School board OKs computer system By JEFF VERNON P-C Elizabethton Bureau ELIZABETHTON A computer system to regulate peak energy demands at Elizabethton High School was approved by the Elizabethton Board of Education Thursday. The system will be connected to units in the high school that have a large electricity drain, and will shut the units down on a priority basis during peak energy demands. This demand control system can create savings of at least per year, Superintendent Roy Ellis said. The savings result because the school will have a lower peak power usage, Ellis said. Electricity rates at the school are based on the peak thirty minutes of usage, according to Ellis.
At $42,000 the low bidder was School Master Co. of Atlanta, Ga. School Master will install a central processing center, which ch includes the computer, and microprocessor, that links the computer with the electricity-using units to be regulated. At an additional cost of approximately $8,900 each, other schools in the school system can be connected to the computer, Ellis said. Board member John Banks Industrial board OKs bond issue P-C Erwin Bureau ERWIN Members of Unicoi County Industrial Developmental Board of Directors passed a resolution of intention to issue up to $600,000 in industrial revenue bonds Thursday evening.
The bonds are to finance a project for a local industry, Erwin Welding and Machine to construct a new plant in the county industrial park. According to the firm's president, Carroll Musick, plans are to construct and equip a building oh a three -acre tract in the park. The firm, which has been in operation here since 1967, Man found dead in Linville, N.C. LINVILLE, N.C. Kenneth George Davis, 51, Swiss Apartments, Linville, was found dead early Thursday morning in the front of his apartment.
According to Avery County police, Mr. Davis died as a result of a gunshot wound. An autospy is being conducted. Avery County Police are investigating the incident and no further information was available Thursday night. THP helicopter spots marijuana worth $5 million DAYTON (AP) A Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter pilot spotted a marijuana field in a isolated mountainous area Thursday, and authorities said the contraband crop could be worth $5 million in street sales.
Authorities, using a fourwheel drive vehicle to gain access to the field, moved in and uprooted the plants after pilot Mike Dover spotted the crop and alerted officers. The field, located in a rugged area along the border of Rhea and Bledsoe counties, contained an estimated 10,000 plants three feet high or taller, authorities said. Agents of the state Alcoholic Beverage Commission told reporters the crop could have had a street value of $5 million. ABC agent Gene Cathey said the marijuana plants were scattered in patches on both sides of the county line. Dover has acquired a reputation, within the past few years, as an expert in spotting marijuana fields from his airborne helicopter.
He has been credited for several other large finds in isolated areas. The field found Thursday is in an area about 50 miles north of Chattanooga. Woman drowns in Mountain City Lisa Arnold, 18, South Shady Street, Mountain City, drowned Thursday afternoon while swimming in fish pond behind her house. Sources said Ms. Arnold was swimming with three friends in 20 feet of water when she drowned.
She was pronounced dead on arrival at the Johnson County Memorial Hospital, Mountain City. Ms. Arnold was a 1981 graduate from Johnson County High School in Mountain Tri-Cities Tech graduation today BLOUNTVILLE Spring commencement for Tri-City State Technical Institute will be held today at Holston Middle School Complex. Ceremonies will begin at 2 p.m. A graduating class of 89, the largest, in the school's history, receive degrees or certificates.
2. JOHNSON CITY Friday 10 1091. Partly cigudy, high in mid-80s It will be warm with partly cloudy skies today, with the extended forecast calling for intermitten cloudiness to continue through Tuesday, although no rain has been predicted. The high temperature today and Saturday is expected, to be in the mid-80s, with lows near 60. Record temperatures for this date are: high, 95, set in 1944; low, 48, 8 set in 1965.
The high Thursday was 88; the low, 61. the month is 2.89 inches; for the year, 18.4 inches. No rain has been recorded during the 24-hour period that ended at 8 p.m. Thursday. Total precipitation for for Friday FORECAST 80 70 70 Figures show high temperatures 100 010 for area.
Cold Warm 2100 80 90 Showers Stationary Occluded NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NOAA, US Dept of Commerce according to the National Weather Atlantic Coast. (AP Laserphoto) Service. There is a stationary front No precipitation is predicted for anywhere in the nation today, extending from Texas across Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia to the House delays redis redistricting vote By FRED TRAVIS P-C Nashville Correspondent NASHVILLE The House Thursday delayed for 24 hours a vote on its own reapportionment because drafters were unable to complete the proposed plan. The Senate, however, approved and sent to the House its own reapportionment under a gentlemen's agreement that each house will approve the other's plan without change. Also approved by the Senate and sent to Gov.
