ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, March 12, 1997 TAG: 9703120070
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
Better weather and an improved market helped boost February coal loadings by nearly 7,000 cars this year on Norfolk Southern Corp.'s system.
Bill Fox, NS vice president of coal marketing, said the increase was due in part to very difficult weather conditions during February 1996. But he said coal loadings overall improved 4 percent last year because of a greater market share for NS as well as growth in the market that NS serves.
Executives indicted in anti-union bribery
ATLANTA - Two Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. executives have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they bribed an employee to work against a union-organizing effort. The vote to organize under Local 42 of the Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers Union failed on Aug. 3, 1994.
The U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia said the executives, James Wardlaw and Eric Turpin, met with an employee at a plant in Decatur, Ga., in July 1994 and offered him $10,000 in cash and a promotion to influence his co-workers to vote against the organizing effort, the indictment said.
The Atlanta-based company, which bottles and distributes Coca-Cola products in the United States and Europe, isn't charged in the investigation. It said it is cooperating with the Justice Department.
-BLOOMBERG NEWS
Bell Atlantic changes repair-service number
Beginning Saturday, Bell Atlantic customers no longer will call 611 to receive repair service. The new number will be (800) 275-2355.
The change will ``ensure that our customers reach our repair service from any phone, anywhere and at any time," said Dave Douglas, vice president-regional network operations at Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc. "As other companies offer local telephone service, dialing 611 won't necessarily allow customers to reach" Bell Atlantic.
-STAFF REPORT
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First Union Mortgage Corp. has arranged permanent financing of $4.56 million for Collegiate Suites Apartments in Blacksburg. The student housing project was completed recently by the borrower, CSB L.L.C.
Woltz & Associates Inc. a Roanoke realty firm, will donate auction services for a fund-raising event March 22 at the Science Museum of Western Virginia. The services will be a contribution to the museum.
Motley & Associates, a Roanoke architectural and interior design firm, has won an award from the Virginia Department of Education for outstanding new school building design. The citation was for the recently constructed Clymore Elementary School building at Fort Defiance in Augusta County.
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