ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 9, 1996 TAG: 9604090072
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B-6 EDITION: METRO
MEMO: ***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on April 10, 1996.
Clarification
All equipment being auctioned April 24 in Salem by the Virginia
Department of Transportation is used. That aspect was not clear in a
brief on Tuesday's Business page.
In the market for a new road grader or a spare dump truck?
The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a public auction April 24 at its Salem District offices at 731 Harrison Ave., Salem, behind HSN Fulfillment of Virginia.
The list of 250 items to be sold also includes vans, pickups, mowers and other trucks. A complete list will be available from the district office shop April 23. All items may be inspected that day from 8 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.
Terms call for payment on the day of the sale either in cash or 10 percent deposit by company check with the balance by certified or cashier's check by May 10. For more information, call (540)387-5228.
- Staff report
Rockwell admits guilt in 1994 explosion
SEAL BEACH, Calif. - Rockwell International Corp. agreed Monday to plead guilty to hazardous-waste crimes and pay a $6.5 million fine over a 1994 explosion that killed two men at its rocket-engine testing grounds.
The victims - and a third man, who was injured - apparently were trying to dispose of a highly explosive propellant by blowing it up.
The fine was the maximum allowed and the biggest criminal environmental fine in California history, federal prosecutors said.
The explosion took place at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Mountains field laboratory northwest of Los Angeles. The company has admitted it violated rules for storing, handling and disposing of the hazardous materials.
- Associated Press
Briefly ...
Cadmus Direct Marketing Inc., a member of Richmond-based Cadmus Communications Corp., has been named direct marketing agency for Advance Auto Parts of Roanoke.
Lechters Inc., a Harrison, N.J.-based housewares retailer, said it has issued $20 million in preferred stock to prepay high-interest-rate debt. The shares, which have no maturity date, are convertible to common stock at a conversion price of $6.25. The company operates a store in Roanoke.
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