Lamar Alexander was a congressional redistricting plan which Republicans fought to the last gasp. More than a dozen amendments were proposed, mostly by Republicans, and some of them were obviously aimed at a federal court suit challenging the validity of the plan, were voted down. Speaker Ned McWherter told his colleagues those writing the necessary amendment to the House apportionment bill need more time to complete the draft, check its accuracy and proofread it to make sure it does what the members have approved on maps. He promised it will be ready Friday morning. Under the amendment now being prepared for a vote in the House when it reconvenes at 9 a.m.
today, Washington County will be divided between the Sixth district, now represented by Palma L. Robinson, R-Jonesboro, and the Seventh of Robert L. King, R-Johnson City. One precinct, Fall Branch, will be placed in the Fifth district represented by Zane C. Whitson R-Erwin.
In addition to Johnson City, King will have about 3,000 Washington County rural area residents plus 4,703 residents of Carter County. Robinson's new district will have the rest of the county except for the Fall Branch precinct. Whitson's new district comes closest to being a classical gerrymander a kind of fishhook which wraps around Washington County. It takes in the part of Carter County, all of Unicoi, a precinct in Washington, a slice of Greene County and a ball-shaped area in Sullivan County. The rest of Sullivan is tot be divided between the First district of Rep.
Ralph Yelton, D-Kingsport, and Rep. Ruth Montgomery, R-Kingsport. Robinson said the proposed districts including Washington County deviate less than 1 percent from the ideal of 46,371 necessary to comply with the U. S. Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote standard.
The Senate apportionment leaves the First district of Sen. Robert O. Burleson, R-Roan Mountain, and the Third of Senate Republican Leader Tom Garland of Greeneville practically unchanged. House Democratic Leader S. Thomas Burnett of Jamestown said the Assembly will reconvene about July 15 to override the anticipated vetoes of the legislative reapportionment and congressional redistricting bills by Gov.
Lamar Alexander. The Senate rejected efforts by Republicans to overhaul the Senate apportionment plan drafted by a committee headed by Sen. John R. Rucker, D- Murfreesboro. Sen.
Victor Ashe, R-Knoxville, proposed the most radical change: he wanted the Senate reduced to one member, saying the state's only senator could unilaterally override gubernatorial vetoes, would represent all of Tennessee and rival the governor in power. In addition, he argued, it would save the taxpayers a great deal of money. Sen. William J. Davis of Covington, the Senate's only politically independent member, whose seat is eliminated by the reapportionment, said legislators should be elected on a non-partisan basis.
He claimed the state would have better government if partisan politics were put aside and senators and representatives spoke for all their people. After passing their own apportionment plan, senators embarked upon more than an hour of debate about congressional redistricting. Sen. Ben W. Hooper II, R-Newport, led the Republican batting order with an amendment completely redoing the plan drafted by Democrats.
He was most concerned, though, about Hamblen County having been moved from the First district into the new Fourth district. people up there wouldn't have been so shocked if they had been moved into the Second district or even the Third," he said. "But when they saw this they couldn't believe it." With Senate Democrats firmly in control, that and all other amendments were killed by voice or rollcall vote. Sen. Rucker and Senate Democratic Leader.
Milton Hamilton Jr. of Union City countered all Republican suggestions with an argument that this was the only plan which complied with one-man-one-vote and avoided splitting counties other than Shelby (Memphis). The Senate. refused even to add a "severability" clause saying that if part of the proposed law was invalidated the rest would stand. This change was recommended by state Deputy Attorney General Robert B.
Littleton. Other lawyers said it was impossible to sever part of a redistricting or reapportionment bill without throwing out the whole thing. That's what the Republicans want to do, hoping that a federal court will install a plan more to their liking. Representatives from Memphis say the plan promulgated by the Demorats gives the Republicans too much, claiming the GOP may win as many as five of the nine seats. A major source of complaint from both parties' representatives is the new Fourth district, which stretches from the Appalachian Mountains of Hanco*ck County across the Cumberland Plateau and the Highland Rim to the rolling hills of Lawrence County on the Alabama line.
