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'f 4 I IEZ3 Vols win Liberty but tragedy strikes Bill Battle (page 2b) Tuesday December 17 1974 Kingsport Tenn 37662 61st year number 163 Phone 246-8121 Circulation 246-8129 2 sections 20 pages Price 1 5 cents Dm) TJ ft Junto tit (Loiimc Area What effect the natural gas cutback will have on the Press operations in Kingsport will not be determined until company officials meet with representatives of the Volunteer Natural Gas Company Tuesday Miller said According to Miller propane is the only alternative fuel to which the Kingsport Press can readily switch Were using oil to fire boilers but the printing press dryers couldnt use the Number Six fuel oil used to fire the boilers Miller said Another Hawkins County industry Holliston Mills will have to close after Jan 1 if gas is not available according to platn manger Dr Prucino According to Prucino natural gas is essential to the operation of the Holliston Mills plant We have been told there will be no gas available after the first of the year Unless our supplier the Hawkins County Natural Gas Utility District can provide propane as a substitute fuel we will have to suspend operations in January February and March Prucino said Other Hawkins County industries Miller said will be affected by the gas cutbacks Holliston Mills The International Playing Card and Label Plant the Aladdin Plastic Plant and the TRW Plant are all users of natural gas and will all be affected to some extent by the 100 per cent reduction of natural gas supplies ill January Miller said In Kingsport a Tennessee Eastman Company spokesman said his companys supply of natural gas had been cut more than 50 per cent effective Monday Eastman spokesmen said current production levels could be temporarily maintained through the use of alternative fuels however A major consumer of natural gas Eastman uses gas as a feedstock in manufacture of some chemical products as a heat source in other chemical operations and to stabilize combustion in coal-fired steam boilers which provide steam for other chemical operations Eastman spokesmen said there was concern about the availability of alterna- More On Page 8A Col 1 By BILL JONES Times-News Staff Writer 0 Natural gas supply cutbacks announced Monday'by the East Tennessee Natural Gas Company may result in the closing of the Hawkins County division of the Kingsport Press and threaten other Kingsport industries company spokesmen said Monday Walter Miller manager of engineering at Kingsport Press said the Natural Gas Utility District of Hawkins County had informed him natural gas supplies would be reduced 100 per cent Jan 1 Unless we can get propane to use as alternate fuel for the dryers on our printing presses we will have to suspend operations at our HawkinsCounty plant Miller said He added that the utility district had some propane on hand but that it would be in demand by several other Hawkins County industries as well It would take about 10000 gallons of propane per day to operate all the industries in Hawkins County and there just wont be that much available Miller said Clear Sailing Maybe Congress Winds Down Lights on in Chicago i Holiday lights from skyscrapers brighten the downtown skyline in Chicago At left is the IBM building at right the twin Marina towers Santa In Many Shapes he would veto setting standards for strip mining of coal The Senate also approved a $3 billion military construction authorization 89-0 and sent it to a conference with the House a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits 84-0 also to conference and approved 44-40 and sent to the White House a bill to require that up to 30 per cent of imported oil must come in American tankers The Senate also approved the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning chemical and biological warfare ratified the Geneva Convention outlawing biological and toxin weapons the US-Bulgarian Consular Convention and an amendment to the text of the 1925 convention on the facilitation of international maritime traffic Some snags developed The Senate refused to accept a conference report on the Export-Import Bank It goes back to conference with the House demanding that US loans to develop natural gas fields in the Soviet Union be denied unless Congress WASHINGTON (UPI) Adjournment fever is soaring as the 93rd Congress appears headed for a controversy-free finish by the end of the week Maybe Although no serious obstacles are in sight Congress has in the past become snarled in unexpected stalemates that kept the Senate and House in session as late as New Years Eve A major roadblock fell Monday when the House in a surprise move dropped demands fora strong antibusing legislation 224-136 The move sends an $86 billion supplemental appropriations bill to the White House without the antibusing measure The major bills Congress still wants to pass are a measure to improve terms for trading with the Soviet Union if the Russians permit free emigration of Jews a package to create jobs and add benefits for those without jobs and foreign aid authorizations The Senate Monday cleared a number of major bills including one Ford has said Movies 4B Television 9B Sports 2B-3B