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CY7 Faittafipy Manson follower refuses toleave federal prison1 5 I vm UCLA defeats Indiana Tennessee takes third 29 i 1 1 23-33 LnLftainmcnt'ISMfl Co 3 I imruial34-33 I I ir ALfiy'03 SpOS '23-33 Youth 24-23 Siiovers21 JOHN SO OPJ' PR ESS-CH RO I CUE WHAT THE PEOPLE DONT KNOW WILL HURT THEM JOHNSON CITY TENN 37605 SATURDAY MORNING MAR 30 1985 1985 Press Inc Phone 615-929-3111 Daily 25' Sunday 75' 7 Day Home Delivery $f45 Vol 65 No 233 rrtto bethton By Tom Kirkland and Joe Ledford P-C Elizabethton Bureau ECIZABETHTON More than if 'Y' 7 i JJ I p'i -'V 1000 workers will losetheirjobs "first-unitwilllikelyceasepro- RayonCorp when North American Rayon Corp closes its doors possibly as soon as the end of April James Walker III owner of the textile mill notified union leaders Friday he will close the plant NARC is the largest employer! in Carter County The plant currently employs 1100 people Last year the company re- fiorted a payroll of about $18 mil-ton duction by April 20 Yam for clothing and other fabric uses are made in' that department The "second unit which manufactures tire cord will operate until the end of April to fill a current order Hatley quoted Britt as saying The international union will not be able to help workers find other jobs "When it runs out on own You get a job After the sold by the Rogosin for plant was Paso Natural sold to stockholders In 1984 Control $240000 fine for polluting The p' li 7jS lv' 4Ta -to it '4JA -5ii Xf XX-- 4 iv second proposal Tuesday made it economically impossible to continue operation Union Vice President Brown Hatley said Friday he was told by plant manager Ed Britt that the youre your way you can said Hatley plant guard who has worked various departments at for 44 years company has laid off about workers in the past three one time the factory employed about 6500 workers "Ive seen as- many as 600 one department Hatley said Hatley said the building is in fairly good shape -except for a leaky roof Some of the equipment is in poor condition he said There has been little maintenance performed "at he pfont in Uvtv IVY V- 2W' A letter from Walker hand delivered Friday afternoon to officials of Watauga Rayon Workers Union Local No 2207 said high costs of materials depressed market conditions and pressure from the state to meet waste-water dis- months charge regulations forced the plant to close the best a in NARC The 300 At Walker said attempts to explain to employees the companys "dire economic situation met with failure Employees twice rejected wage and benefit concessions including a 10-percent pay reduction and loss of a weeks paid vacation and three Taid holidays If np Barely hanging 10 plojccsat the -plant accepted the -said coneessionsr He said the -salaried The union officials will meet staff was reduced by about 16 with members Monday at 7 pm percent to formally notify them of the let- The wages and benefits would ter from Walker liave been returned tT the' em- "Well just fry to keep the peo- ployees next spring if cash flow ple informed as long as we ean-was sufficient Walker said Hatley said He said the rejection of a The plant began operation in wipeouts and the foamy waves thats the fuX of the sport climbing back on and riding -another one in tq shoreHAP Laserphoto II) A young surfer from Flagler Beach Fla teeters precariously on the edge of his surfboard just before a wipeout at Daytona Beach Fla recent- ly But like most surfers the youth is used to 1928 as American Glanzstoff and was owned by Germans When yvar was declared on Germany in 1941 the plant was seized by the US government1 and renamed North American war the( plant was government to Israel $17 million- The owned briefly by El Gas Co and was Walker and a group of in 1978 the state Water Quality Board levied a against the plant Watauga River company was ordered to pay $10000 a month beginning in March 1984 until it complied with state' waste-water discharge guidelines Records show the plant has had pollution control problems-with -regulatory agencies since the ear- ly 1970s According to records on jile at the courthouse here NARC owes the Bank of Virginia $11 million The loan was originally in the amount of $25 million in November 1978 The company borrowed $4 million in October 1981 $15 million irt J'jne-TQ0l 7ciW in Octo- Lof I3o4 $4500(X) in November -100! and 8 minion in Decent- ber 1984 The loans are secured by a first mortgage on the plant and property NARCs sister plant American Bemberg closed in 1976-when its owners put the company into bankruptcy because "its such a challenge Its so difficult to call one to you Tlusit is a beautiful time of the year to be out in the woods to see the spring flowers and other birds "When you get one its good to eat Thats a bonus The reward of the turkey kill is the satisfaction of bagging one of natures wariest animals Please see PEOPLE Page 20 Deaths JOHNSON CITY Virfil Garland Willard Lawson IAKERSVILLE NC Viryit McKinney CONWAY SC Mrs Sara Sasser Bush issuesSoviels warning M(U -W5 was with Nicholson when the Soviets shot him American authorities have said Schatz was prevented from going to the majors aid for an hour and that he died unattended The parents of Nicholson and those of his wife were among a large group of family and friends who came to the airport for Nicholsons return The Armys chief of staff Gen John A Wickham Jr was in the official delegation and so was Gen Gleiin OtisTcommanderiin- chief of the Army in Europe' Wickham will present the