a local government meet to dis cuss official business. "I saw no reason toanancnce the meeting," Agee said. "I still don't. Ten days ago. Hie Louisa Count" n"rd of Supervisors approved a letter to Klcppe in whirl! Jonnson denounced the interior Department's inter vention in the two-year strip mining eahtroversy. Johnson characterized the department as hiiying "too much money and its oi finals too much lime to spend c.n mat ters that can end shoulj proper ly be bandied Dy local joverniog bodies." Rcrroolng Petllt.mis Within the past three months, the supervisors have overwhelmingly epnrovcd several rezoaln; petitions to allow *hrprop-Jsedslrig mining operrtiors h. the northwestern quadrant of me county. About a week niter Johnson mailed the letter tn Klcppe. JohuQ. Rutlcr.iniairt'iir.icpast chairman nf the Hoard i.Uurervisorj, wrote to the sc*:rcaiy ; pratranj; hid couccui .fo tie < preset vu lion of the (recn ; Sprmrs rcn. i In hw letter. Klcppe ask-*d ( Grace m rely on c\isiirr vei* : i.icui# Urrisit'- m lanby. and m L*irrr,s Ci S-C.asus juikcCSoi r.,,y min .1. "1 share y<*r can*- lh*; -y '* I'.ub r (mL! . "MieT it w a known i...; i:. .i Grsuv and "n. Li.s << CO'thuurtl uU fi ( of. i i* i r?rrZ34 prclurraii.il primary, tin ether mi;:;. pr.-mmed by the naii.- -..'J forty. Louisa Officials, Klepjre to Talk About luinirg CrmtinK^i rrom pint Pn>yi supplies of vermiculiir deroir.s to rely on." A mokcsnisj! kr K^ai/i^oa ssid 'ihu$uy tbiz xvn con- j gressman "is ccncc^lyd, I about taa Klcppe Jcnir. "J'on I Rotonr;, ciieve* in local j detcrtr.instton nf important j issuer." 'Twirls I nor v.*Y*t; ca4d cal! Iks! ctcr- j miration." | Afkt-rt wacCLr Robinsori bad l expr^. r;^ sny'vnpa-'/r, for the ppar*rt local ai/on to I neutioli/e Klcppt'swji'r.flniiij? I stance. Ap-ra :d, "3 fr.in'r thr j coa^rc:smso afd mcrr.^ is c>f j his g.o:;|: Lva ruehr? c.t r.v j drrstactiii;;. That's U1 I ran I say." i T