Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 4

Out of the Mailbag No need for more park ing: Ball support media manipulation Eisenhower trend I think more people are voting for the man instead of the party I would like to know what fat cats control Quillen Big Business Gas and Oil Companies? A dominating characteristic in Ball is his sense of duty He is not a politician and the country is mortally sick of politicians He is decent and enlightened People want a change Though not a professional politician he is a genius at personal relationships He is an absolutely honest man There would be no corruption In closing Mr Ball is not a wealthy man His father and mother are working people yes working people His father works in a factory in Newport and his mother works at Lowland I urge all my friends relatives Republicans Democrats and independents to stand up go out and vote in November elect Ball our next congressman He will work for everyone not just a few If you and Jimmy Quillen are so proud of his record why he come out and debate Ball on the issues that concern the people of East Tennessee? BLAINE WARDREP Rt 4 Newport EDITOR: Now that the idea of building a multilevel parking 'lot downtown with offices for rent in the First floor and a penthouse civic club meeting facility has cropped up my question is: Who is crazy enough to go downtown to shop and pay $1 $8 or more just for parking I am enclosing a copy of the latest ticket I got from the Police to prove my point We need another parking lot like we need a hole in the head! If our city officials would like to save downtown all they need is to work with the downtown merchants an arrangement so that there would be free parking for the shoppers otherwise the decay of downtown will continue as the people will patronize the shopping centers in suburbia driven out by the meter-maids I can think of a few more pressing and worthier projects where to spend our money: The public library for instance with an excellent staff has the most horrendous physical facilities in the Tri-Cities The Johnson City Community Theatre and our Symphony need financial help I hope and pray that our leaders will think and do something about it ALBERT OSEJO City member ot the Republican Party When I heard that Ball was going to run for the US House of Representatives on the Democrat ticket this grand old Republican with hundreds of other Republicans here in Cocke County got on the Gordon Ball Band Wagon You ask who will control Mr Ball if elected Republicans and Democrats that know Mr Ball know that no one wilT control him He be controlled He is his own man and when he says he is for the working people he will be for the working people when he says he supports the farmer he will support the farmer You talk about Jimmy Quillen's 16 years In office I watched Quillen on Knoxville's TV station back in the spring of 1978 The TV reporter asked Congressman Quillen to name some of his greatest accomplishments He named about the Flag Bill I thought every American was against burning the American flag are you? He brought up the medical school in Johnson City yet he voted against it in 1968 He voted for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation Bill This caused United States companies to close factories in the United States and take advantage of cheap labor overseas thus increasing United States unemployment We now have one factory in the 1st District that is in the process of doing this That means over 500 people out of work here The reporter asked about some more of his accomplishments Congressman Quillen hesitated for a moment then he said he enjoyed helping his constituents with their personal problems He stated that it took him longer to get a bill through Congress than most congressmen 16 years 2 bills and a few personal problems all You mentioned the Eisenhower administration Did you "not know that Eisenhower -was' wooed by both the Republicans and Democrats? And In 1952 58 percent of the people didn't care if he was a Democrat or Republican Beginning with the Voices support for Ball Preferential treatment? EDITOR: Tennesseans expeft candidates to the feelings of the as you say Oct 8 in your Lamar Alexander editorial endorsement Here in Knoxville Mr Jake Butcher and State Rep Bill Nolan have ignored campaign fairness that most citizens expect The candidates hwe instead apparently manipulated some news mediums As a free-lance feature writer I recently learned that UT EDITOR: I am a native son of Greene County and a taxpayer of Greene County bom and raised in the 22nd District (Greystone) before moving to Cocke in 1965 I am 38 years old and have always voted on the Republican ticket but I can see we now need a change I must write this letter to you and Mr Frank Santore Jr 1 will agree with you Gordon Ball is a gentleman in all ways Gordon Ball does not try to hide that he was a 'IT JOHNSON GHY PRESS WM At INI 910911 DON I 1NOW WILL NUt Op mion Yes really open CHRONICLE 1H Joneses Daily Beacon summer news and entertainment leadership really preferred pieces on restaurants student loans and personalities Beacon news editorship want thorough reporting on these subjects Result: the mandatory student activity fees-aided UT-Knoxville Daily Beacon has been the weekly Nolan and Butcher