Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 1

i 9he umM you dccuUefi Wednesday October 19 1983 Price 25 Cents 7 Sections 69th Year Number 297 Kingsport Tenn 37662 comm kiww pumumn cot i i state ties keville also are scheduled although no firm dates for the shifts have been set Mol said All of the transfers are paper only" involving monetary Two other public televisions stations WDCN in Nashville and WKNO in Memphis have been independent since their founding The Tennessee Educational Television Network Act of 1981 complying with earlier federal regulation changes required the transfer of licenses and op By TOM MATTHEWS Tlmes-News Education Writer Three remaining public television stations administered by the Tennessee Department of Education soon will become independent following the lead of Sneedville station WSJK an Education Department spokesman said yesterday WSJK which selves viewers in East Tennessee and some surrounding areas through cable systems became the first of the stations to gain indepen erational responsibilities for the four state-owned stations to local non-profit community agencies by July 1 1988 While the state will out of the business of the stations Mol said it will to have an interest in educational programming in the future" since it depends on the stations for instructional programming Calling public broadcasting highly specialized Tennessee Education Commissioner said it is the lief of the State Board of Education and the General Assembly that it can best respond to local needs when it is locally supported and independently owned and operated" State spending a major source of revenue for ublic" television along with private donations and grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is not expected to be decreased Mol said But in the future an annual state grant will be equitably among all six stations Tennessee Kingsport attorney Robert Bailey and former Eliza bethton teacher Norma Tetrick among them transfer has completed except for the formality of notifying the FCC (Federal Communications Mol said and the next station most likely to follow do so is WLJT in Martin-Lexington The West Tennessee Public Television Council is negotiating with the board The transfers of WTCI in Chattanooga and WCTE in Coo dence earlier this month Ross Mol coordinator of Tennessee Educational Television said the three other stations are included in a of transfers" given preliminary approval last month by the State Board of Education WSJK was transferred to the East Tennessee Public Communications Corp which is chaired by retired Knoxville advertising executive Charles Davis and includes officers and members from throughout East spy iW' 'r I i 1 1 Kt i iieiiilUi- Vi 'vVV iAm fc wn 1 3 I 4 A i it'- 4 A i kf 5 vi A r'A I aA 1 '1 I i i i I 4 rV iy tr still missing some believed to contain secrets about lasers satellites and other advanced weaponry The FBI said Harper passed along the "extremely documents to Moscow via the Polish spy network for a period of eight years The FBI sajd William B'fcll Hugle an electronics entrepreneur in and one-time congressional candidate is undfer investigated as the possible link between Harper and Polish agents Hiigle owner of Associates of San Jose has dropped out of sight since Harper's arrest Saturday The FBI complaint against Harper quoted John Cunningham a US Army ballistics missile expert as placing the value 4 By JOSEPH VOLZ New York Daily News WASHINGTON FBI agents were forced to arrest James Durward Harper Jr a California engineer on espionage qharges even though other members of his alleged Soviet spy ring are still at large because he planned to flee the country sources say Harper 49 whose late wife and others allegedly supplied him with top secret information on Army ballistic missile defense plans is being held without bail in San Francisco FBI officials said Harper was planning to take a trip behind the Iron Curtain when arrested at his Mountainview Calif home last Saturday William Dougherty a Villa "Park Calif attorney whom Harper employed for two years in a futile effort to work out a deal with the FBI after his alleged spying was uncovered speculated that Harper was out for and the thrill of The FBI says Harper who allegedly asked the Soviets to i I I a "Cv 41 4 1 ft-n tvV' 4 ft 1 5 kv 4 A ir' 4 1 fw 91 i JAMES HARPER tork his mis--sile secrets actually received more that $250000 a record for the tight-fisted Russian spy-masters which he allegedly stashed in bank accounts around the world The FBI said up to 200 pounds of secret documents are of the stolen secrets beyond Cunningham said the secrets involved research and development efforts that would enable forces of the United States to survive a preemptive strike by the Soviet I 7 jf AFG- ant Kingsport bid v'f i a I fil mi I ijfTiwTMfMiHi TlmM-Nw Photo Carl Carter Garter memories Related stories page 