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

DATE: SATURDAY, July 17, 1993                   TAG: 9307170106
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

MORE SIGNATURES SOUGHT FOR BOARD-VOTE PETITION

Organizers of a petition drive to get an elected-school-board referendum on Montgomery County's November ballot are seeking more signatures.

Petitions they turned in earlier this month were about 200 short of a sufficient number of registered voters.

County Registrar Sandra Chapin said the petitions turned in so far contain the names of 2,740 registered county voters. The names of 2,929 registered voters - 10 percent of the registered voters in the county as of Jan. 1 - are needed before Aug. 4 to get the issue on the fall ballot

Supporters of an elected school board turned in petitions on July 1 containing 3,007 names, but some those people were not registered voters.

Chapin said organizers of the petition drive indicated they will bring in more signatures for verification next week.

by CNB