Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 14, 1994                   TAG: 9401140182
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Stanley Furniture Co., a Stanleytown manufacturer of residential wood furniture, said Thursday its net sales for last year's fourth quarter are expected to be 6 percent higher than in the 1992 period. The company had said it expected lower fourth-quarter sales as a result of the planned transition back into the reconstructed manufacturing facility at Stanleytown, which was damaged by fire in February.

Albert L. Prillaman, president and chief executive officer, cited a smoother-than-anticipated transition and strong demand in the furniture industry. Stanley is to report 1993 earnings in early February.

- Staff report

Lewis-Gale workers face union vote

Twenty building-maintenance workers at Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem will vote Jan. 20 on whether to become a part of Operating Engineers Local 387, said Ron Yost, a supervisory examiner with the National Labor Relations Board in Winston-Salem, N.C.

After a Dec. 7 hearing, the NLRB defined people eligible for the union as skilled maintenance employees, groundskeepers and mechanical employees in the building-maintenance department. - Staff report