Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

I How Much Hospital Does Holston Need? By MARY KISS Times-News Staff Writer Planners of Hoiston Valley Community Hospitals proposed $30 million addition say it will make Kingsports medical center a first-class facility equal to any of its size in the nation Critics and there are a few around Kingsport say $30 million is a heck of a lot of money to put into the already-crowded hilltop hospital on Ravine Street and contend that planners should have started over from scratch One skeptic a member of the local medical community who didnt want his name used put it this way: Id call it a bad business deal For that kind of money Id rather turn the existing hospital into a nursing home or an extended care facility and go out and buy some land with plenty of parking space Then Id lay it out in a functional design that would reduce staffing and operating costs saving money for the taxpayers and patients in years to come Nationally he continued the average construction cost for hospitals today is ground $50000 per bed For $30 million you could build a full-service 600-bed hospital How valid are his objections? People involved in planning at HVCH over the past four years dont give them much weight The proposed addition and remodeling plan evolved from the studies of two separate teams of hospital-planning experts with input from special consultants What will $30 million buy? Specialized operating rooms advanced cancer treatment facilities more beds for convalescent patients Details page 8A and a planning committee of local medical people administrators and laymen They looked at every possible side of the thing says HVCH Administrator John Dodson They considered closing the hospital out entirely and making it into a chronic care center or a nursing home but they decided that wouldnt be the right way to go The present building is just too good Many areas of the existing hospital are adequate where theyre not it won't be More On Page 10A Col 1 VOLUME XLIII NO 25 (CIRCULATION CALLS 6 TO 11 AM SUNDAY 246-8129) KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37662 SUNDAY JUNE 23 1974 7 SECTIONS 88 PAGES 30 CENTS Willpower didnt work hypnotism was no better Now Linda Collins fights temptation with her Jaws 11(0 nit Wired Scoop Jackson charges Kissinger made a secret deal to give the Russians a missile advantage State Department denies it Shut WASHINGTON (CDN) Sen Henry (Scoop) Jackson charges that the Nixon administration has entered a secret agreement giving the Soviet Union a rather startling new advantage in missiles Jackson (D-Wash) said Friday that changes were made in the 1972 strategic arms limitation accord reportedly allowing the Russians an extra 124 missile lead without notification to Congress State Department spokesman Robert Anderson declared Saturday the reports to be totally without merit or any foundation whatsoever There are no secret agreements of any kind" he said And Sec of State Henry A Kissinger responded: such views must be based on some misapprehension of the negotiations But Jackson insisted his statement was based on reliable and creditable information The Chicago Daily News learned that Paul Nitze who resigned last Friday as chief Pentagon representative on the arms negotiating team testified about the private agreement Friday Nitze reportedly told Jacksons arms control subcommittee that he found out there was a secret agreement not from Kissinger but from Russian weapons negotiators in Geneva Jackson said he was unable to get any information about the changed levels from Nitze or other high-ranking witnesses because they did not know He did not disclose the source of his figures but said he hoped to shed some light on the situation Monday Subcommittee sources said the secret agreement allows the Russians 1020 sea-based missiles as opposed to 656 for the United States The formal accord made public during President Nixon's last summit meeting in Moscow in 1972 authorized 950 missiles for the Russians and 710 for the United States Jackson declined to confirm the figures but said: its a material change It's not a matterof talkingaboutfive or lOmissiles He said he would question Kissinger about the matter behind closed doors Monday Reliable sources reported that Kissinger made no mention of the issue in his testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee He was said to Have advised the committee that only two minor arms agreements are expected during Nixons visit to the Soviet Union next month a limitation on underground testing and a reduction from two to one in the number of More Ou Page 10A Col 1 Bv MARY KISS Times-News Staff Writer Shed tried everything Diets Weight Watchers Exercise Hypnotism Finally last week Linda Collins 209 Archdale Dr Proffitt Acres had her jaws wired so firmly together that nothing bigger than a vitamin pill can pass betweep her teeth Since then shes lost five pounds and she doesn't plan to eat another bite until shes back to her wedding day weight of 125 pounds Talking between clinched teeth with a