Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 4, 1993 TAG: 9311040197
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: STATE
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NEWPORT NEWS - Directors of the Peninsula SPCA have voted to kill all of its petting zoo animals to stem an outbreak of tuberculosis.
"There has to be something good out of everything, but right now it's hard for me to see it," Sarah Forbes, president of the Peninsula Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said Tuesday.
The petting zoo was closed Oct. 22 after state veterinarians discovered an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis, a contagious disease. Of 14 animals killed in order to test them for tuberculosis, seven had the disease.
Forbes told board members there was no conclusive way - not skin tests, not blood tests, not X-rays - to test the zoo's surviving animals for the disease without killing them. - Associated Press
\ Woman gets 60 years in killing of dispatcher
YORKTOWN - A woman convicted of killing and robbing a taxi dispatcher was sentenced Wednesday to 60 years in prison after reading a tearful apology to the victim's family.
Pamela Sayre, 31, broke down and cried when she said she wished she could bring back 65-year-old William "Billy" Woodbridge, who was bludgeoned to death on Nov. 8, 1992, at the Colonial Cab Co. office where he worked.
Sayre was sentenced to 40 years on a first-degree murder charge and 20 years for robbery.
A co-defendant, Carolyn M. Dean, 24, was given two life sentences in September after pleading guilty to capital murder and robbery in the case. - Associated Press
\ Navy's School of Music is spared budget ax
NORFOLK - The Navy's School of Music has been saved from closure by a plan to charge the Army and the Marine Corps for training musicians.
The Navy has been ordered to cut $6.5 billion from next year's overall training budget, administered by the Chief of Naval Education and Training in Pensacola, Fla. It had announced plans to close the school, which has a $500,000 annual budget.
During a tour in September, Rep. Owen Pickett, D-Virginia Beach, said he discovered the Navy was footing the entire bill for the training. He suggested in a letter to the training command that each service pay proportionately before any decision is made to close the school.
Vice Adm. K.U. Kihune, commander of the training command, apparently agreed. He said in a letter to Pickett in October that the Navy would continue operating the school. - Associated Press
\ Bankrupt movie studio may get new life
SUFFOLK - A once-ballyhooed movie studio that went bust a couple of years ago may get revived, says the head of the bank that owns the property.
Farmers Bank of Windsor has received several serious inquiries about the former Atlantic Film Studios, Richard J. Holland, chairman of the bank, said this week.
At least two would-be buyers are interested in resuming film production at the site near the Nansemond River in northern Suffolk, Holland said. A third party interested in leasing the site would use it for something else, he said.
Holland's bank foreclosed on the studio after its builders ran into financial difficulty. Only one big-screen picture was produced there, "Navy SEALs," starring Charlie Sheen. - Associated Press
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