Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, October 5, 1995                   TAG: 9510050053
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

ARLINGTON - Seth Schofield, who resigned last month as chairman of USAir, will instead remain, pending the outcome of merger talks with two other airlines, the carrier said Wednesday.

Schofield said a month ago he planned to retire as soon as a successor could be found. Mathias J. DeVito, chairman of the executive search committee, said Wednesday the board asked Schofield to stay on.

If merger talks with United Airlines and American Airlines go nowhere, the search for a replacement will resume, DeVito said.

USAir said Monday it is pursuing separate merger talks with the other, larger carriers.

- Associated Press

Sterile Concepts buys Calif. company

RICHMOND - Sterile Concepts Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it has bought a California company to expand its markets. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Both Richmond-based Sterile Concepts and Temecula, Calif.-based Medical Design Concepts make procedure trays for hospitals and medical centers.

Medical Design Concepts, which had revenues of $31.8 million last year, supplies 21 hospitals and surgery centers in the Western United States. Sterile Concepts, formerly a unit of Carilion Health System of Roanoke, made more than 3 million trays last year and handles more than 2,000 accounts.

- Associated Press

Transportation conference today

Federal Highway Deputy Administrator Jane Garvey, Gov. George Allen and U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., are among those expected to speak at the 45th annual Virginia Transportation Conference today and Friday at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.

Among the topics to be discussed are the National Highway System, revisions to the state's subdivision street requirements, new technology for highway safety and advanced traffic management systems.

- Staff report

Schewel opens 2nd Roanoke-area store

Lynchburg-based Schewel Furniture Co. Inc. will open its second Roanoke-area store today in the former Lowe's building on Apperson Drive in Salem. The new 26,000-square-foot store will employ 10 people and will share warehouse space with the Schewel store on Williamson Road in Roanoke, said store manager Bill May.

Schewel is a family-owned chain that has been in business for 98 years, May said. Most of its 43 stores are in Southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley, with several locations in West Virginia and North Carolina.

- Staff report