Senate overrides governor's veto NASHVILLE (AP) The Senate voted 18-11 Thursday selling the licenses. to override Gov. Lamar Alexander's veto of a bill to, require Also overridden, by identical 17-13 votes, were three motorists' photographs on their drivers' licenses. vetoes by Alexander of appropriations for Meharry Medical But it failed by one vote, 16-13, to approve a House- College in Nashville, passed compromise bill to increase the cost of license plates The Senate voted restore a $100,000 appropriation for from $18.50 to $19 a year. Lt.
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Ask about the MAXIMIZER Mountain Empire Bank 2520 South Roan 1616, West Market 2105 North Roan Member FDIC and federal Reserve Susten moved that the bid be awarded on the condition that Ellis check on the solvency of School Master Co. The board also approved a $12,266 bid from Interstate School Supply for the installation of curtains at T.A. Dugger Junior High School. By a unanimous voice vote, the board approved a one year extension of Ellis' contract. According to Chairman Leonard Peters, the extension will keep Ellis as superintendent through June 30, 1984.
In making his financial report to the board, Ellis said school system will finish the current fiscal year in good financial status. Ellis said an operating reserve will be left from this year's budget to carry the school system into the new fiscal year which begins July 1. Ellis said work on the Elizabethton High School roof will be and ready for his inspection by today. Rayson Co. of Charlotte, N.C., was awarded a bid in November to reroof the leak- Deaths ing high school.
Because of the nature of the work, an exact cost could not be determined when the bid was awarded. At that time, Ellis estimated the final cost at between $375,000 and $500,000. The leaking roof has resulted in a $2 million lawsuit by the board against the contractor, architect and materials supplier for the roof construction. Construction of the school was complete in 1974. Several contracts for maintainence and improvements have been awarded for work to be done this summer, Ellis said.
A $15,000 contract has been awarded for plastering at Elizabethton High School; $5,200 for painting at T.A. Dugger Junior High; $6,800 for sanding the gymnasium and auditorium floors at T.A. Dugger; $12,000 to install a buss bar to carry electricity into Elizabethton High School; and approximately $5,200 for some new chairs at the high school. consists primarily of custom fabrications and machine shop service for the industrial market. The company also produces insulation modules used in high temperature furnance applications.
Industrial revenue bonds are retired solely from revenue provided by the company for which the bonds were issued, which excludes them from becoming a responsibility of the tax structure of the county. Winners of talent, swimsuit contests named in Jackson JACKSON (AP) An aspiring journalist and a piano-playing Roane State Community College coed were second round preliminary winners in the Miss Tennessee pageant Thursday night. Miss Union Univiversity, Rita Adair Simpson, 20, of Brownsville won the swimsuit competition. She is a junior studying English, Journalism and Public Relations. The talent winner was Miss Roane State, Sarah Sisk of Harriman.
Accompanied by the pageant's orchestra, the 19-year-old coed performed "A Fifth of Beethoven." Funerals Funeral services for Clifford Calvin Bennett. age 56. of Route 2. Telford, New Victory Community, who died Thursday morning at V.A. Center.
Mountain Home, wilt be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. from New Victory Baptist Church with Rev. Basil Jones and Rev. Johnny Widener officiating. Interment will be al New Victory Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Wayne Bennett, Thurman Parker, Lee Cooper, Howard Shell, Mark Sirois, Orval Sliger. Honorary pallbearers will be Eugene Barnes, Stanley Miller, Orval McGee, Frankie Lowe, Calvin Cooper. Buck Avers. Flower bearers will friends neighbors.The body will remain at the funeral home where the family, will receive friends from 79 Friday and be moved to the church to lie in state one half hour prior to the services. DillowTaylor Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
DILLOW-TAYLOR FUNERAL HOME Jonesboro Clifford Calvin Bennett Dennis John Scaff Funeral services for Dennis John Scat, 66. R1. 2 Bluff City who died Thursday morning will be conducted at 2.00 p.m. Saturday from the Bunker Hill Christian Church with Mr. Leland Houser and Mr.
Johnny Hall Ministers officiating. Interment will follow in the Jones Family Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be: David Feathers. Sherrill Carr. Earl Maines.
