Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 1

SUNDAY" JOHNSON Q-TY SUNDAY WHAT THE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WILL HURT THEM JOHNSON CITY TN 37601 SUNDAY APRIL 17 1977 Vol No 247 Daily Sunday 35c Phone 615-929-3111 7 104 Pages cutsma ication By CHARLES HURD P-CStafi Writer State educational television officials have made plans to deal the Johnson City studio of WSJK-TV a crippling budgetary setback but say been no discussion of deleting the studio from the ETV system I Tennessee ETV Director Eugene Dietz confirmed to the Johnson Gty Press-Chronicle Friday that four of the studio's 12 personnel will be cut or transfered as of June 30 Members of the Upstate legislative delegation are to meet with Commissioner of Education Sam Ingram in Nashville tomorrow to discuss the cutback Rep Clarence Blackburn (D-Blountville) has asked for a public explanation of the move The State Department of Education of which the ETV System is a division last year sought to eliminate the Johnson City studio East Tennessee lawmakers were successful in finding $150000 to continue its operation Diet said the reductions were necessary in order to staff the newest ETV facility in Cookeville and that he expected continued funding for the Johnson City studio until implementation of Channel 41 in Johnson City change ordered up there was recommended by -Mr Hill the studio manager in Johnson City and Mr Curtis the station manager for Dietz said Studio manager Taft Hill declined comment on statement the director 1 think all reports should come from he said Application will be made to the Federal Communications Commission within a month for licensing of Channel 41 to the ETV system under a five-year master plan Dietz said luting that the plan hinges on the utilization of the same studio now used by the Johnson City studlo of Channel 2 in the basement of Wharf-Pickel Hall at Eiast Tennessee State University FF i The application for Channel 41 however be the first Broadside Television has readied its application also' Broadside's Executive Director Lynn Bennett said it's a when its application will go to the FCC But the deadline for the next round of applications is a week from tomorrow and reliable indications are that Broadside's bid will go into the mail no later than Wednesday Once the FCC files the application the state ETV system will be notified and be given 30 days in which to contest by way of a competing application Should the state file a competing application as Dietz indicated it will each would then be considered by the FCC on its merits But the cutback at the Johnson City studio of Channel 2 may serve to lend increased public support to Broadside's effort The state's plan calls for the implementation of Channel 41 within five years but Dietz himself said he's unclear about just when that timetable will go into effect Broadside's proposal however is geared to make 41 operational as early as next year Concerned Citizens for Public Broadcasting a Johnson City group formed last year after the state sought to eliminate the Johson City studio declined to offer its support to Broadside Torn Headley chairman of the group said yesterday its members were at the cutback move group can only interpret the state's action as a step (See CHANNEL page 12) Energy plan Saga of tocall er taxes IOWA CITY Iowa (AP) Not much doubt who is the widest read historian in these parts It is William Petersen better known as Steamboat Bill the one who wrote all those roadside historical markers Anyone who has seen an Iowa marker knows it the usual quick statement of dust-dry fact caught on the fly markers like their author have a bit more vigor and color than most Historic Davenport for example is where Iron Horse of the Rock Island Railroad slaked its thirst in the cold waters of the Historic Dubuque is a city of Iowa firsts: church first murder first public hanging" Nothing dull about these signs or cryptic 6 feet tall and 4 Vi feet wide and when you finish one side you walk around and read the other The whole message becomes nearly half as long as this article And all over not just where something actually Elsewhere in America happened Pull over at any rest stop on the Interstate a marker Steamboat Bill can find something historic about very nearly any place One reason is that for all his 76 years he has been a compulsive collector not just of historical lore but of historical keepsakes These often turn out to be of more than nostalgic worth As a boy for instance he collected cigarette pictures those little scenes of Indians lighthouses animals and such that smokers got with their Sweep Caporals and Turkish Trophies and other turn of the century brands Eventually he accumulated about 3000 pictures several complete series a collection equal to the one in the Smithsonian Institution which was donated by another historian of note Carl Sandburg I saw who the donor Petersen said was less embarrassed about my boyhood Petersen is not at all embarrassed in fact is duly proud (See STEAMBOAT page 9) of industries and power plants rather than some frantic effort to increase oil and gas production construction of conventional nuclear power plants while holding back advanced systems using plutonium a material that can be used for atomic bombs of solar energy where practical through investment tax credits 1 reliance on taxes price increases and tax credits rather than a massive system of mandatory rules to steer the nation toward energy conservation and fuel-switching by pocketbook-pressure instead of regulatory i force' (F of some mandatory measures targeted at specific areas such as building insulation appliance efficiency and gas-fired boilers continued support of present clean-air goals while telling Industries and power plants more clearly how and where they can bum coal under these environmental rules Carter has said his energy proposals will cost him some of his popularity WASHINGTON (AP) Barring last-minute reversals or cold feet President Carter is expected to offer the nation some bitter energy medicine Wednesday lagely as