barely perceptible flaw in pronunciation she explains how it all started When I had my first baby I gained about 70 pounds and then I couldn't lose it" Two more babies and a hearty appetite compounded the problem and nothing seemed to help She couldn't stick to low calorie menus while cooking full-scale meals for her family She tried riding her bicycle for exercise but her physician pr Peter A Oliva of Johnson City told herhed have to pedal a full day to lose much weight She couldnt leave her children ages 3 6 and 9 alone that long The doctor tried hypnotism He told me the only way I was going to have a halfway-suitable lfe and be able to wear the clothes I wanted to wear was to cut down the calories Six hundred a day when I wasnt exercising and 1000 a day if I was "Then when I was asleep (under hypnosis) he said that if I put something in my mouth that I wasn't supposed to like cake or a cookie it would taste bad It didnt work Everything still tasted good And when some problem came up I'd run for a snack Potato chips toast-'ems things like that I don't have any willpower Her weight problem had become so substantial by this spring that she was spending her nights crying instead of sleeping OEO Chief Finds No Meat In Missing Meals Complaint For nourishment she sips milk boullion hot chocolate and liquid diet foods like Sego Slender and Metrecal Sometimes she liquefies a little table food by putting it through a blender or drinks the liquids from vegetable soups she prepares for the rest of the family Each day wdth some difficulty she manages to get a small vitamin pill between her teeth The first w-eeks been pretty bad she admits When I get around the smell of food I begin feeling sorry for myself Her husband helped out around the kitchen for a few days to spare her but now shes going back to doing the cooking herself So far shes lost about five pounds and she sees at least five or six months ahead without solid food She still thinks its worth it "I couldnt stand the thought of going on any longer the way I was When the doctor saw that hypnotism didn't seem to be working he said maybe were just going to have to try slamming your mouth shut' I thought he was kidding but I took him up on it right away Dr Oliva fastened a wire to her upper teeth and attached rubber bands running up and down to the lower teeth clamping her jaws firmly together "The doctor used acupuncture to control the pain and sprayed a numbing compound on my gums but it still hurt The wires got tighter when my gums got swollen and it hurt awfully bad he first two or three nights" Now a little over a week later the pain has subsided and Mrs Collins has settled down to the serious routine of losing weight Impeachment Resistance Stiffening On May 1 I went to the kitchen of Douglas Houston to observe his preparation and delivery system I rode in the delivery van on this day to the meal sites and home deliveries The following day calls came in reporting that the meal they received on Wednesday was the first one they had received since January This prompted a personal contact to the homes of some of the home-bound by myself and Maxine Dabney (social service specialist) who provided me with a list of those persons who were supposed to be receiving meals Thirteen people were visited and we found that some had received a few meals since December and others said they had not received any since the first of the year with the exception of the meal they received on May 1 the day I rode with the deliveries There is obviously something wrong somewhere since I have records showing payment made to Mr Houston for home More On Page 10-A Col 1 By JOAN ROESGEN Times-News Staff Writer Thirteen home-bound old folks in Johnson City complained last month that they were not getting their daily free lunches under the Upper East Tennessee poverty program The old folks were either being bypassed entirely or were receiving only a portion of the meals they told the nutrition staff at the Johnson City Senior Citizen Center Staff members checked out the-reports with Douglas Houston the local man hired to do the catering Houston operates the kitchen at Forest Hills Supper Club He is paid $105 for each meal prepared and delivered to the center or to the home-bound doorstep as the case may be On May 9 nutrition project director Kathy Harris wrote to poverty program director John Price at Kingsport headquarters explaining the situation as she and other Johnson City staff members had found it This in part is what she wrote: versations and recollections Not satin'd they are seeking through four presidentrysubpoenas a virtually vain hope now another 100 or more tapes memoranda or other material In the past six weeks it would appear to the constant observer that opinions on whether or not probable cause exists to bring an impeachment charge against Nixon have fallen roughly along party lines: Democrats for Republicans against IKKSIECTIVK Since the Watergate phase the committee has considered in whole or in part the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp $400000 political