Weather Map 5B This Week 5B Women 6A-7A Inside Arew News 4B Classified 5B-7B City News IB Comics 9B Deaths 8A Editorials 8B Outside Fund started five sets of mattresses four beds two automatic washers one dryer four refrigerators four electric stoves two TVs one radio three sets of dining tables and chairs three sofa and chair sets two baby beds and a play pen have been delivered to families in Scott County and Scott Sullivan and Hawkins Counties Twenty families have been adopted by various organizations churches and individuals These families will receive gifts of food clothing and toys from the adopting groups in addition to Rescue Fund aid Wood and coal have been delivered to 15 families and five couples will be treated to a shopping spree in the Senior Citizens Country Store Another Santa arrived at the Times-News storage room Saturday with several boxes of new toys and games and a large box of grapefruit donated by employes of Mason and Dixon Lines More On Page 8A Col 1 BY BETTY BENKEY Times-News Womens Editor Santa Claus isnt always fat and jolly and the best gifts arent always wrapped in festive colorful paper At least not where the Times-News Rescue Fund is concerned Volunteers helping with the project are Santas in every sense of the word even though they dont wear red suits and go around ho-ho-hoing all the time And the numerous gifts that have been delivered to 140 families would have taken miles of paper had they been wrapped But the families who have received plain cardboard boxes filled with clothing food and toys could care less about fancy wrappings and gaudy bows When youre sleeping on the floor a bed and mattress is the most beautiful gift in the world A refrigerator is an undreamed of luxury and a television is a miracle During the 13 working days since the Rescue Interstate Opening Slated Friday Mostly cloudy and cold today with a slight chance of snow flurries Decreasing cloudiness and colder tonight Partly cloudy and cold Wednesday High yesterday 48 low this morning 33 High today upper 30s low tonight near 20 high tomorrow near 40 Probability of snow is 20 per cent today GOLD? The World's Reserves remaining Jinks of Interstate 40 east of Knoxville and Interstate 75 to the south The ceremony at Knoxville will begin at 2 pm The governor is scheduled to open 1-75 at Lenoir City at 3:15 pm and then skip by helicopter to Athens for the opening there at 4:30 pm Athens City Manager Dick Ray will serve as master of the ceremony in McMinn County State Rep MF (Benny) Stafford will serve the same function at Lenoir City Arrangements for the Knoxville and Kingsport openings are still being made by Ben Broce information officer for the state Department of Transportation Gov Dunn today commended the department and its commissioner Robert More On Page 8A Col 1 Beginning Friday a person in Kingsport will be able to get in a car and drive on an interstate highway all the way to Knoxville and from there to points west north and souths Friday Gov Winfield Dunn will attend opening ceremonies of Interstate 81 in Kingsport and Interstate 40 in Knoxville to mark the interstate connection between East Tennessee and the rest of the state The Kingsport ceremony is tentatively scheduled for Friday noon at the 1-81 intersection of Highway 23 according to Ralph Griffith spokesman for the governor Other ceremonies will be held later Friday in Knoxville Athens and Lenoir City to mark the openings of the last Dollar Slumps As Gold Soars 1 flOUftll IN DlUIOMt I JOO MfTRtC a Chamber Board Bachs School Bond VMI1IO Will HUHci IOVIII IWIII IIAIII OMMANY UNION Big Truck Bill Near Passage WASHINGTON (UPI) Legislation to allow bigger trucks on the Interstate highway system appears almost certain of passing Congress this week Motorists also should expect state police to be more rigid about the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit next year as a result of the same legislation a $763 million federal aid highway bill which would cut off funds to any state that does not enforce it The House passed the bill Monday It now goes to a conference to iron out differences with the Senate version The House bill did not mention larger truck weight limits on the Interstate system but the House debate indicated its negotiators would simply accept the Senate section to increase maximum weights from 73280 to 80800 pounds Rep Edward I Koch D-NY' said members of the House Public Works Committee who will serve on the conference committee would simply ac-More On Page 8A Col 1 IQ CANADA SOUTH MIDDll IIIOIUM AMIIICA (All BA 379 1 Board members of the Kingsport Chamber of Commerce Monday afternoon voted to endorse a resolution favoring a bond issue for the propsed new vocational and physical education facilities at Dobyns-Bennett High School The voice vote passed without any nays but Chamber Executive Vice-President ABColeman said later he had noted that several bohrd members remained silent during the vote Two of the directors Sam Anderson Sr and Sam Anderson Jr expressed doubts about the project When newly-elected Chamber President Edwin Norris called for a vote to close debate on the resolution both Andersons voted no" The younger Anderson said he didn't oppose