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

DATE: TUESDAY, April 4, 1995                   TAG: 9504050037
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

John Dickinson and Edwin C. Hall of Hall Associates Inc. in Roanoke represented the seller in the transfer of property at the corner of Franklin Road and Woods Avenue for a financial planning office.

The old house at 1502 Franklin Road S.W. was sold by Andrew W. Hull and Dr. Duvahl Ridgway Hull to VIP Planners of Roanoke. The buyer will renovate the property to its appearance at the time it was built in the 1920s.

Hall said the sale was important because the property is located on a major thoroughfare "in a neighborhood all of us have been trying to preserve."

VIP Planners purchased the property for $76,000 and will spend another $150,000 in the renovation.

- Associated Press

Coal production up 5 percent

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Domestic coal production totaled 21.3 million tons during the week ending March 25, up 5 percent from the 20.3 million tons produced the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

The U.S. coal industry produced 21.4 million tons in the same week last year, according to the department's Energy Information Administration.

Virginia mines produced 903,000 tons in the last week of March, up from 882,000 tons the week before and from 858,000 tons in the corresponding week a year earlier.

Domestic coal production so far this year is 253.9 million tons, 7 percent ahead of last year's production at this time.

- Associated Press