Elizabethton Star from Elizabethton, Tennessee • 1

Carter (ClWlEliznN" 'ton Newspap rs Inc all rights resei xl) 1 SECTION 8 PAGES ay lor ndergoes polygra ph test Jake Blanton approves TVA insulation project Sutton pleads guilty to murder interstates bridges and primary Chance of rain by tomorrow Phone (615) 542 4151 pr (615) 928 4151 Circulation Phone t615) 543 2110' Daily 20 cents Sunday 50 Cents Also the Tennessee Department of Transportation is presently doing the environmental work on that portion of SR 137 from Erwin to the North Carolina state line Alexander said the focus on highway design and construction will be forced to change during the years Tennessee Thursday Partly cloudy riday air Saturday Lows mid 40s to mid 50s 1 lighs mid 60s to mid 70s relatives in the Mount Sterling community of Haywood County body was wrapped and weighted at the bottom of an abandon ed Cocke County Tenn rock quarry Last April Sutton led Sheriff Jack Arrington and Tennessee authorities in a search for the bodies of Large and Almon plus two others that have not been found the cost of building seven parking lots at from $15000 to $20000 He said the balance of construction costs could be paid out of this modernization budget which will be applied for "contented suburbanite and pay the fees for city luxuries without having to live in it Board Attorney Walter Curtis said action will allow Scalf to advertise for bids on the parking pro ject Curtis said' he thought con struction of the lots might encourage the City of Elizabethton to accept Pine Ridge Circle as a city street Police Chief Harry Nave and ire Chief Den nis Younce have both complained of parked cars blocking emergency vehicles on the steep roadway Scalf told board members yesterday that the federal Government had ex ELIZABETHTON IN SDAY APRIL 7 1981 BY JOE BOWLING STAR STA Informed sources said today that David Taylor prisoner at the Carter County Jail was administered a polygraph test yesterday afternoon by May said he probably would not receive any information on the in vestigation of Crockett and Weaver until all the investigation is compiled by the TBI glad to submit anything to the grand jury The public is entitled to know the results The results will be made available to the grand jury as soon as I receive said May or more than a week charges and counter charges have been made by Sheriff Papantoniou and Crockett Yesterday morning an altercation almost broke out in Sessions Court between one of the deputies and Crockett Both the deputy and Crockett swapped abusive words and made advances toward each other when a second deputy stepped in between the two to thwart the conflict State sales tax collections increase NASHVILLE (UPI) Sales tax col lections the clearest barometer of the economic health increased 12 percent in March or $59 million state officials said monday inance Commissioner Lewis Donelson said total collections were $801 million during the month He ad ded that the state could finish the fiscal year in better shape than an ticipated The commissioner said collections for motor vehicle registration and in heritance were also up higher than an ticipated by $1 million each was one dark cloud on the Donelson said tax collections were $25 million below ex pectations That is a disturbing Appalachian program through 1986 Alexander in commenting on the state road prograjm for Upper East Tennessee said that work will get underway soon on two more phases of the State Route 137 construction Summers Taylor was the recent low bidder on a section of the route beginning at a point near the ahead as the ederal Highway County line to Plymouth Road The Administration turns its attention to Elizabethton contractors submitted a low bid of $82 million for the contract roadways say that Taylob was asked six questions by Collins and six by Sheriff Papantoniou It could not be learned what the 12 questions were but according to the story given a few days ago to the news media Attorney General Lewis May said this morning that he has not received any information on the tests but said was not unusual when the TBI is tended funding for Section Eight Hous ing for nine years He said the next allocation of housing units would pro bably come late this year or early next vear and Elizabethton was next in line for additional units The Section Eight program allows low income families to live in private housing and receive rent supplements from HUD The administers the funds to the landlords Elizabethton now has 108 units of Section Eight Housing Bill Moore a representative of the United Telephone System gave com missioners a presentation on the com Business Comm II telephone system Moore said the direct sale price of the system including in stallation would total $4575 At last meeting represen tatives of Communications gave a presentation on a similiar system Scalf had proposed buying a telephone system in order to save equipment rental fees now paid to the telephone company Chairman Thompson said the com missioners would review the telephone proposals and possibly have a decision by next board meeting The suit will give way today to partly cloudy skies which will continue through Wednesday There will be warmer temperatures today and Wednesday with a high today in the upper 60s and a low tonight in the mid 40s The high for