the new facilities but he said he was concerned about the two tremendous vacant pieces of school property (John Sevier Recreation Center and the Douglass building He said he felt the city had made a mistake in its planning for Dobyns-Bennett I hope we can plan better this time he added When the chairman called for a vote on the resolution itself only a chorus of ayes was heard Sam Anderson Jr told the Times- News later he didnt consider the vote to have been unanimous Ilesaid he intends to give the proposal further consideration before making up his mind on the issue 223 SOUTH AFRICA Mil OF THf WORLD UNHID NINOOOM ZURICH (UPI) The US dollar fell to a record low in Switzerland today dragging with it the German mark and the British pound The price of gold neared the $190 an ounce record mark it first hit a mouth ago There has been massive unloading of dollars and other currencies and equally massive buying of Swiss francs" one Swiss banker said in explanation In midafternoon on the Zurich exchange market the dollar fell to 25330 Swiss francs This was almost half the price it fetched a mere three years ago when the dollar was worth 433 francs The German mark also fell to a record low of 10495 Swiss francs and the British pound hit a new bottom of 592 francs The dollar is dragging every other major currency down because everyone wants to sell it to buy Swiss francs a dealer said At first today we thought it was simply bad economic news from the United States that was the reason but now we can see that everyone wants to have Swiss francs The German mark fell in Switzerland bankers said not because of any particular reason but simply because the dollar dropped so low Bankers said the collapse of the dollar was not connected to a renewed rise in the price of gold Gold has gone up mainly because of the announcement of a gold auction in the United States in January" he said Gold gained $675 overnight in Zurich to open at $189 an ounce In London bullion dealers marked the metal up $5 for a $188 opening Early London trading pushed the price to $18925 but it retreated to $18725 an hour after the market opening Rocky In Thursday WASHINGTON (UPI) Nelson A Rockefeller will be sworn in as vice president in a nationally-televised Senate ceremony Thursday night one hour after the House is expected to act on his confirmation Robert Byrd the assistant Senate Democratic leader said today Byrd said the House has set aside eight hours of debate on the nomination and the swearing-in ceremony will occur shortly after the House vote The Senate has already voted to confirm Rockefeller The Senate has approved a resolution permitting live television and radio coverage of the event It would be the first time the Senate has allowed such coverage in its history T-N Editor Leaving Quillen Credited With Sugar Cuts A Kingsport food wholesaler today credited Congressman James Quillens attack on sugar prices for the rapid decline in cost According to Frank Countiss president of Franks Food Co his cost of sugar has come down by $15 per 100 lb bag since Quillen accused sugar producers of pirating and cheating the American consumer Quillen called for a full scale investigation of skyrocketing prices and outrageous profit levels of domestic sugar producers in a speech on the floor of the House two weeks ago He asked for a Department of Justice investigation under federal anti-trust laws Countiss said he was paying more than $70 per 100 lb bag of sugar at that time The price dropped almost immediately after the congressmans announcement and its come down twice again since then Countiss said the price drop has been reflected all down the line from grower to market He gets his wholesale sugar from Amstar in Savannah the largest refinery in the world he said i 1 staff has won more press association awards than any other paper in Tennessee large or small It is therefore no surprise that the Lee papers have also recognized Bills exceptional talents We shall miss him" For the past five years Roesgen has taught journalism part-time at East Tennessee State University and has been a discussion leader for the American Press Institute at Columbia University Ills wife Joan has been a staff writer and columnist for the Kingsport papers and a nationally-published free-lance writer Before coming to Kingsport Roesgen was Managing Editor of the Sandusky Ohio REGISTER the Burlington Vermont DAILY NEWS and the South Haven Michigan DAILY TRIBUNE More On Page 8A Col 1 Times-Netfs Editor William Roesgen will be leaving Kingsport next month to become Editor of the Billings Montana GAZETTE The GAZETTE with 56000 circulation morning and Sunday is the largest newspaper in Montana and the largest in the Western Division of Lee Enterprises which publishes 14 dailies Roesgen 43 has been responsible for the Times-News editorial department since coming to Kingsport ten years ago In noting his departure Times-News Publisher Scott Trundle emphasized Roesgen's many contributions to the newspaper Under Bill Roesgens management the Times-News newsroom has distinguished itself through aggressive community and regional news coverage of the highest calibre Over the last ten years the news ROESGEN going to Montana.