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

DATE: TUESDAY, August 8, 1995                   TAG: 9508080094
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

Contel Cellular said Monday it will change its name over the next six months to GTE Mobilnet. Contel provides cellular phone services in portions of Tidewater and Western Virginia, including the Roanoke Valley.

GTE, which had owned 90 percent of Contel, became the company's sole owner May 12.

GTE Mobilnet has about 2.7 million subscribers, or about 10 percent of the 27 million cellular phone subscribers nationwide. It provides cellular services and products in 74 metropolitan and 52 rural service areas.

GTE Mobilnet is a wholly owned subsidiary of GTE Corp., which says it is the largest U.S.-based telephone company and the fourth-largest telecommunications company in the world.

- Staff report

Bland firm wins vaccine contract

General Injectables & Vaccines Inc., Bland County provider of health care products and services, said Monday it has received a vaccine distribution contract from the state of Maryland for the state's participation in the federally funded Vaccines For Children program. The multiyear agreement will provide for delivery of more than 5,000 packages of pediatric vaccine per year. The company declined to give the value of the contract or its impact on employment at its facilities in Bastian.

GIV is the nation's largest independent distributor of vaccines and other injectable products to physicians' offices. Since April, it has handled, stored and shipped vaccines to New York state in support of a children's program. A GIV subsidiary, Insource Inc., also of Bastian, has been providing similar services in Iowa.

- Staff report

Coal output lags behind last year's

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Domestic coal production totaled 19.9 million tons during the week ending July 29, down 1 percent from 20.1 million tons the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday. The U.S. coal industry produced 20.2 million tons in the same week last year.

Domestic coal production so far this year is 19.9 million tons, 2 percent behind last year's production at this time.

- Associated Press