Ross Sams. D.F. Maines, Earl Perry, Floyd Perry, Lawrence Perry. Honorary pallbearers will be: Elders, Deacons and Trustees of Bunker Hill Christian Church. The family will receive friends in the chapel of the funeral home from to 9 p.m.
Friday and at the residence of Gerald and Gloria Holly at anytime. Tetrick Funeral Home. Riverside Chapel. Elizabethton is in charge of the arrangements. Cleve Rodifer Funeral services for Cleve Rodifer, 36.
Chicago, who died Wednesday. will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. from the Dry Creek Free Will Baptist Church, with the Revs. Bill Mullins and Steve Bennett, officiating. Interment will follow in the Morning Star Cemetery.
Dry Creek. The body will remain at the funeral home where the family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. Pallbearers will be selected from friends attending the service. Dillow- Taylor Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral arrangements. MORRIS BAKER FUNERAL HOME Miss Pamela Jackson Funeral services for Miss Pamela Sue Jackson, 22.
R1. 14. Gray, who died in a motorcycle accident Thursday, wiN be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the MorrisBaker Funeral Home with the Rev. E.
W. Barnes officiating. Burial wit be in Monte Vista Burial Park. Pallbearers, who are requested to be at the funeral home by 1:45 p.m. Saturday.
will be Jim Gage, Steve Cox. Ronnie Lowe, Chuck Boyd. Mark Robinson, and Jett Ferguson. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Morris-Baker Funeral Home. 2001 Oakland is in charge of arrangements. ERWIN MEMORIAL-LEDFORD FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Sarah M. Tilson Funeral services for Mrs.
Sarah Mandy Tilson. 81, R1. I. Flag Pond, who died early Thursday morning. wit be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
from the Clear Branch Baptist Church with the Rev. Jack Holland officiating. interment will follow in the Clear Branch Cemetery. The family will receive friends Friday evening at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be selected.
Erwin MemorialLedford Funeral Home is in charge of the funeral arrangements. KISER FUNERAL HOME Greenville Theadore R. (Ted) Dinwiddie Funeral services for Theadore R. (Ted) Dinwiddie. 78.
RI. 2. Chuckey, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday from Kiser Funeral Chapel. interment will be in Union Temple Cemetery.
Rev. Harry E. Thomas and Dr. Wiley Prugh, officialing. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 this evening at the funeral home.
Kiser Funeral Home, Greenville. in charge of the arrangements. TETRICK FUNERAL HOME Elizabethion L. "Rabbit" Funeral services for Howard "Rab bit" Bowers will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday from the Riverside Chapel of Tel rick Funeral Home with Rev.
Henry Colvard and Rev Darrell Holly interment grill follow in the Mountain Home Cemetery: Active pallwill be Roger Paul Smith. J.C. Honeycutt. Howell Lyons. Bowers, Luther Ray Bowers.
Tim Honeycutt. Freddy Hodge. and Tony Carden. The music will be under the direction of Lewis Garrison, soloist, Tetrick Funeral Home. Riverside Chapel.
Elizabethton, is in charge of the arrangements. CLIFFORD C. BENNETT Church and served on its Clifford Calvin Bennett, 56, Rt. 2, Telford, died Thursday morning at the Veterans Administration, Mountain Home, following a -lengthy illness. Mr.
Bennett was a lifelong resident of Washington County and a son of the late John and June Welch Bennett. He was a member and a deacon of New Victory Baptist Church. Mr. Bennett retired. in 1980 after working in the maintainance department at East Tennessee State University for 11 years.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Francis Sliger Bennett; one son, Charles C. Bennett, Telford; one brother, G.E. Bennett, Jonesboro; three sisters, Mrs. Dora Sliger, Johnson City, Mrs.
Mildred Sliger, Jonesboro, and Mrs. Blanche Bacon, Jonesboro; his stepmother, Mrs. Eula Scott Bennett, Johnson City; two grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Dillow-Taylor is in charge. LINDA G.
CROSS ELIZABETHTON Linda Gay Cross, 19, 601 Ontario Drive, died Wednesday night in Johnson City Medical Center Hospital, after an extneded illness. Miss Cross was a native of Washington, D.C., and a daughter of Harley E. and Lema Gay Hardin Cross, Elizabethton. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church. Survivors, in addition to her parents, include one sister, Mrs.
