
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990                   TAG: 9007180119
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: BEDFORD
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

PULASKI JUDGE STABLE AFTER HEART ATTACK

Pulaski County Circuit Judge A. Dow Owens, who suffered a heart attack last week, was moved Tuesday from the intensive-care unit to a private room at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Owens was listed in stable condition and was up and walking, a nursing supervisor said.

Owens, who also hears cases in Giles County, is scheduled for surgery Thursday and is expected to be released this weekend, a Pulaski court clerk said.

Radford Circuit Judge Duane E. Mink and former Pulaski County Circuit Judge R. William Arthur, who is retired and living in Wytheville, will hear Owens' Pulaski cases while he is recovering.

In Giles County, Mink and retired Circuit Judge Robert Powell are scheduled to handle Owens' cases, said court clerk Ted Johnson.

Owens suffered the heart attack after he began complaining of chest pains at his home in Pulaski on July 8. He was taken to Pulaski Community Hospital and later transferred to Roanoke.

by CNB