Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 9

JOHNSON GIW PRESS-CHRONICLE WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW WILL HURT THEM into grassroots for strength Sen Baker: will he swing for the presidency? some not so free as in the office when he should be signing papers He scored quick success as a practicing lawyer dividing his time between Huntsville and Knoxville offices Much has been made of his skills as a defense lawyer in murder eases but he also was a master at working out stock deals and other complex transactions with difficult legal aspects not shy about seeking big fees He tells how an older firm member queried a newcomer on the question whether he'd about feecharging from Howard yet" Told no the man boomed put on a fee that'll take you right to the The guess has to be that comes from confidence in his professional worth in the solid underpinning Huntsville gives him For he wzfs assured affluence long agrom inherited timber and-qoal land When he first entered politics shyness seemed a crucial liability he once told an aide in his first run Time has changed even that At Jonesboro I observed him greeting people with easy warmth in a campaign-like setting' Thrown now into the Watergate turmoil he's calm He flatly denies taking Mr Nixon's line in debate that led to the Watergate committee and says he never sought White House guidance Ill's tone is convincing I think his own man Now in a larger world than before the Watergate hearings Baker knows his ambition has more room than before Just how' 'much more is not yet clear but he said the key thing when he observed softly 1 "I'll never go back to being a journeyman lawyer I know that" alone a beautifully appointed darkroom where puts the key touches on the photographs he takes by the thousands At the darkroom door he leaves his briefcase and his public self He's been taking pictures since he was 12 jyhen a Boy Scout merit badge for photography was the only one that stirred him Now hfc's a near-professional Ex-law partner Robert Crosslcy says could make more money on photography than I can practicing law" On hot festival day in fabled Jonesboro oldest town in Tennessee I watched him clicking away posing kids beside old monuments snapping unposed youngsters as they gaped at carnival fun candidly catching a network newsman wbo'd been dogging bis heels for hours Baker has another darkroom for color work in his broad red brick vine-laden Tudor home (rented) in Washington His wife deepfreeze has been pressed into auxiliary service Says she keeps his film and hi? color paper there not allowed to use it" The pictures go to friends are crammed into books--enliven the walls of his old Knoxville law office An uncounted number well mounted are just stored Joy says hcs had several one-man shows in southern cities Soon a long blue wall in his new Senate office will display 18 of his color prints some from this spring's visit to the Soviet Union But oddly none adorn the walls in his two houses says Joy Tennis is Mania No 2 Says friend Bill Swain: made all his Huntsville friends learn so always have a game" Play starts around five in the afternoon and ends Tennessee General Assembly Committee monthly bi-monthly sessions doing is figuring out how best' to spread the 90 days over the two-year period" he said The senator said if around sessions become a ity he would like to see some when the ball can't be seen The little cabana houses 25 extra rackets for wandering minstrels who might fancy a little sport Baker takes on all comers with a game usually described as aggressive with good stroking but not as sharp as more frequent play would make it At tbe Bakers customary Fourth of July party this year the lineups were cagily set to give the senator a maximum break- since newsmen were all over the place His chosen partner was the expert Mayor Kyle Tcsterman of Knoxville GOP Gov Winfield Dunn was paired with lawyer Crossley Cameras whirred as Baker-Testcrman prevailed Howard Henry has still other country enterprises He keeps a Honda motorcycle and two "trail for friends On Sundays he and his 18-year-old daughter Cissy cook the big breakfast often with pancakes sausage grits country ham He also makes ice cream in several flavors With his Huntsville friends an old custom to traipse off info the woods for a week" now and then A bit of golf jwhich Baker doesn't like) is mixed in and plenty of sleep-ing and eating For at least a dozen years he and his family have slipped usually in the spring for time in Puerto Rico His book collection tells the tale of his reading habits In his home here two 17-footwide living room walls are lined floor to ceiling with books They spill over into halls and nearly every bedroom More are stacked in