Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993                   TAG: 9307140450
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

The State Corporation Commission will hold a hearing Sept. 7 on rules for pay telephone service. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in a second-floor courtroom at 1300 E. Main St., Richmond.

Written comments may be sent to the Clerk of the Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond 23216. Comments must be received by Sept. 7 and marked for case PUC930013.

The SCC will consider rules to assure compliance with a law requiring anyone selling or reselling coin telephone service to be registered and authorized by the SCC. - Staff report

DuPont to idle 160 in Richmond

RICHMOND - DuPont will lay off about 160 workers at its Richmond Spruance fibers plant to cut costs and streamline its fibers division, the company said Tuesday.

The October layoffs will make DuPont's fiber manufacturing more competitive worldwide, a company statement said.

Idled will be about 60 hourly employees, 60 secretarial and clerical employees and 40 management employees, plant manager John L. Grohusky said. - Associated Press

GM to raise prices on '94 cars, trucks

DETROIT - Amid an increasingly robust automotive market, the General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it would raise the prices of its 1994 models by an average of 1.5 percent for cars and 2.2 percent for trucks.

At the same time, more equipment that had been optional would become standard and included in the price of a vehicle, the company said.

The Japanese automakers are expected to announce steeper price increases for their 1994 models, on top of sharp increases this year.

- The New York Times