Wednesday will be in the mid 70s There will be a 30 percent chance of rain Wednesday afternoon Winds will be southwest at 5 to 10 mph today decreasing to 5 to 10 mph tonight By JOHN BRYANT STAR Staff The Elizabethton Housing and Development Agency Board of Direc tors has voted to borrow $56000 from TVA to insulate public housing units at Rolling Hills Estates and South Hills Estates According to the resolution passed at monthly meeting the loan will be interest free and will be paid back within 10 years Board Chairman Dr Haymond Thompson said the insulation probably save that much over the next 10 According to Executive Director Ron Scalf TVA represen tatives recently spent three days in specting the housing units He said it was discovered that sorflerof the units guilty of bidrigging NASHVILLE (UPI) ormer Ten nessee Gov Ray uncle told a federal court judge Monday that he is guilty of rigging bids on state road pro jects James Blanton will be sentenced for the crime June 2 An BI agent told Judge Thomas A Ballantine of Louisville Ky that Jake Blanton asked for $41000 in one of the bidrigs buy a girlfriend a He also admitted he was guilty of one count of mail fraud connected with bid rigging i ne maximum penalty ne couia receive under the charges is 11 years in prison and a fine of $201000 Blanton and his other nephew Gene Blanton were both indicted by a federal grand jury eb 18 on two counts of bid rigging and 16 counts of mail fraud in price fixing $127 million in highway building projects Ballantine set June 22 for Gene Blan trial He gave an indication the trial may be moved Government attorneys would not say whether Jake Blanton would testify against bis nephew I am concerned whether we can get an impartial jury in Ballantine said case has received considerable publicity even out in the hustings where I come from I expect it will receive a lot more before the trial date especially here in Ballantine told Nashville attorney John Hollins to continue to monitor news stories about the case Hollins represents Gene Blanton Hollins said he plans to submit public opinion surveys of residents in Middle Tennessee about the Blantons with a view toward possible change of venue and jury sequestering Jake Blanton his hand cupped to his left ear sat between two lawyers while BI agent John Gisler gave a descrip tion of the charges statement had several references to alleged actions by Gene Blanton who was seated two rows back in the courtroom as his admitted his guilt Gisler said that three road contracts were involved in the charges all let by the state on Oct 20 1978 approximate ly two weeks before the election was held to choose Ray suc cessor as governor One of the contracts was for $64 million awarded to Hubbs Con struction Co for a bypass between Cookeville and Algood Tenn inance committee will meet tonight The inance Committee of the Carter County Commission will con tinue to work on next budget at a 7 meeting tonight at the cour thouse Budgetary matters will also be discussed at a meeting of the Carter County Board of Education which be held today at 3 :30 pm NASHVILLE ederal officials have assured Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander that the Appalachian highway network will be continued in spite of plans to discon tinue the Appalachian Regional Commission The program will be moved to the federalDepartment of Transportation with $215 million allocated next year out of the highway trust fund The Reagan proposal continues funding of the i Weather head Monday night apparently the and sentenced to life in prison in 1980 for the beating death oL his grand wound suffered while playing Russian mother a year oia retired school ivureiw muiaw vuhuvl i fl 1 L'kAMill nwrrt teacher The woman body was found attached to a cinder block at the bot tom of the Nolichucky River in east Tennessee 1 Sound off Saga of the missing bathtubs BY JOE BOWLING STAR STA Sheriff George Papantoniou still contends today that Assistant District Attorney David Crockett acted illegally in disposing of 52 bath tubs and wall panels in 1975 The tubs and panels were con fiscated from a Mr Kyle Campbell in Hampton and were stolen from Vacuum ormed Products Ash burn Georgia The Assistant District Attorney says that Vaccum ormed Products gave him the authority to dispose of the stolen products In a letter to Crockett from Vaccum ormed Products it stated use this letter as your authority to dispose of the tubs and wall panels that were confiscated when Mr Kyle Campbell was arrested As you know Vaccum ormed Products has closed and has no further use in those units Sheriff Papantoniou pointed out that Crockett gave two of the tubs to a school teacher and the remaining 50 were given to former Sheriff Harry Buckles and his deputy Jerry Weaver who is now Sessions Judge In a letter to the sheriff from Crockett dated March 13 1981 Crockett said that the sheriff had commuinicated through the news media that Crockett had stolen bathtubs in his home allegation is totally and completely Crockett contends that the letter gave him the authority to dispose of the tubs and he gave two to a General Building and Trades Class teacher and Jerry Weaver was given the rest for providing storage for the tubs after their seizure until final disposition of the case Sheriff Papantoniou contends that