Huntsville and he has access to his old law firm's good library in town there He reads constantly oil planes in hotels in any free time and may create shark meat NJ to be turned into a tough supple leather products are high quality items" Clawson said pair of shoes made from shark leather costs $50 to $75" But he said he sure Americans are ready for shark meat on their tables And Clawson said he is negotiating to sell the meat to a pet food company Dr Gilbert said shark meat has been eaten for many years in much of Europe and Asia you buy fish and chips in Australia it's shark meat you eat" he said salmon' sold in England' waS probably shark Gilbert said rising prices for traditional meats may be the spur to get Americans to tiy shark flesh purchased some blackfin shark meat at a local market for $135 a pound and it was very he said "In Japan I've had shark prepared in as many as 10 different all of them delicious" MEMPHIS: (AP) meeting more often than once a possibility of monthly or bi- year monthly sessions of the Ten- The senator said most Iegisla-nessee General Assembly will tors have been talking about be considered by a special legislative committee according to State Sen Patterson Jr D-Memphis The bipartisan committee composed of House and Senate members will hold its first either one week each or two weeks every oth er month "These are just two basic points to start Patterson said still have to figure out the various committee schedules and consider that in any final Patterson saidthe 10-member committee will be limited in what it can do because the Tennessee Constitution provides that legislators can not be paid for more than 90 working days during their two-year terms However the scheduling of -those 90 days are left up the House and Senate Patterson said The annual sessions currently run about 45 days from February through April which the senator called lumped together" Ia effect what we will be By BRUCE BIOSSAT Second Of Two Parts WASHINGTON (NEA) Mention Huntsville the tiny hamlet of 375 in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains where Sen Howard Baker was raised and has his real home and you've lound his private Wave length lie leans baek in his chair Warming to the subject: my taproot where I my strength from Folks down there impressed one bit by this senator stuff To most of them I'm still just Henry Its always been that or Howard Henry to set him apart from his late father Howard Sr who served li years as congressman from the hard set Republican 2nd District The site where the roots go down is a bluff in the knobby Cumberlands There sits a low sprawling house on a curving drive with a louvered wall screening off the open area behind The main section features a sunken living room a dining haven to one side and a huge window looking out upon a long stretch of lawn ending at a rise Amid trees off to the left are a sw imming pool and a topgradc tennis court with vines bedecking its back fences a little cabana and a modestly spectacular guest house with barn-board siding and a great fireplace and picture window (This really was built for visits from the late Everett Pirksen fathcr-in-Iawl The 14-acre Baker place is in a sense part of a compound since a couple of his old law partners and his close banker friend William Swain all have homes nearby Baker the person" finds his respite with family and old friends The core of it ali however is bis Grandfather sets clinic on cameras GRANDFATHER MOUN-TMN NC The annual Grandfather 'Mountain Camera Clinic sponsored by the Caro-liras Press Photographers Association will be held here Saturday and Sunday All photographers amateur and professional are invited to participate itf the two-day pogram which will feature shooting sessions a lecture bv noted instructor Joe Di-Maggio and a business meeting- The Camera Clinic will commence Saturday afternoon with a shooting session at and aiound the Mildred the Bear Amphitheatre Attending photographers will be afforded opportunities to take pictures of special guest characters from Land of Oz -Horn in the West Outdoor Drama and Tweetsie Railroad in addhion to members of Grandfather bear colony Also slated for Saturday afternoon is a photo-shooting session atop the- towering mountain with leading fashion model Marietta Hoover to be the subject This session will be directed by Gene Furr staff photographer for the Raleigh News and Observer and Raleigh Times All Camera Clinic participants and their families will be guests of Grandfather Mountain for a 6 pm picnic Another photo-shooting session featuring Miss Hoover and Monta Mackie Miss North Carolina Teenager will open the festivities on Sunday morning At 10:30 am in the Skyscraper Room of the Center DiMaggio will present an illustrated