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ifjr A 'I A I A i HFfilfflKBS 2 Candidates Quizzed By League Stress Taxes Higher Education KINGSPORT TENN TUESDAY MAY 11 1965 deserves an institution of high--- Do you think the Kingsport er learning" Planning Commission should Rule pointed out to the worn- exercise jurisdiction for plan-ens group that the' city is ning within a five-mile radius now receiving state aid for sup- outside the city limits port of its night school pro- Duncan: I understand any municipality has the right to zone within five miles with the the permission of the county Rule: We can zone now but we could not enforce it unless the county agreed to enforcement There is still an injunction in chancery court opposing zoning out of a city" Long range plans in the field of recreation parks traffic control and law enforcement? Rule: At present the city is gram Other questions posed by the group and the candidates' answers included: What business do you consider appropriate to be carried out in executive session? Rule: Those problems involving personalities Duncan: I agree with the logic of Dr Rule Having been a deacon in the Baptist Church I am aware that not everything can be put before the 1 5 men to bring our department up to standards recommended by the Federal Bureau of Investigation We are having a difficult time getting qualified men to take the jobs Last year the League (of Women Voters) recommended that the city hire an assistant for the superintendent of schools planner to project school population aiming toward an elementary school within a half-mile radius of every child? Rule: A study at this time indicates that we will be authorizing a second superintendent of schools in charge of education and one in charge of business and maintenance It will relieve some of the load The city has had funds in the budget for 18 months for salary for an assistant planner but we havent found a man' qualified Will the city cooperate in the Upper East Tennessee Economic Opportunity Association program encouraging use of neighborhood Youth Corps? Rule: We will be cooperating and will hire students recommended for road survey programs and for work on a road in Bays Mountain and other work in that area whole body trying to open Bays Mountain What particular project Other recreation is developed would you like to see encour- as the (city recreation) board aged by the Board of Mayor recommends and Aldermen? A group has agreed to do -Duncan-- Provide -for an- a complete study of traffic con-nexed areas of city study trol for Kingsport I believe we Principal McMurray is being promoted not dismissed according to Scott County Super intendent of Schools Jack Renick (Times-News -Photo-CharlesDean) DEMONSTRATORS Students of Rye Cove High School protesting the loss of their principal stand outside the school in Clinchport Va Monday carrying hand-lettered cardboard -signs- of city charter to have it brought into line with the state constitution Rule: No comment Time Bomb Goes Off By RON PORAMBO Times-Ncws Staff Writer out of the school for Id say from six to seven years Someone had started six petitions going around calling for removal of McMurray a couple of months ago the youths explained but no one would sign them and nothing came of it Mr McMurray asked me to come out and ask you to come back in 17-year-old Keith Dishner shouted for all to hear climbing on the Volkswagens rear bumper What do we say? yelled Charles Robinette The shrill clanging of the change classes bell was extra loud and it bounced off nothing but the walls Rye Cove High Schools corridors were relatively empty yesterday and the erasers didnt need dusting and in each classroom a teacher sat at the head of a phantom class eager and waiting to lead young minds unto wisdom There wasnt an awful lot to lead Mayor Hugh Rule a candidate for election to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen predicted Monday Kingsports tax rate will become almost prohibitive unless some source of revenue is found Rule who was questioned along with aldermanic candidate John Duncan by the League of Women Voters said he foresees the question of revenue and sources of revenue as one of the most important issues expected to face the city in the coming term We do not apologize for increasing taxes the mayor said We collect money from you and spend for you and I think we have spent wisely We are collecting all taxes legally allowed by the state he told the luncheon gathering of the non-partisan organiza-tion and added-that-the dty-now has the tax situation under study He said at present there is no consensus of opinion on how the tax problem might be solved and that the study should produce a more satisfactory tax scale On the qeustion of whether they favor development of a state-tax-supported junior college for Kingsport both candidates gave a note of agreement I think we should find the facilities for a school in Kings-port Duncan noted the city City Student Will Study In Denmark The first student in three years to be accepted for the American Field Service program to live abroad will travel to Denmark and live with a Danish family for the summer Carolyn Egger 17 of 1644 Pineola Ave will live with the Erik Wintero family The Win-teros have four children Miss Egger the daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Egger is a rising senior at Dob-yns-Bennett High School She will leave for Denmark shortly after the end of school Her host family lives in Glos-trup Denmark a suburb of Copenhagen Wintero is administrator over a 1000-bed hospital and the mother is an interior archi tect During the first part of the summer Miss Egger will spend time with the family at their seaside house in Rorvig Denmark Miss Egger is the first stu-dent since 1962 to be accepted for the exchange program according to Mrs Leland Humphrey chairman of the Kingsport AFS Committee STARTED ON FRIDAY No was the cry In the high school office Principal McMurray held the phone to his ear and talked with his leader and his leader was concerned The leader was Superintendent of Schools Jack Renick and he wanted to know what in the hell was going on at Rye Cove High School Mark all the students who are not in their classrooms absent and give them a zero for the day McMurray repeated in verification