Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 9

Thursday June 4 1987 Kingsport Times-News 3A 1 Scott smpervisorsnrejecIL Budget change Agreed to distribute $379025 in funds from the state to county rescue squads with the Scott County Rescue Squad to receive 40 percent of the money and the Duffield and Nickelsville squads each to receive 30 percent Requested the state furnish an additional game warden for the county Appointed Sampson to fill Supervisor Ralph unexpired term on the Lenowisco board of directors after resignation Appointed Paul Bright to a three-year term on the Lenowisco board of directors Reappointed Kay Culbertson to a four-year term on the Lonesome Pine Regional Library board Reappointed County Administrator Billie Lynch to the community corrections board see if we can find more money to give the school "We considered this budget for a long Chairman MC Price said know where we would find more money unless we initiated a tax Supervisor Virgil Sampson said was my feeling that no one wished to propose a tax I think there is enough money in the school budget to operate Supervisor Bill Jones said Sampson pointed out that the $200000 trimmed from the school budget was only 15 percent of the $14 million school budget "I would hope that if the school was closed it would not be because of lack of funds from this Sampson said The board adopted the budget as advertised for public hearing last week 6-1 Horton voted against adopting the budget as he had voted against cutting the school budget $200000 in budget work sessions The tax rates remain the same for fiscal year 1987-88 The supervisors voted unanimously to set the proposed real estate tax rate at 58 cents on each $100 of assessed value and the personal property rate at 72 cents In other action the board approved a 5 percent cost-of-living increase for employees of the board of supervisors and approved appropriations for constitutional offices set by the Virginia Compensation Board A request from county Registrar Willie Kilgore for $800 to pay clerical help in the current fiscal year also was approved The supervisors also: By BARBARA HASS Scott County Bureau GATE CITY In a surprise move a member of the Scott County Board of Supervisors Wednesday requested the county budget for fiscal year 1987-88 be reopened and changed Supervisor IE Horton who represents District 6 which includes the Fairview community told the other supervisors that a school in his district Fairview Elementary School may be closed as the result of the $200000 trimmed from the county school budget want to see the school budget cut the amount we Horton said like to reopen the school budget you have a heart for children you should consider this and go back through the budget and Trio indicted in kidnapping tion in the cases will be decided at a later date Also indicted was David Cope Jr 20 of Pennington Gap Cope is accused of breaking-and-entering grand larceny and arson at the Pennington Gap residence of Mrs Fred Wheeler The home was occupied at the time of the incidents Marice Dean Muncey 32 who lists his home address as the Nevada State Prison is charged with breaking-and-entering the Pennington Gap residence of Bertha Heck 86 earlier this month and taking $7000 cash Robert Hartsock 24 of Pennington Gap is charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana When arrested Hartsock allegedly was carrying nearly three grams of cocaine and almost two ounces of marijuana He also faces possible charges of intent to sell and deliver the illegal substances Trial dates still are to be scheduled stray cared for by Virgil and Lucille Peters of Wadlow Gap claws one with six the other with seven The mother cat Extra claws These kittens born to a Road have a few extra appropriately is named English 9 named in drug indictment ROANOKE (UPI) A federal grand jury capping a two-year investigation into an alleged Florida-to-Virginia drug scheme has indicted nine people on cocaine distribution and conspiracy charges The indictments handed down Wednesday charge a Florida man with heading the operation that ferried cocaine into Southwestern Virginia to a network of local dealers A task force of federal state and local authorities who have investigated area drug trafficking for the past two years have seized at least six kilograms of cocaine with a street value of up to $60000 per kilogram Authorities said they seized several cars $150000 in cash and an airplane used in the operation The indictments allege George Lee Kosko of Daytona Beach Fla flew cocaine in a privately owned plane to Roanoke and passed the drugs along to local dealers Kosko a former golf professional at a Roanoke club faces six charges including running a continuing criminal enterprise under the so-called drug kingpin statute designed to ensnare major dealers According to the indictments the scheme dates to the fall of 1985 The defendants allegedly met at four Roanoke area restaurants and bars to distribute the cocaine authorities said Six Southwestern