proposed taxes and price hikes on natural gas petroleum and automobiles Carter is known to have seriously considered a gasoline tax ranging up to 50 cents a gallon a tax starting at $412 on gas-guzzling cars offset by a rebate on fuel-efficient cars steep price increases on natural gas and oil in general and tax credits for residential insulation solar energy and industrial fuel-saving Whether these exact proposals will tum up in Carter's energy message to Congress was still being considered by the President and his tight-knit White House team over the weekend "'F' But public statements by Carter and energy adviser James Schlesinger information from administration antj congressional sources and a recent policy draft obtained by news media all point to these major decisions: on conserving energy and switching from oil or gas to coal as the fuel AP Wirephoto through collection of sheet music William Peterson leafs Carter officials to wrestle with budget trying to avoid tax hike By JOE LEDFORD P-C Elizabethton Bureau ELIZABETHTON Magistrates will wrestle the county budget here tomorrow trying with all their might to avoid another tax rate increase The squires have been asked for increases in budgets which would boost the tax rate to well over $5 per hundred Revenue sharing grants from the federal government were allotted to various agencies and civic groups before the county court was really sure how much money the county would receive This year the squires say their revenue sharing funds are being taken almost entirely by the expanding costs of garbage disposal So last week the finance committee informed those agencies that they will have to wait until July to see if the county will be able to give them any money Sheriff George Papantoniou is expected to plead for about $80000 to hire 12 new deputies The sheriff told the committee recently that his department is operating well below the average of deputies per thousand residents The sheriff now has nine deputies with arrest powers and is working those men three shifts dollars assessment Two years ago the tax rate was $352 Many magistrates have vowed they vote for moretaxes no matter what must be cut from county budgets The squires say their constituents stand for an increase and argue that industry is being driven out of the county because of high taxes The squires will be asked for large increases from the school system and the department tomorrow The fidget most magistrates are now saying will be pared to within a few dollars of the current appropriations And the school request for more money for an insurance program for all personnel also is in jeopardy Last year the magistrates promised money they did not yet have daily Taking much of the deputies' on and off duty time is court appearances to follow through court their arrests The deputies do not get paid for court time The highest paid deputy now gets $625 per month and the sheriff wants to raise the salary for his men over the next few years county has 30 magistrates to represent the people but the department now has only nine deputies to (protect those same the sheriff said XPapantoniou told the finance committee his department has generated over $100000 in revenues and turned In $23000 in excess fees since he took office you will give me some more he said will repay you in money and the protection of your lives and (See CARTER page 12) Area deafo JOHNSON CITY Henry Hill -Mrs Eva Mae Laws BLUFF CITY Kenny A Bouton BRISTOL Va James Roberts KNOXVILLE Nancy Clawson Roan Mountain John Arnett Young defended by Mondale after remark on African rule Jn I 3 1 ft 1 DETROIT (AP) Vice President Walter Mondale said Saturday that Andrew Young the US the Nations his mind and that's the way we want Mondale defended Young at a press conference when asked about the assertion that the white South African government is are not a buttoned-up operation or one of those operations where everything has to be perfect and preplanned and the vice president said is an open administration and we are not demanding of every one of our leaders an absolute clearing 1 --yF'- He called Young marvelous who has done an outstanding job as ambassador Without saying that Young had done as -much Mondale offered that in a while I say things The State Department has informed South Africa that statement about the legitimacy of the government does not reflect official US policy That Young statement i Tnlay eajJrtr Fair skies are forecast for this afternoon and tonight The high should be in the low 80s with a low in the upper 40s (For weather details see page 2) was the latest in a series that raised the hackles of other diplomats At the United Nations on Saturday 20 Arab delegations challenged Young's assertion that Arab hatred of Jews reminds him of Ku Klux Kian hatred of black That remark reportedly was made March 30 to a closed meeting of US Jewish organizations The Arab delegations said Arabs differentiate between Ziomsm and Judaism We consider Judaism a sacred religion as Islam and Zionism is the movement to set up a Jewish homeland in Palestine i Despite comments Carter said Friday he has never reprimanded his UN ambassador But Rep Jim Martin R-NC told a Republican gathering in Charlotte on Saturday that it is time Carter acted The ambassador terrified our allies and insulted the Martin said Mondale who is visiting the Midwest for political chores from which President Carter is shying away spoke in the atrium of the Renaissance Center a newly opened skyscraper in downtown Detroit Throughout the weekend -from fund-raiser to fund-raiser Mondale showed the skills of a veteran campaigner exhorting the Democratic faithful shaking hands with Boy Scouts and posing with party volunteers 00 'I 1 i Steam Engine No 4449 pulls out of the station at New: Bicentennial chore last December and his been TinrtAinrr hrtmn heading home to Portland Ore yesterday at a railroad yard in Birmingham neaaing nome morning The old steam engine renovated to pull the Ala since The Louisiana Superdome is at left (AP Freedom Train around the nation finished that Wirephoto).