Pamela Ann Echols, Elizabethton; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Cross, Lapel, maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hardin, Elizabethton; maternal great Mrs.
Louise Pierce, Elizabethton; one nephew; several aunts and uncles. Memorial is in charge. ELBERT M. GLOVER DAISY Elbert M. Glov- er, 82, died Wednesday morning in the Rhea County Nursing Home, Dayton.
He was a native of Washington County, but had lived in Daisy for several years. Survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Helen Carson and Mrs. Beatrice Armstrong, both of Limestone, Mrs. Ruth Deakins, Gray, and Mrs.
Charlene Stone, Crossville. Williamson is in charge. DENNIS J. SCALF BLUFF CITY Dennis John Scalf, 66, Rt. 2, died Thursday morning at his residence, following a brief illness.
A native of Sullivan County, he was a son of the late George and Lula Scalf. Mr. Scalf, a retired, painter, was a the Bunker Hill Christian board of elders. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Earnest and Rhuda Scalf, and one sister, Mrs. Della Crumley.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Bonnie Perry Scalf; two sons, Donald and Ronald Scalf, both of Bluff City; one sister, Mrs. Nannie Perrys Bluff City; four grandchildren. Tetrick, Riverside Chapel, Elizabethton, is in charge. THEODORE R.
DINWIDDIE CHUCKEY Theodore R. "Ted" Dinwiddie, 78, Rt. 2, died Wednesday afternoon at his residence. Mr. Dinwiddie was a member of Walkertown United Methodist Church.
A former magistrate of Greene County, he was a director of the Farm Bureau for several years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Della Pickering Dinwiddie; son, Glen E. Dinwiddie, Afton; one daughter, Mrs. Marian Onks, Johnson City; one brother, Arthur Dinwiddie, Iowa; one sister, Mrs.
Winifred D. Arnold, Boone, N.C.; four grandsons; great -granddaughter; and four stepgreat-grandchildren. Kiser, Greeneville, is in charge. CLEVE RODIFER CHICAGO, Ill. Cleve Rodifer, 38, 4621 W.
McClelland died Wednesday at his resident. Mr. Rodifer was a native of Washington County, but had lived in Chicago for the past several years. Survivors include his wife, approved his nomination. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, said the full Senate would vote on Dean's confirmation Friday afternoon.
Baker said that as soon as White House officials receive Dean's nomination papers from the Senate early next week, President Reagan 7 NIGHTS JAMAICAN HOLIDAY DIRECT FROM ATLANTA SUNDAY DEPARTURES JULY 19. DEC. 13. 1981 FROM per person $269 double occupancy Idham ASSOCIATES. 282-1231 543-1111 323-6228 OKs most likely will appoint Dean chairman of the threemember board.
At Baker's urging, Reagan nominated Dean to replace Bob Clement, a Nashville Democrat whose term expired May 18. If appointed chairman, Dean would succeed S. David Freeman, a Carter appointee, who has said he would remain on the board as a director until his term expires in 1984. Dean, 55, is manager of the Knoxville Utilities Board, and would become the first TVA power distributor to be named a director of the federal utility. TVA provides electricity to 2.7 million customers in Tennessee and parts of Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina.
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Jessie Rodriques, and Mrs. Dorothy Kuta, all of Chicago, and Mrs. Helen Seagroves, Guam; four brothers, John and Dewey Rodifer, both of Chicago, Walt Rodifer, Johnson City, and Edward Rodifer, Jonesboro, and several nieces and nephews. Dillow-Taylor is in charge. MRS.
SARAH M. TILSON FLAG POND Mrs. Sarah Mandy Tilson, 81, Rt. 1, died at her residence early Thursday morning following a brief illness. Mrs.
Tilson was a native of Unicoi County and was a member of the Clear Branch Baptist Church. Survivors include her husband, Joe Henry Tilson; two sons, Reubin Tilson, Flag Pond, and Arthur Tilson, of the home; one daughter, Linda Baynard, of the home; one sister, Mrs. Aletha Guine, Flag Pond; five grandchildren; and five great -grandchildren. Erwin Memorial-Ledford is in charge. Rent The Rug The original "steam" carpet cleaner with the Vibrating brush.
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