Roanoke men face one count each of cocaine conspiracy which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison They are: William Lugar Stephen Dillon David Ferguson Robert Jones Jack Graham and John Pearson Lugar also was indicted on nine additional charges of cocaine distribution Ferguson was indicted on four counts of cocaine distribution Jones was indicted on three distribution counts and Graham was indicted on one distribution count Two more Roanoke men James Alexander and Calvin Reynolds have been charged with one count each of conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaipe Authorities said seven additional 'unindicted defendants had agreed to plead guilty to one conspiracy count to avoid being indicted submits low bid on US work deck repairs on State Route 352 on US 58 in Hilton and on south of Weber City drew a bid from Crawford Construction and JG Crawford-Division of Ltd of Paducah Ky Department of Highways surface in Lee County is progressing miles currently being repaved in Hill area 18 secondary bridges in Lee and Scott counties Eastwood bid $125190 Other projects receiving bids include installation of recessed pavement reflection markers for 30 miles of US 23 in Lee Scott and Wise counties 7 miles of US 58-A in Russell County and 6 miles of US 58 in Washington County Ampsco Corp of Columbus submitted the apparent low bid of $4371170 Co of Wytheville submitted the third lowest bid at $1832856 Pending official awarding of the contract the project tentatively is scheduled to begin in the next two months It will alter US 58 across Ben property to the late Bertha Edds estate Eastwood Painting Co of Baltimore tentatively has been awarded the contract to paint steel beams and girders on Southwest Virginia Bureau JONESVILLE The low bid to relocate a mile-long section of US 58 was entered by WC English Inc of AltaVista English bid $1623205 on the project to relocate US 58 about 7 miles west of Jonesville The second low bid was given by Inc of East Stone Gap at $165819190 Pendleton Construction Court upholds conviction in By STEPHEN IGO Southwest Virginia Bureau JONESVILLE Three men charged with the February kidnapping of a Pennington Gap man were among those indicted by a Lee County grand jury Tony Tanner 24 of Route 2 Pennington Gap James Thacker 28 of Woodway and Troy Caudill 26 of Flatwoods all were charged with abduction robbery breaking-and-entering and use of a firearm while committing a robbery The trio are accused of forcing their way into the residence of Earl Wilcox Feb 3 and taking him his weapons and his car on an odyssey into Mexico Wilcox was driving the men back through a border checkpoint toward Texas when an alert guard rescued Wilcox and apprehended the men They also were indicted earlier by a federal grand jury on kidnapping charges Jurisdic Thrasher no errors were made in questioning jurors before the trial Olga Thrasher testified King told her about the plane crash and that she bandaged his injured hands after the accident think there is sufficient evidence presented of the existence of the conspiracy between Thrasher and King outside of the otherwise admissible statements of Thrasher made in furtherance of the conspiracy to support the statements of Thrasher made as a the panel wrote reading from 1986 results to the 50th percentile a 6-point drop in math to 38 a 2-point increase in English to 64 no change in science and a 2-point drop in social science to 38 But when special education scores are left out the county had a 6-point drop in reading a 2-point decline in math a 6-point gain in English a 3-point increase in science and a 4-point jump in social science Kingsport City Schools led the rankings with across-the-board increases in test scores over 1986 results Bristol City Schools had a 3-point decline in math to the 86th percentile but showed increases in the other four subject categories tested things are going to go 58 Bridge 421 near US 23 $323301 Co Enterprises treatment with 15 the Rose 1MC 83 77 61 57 45 36 into Virginia a theory supported by testimony from wife Olga King appealed arguing there was insufficient evidence for a conviction He also said the lower court erred in allowing testimony from Olga Thrasher and in preventing defense lawyers from interviewing each juror about pre-trial publicity The appeals court upheld the conviction saying there was enough evidence to link King to ajdrug conspiracy with Wallace Thrasher The court also said Test scores included special ed students for first time Achievement test scores Reading IBM 1987 scheme The appeals court also rejected arguments from King that his conspiracy with Thrasher ended when the plane crashed The case is the latest development in the Wallace Thrasher drug case which continues to pose some questions for federal authorities Thrasher disappeared in late 1984 and authorities suspect he later was killed by other drug dealers King was cited for contempt of court in March for refusing to tell a federal judge what happened to Thrasher