convention contribution case the dairy industry kick-ins to the 1972 presidential campaign coffers and the subsequent unique rise in milk price supports the impoundment of congressionally-appropriated funds Nixons understatement of taxes for the years 1969-1972 and the secret 1969 bombing by planes of Cambodia All of these latter topics were also studied with an eye on possible impeachable offenses committed by the President And all of these have not presented as dramatic or as clear cut facts as Watergate With the edges fuzzy with more room for doubts and various interpretations of actions in each episode the sentiment has grown that the Republicans are stiffening up Already the funds impoundment issue is being speculated about as one likely to be jettisoned when and if the article or articles of impeachment are drawn up Ditto the issue of the Cambodian bombing Only a few Democratic liberals reportedly More On Page 10A Col 4 By ROBERT GREENBERG Chicago Daily News Service WASHINGTON (CDN) What we have presented lays the basis for what I think are grounds for consideration as to whether the President failed to obey the law seriously abused his powers or violated the rights of individuals That somewhat convoluted statement by Rep Peter Rodino Jr (D-N J) is the closest that the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will come to voicing an opinion on whether President Nixon should be impeached To professional Rodino watchers he is saying Yes Under his direction and control his 38-member panel completed six weeks of hearings Friday Over a period of 17 days not counting the nights of prodigious homework by some of them the 36 men and two women leafed through 36 volumes containing 650 separate pieces of information backed by more than 7200 pages of supporting evidence Aside from this they listened to 12 hours of tape recordings involving 19 presidential con INSIDE Yet this may be an oversimplification that has largely grown since the first two weeks of the hearings That time was mostly spent on the Watergate burglary and its aftermath accented by the various reports emanating from behind the guarded committee room doors The reports said that Nixon was deep in the coverup from knowing about Watergate earlier than he has acknowledged to ordering hush-money payments to be made to Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt When your reach exceeds your grasp bankruptcy may be the last resort Its no fun for debtors or creditors (Page 7C) 4 Big Rig May Be Linked ith Multi-State Ring Kingsport Braves manager Hoyt Wilhelm who threw a knuckleball for 27 seasons talks about his baffling pitch (Page 1C) WEATHER anything i wanted to do She left the room with the money then returned and started taking her clothes off he said Thats when he pulled his badge Officers confiscated a complicated security system linking the rooms the restaurant and the lobby with restaurant operator Edward LeComptes trailer behind the building More damaging to the defendants was the list of items taken from a safe in LeComptes office Thousands of dollars in envelopes marked with girls names 12 cases of contraceptives and a log book listing times initials and money were found when Winstead got the safe open He also found a list of 10 to 15 other truck stops in Tennessee South Carolina North Carolina and Ohio MorOnpaRel0ACol5 ROGERSYTLLE While Attorney General Heiskell Winstead works to prove that the Big Rig Truck Stop is part of an interstate prostitution ring business goes on at the restaurant The parking lot is crowded and the trucks keep rolling in Moments after they were bound over at a hearing in Hawkins County Sessions Court Friday several of the defendants scuffled with a local television cameraman attempting to photograph them as they left the courtroom One of them gave his camera a pretty strong blow" ruining his film (except for nine frames showing a hand coming toward the lens) and damaging his camera On June 14 Winstead and agents of the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Teniessee' Bureau of Criminal Identification armed with phony truck drivers logs and health certificates raided the Big Rig Highway Patrol Trooper Joe West testified Friday that he and TBI agent John Carney walked into the Big Rig about 1045 and were confronted by Larry McConnell who looked over their papers and let them enter the restaurant After they ate they were approached by two waitresses who offered 30 minutes of pleasure for $40" then took them into a locked corridor flanked by five rooms furnished with beds washbasins and they said West arrested JaniNdarie Maxe when she accepted the $40 Carnejstified that Natalie Jo Taylor accepted $40 and told him he could do Showers and thunderstorms today ending tonight Highest temperature near 70 low in the middle 50s Rain probability 80 per cent today 30 per cent tonight Winds northwesterly 10-15 mph Saturdays high 89 low 64 Deaths 10A Editorials 8C Movies 11C Television 10C Stocks 6C This Week 11A Area News 12A Arts 9C Building 11D Business 7C Classified 3A-12A City News 8A-11A.