6 A Last month Hawkins Industrial Development Board approved issuing up to $6 million in industrial development revenue bonds to build the plant Earlier this week Hawkins County's governing body approved making application for $5 million in Community Development Block Grants for the project But the application for block grants has been turned down once previously and that denial apparently has influenced the two corporations to consider locating the plant in Kingsport Sullivan Industrial Development Board is scheduled to consider issuing $65 million in industrial revenue bonds for the project at its Oct 27 meetinig The resolution authorizing the lease-purchase offer was introduced at the end of last city council meeting by Alderman John Douglas Dennis Phillips a member of the Greater Kingsport Area Chamber of economic development committee made the lease-purchase proposal to city council on behalf of the committee While the plant could be located elsewhere Phillips said the economic development committee "has been very active in working with the management of the two companies to locate in Kingsport do this we must be he said suggesting city council offer a long-term option to buy the property for $143500 The terms of the lease-purchase option call for $1 lease payments in each of the first seven years and $17925 payments in each of the last eight years At the end of 15 years More on page 2A col 3 Country music star June Carter Cash pauses on a highway near Hiltons Va while a film crew works oh segments to be included in the Johnny Cash Christmas special Taping of the musical portions will be tohight at The Carter Fold but seating is by invitation only The show will air on CBS during the holiday season Related story page 2A ByDWAINEBECK Times-News Staff Writer A 110-employee high-technology plant operated jointly by AFG Industries Inc of Kingsport and Chronar Corp of Princeton NJ may become Kingsport Regional Service next tenant But the two corporations also have been considering a location in an industrial park near Rogersville in Hawkins County Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a resolution last night offering the enterprise a 15-year lease-purchase option on almost 10 acres in the industrial park off South Wilcox Drive The multi-million dollar plant would produce photovoltaic cells which convert sunlight into Electricity Chrpnar would provide equipment and production technology and AFG would supply glass and glass-handling technology Prison plan Weather IB Inside today during a recent work stoppage State Correction Commissioner Ernest Pellegrin said he expects no problems in implementing order can live with he said State officials had proposed using early paroles if necessary to reduce the prison population by a net of 50 a month for two years to achieve the 1200 cut There are currently about 8300 prisoners court accepts reluctantly the proposed implementation Morton wrote But he added: a "It is troubling to tolerate an unconstitutional condition for so long a period of time but the court is persuaded a steady and orderly process of reducing the population is In the long-range interest of both the and the citizens of Tennessee the two-year time frame is so long however the court expects the defendants will utilize available opportunities to accelerate the process so that the population requirements can be made in a more timely The judge added a provision that could speed up the process The net reduction is figured by subtracting the number of inmates coming into the system from those released Morton included a provision that takes into account the number of inmates historically admitted to the system If fewer inmates come into the prisons during a given month than in the past the difference will in effect be added to the base line reduction of 50 NASHVILLE (UPI) More than a year after declaring prison system unconstitutional because of ovei crowding a federal judge has accepted ja state plan for cutting the prison population by 1200 in two years or less The order yesterday by US District Judge Clure Morton marks an end to months of negotiations between state attorneys and lawyers for prison inmates who brought a lawsuit that resulted in the August 1982 ruling The judge also put strict limits on of inmates at classification centers and called for stronger efforts to reduce inmate violence at Fort Pillodr State Prison where fpur prisoners were wounded Classified 5D-8D Comics 11C Commentary 11A Column One IB Crossword 9C Dear Abby 9C Deaths 5 A Editorials 10A FYP i 4A Horoscope 9C Metro 3 A Natlonworld a 1B-8B Sports 1D-5D Television 10C TomorrowMKlCdC Weather Continued cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers tonight increasing to 50 percent tomorrow High today low 70s low tonight lower 50s high near 70 high was 74 low this morning 59 Index At home: 1E-8E Buslness8C rtwferi mtaj iffr i.