booster The Beacon is joined by the Longstreet Journal of Fort Sanders community Rep Nolan appeared in the Beacon at UT Sept 22 (five long news columns) and Sept 25 he's mentioned twice in a three-column interview of opponent Tom Harris including picture with blown-up eyes On Oct 3 the front page top of largest campus paper virtually rehashed in six columns Nolan's Sept 29 subcommittee hearing reported Oct 2 by you guessed it the same student who has covered Nolan and Butcher all along On Oct 5 Beacon printed Butcher's charge that Alexander half the in Ruby Tuesday restaurant Butcher's Oct Nashville Banner actually said Alexander owns 14 percent of the entire right-restaurant chain's stock He sold his shares later The Beacon still correct their story though informed them twice including writing the editor And while telling Tennessee media that lawyer Alexander helped restaurants get liquor licenses Jake Butcher didn't mention the August primary Nashville headquarters for Butcher reportedly had in 1974 and 78 And this September we voters saw Butcher campaigners dispense a total II kegs of free beer to Knoxville crowds Yes rill human But when are some news mediums going to cease giving some politicians preferential treatment? FOY McDAVID JR 2111 White Ave Knoxville Washington calling Free press and the court By Marquis Childs room looking for pictures notes and any other evidence relating to a student demonstration in which several police were injured White was joined by the four Nixon appointees to the court including Chief Justice Warren Burger constituting a majority of five A dissent written by Stewart expressed in the clearest and most concise language the true meaning of a free press and why the Palo Alto police by their action set a dangerous precedent threatening the base of that' freedom which is confidentiality and trust! Citing the possibility that police occupying a newsroom would interrupt the normal operations Stewart wrote: there is another and more serious burden on a free press Imposed by an unannounced police search of a newspaper office: the possibility of disclosure of information received from confidential sources or of the identity of the sources themselves Protection of these sources is necessary to insure that the press can fulfill its constitutionally designated function of informing the public because important information can often be oftained only by an assurance that the source will not be revealed requires no blind leap of faith to understand that a person who gives information -to a journalist only oni condition that his identity will not be revealed will be less likely to give that information if he knows that despite the assurance his identity may in fact be disclosed And it cannot be denied that confidential information may be exposed to the eyes of police officers who' execute a search warrant by rummaging through the files cabinets desks and wastebaskets of a newsroom -1 Justice John Paul Stevens President 'Gerald only appointee to the court dissent- ed in a separate opinion based on the Constitution Justice Thurgood Marshall joined in dissent and Brennan took no part in the case: The court could divide in the Farber case as in the Stanford Daily decision rejecting the claims of press confidentiality with a majority of five to three or four No one can predict what will go on in that closed conference room But at least the issue will be fully aired again It is beside the point to assail the Nixon wing of the court and the chief justice in particular for hating the press Here is a profound question of law and policy reaching far into the future of a free society WASHINGTON The marble temple that houses the Supreme Court of the United States seems in its classic grandeur to be the least likely center for a donnybrook The waves of controversy over the rights of a free press as guaranteed by the Constitution beat arowd it as fiercely as any issue in this century The latest casus belli is the case of A Farber and the New York Times Farber with the backing of the Times has already served 30 days in the Bergen County jail for refusing to Surrender his personal memoranda notes etc growing out of his coverage of the trial of Dr Mario Jascale-vich who is accused of mur-dnng three of his patients Farber and the Times required to pay a fine of $5000 a day asked the high court for a stay of New Jersey State Supereme order upholding the penalty The appeal went to Justice Potter Stewart since William Brennan the justice responsible for that area was unavailable Stewart granted the stay But it lasted briefly since the full court declined to go along and Farber was remanded to jail To many this seemed to end the matter with the luckless reporter incarcerated for an indefinite time or for as long as he refused to give up his notes Actually it was only the beginning of a new test of strength Stewart had made sure that four justices would support a petition of certiorari filed with the court asking full consideration of the whole case Without that requisite number such a petition can simply go by the board without anyone outside the marble temple knowing the whys or wherefores In addition the Times has a lengthy petition before the court setting out the reasons why there should be an exploration