lec ture entitled DiMaggio is a staff mstnrctor of this Nikon School A luncheon business meeting of the CPPA to be presided over by June Glenn Jr chief phltographer of the Asheville Citizen-Times will conclude the 1973 clinic ETSU receives $4000 grant East Tennessee State University was one of 39 colleges and universities to share in Eastman Kodak research grants totaling $328000 this year The local university received' a grant of $4000 for research in the graduate program in chemistry According to Dr Douglas Nicholson chairman of the FTSU chemistry itiie-grant will -be-iBed to-pro-vide for graduate student assistance procedure' set up to slow down the passage of legislation has been possible to introduce a bill on the floor and have it signed into law only eight days later which leaves little time for careful said Patterson said one possible solution would be -to require bills introduced hi one session to lay over until the next ses: Sion for final passage "This will give the legislators more time to study the bills before voting on Patterson said "If legislators had more time to study hat they voted on there would be a lot fewer bills Patterson said year-around sessions might be more expensive because of employing the convention drew slight opposition It' supported Nixon's position that he 'will not appear before the Senate Watergate committee because of a possible conflict in the separation of powers The resolution however called on Nixon to the Watergate affair into per- spective in a form of his Mrs Kinsf Kuykendall takes former Atty Gen Mitchell to tasli Beef prices market for KEY WEST Fla (AP)-A local company hunts sharks for their hides but a shark expert says rising beef prices may create a market for shark meat you get people to try shark flesh and get over their aversion to the name I think they'll enjoy it" said Dr Perry Gilbert of the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota The bulls duskies tigers and other are hunted bv boats operated by Sea Farms Inc which revived the once-thriving industry this summer The shark industry died but when man found cheaper sources of oil and Vitamin A than shark livers Walt Clawson who manages the shark operation for Sea Farms said the firm handles 400 to 500 sharks a week On a good day each boat catches 30 to 40 sharks on long lines resting on the ocean floor Most sharks are about six feet long and the company pays the fishermen SI per foot The hides are sent to the Ocean Leather Co in Newark Mrs II oleombe named to post at Mars Hill MARS HILL Dr Donald Gehring dean of Student Development at Mars Hill College has announced that Jane Mathis Holcombe has been appointed associate dean of student development Mrs Holcombe a native of Huntsville Ala comes to Mars Hill from the University of Alabama at Huntsville where she was the first housing officer in the history of the school At Mars Hill she will be responsible for all activities relating to housing A graduate of the University if Alabama at Tuscaloosa she received her degree in 1964 In 1970 she received her degree from East Tennessee State University and has served as assistant professor of English at Steed College Johnson City While a graduate student it East Tennessee Staie she con-cted research into the re-g'onal dialects mountain mu-sir and folk tales in the East Tennessee-Western North Carolina area ft more Mtime administrative personnel feeling that any expenditure would be more than offset by the benefits the citizens would receive from a more responsive and efficient' government' the senator said Patterson said year-around sessions have been adopted by several states including California and Illinois The bill establishing the special committee was drawn up by Patterson during the last legislative session He first introduced it in the Senate but it did not pass He then had it introduced in the House where it was passed and then approved by the Senate in a concurring vote Members of the committee were appointed by the speakers of the House and Senate Patterson said the recommendations will be offered to the legislature when it meets next February choice within a reasonable time The convention elected Richard Medlen of Smithville as the new Young Republican state chairman to succeed Jerry Jackson of Dyersburg Mrs Brenda Piercy of Hixson as executive vice chairman Jim Stephens of Memphis as national committeeman will not suming any other major Mrs King works from an of- fice in the basement of the modest red-brick home where she- lived when her husband was killed in 1968 Her oldest child 17-year-old Yolanda is a sophomore at Smith College The three younger Martin Luther III 15 Dexter 12 and Bernice attend a private school in Atlanta normal children with normal said