ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, January 16, 1996              TAG: 9601170026
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU 

RADFORD GOES DARK

For about 40 minutes Monday night, Radford looked like a ghost town.

Most of the town lost power at 8:13 p.m. after equipment at the Claytor Lake dam failed, said Glenda Wohlford, spokesman for American Electric Power.

Crews switched to an alternate source and restored the city's power at 8:51 p.m., she said.

Wohlford said there was no way to tell whether the equipment failure was related to the recent snow storm.

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