Crockett is a servant of the courts and he had no right to give any of the bathtubs away to the statue the bathtubs had to come back to the sheriffs office and be placed in public auction and the proceeds of the sale would go into the general fund so the public could benefit and not just two or three stated Sheriff Papantoniou The sheriff pointed out that this is a state law and quoted Public Acts 1978 Chapter 561 property'held for the owner by any court including a federal court public corporation public authority or agency or public officer of this state or a political subdivision thereof that has remained unclaimed by the owner for more than (7) years is presumed abandoned except property in the custody or control of any state or federal court jn any pending action of property which is otherwise disposed of by WAYNESVILLE NC (UPIL A Morristown Tenn man pleaded guil ty Monday to second degree murder charges in the drug related deaths of two Tennessee men whose bodies were found last year Nicholas Todd Sutton 19 was sentenced to two consecutive life terms as part of a plea bargaining agreement accepted by Haywood Superior Court Judge Claude Sitton With his pleas Sutton admitted he killed James Large 19 of Mor ristown Tenn and Charles Almon III46 of Knoxville Tenn Sutton already had been convicted Chuckle There will be nQ income tax to pay on money earned during the 25th hour of the 32nd day of the 1 3th month Unless the Calendar is changed 2 SEVIERVILLE Tenn (UPI) A Witnesses told police the victim spun Kodak man was shot fatally in the die cylinder containing one nve rounu oi aiiiiiiuiiiuuu ttuu puucu the trigger twice He told onlookers he was Stallings snun the cylinder a third timA nninforl fho Korrol hofuppn hie UU1L LA7111LVU WIV MUL a Sevier County Sheriff Carman eyes pulled the trigger and the gun Townsend said 24 year old David went off witnesses said Harold Stallings died from a single He was pronounced dead on arrival shot to the head shortly af ter 9 pm at Sevier County Medical Center had only two inches of attic insulation He said he expected the additional in sulation to save $5000 per year in elec tric bills plied for Low Income Energy within the next two months Assistance payments tor its tenants thrdegH the Upper East Tennessee Human Development Agency He said the application is now being processed and could result in federal funds to help offset high electric bills unding arrangements were made yesterday for the proposed off street parking lots for Rolling Hills Estates Board members voted to use a $12000 surplus from last moderniza tion fund for the project Scalf said a local construction firm had estimated TBI Agent Don Collins concerning allegations made by Taylor that Assistant Attorney General David Crockett and Sessions Judge Jerry Weaver aided in his escape from the cniirthnnse on March 30 Tavlnr said he was also nromised a information the test confirmed YTPnnpri fnrpcai by the two for certain ug tAUdlvlCUI VI uvQOl information that is supposedly in the Chance of showers possession ot bhenit apantomou Sheriff Papantoniou and Collins would not confirm that Taylor un derwent the test yet informed sources ire destroys Blue Springs house Pictured is what remains of a home in the Blue Springs sec of the blaze Two units from the Stoney Creek Volunteer ire tion of Carter County which was completely destroyed by fire Department answered the call The fire also threatened the around noon yesterday The residents of the house Rick and nearby home of Churchill Hill Lorie Richardson Rt 2 were reportedly not at home at the time Note: The following Sound for tt $2 trash pick up was less than $4 Off is printed in order to allow a reader live in downtown Elizabethton Trash is picked up free in the city Big to express an opinion) Since moving here a family moved in deal the dogs usually get to it first SOUND I would like to reply with dogs chickens cats rabbits wedcly for my trans to a recent Sound Off The county roosters a lar zoo Jl smell scho'L If far to walk residents cry about paying for city and noise is unbearable Thevaue of f6r the schooI luxuries I "too once was a subur my house really increased because of ba nite I thought it would be nice to live 8 the attraction a free zoo The health My taxes have tripled over what 1 "In the city 'and get on those does rnothingr The dog paid in the county If lucky enough luxuries What a surprise was in store catcher just has a title He will pick up t0 sell this house I will again be a 6 nn ink vi nt ikumknni In a nfl nn I lA TOM UM? vlUg dllvl jvu uaiiu iuui save 25 percent on diamonds at fred My water bill is about $20 including davis jewelers Elizabethton (Adv) sewer My bill in the county was about Appy highway continues despite plans to abolish ARC District Attorney Marcellus Buchanan said that under the agree ment reached life sentence for the Large death would coincide with the life term he already is serv ing After that sentence ends he will begin serving a second life term for the Almon murder body was found in a shallow grave on property belonging to Sut Kodak man victim of Russian roulette SEVIERVILLE Tenn (UPI) A teabethtonStar An Independent Newspaper Devoted To The Upbuilding Of Carter And Johnson Counties USPS 172 900) V0L50 NO yTJohnsbnl 1 s'" 4 1 'S' unr Ai I MSI 4 1 Ba nSl I MX:.