ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, December 19, 1995 TAG: 9512190061
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: C8 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: CHARLESTON, W.VA.
SOURCE: Associated Press and staff reports
Domestic coal production fell 3 percent to 19.4 million tons during the week ended Dec. 9 from 20 million tons the previous week, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.
The U.S. coal industry produced 21.4 million tons in the same week last year, according to the department's Energy Information Administration.
Virginia mines produced 672,000 tons during the survey week, up from 601,000 tons the previous week but down from 756,000 tons a year ago.
Domestic coal production so far this year is 965 million tons, slightly behind last year's production at this time.
The week's production accounts for bituminous and lignite coal. -Associated Press
Exchanges to get
toll-free calls
Calls between Citizens Telephone Cooperative's Locust Grove exchange in Floyd County and Bell Atlantic Corp.'s Christiansburg exchange will be toll-free beginning in April under a plan approved last week by the State Corporation Commission.
The SCC said Monday it endorsed an extended calling service plan between the two exchanges. Under the plan, customers will pay a higher basic monthly rate in return for toll-free service.
Customers in the Locust Grove exchange petitioned the commission for the plan earlier this year and nearly 59 percent responding to a poll voted in favor of it. Locust Grove customers with residential flat-rate service will pay an extra $2.80 per month.
No Christiansburg customers objected to the plan when given an opportunity to comment, a commission spokesman said. Residential customers in Christiansburg will pay an additional 20 cents per month.
Phones in the Locust Grove exchange have a 651 prefix. Those in the Christiansburg exchange begin with 320, 381 or 382. -Staff report
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