Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, October 27, 1995 TAG: 9510270134
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B8 EDITION: METRO
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DETROIT - General Motors Corp. announced its largest recall in more than a decade Thursday, notifying owners of 2.46 million midsize cars to return them to dealers for replacement of rear seat-belt anchor bolts.
The Canadian government transportation agency, Transport Canada, discovered during a test that bolts anchoring rear seat belts to the bodies of the affected cars did not meet its load standard, GM said. The standard, which is the same as set by U.S. vehicle safety rules, requires that seat belts withstand a 3,000-pound load for 10 seconds.
GM said there have been no owner reports of seat belt failures, accidents or injuries related to the defect.
Cars affected by the recall are model year 1989 and 1990 Chevrolet Celebrity; 1989-91 Pontiac 6000;1989-96 Oldsmobile Ciera, and 1989-96 Buick Century.
- Associated Press\ Media General closes paper deal
RICHMOND - Media General Inc., owner of newspapers and broadcast properties, said Thursday it completed the purchase of four daily papers and 23 other papers from Worrell Enterprises Inc. for $230 million.
Included in the sale are the daily newspapers in Charlottesville, Culpeper, Lynchburg and Suffolk.
Media General, based in Richmond, is a diversified communications company that owns the Richmond Times-Dispatch and cable television operations in Fairfax and Fredericksburg. Media General also publishes the Tampa Tribune in Florida and the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina and owns a 40 percent interest in The Denver Post.
Worrell, based in Boca Raton, Fla., employed about 350 people full-time and 100 part-time at its Virginia publications.
- Associated Press
Livestock for sale by Tech students
Virginia Tech livestock merchandizing students today will manage a sale of the university's beef cattle and horses at the Virginia Tech Beef Cattle Center in Blacksburg.
The sale will feature 31 lots of registered Angus, Polled Hereford and Gelbvieh beef cattle and 29 lots of Thoroughbreds, Warmbloods and Quarter Horses.
Registration will begin at 3 p.m. followed by a barbecue dinner provided by the Tech Block and Bridle Club. The beef cattle sale will begin at 6:30 p.m., and the horses will be sold starting at 8 p.m.
Most of the income from the sale will be used for beef cattle and horse teaching and research programs at Tech. For more information, call Dan Eversole at 540-231-4738 for a sale catalog of either the beef or horse sale.
- Staff report
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