of Jack Renicks instruction No the teachers arent taking any part in it McMurray said in reply to the superintendents question The few kids in the rooms the students called scabs because they didnt participate in the student walk-out either looked out the windows at the action outside or read books Altogether there were less than one hundred students in the building yesterday afternoon and the rest of the student body the four hundred plus youthful minds who didnt particularly feel like being led unto wisdom or anything else tramped over the schools grounds in protest of what they considered jl grave injustice Convicts To Speak In County Operation Crime Prevention a program designed to strip the glamor from crime will be presented to students at eight of Sullivan Countys high schools during the next two' weeks The program presented -by Richard (Peck) Gunn director of Prison Services for the State of Tennessee features five inmates of the state pene-tentiary one of whom was only 11- hours away from execution when the governor commuted his-sentence- THE RAINS CAME If nothing else confusion walked the corridors of Rye Cove High School yesterday will approve a contract with them It just tells where the problems are We need eight more police- Bristol Boys Club on June-L At a meeting of the board of directors of the local club Monday night" Pennington received the luggage and an electric shaver and was praised for his contributions toward the overall Boys Club program We hate to see Charlie go said Charles Schmotzer director of the Kingsport club But we feel he has a good opportunity in taking over the Bristol club At 2:35 McMurray called his 23 teachers together in the library and passed on to them Renicks thunder and it wasn't long before Renick thunder joined with that of Mother Nature and the rain out on the lawn and the students had their answer Will we go in to get out of the rain? one of them shouted NO! was the reply Jf therewas doubt and confusionjegarding the mechanics The thing had begun bubbling on Friday afternoon when word had come filtering through the masses that Principal McMurray now in his 27th year at the institution would be replaced starting the next school term He was being moved to a supervisory job at Gate City The movement had gained momentum at a quarter to nine Monday morning as 16-year-old Betty Darnell and others had started work on a petition aimed at keeping their beloved principal G01NG-AWAY PRESENT Charlie Pennington left is presented luggage and an electric shaver by George Arnold president of the local Boys Club at a meeting Monday night Pennington is to head the Bristol Boys Club Pennington Given Lug gage By City Boys Club Officials at his desk and at nine oclock the whole thing had spilled out onto the grass fronting the school and onto the roof with banners hanging from the building and placards carried by chanting students And if the leaders were to be believed this was just the beginning The-black lettered words plastered over the placards told the story We Want Mack Back was for Monday Gate City Bound was the message for today of moving a man from one job to another there wasnt any about the reason for the demonstration McMurray is loved and respected by his students and the teachers and the cooks down in the cafeteria and by the janitors and by the men who collect the trash and for the record the feeling is mutual This is quite a tribute to you as a principal How does it make you feel? McMurray was asked Im human That should answer the question was the soft reply Combined sentences for various crimes of the five total 493 years The schedule of appearances for the program includes: May 20 Holston Valley 1 pm May 21 am May 25- BluffAity 2:30: pm May 26 Mary Hughes 1:30 A pm and May 27 Lynn View 8:30 anrJ-Ketron 10:30 am Blountvill pm and Holston 2:30 pm PAGE 9 Tj'P1 tfrir VO 1 i 'a CORF iTHAItiVAYS 245-6611 PETITIONS REPORTED Superintendent of Scott County Schools Jack Renick didnt The students say some influential people are pressuring the school board into removing you Is that true? Well that may be -Who Some of it may be from old grudges but I dont know who Im shooting straight now the principal said Do you want the other job the board is giving you? I dont want to be uncooperative Do you want to stay here? I dont want to leave Ill put it that way the 53-year-old principal said in his quiet way of a time-bomb went with the job We just walked out shouted 18-year-old Glen Carter Yes we feel McMurrays being moved out of his job for political purposes said Charles Robinette I think what were doing is right The whole thing is unfair Tom Stewart yelled We believe in what were doing were not just cutting classes Robinette said were orderly and we dont want to start trouble This is just the start Well stick it out no matter how long it takes Were gonna march on Gate City tomorrow MOTIVE PROMOTION ATTENTION: RIVERVIEW RESIDENTS- Now it was an hour later 3:30 Monday afternoon and twenty miles away in Gate City Jack Renick sat in his superintendents office and thought about his problem The school boards only motive was to give McMurray a Charlie Pennington- who is leaving the Kingsport Boys Club to head another in Bristol was given a set oDluggage by local club officials Monday night They arent anxious to see him go however the gift was in appreciation of Penningtons efforts on behalf of boys in this area Pennington who has been assistant director of the Boys Club here since 1952 will become executive director of the 4 IS YOUR HOME 111 THIS PICTURE? Then Denny Darnell who is 20 years old hnd who from the school three years ago spoke up There are- some influential people who have been trying to move him City Youth May promotion Renick said 'its in the best interest of alT concerned Did you ever ask McMurray about how he felt being pro- moted? Did he have a choice? I wouldnt say anything about that He was just promoted the superintendent said Does he want the promotion? I didnt say that As far as we are concerned hes already been promoted Has McMurray signed his contract yet? No none of the teachers have signedthe coming years contract Had the superintendent of Scott County schools ever heard of the petitions asking for Principal McMurrays removal? 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