--Saturday, June 6, 1981

• Teachers representatives from each Wicomico County school have announced that their colleagues will no longer extend volunteer time for school extracurricular activities if their 9 percent negotiated pay increase — cut to a 7 percent hike by the County Council in recent budget discussions — is not funded as promised. According to teacher’s association President Irv Brewington, the council could and should cut administrative staffing and certain programs to fund the full pay hike.
• An appraiser reports a city-owned acre-sized lot on Baptist Street, which county officials are eying for a courts and jail complex in Downtown Salisbury, is worth more than $430,000. The County Council has put up $125,000 for the land, which leaves a wide gap if and when negotiations between the two governments begins.
• Longtime WBOC-TV news anchor Alan Landay, unable to overcome “philosophical differences” with the TV station’s new owners, has resigned. Landay, 34, confirmed he departed his position on May 20 and is unhappy because General Manager Tom Draper would not allow him to go on the air and thank viewers who have watched him on the news for more than a decade. Landay, who also served as News Director, has been replaced by Bill Jones, who will anchor the “Delmarva Report” broadcasts for now.
• Section 2 of Nithdale, planned as an upscale single-family housing development on the Wicomico River southwest of Salisbury, will be auctioned on-site by a national auction marketing company on June 27. Owners Otis and Elizabeth Esham have turned to the auction model to sell the development’s lots faster and for more money. Home sites are expected to fetch in a range of $12,800 to $39,200, but prices could go higher if individual bidding wars occur. The Eshams will have financing available at 14 percent for a 10-year loan.
• At a spring picnic and final meeting of the season, Mrs. Alfred T. Truitt was handed the gavel as the new President of the Town & Country Garden Club. She succeeds Mrs. Charles Hoffman, who now moves into the role of Immediate Past President. The picnic was held at the Woodland Road home of Mrs. Richard S. Barr.