thea 46-year-old widow teenage period is a trying During' her life- time Mrs King played a strong supporting role in his ac- tivities but she long since has emerged as anindependent personahty-atfeloquent voice for civil rights and the cause of women The strong will that lies be-' neath the placid calm and dig- nity is revealed by Mrs: determination to complete a mendous progress but there adtiCTOd accept SCLC presidency meeting in Nashville this Thursday to begin working on a plan to for year round legislative sessions in feel if we can come up with a good plan it will be accepted by the majority of the senators and representatives" said Patterson chairman of the special committee "The way it is now it results in Us being Virtually non-existant for nine months out of the Patterson said some joint Committees have already started meeting monthly He said this is an indication that some legislators fed the necessity for No serious Injury in two-ear crash Three members of a Johnson City family escaped serious injury Sunday morning in a two-car crash at the intersection of Holston Avenue and Center Street Treated and released were Phyllis Hughes 26 who suffered injuries to her shoulders Julie Hughes who suffered injury to her head and one-month-old Tracy Hughes who suffered head injury The Hughes vehicle was struck by a car driven by Blanche Franklin Box 3412 city who was charged with failure to yield right of way by Officer Cecil- Clark The accident occurred at 10 a (Stiff Photo) 5 MEMPHIS (AP) Rep Dan Kuykendall R-Tenn took former Atty Gen John Mitchell to task during the weekend for not having told President Nixon the facts of the Watergate Case as soon as Mitchell knew them Kuykendall appearing Saturday before the Tennessee Young Republican Convention characterized Mitchell as a member of an self protective palace Kuykendall said if Mitchell had given President Nixon what he knew about Watergate 'and the subsequent coverup Nixon would have the on the entire atfair didn't have faith in the President to sell that point of view to the people and he didn't have faith in the people to admire a public official who stand for corruption and dirty1 politics in his own Kuykendall said Meanwhile the convention of Young Republicans affirmed faith in Nixon with cheers applause and a resolution The approximately' 200 delegates at the session adopted a resolution supporting Nixon's stance on the Watergate question and a belief of innocence of any wrongdoing loyalty demand-manded that he (Nixon) be told what was going on when it was going on not months later when he was reading about it on the front pages of the Washington newspaper Kuykendall said of Mitchell's role in the Water gate question -Earlier in the convention Rep Robin Beard R-Tenn told the gathering Tennessee voters are well informed to hold all public officials responsible for the actions of a in the Watergate Case ATLANTA Ga (AP) Co-retta King says she would not accept the presidency of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference if it ere offered She said she is committed to the development of a center being built here In memory of her husband slain civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr The national board of directors of SCLC is to meet Tuesday in Indianapolis Ind to name a successor to the Rev Ralph Dav id Abernathy He announced his resignation in July There have been reports that Mrs King would be named president SCLC which her husband founded and which now faces declining fortunes and an uncertain future There also have been reports that Abernathy might be persuaded to remain as presiddit -He has said he might stay if he had a to do so have no knowledge that I am being seriously considered permanent memorial to her for the position of president of husband's dream SCLC" Mrs King said in a going on with rhy usual weekend would responsibilities and business to not accept this position if it build a permanent viable me-w ere offered to me" morial which will be a working She continued: primary help to bring about the fulfill- responsibility is raising my raent of the dream tty husband four children and a dominant enunciated at the Washington factor in my life now is the Monument" she said Martin Luther King Jr Center "Since that time we've 1 for Nonviolent Social Change achieved some of the things we -I'm committed to seeing this did not have made tre- memorial Vl)av camp for WCARCAV past and present endeavors Co-directors for ihe camp activities lastjweek Smith and OOmpIeted da arri rarailri net rarKirVyrs Mayor Kyle CHinouth was on hand last week as the -Washington County Association for Retarded ChiP dreir and Adults' gathered at' Rotary' Pafkto -paY" homage to thoSe who have aided the- group in its I.