of every aspect of Farber vs the State of New Jersey and attorneys with a decision by the nine justices It is therefore virtually certain that the emotions aroused by any encroachment on freedom of speech and the First Amendment will be given loud voice again The opinion of the court that set off the most widespread reaction of apprehension and anger in the press was handed down last May shortly before the summer recess It was written by Justice Byron White in the case of the Stanford Daily the student newspaper vs the police of Palo Alto Calif The opinion held that the police were justified when armed with a search warrant they invaded the news- complicated the matter greatly last year and thd year before by continuing to announce that stretch of highway would be completed and open by July And the date was July 1 of 1977 not 1978 The state department was only off about 16 months But the new segment of 137 will be a boon to the city Would-be shoppers from the south Unicoi County North Carolina can now reach the downtown or northern Johnson City easily And by the same token would-be shoppers from the northern side of the city can now reach some of the commercial establishments located on the southern side of the city along the Erwin Highway Suffice to say that Johnson Citians were seeking a new north-south highway as far back as the 1950s Roan Street was even then becoming too heavily traveled Now if we can just get the highway extended to Erwin Highway building is necessarily a slow business But faced with the mounting traffic on Roan Street particularly on that portion south of Main Street motorists had been getting increasingly vocal in their demands to know when State Route 137 from Market-Main to the Erwin Highway near Radio Station WETB would be open All things come to he who waits And Route 137 was open yesterday over that new route thus providing a completed north-south route through Johnson City clipping many minutes off the time it takes to travel from one city limits to the other By the same token it undoubtedly depressurized some of the mounting impatience of drivers who kept eyeing the highway and wondering when it would be open The State Department of Transportation Keeping up with the shade lighter at $56 million Considering the size of their respective kingdoms we think Ranier has it all over Queen Elizabeth These and other details wee revealed in a Spanish economic report on the finances of nine crowned heads Next to the bottom was own King Juan Carlos with a mere $2 million to spread over two palaces 'and a yacht At the very bottom is Grand Duke Jean with a scant $11 million small change as privy purses go maybe but easily enough to keep a roof over a regal head and even maintain a royal moped or two All things we suppose are relative If it were us call it keeping up with the Joneses If running the average home presents budget problems then consider what the head of a royal household has to deal with To keep food on the table fuel in the furnace guards at the gates and that sort of thing requires an annual $57 million for Great Queen Elizabeth II And at that just like Mrs Jones she must do an efficient job of shilling pinching what with the numerous royal establishments scattered about her sizable realm Runnerup Prince Ranier sovereign of miniscule Monaco enjoys a royal purse just a cn-imP JOHNSON wont wow Vol 59- No 72 i Washington merry allaverases go round ing President Morgan explained to the FBI that his clients had planted informants key posts close to The clients teamed about the counterplot said Morgan from from these confidential informants Added the FBI report: further described how one client when hearing the statement that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole assassin of President Kennedy 'laughs with tears in his eyes and shakes his head in apparent Morgan had permission to pass on the tip but not the specifics to the FBI Now that the mobster is dead Morgan told us he could identify his informant and confirm the story "Roselli told me very definitely and dra matically about the feedback he got from Cuba on the counterplot against President Kennedy" Morgan said Fidel Castro has denied repeatedly and emphatically that he had anything to do with Kennedy's murder But Roselli had confided the same story to us albeit in less certain terms We first encountered the debonair Roselli more than seven years ago We were investigating his role in the CIA plot to assassinate Castro The CIA case officer Wil our" liam Harvey told us that Roselli had been the hero of the abortive adventure Harvey broke his oath of secrecy because he thought it might help Roselli who was in trouble with the law The CIA agent had nothing but praise for daring In the strictest of confidence Roselli himself confirmed that he had directed six assassination attempts agaiast Castro We protected his confidence so he came to trust us We were the only newsman he would talk to Speaking cryptically from a lifetime of Mafia habit Kosel-li told us the same basic story that he had outlined to his attorney He suggested that Castro had en-usted the underworld elements whom he had caught plotting against him They purportedly belonged to the Santos Traf-ficante organization Working with Cuban intelligence they supposedly