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

DATE: THURSDAY, September 28, 1995                   TAG: 9509280039
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

NS PROMOTIONS TO AFFECT OPERATIONS IN ROANOKE

Norfolk Southern Corp. announced several promotions Wednesday that affect the railroad's marketing department in Roanoke and executive division in Norfolk.

The changes, which take effect Sunday, include the directors' election to vice chairman of D. Henry Watts, executive vice president for marketing.

L.I. "Ike" Prillaman, a Roanoke native who is vice president for properties in Norfolk, will succeed Watts.

William B. Bales, vice president for coal marketing in Roanoke, was named senior vice president for international marketing, reporting to Prillaman. Bales remains in Roanoke.

J.W. "Bill" Fox, assistant vice president for sales and service in the coal department, will succeed Bales.

In Norfolk, Thomas J. Golian, an executive assistant to David Goode, NS chairman, president and chief executive officer, was named a vice president. He will continue to report to Goode.

Watts, 63, a native of Birmingham, Ala., joined Southern Railway in 1950 and has been a vice president in Norfolk Southern's personnel and corporate development departments and executive vice president of planning and development.

Prillaman, 52, joined the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1970 as manager of internal audit. The Emory & Henry College graduate became director of audits when Southern and NW merged in 1982 to form Norfolk Southern. He rose to vice president for accounting in 1985 and vice president and controller in 1988.

Bales, 60, a native of McAlpin, W.Va., joined NW in 1962 in Beckley, W.Va., as an assistant district manager. He became NW's vice president for coal and ore traffic in 1979 and took the same job with NS in 1982.

Fox, 49, grew up in Crewe, where NS operates a large yard. He is a 1969 graduate of Virginia Tech and joined NW as a junior engineer in Roanoke the same year. He worked through numerous operating positions to become general manager of the northern region in Roanoke in 1990. He joined the coal marketing department in 1993 as assistant vice president.

Further information about Golian's background was not immediately available.

by CNB