widow with the Legion of Merit in her husbands name at the funeral That honor one of the militarys highest is for one "who has distinguished himself by exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services Nicholson was unarmed at the time of the incident -New television station planned in region By Rick Patterson P-C Staff Writer GREENEVILLE An independent UHF-band television station plans to be on the air this fall with a $16 million transmitter antenna and studio Jay Austin general manager said WETO Channel 39 will carry rerun network programming some independently produced syndicated programs and locally-produced broadcasts of high school football and basketball games Austin said the high school sports programs would not be broadcast live but on a tape-delayed basis WETO is negotiating with area cable systems for access on the 2-13 band of cable channels Austin said Steve Pollock operations manager at Sammons Inc of Johnson City said he has not been contacted by the new station Pollock said there is an FCC local access rule which gives local television stations a priority over satellite television sta- 1 tions "Whether or not they would be entitled to that just because theyve started a new station I dont know Pollock said About 40 percent of Sammons customers receive just the Please see TV Page 20 i "behind us Bush headed a line of dignitaries who greeted Nicholsons widow Karyn and their 8-year-old daughter Jennifer at Andrews Air Force base in suburban Maryland The child walked off the Air Force C-141 Starlifter transport clutching a yellow-haired doll The US Army Band played a hymn as uniformed pallbearers carried the coffin into a hearse "Major Arthur Nicholson was an outstanding officer murdered in the line of duty Bush said "We grieve tfith his wife and small daughter "Major Nicholson served his country with distinction and he brought honor to us all May he rest in peace Bush said The major 37 will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery today i The major was shot Sunday near a Soviet military installa tion in East Germany about 100 miles northwest of Berlin and 30 miles from the West German border The Soviets responded to American outrage by saying Nicholson whose home was West Redding Conn was taking pictures in a restricted area But senior US officials said that while the place where Nicholson was taking pictures had been off-limits earlier to American observers the restric--tions were lifted Feb 20 when the Soviets completed military maneuvers there' 1 Nicholson-was a member of the Army Liaison Mission "a small group whose assigned task is to monitor Soviet activities in Germany All 15 members of the mission returned with the body They lined up on the runway at the air force base each wearing a black band of mourning on his left arm Among them was Staff Sgt Jessie Schatz the driver who The Associated Press WASHINGTON The body of Maj Arthur Nicholson slain by a Soviet sentry in East Germany was brought back to his native soil Friday for burial with honors in the militarys cemetery for its fallen heroes Vice President George Bush said Nicholson was "murdered and warned the Soviets that "this sort of brutal international behavior jeopardizes directly the improvement in relations which they profess to seek Meanwhile a State Department official said Secretary of State George Shultz has called in Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin for a meeting today to discuss the shooting The official refused to disclose further details However CBS News quoted Shultz as saying the purpose of the meeting would be to discuss ways to put Nicholsons death Joblessness increases in county By Fred Travis PC Nashville Correspondent NASHVILLE Washington County unemployment during February rose 16 percentage points above the January rate The Tri-Cities area rise was only 03 of a point and the state rate dropped to 9 percent from 94 percent a month earlier These figures were released Friday by state Employment Security Commissioner Dale Kelley who attributed the increased unemployment in the Tri-Cities metropolitan statistical area or MSA to a decline in garment fae- tory jobs The apparel industry in Tri-Cities Is like the rest of the Please see JOBLESS Page 20 Criminal judge has passion for bagging wild turkeys By Rick Patterson P-C Staff Writer One sure sign of spring is Criminal Court Judge Arden Hill taking up his shotgun sneaking off several hours before 'dawn and slinging a camouflage bandanna across his face He is not headed out to terrorize an all-night convenience store He isjust paying the price forj those afflicted with a passion' for turkey hunting No target is as demandifigTlt requires scouting weeks ahead of time and puts the hunter into the woods well before sunrise Many many tunes the productive hunting is over two hours later and the hunter is back in his vehicle with no sipi there are 1 a Saturday people any turkeys in the whole county "If you go out and hear a turkey gobble I call that a successful hunt Hill told 140 members of the Unaka Rod and Gun Club at Daniel Boone High School this month "If you get one thats an even more successful hunt "It takes a lot of patience You better learn it or youll not get any turkeys" Hill said "And it takes a lot of woods-manship There is an old Indian saying that any brave can kill a buck but it takes a chief to kill a gobbler" Hill started turkey hunting 15 yean ago He has stayed with it i f- Staff Photo by Pick Patterson judge Arden Ilill poses jrith a stuffed gobbler 4 I.