lined up an ex-Marine sharpshooter named Lee Harvey Oswald who had been active in the pro-Castro movement It has been established that Oswald called at the Cuban embassy in Mexico City before the dreadful day in Dallas Quotes took me 50 years to make it and I gave it away in a Electrical inventor Russell Klrkhof 82 a seventh-grade dropout who donated $1 million to Grand Valley State College In Allendale Mich because he had no close relatives still living Gangster says plot backfired Score one to TA as called theory has three personality styles adult and child Through an audiovisual the service representatives now to recognize the personality projected by a customer usually and to convert a potentially confrontation into an adult to discussion and resolution of the some 3000 service representatives TA-trained and according to the most say relations with customers marked improvement customer unaware of involvement a case of what he know for TA for TA editors say According every individual parent program are taught state being "irate nonproductive adult problem So far have been company have shown For the in a game helping him one There was a time when the axiom in business was customer is always In more recent years many consumers have questioned whether many business firms still follow that rule Playing games is about the last thing any irate customer wants to do with complaints about unsatisfactory products or services-Doing so in a special way however may' lead to more rapid and less abrasive settlement of a complaint or so the experience of one major firm indicates Pitney Bowles the business syxems and equipment company has been training its service representatives in the techniques of transactional analysis popularized as in several recent books analyzing interpersonal relationships WASHINGTON From the grave the gangster jvho accepted the CIA mission to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has cried out that the plot backfired against President John Kennedy Police believe the late John Roselli was rubbed out gangland-style to keep him from talking But unknown to his executioners he had already told the startling tale to his attorney Edward Morgan a former FBI official who tipped off the FBI on March 20 1967 We have obtained a confidential FBI report quoting cautious account Because of atfbmey-client privi- lege he did not identify his informant to the FBI But he has now acknowledged to us that the details came from Roselli Morgan told the FBI that bis client with highest government had plotted to assassinate Castro Even to the FBI this was ex-pTosive news in 1967 But next statement was even more explosive Recourted the FBI report: project almost reached fruition when Castro became aware of it and arrested a number of suspects By pressuring captured suspects he was able to learn the full details of the plot against The Cuban leader as the supreme irony decided to turn' the tables too could engage in the same Morgan recounted to the FBI thereafter employed teams of individuals who were (bspatched to the United States for the purpose of assassinat What other ESS-CHRONICLE nrtti im Tuesday October 24 1771 could be heard in the rustling of the great oaks in the sacred grove 4 Dodona Ancient Norsemen believed in the World Tree Its roots were in Hel the kingdom of death and its branches in Heaven The stars hung In its crown At the base of the tree according to the legend the fates determined the course of human events California's Maidu Indians believed that originally the earth was a mass of fire that gradually collected in the center but the roots of trees were still linked to the fire Today the fundamental movement toward the preservation of nature is returning the tree to a position of grandeur as witnessed by Tennessee's search for its Thee are few who consider tifees sacred but in a different way they are still venerated Man feels closer to nature in a forest than in a city THE SACRED TREE (DrHtal Hereto Ceurlec) The Tennessee Department of Conservation's Division of Forestry is making an attempt to rekindle the spirits of the woodland It was recently announced that the division has initiated a program of obtaining nominations from across the state for big trees The winners will be determined on a point method established by the American Forestry Association It is believed that many of the strongest contenders will come from these mountains of Upper East Tennessee It would be an honor we suppose to produce the tree in our area Trees used to be considered sacred in some cultures The ancient Greeks believed voice Published doily end Sundoy by INC (Johnson City Pres founded June 12 1934 Sroff News founded 19)8 Chronicle founded 192) Absorbed by the Press Jonuory 21 1935) ot News Center Boone Street ot Awn ond Morket Johnson City Term Second Clou pottage paid ot Johnson City TN 37601 Re publication of ell matter heren prohibited without the express consent Subscription $54 60 per year by mod (The Johnson City Press-Chromckr welcomes and publishes letters to the editor provided writers tgn fhev names and addresses and IMtll LETTERS TO 500 WORDS We reserve the right to edH aft letters TOM HODGE Editorial Director CAM A JONES PUBLISHER JOHN A JONES 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