Science Social Science 1M7 IN 85(4-2) 81 86(4-5) 87(10)7482(8) 68(4-2) 53(-4)6048(-1 2) 45 4038(-2) 4038(-2)4433(-11) 40(44) 3540(4-5) up and down in any system because testing a different group of children each said Sam Witcher testing coordinator think they do provide a good measure of the broad he said adding that the state education department is promoting use of the achievement test much like a test such as the Basic Skills Test Johnson City schools experienced increases in all five subjects with the most significant gain in science Barbara Lawson supervisor of secondary grades curriculum said part of the gains could be attributed to expanded advance placement classes at the high-school level in a scheme to fly marijuana from Belize through Florida to Virginia In October 1984 King was flying a plane owned by Thrasher and loaded with more than 570 pounds of South American marijuana when it crashed in Car-roll County A passenger died in the crash but King walked away with minor injuries At the trial prosecutors argued that as pilot bf the plane King was part of conspiracy to import marijuana Kingsport Johnson City Bristol Tenn Sullivan County Hawkins County Washington County Statewide students coded into the results are omitted the scores are quite a bit higher said county testing coordinator Carol Briggs Without those students Sullivan County had a 2-point drop in reading when compared to 1986 scores an 8-point gain in math a 1-point increase in English a 4-point increase in science and a 3-point drop in social science true test is going to be when you compare the same 12th results to their test results when they were in the 9th Briggs said The third school system experiencing mostly declines in achievement test scores was Hawkins County which finished slightly ahead of Washington County in the rankings By PAGE BOINEST United Press International RICHMOND A federal appeals court says there was sufficient evidence to link the pilot of a marijuana-loaded plane that crashed in 1984 to a South American drug scheme operated by drug runner Wallace Thrasher The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld the drug conviction of Nelson King who is serving a 16-year prison sentence for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute science and dropped 11 points in social science to 33 done nothing with the 12th Boy said noting that school officials have concentrated on improving proficiency test scores and achievement test results for 9th graders The standardized test results are broken into categories of high average and lower achieving students problem is that we have not had the numbers in the highest ranking to offset the losses in the lower he said Boy also noted that high-school seniors not have had the proper attitude toward the by not taking it seriously Sullivan County School Superintendent Jim Fleming attributed part of the lower test scores for that school system to the laid-back attitude Scores for Sullivan County were down 8 percentage points from 1986 to the 70th percentile in reading remained at the 68th percentile in math declined 5 points to 77 in English dropped 4 points to 53 in science and declined 12 points to 48 in social science But when special education 93 96(4-3) 95 96(1) 8791(4-4) 8692(4-6) 8792(5) 8889(1) 82 84(-l-2) 8986(-3) 83 78 70(-8)68 68 82 77(-5) 6250M2) 44 38(-6) 6264(2) 7550(-25)3338(5)7256(-16) 58 62(4-4) 52 60(8) 68 72(4-4) By SANDRA GUY Times-News Education Writer Results from the 1987 Stanford Achievement Tests were disappointing for three area county school districts but the latest scores for the first time included most special education students school officials say Three smaller city school systems on the other hand fared better results were lower than we had hoped said CD Boy Jr secondary supervisor for the Washington County school system The county which has improved its 9th-grade proficiency test scores dramatically over the past three years ended up at the bottom of the list of area school systems on the achievement test scores Results of the state-mandated Stanford Test of Academic Skills were released at a Tennessee Board of Education meeting last week The scores show Washington County dropped 25 percentage points in reading from 1986 from the 75th percentile to 50 gained 5 points in math to a score of 38 declined 16 points to the 56th percentile in English dropped 2 points to 38 in not very thrilled but at same time we want to be overly said Lynn Norris instructional supervisor for the secondary grades not sure we can get any true reading in a couple testing There are a lot of variables Time will tell if doing our job or Hawkins County officials are working on their math curriculum which will include pre-algebra in the middle schools next fall he noted Teachers who have made the state Career Ladder also are teaching math and language after school and during the summer on extended contracts said Norris The 1987 test scores for Hawkins County showed a 12 percentage point decline in I.