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2 Major Projects Bring Progress 9 To Bays Mountain By MARY KISS Times-News Staff Writer Mankind and are about to change the profile of Bays Mountain The slopes and ridges of most prominent landmark will soon be cut by a sweep of highway and a string of giant transmission towers A state highway survey crew was to begin driving stakes this week for the new segment of Route 137 which will pass over the of Bays Mountain just above the city And seven or eight miles west at McPheeter's Bend a procession of 117-foot transmission towers will breach a low spot in the mountain carrying electric power generated by the Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant TVA surveyors are at work in the area and construction of the 500-kilovolt towers is expected to begin sometime in 1979 The new section of the Appalachian Highway is designed to link with the present Route 137 at John Dennis By-Pass Bids were opened a week ago for the construction of two projects the highway across Bays Mountain and half-mile twin bridges across the Hols-ton River in Old Kingsport Harold Martin of Colonial Heights is state highway engineer in charge of the Bays Mountain section of the project Martin said the new road will begin behind the Kingsport Moose Lodge about 3 mile from Reservoir Road It will travel across the Bays Mountain foothills over the saddle and down the other side to Riverport Road covering a distance of about 23 miles There Charles McNew engineer from the highway Bristol office will direct the construction of twin concrete-and-steel bridges across Long Island and the Holston ending in Fort Robinson near Stone Drive More On Page 10A Col 1 Phipps Band 1 Plant Arrows at right show path that transmission towers will take from Phipps Bend plant over Bays Mountain at Bend Arrows at left show path that Route 137 will take over the Bays Mountain saddle at Kingsport Times-News Graphics James Noel Smith 'unetcuf VOLUME XLVI NO 90 (CIRCULATION CALLS 6 TO 11 A 246-8129) KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37662 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 1977 9 SECTIONS 112 PAGES 50 CENTS Clinch Breeder ar get Of First Veto an unnecessary commercial demonstration facility" Sen Frank Church D-Idaho said in a statement "By refusing to build a breeder reactor while other nations proceed to do so we not only retreat from reality but we are bound to lose our leadership role in shaping the global control system which the use of plutonium fuel Carter however said that of the Clinch River facility in no way is necessary to ensure continued development of nuclear technologies including liquid metal fast breeder technology White House domestic affairs adviser Stuart Eizenstat told reporters the federal funding for the project had grown from $250000 when it was first authorized in 1970 to an estimated $2 billion now More On Page 10A Col 1 appropriations bill in order to kill the project" Carter has consistently opposed the facility because it would produce plutonium as a byproduct at a time when the United States is attempting to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and capabilities The president a former nuclear engineer said the funding would result in large and unnecessarily expensive project which when completed would be technically obsolete and economically unsound" am committed to a vigorous energy research and development strategy to ensure maximum progress on shifting the energy base of the United States away from oil and natural Carter said in a two-page veto message "However I am also concerned about the risk of introducing the plutonium economy through WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter cast his first veto Saturday in a move to block the funding of a nuclear research plant which would have produced plutonium a key ingredient of nuclear bombs The veto killed a 1978 Energy Department authorizations bill because it ordered funding for the Clinch River (Tenn) breeder reactor demonstration plant But a congressional official said the authorization was not needed for the project to continue and its status the same as been all year" Both the House and Senate have passed another bill a supplemental appropriations measure including $80 million for the project and a conference committee has approved the funding An aide to the Senate Appropriations Committee said Carter would have to the Angry Residents Try Sign Language Billboard along Highway 11-W tells Central Heights problems loud and clear Central Heights residents upset at the Sullivan County School Board's recent decision not to rebuild the burned Central Heights Elementary School are showing their displeasure through a large sign they have erected beside Highway 11-W The sign located near the Central Heights Community Center east of Kingsport on 11-W welcomes Bristol-bound travelers to what it terms rejected The sign's message informs travelers that the community has no school "Thanks to the Sullivan County School and also warns of high taxes and The sign also notes that vote will put a stop to this and put a school back in our The school board voted last month to build a new school to replace the burned Central Heights School and to serve students from the over-crowded Indian Springs Elementary School about halfway between the two communities Central Heights residents however have argued that the school the board has voted to build will soon be overcrowed as well They also claim their children will have to stay on school buses much longer each Times News Photo Earl Carter Finger painting? What was officially a finger painting class looks more like a body painting class for Curtis Riner first grade student in Kathy class at Lincoln School Southwest Virginia Counties Up For Grabs In Vote Tuesday delay in the completion of a new school and also say the cost of two schools would be too high Central Heights residents meanwhile are rumored to be raising funds for a possible legal challenge to the school board's More On Page 10A Col 1 day if the new school is located in the Harrtown area as planned and have suggested that the school board build two schools one on the site of the old Central Heights School and another "somewhere in Indian Springs" School officials however claim changes in construction plans could cause up to a Inside By GENE MCCLELLAND Assistant Area Editor Southwest Virginia in 1973 was Howell Country giving him the widest margin ever accorded an Independent candidate in Ninth District voting And Howell supporters are counting on the district to "do it this time Defendant 9 Was An Imposter Drug Charge Dropped ANALYSIS been largely Democratic and can be counted in the Democratic columns in almost every election But Scott and Lee Counties are swing counties which can go either way in any given election although both cou nties lean heavily into the Republican columns more often than not The fact that the general election of 1975 is still being contested through investigations in Lee County could well influence the vote there "It depends on who gets the vote out said one political expert who has been a poll watcher in both Lee and Scott counties for some time Virginians in recent years have declined to allow themselves to be counted in More On Page 10A Col 1 i charade which included her pleading not guilty to the drug indictment for which she had never been charged Trial spectators only became aware of the trick after a Virginia State Police investigator had already identified the imposter as the same person who sold him a small quantity of marijuana last April 28 The accused woman Laura Estelle Martin 19 of Wise meanwhile sat in the courtroom audience throughout the proceedings while the More On Page 10A Col 1 WISE A police investigator identified the woman on the witness stand as the person who sold him some marijuana and was arrested for it But drug charges were dropped in Wise County Circuit Court when it was discovered the woman on the stand was not the defendant but an imposter deliberately masquerading as the defendant during the trial Court sources said late Friday an ethics complaint may be filed before the Virginia Bar Association over the imposter's courtroom But Dalton supporters are hoping the tide will turn back to the Republican columns and the election for governor here could easily go either way Wise County of the three counties in the heavy readership territory in the Fighting Ninth District has always Flash flood watch is in effect for Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia today and tonight Occasional rain and some scattered thundershowers occurring tonight High today and Monday in the upper 60s low tonight in the upper 50s Winds easterly at 10-tf mph.